It’s a Christmas Miracle for HBO subscribers and The Wire fans. Why? Well, the service is marathoning digitally remastered episodes of David Simon‘s cop drama starting at midnight on December 26th. Indeed.

The Wire first aired on HBO back in 2002 and lasted for five seasons before Simon and the cast called it a day. Though it never won an Emmy, the show has been referred to across the critical board as the greatest television series of all time, only recently rivaled by AMC’s Breaking Bad. The series is praised for its realistic representation of the human experience within an impoverished urban setting (in this particular case, the crack-infested streets of Baltimore, Maryland). Each of the five seasons examines how the war on drugs, controversial shipyard trading, political corruption, the education system, and the media are all constantly affected by one another, and in turn, directly affect the population at large.

Now, instead of watching the grainy 4:3 episodes, HBO is giving us the gift of digital this holiday season so we can celebrate the show’s legend in style. According to reps at HBO’s customer service headquarters, the series will begin its marathon at the strike of midnight on December 26th and continue for the next five days. If you still have cable, the marathon will be available on HBO Signature (or HBOS in your channel guide). If you’re a cord-cutter, however, the remastered episodes won’t be available to you right away (because it’s not a live stream), but within 24 hours, you should be able to fully indulge in the world of Jimmy McNulty, Stringer Bell, and Omar.

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