The Wire
The same song recorded five different ways. Every season re-cuts the images and hands 'Way Down in the Hole' to a new artist, matching the institution that season is about.
Season 1
90sThe Blind Boys of Alabama. Surveillance cameras, payphones and pagers — the season about the wiretap itself.
Season 2
90sTom Waits. The docks: container cranes, welding sparks and stevedores.
Season 3
96sThe Neville Brothers. Towers coming down, campaign signs going up, and corner boys moved somewhere the police have agreed not to look — the season that sets city politics beside the drug trade and lets each explain the other.
Season 4
90sDoMaJe, a group of Baltimore teenagers — the correct choice for the season set in a middle school.
Season 5
Steve Earle, who plays Walon in the show — the only one of the five performers to appear in it. Presses, plates and newsprint, for the season about the paper that was supposed to have been watching all of this.