The late actor has left behind a career of distinguished and often devastating roles, headed up by his no-nonsense lieutenant in the HBO drama
, the moral arc of the universe does not bend toward justice. In the dramatized yet scrupulously realistic Baltimore mapped by creator David Simon, institutions – policing, education, politics – preserve their entrenched structures of power at the cost of the individual, and it happens over and over. Red tape renders meaningful change pitifully incremental when possible at all, and those responsible for shaking up the status quo invariably face punishment rather than reward.
Reddick landed his part on The Wire after first impressing HBO’s brass with a season-long stint on the merciless prison drama Oz, his arc typical of the show’s crushing inclination toward tragedy. As Det Johnny Basil, he assumed the alias Desmond Mobay to go undercover and break up a drug ring, only to get addicted to heroin, forced into murder, and bumped off himself.
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