What made “The Wire” one of the greatest TV series of all time is the grittiness, the twisted and connected plots and the realistic characters. Unfortunately, one of the characters continued to act the role without a script.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson was a surprisingly entertaining character in “The Wire.” Her character didn’t seem like she was acting. Instead, she looked like someone who had killed in the past; she did in real life, at the age of 14 doing time before the big wigs for The Wire invited her to be a shadow of her former self. But after “The Wire” ended, there apparently weren’t many opportunities out there to keep her rehab going. She relapsed.
A crack baby who graduated from the foster-care system into low-level drug dealing, she went to jail at 14 for killing another girl in a street fight. Pearson seemed to leave that world behind when she was launched to fame with her role as a tomboy gang assassin in the long-running HBO series.
But on Thursday, Pearson, 30, was arrested in a major state and federal sweep that detained more than 60 people from across Baltimore in connection with a large-scale marijuana and heroin operation, agents said.
Of course we don’t know the details, but I confess to hoping she gets yet another chance to make something of what’s left of her life.
