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The major thematic intervention of The Wire's fourth season is its refocus ing from the institutional worlds of adults to the ripe world of pubescent boys as they emerge into young adulthood against the backdrop of a Bush ian educational apparatus that the viewer, prima facie, knows will render the children among the Left Behind. While it has been said many times, by the series' creators and others, that the school system in the fourth sea son is configured as a serialized manifestation of a general decline, it would be hard to locate in the series' logic a high point from which the schools have descended. The Wire's depiction of the school system in its fourth season seems to hinge neither upon nostalgia for schools past nor on any effable models for schools future. This marks in the fourth season a tonal shift in the series' affective investments in nostalgia. Whereas with The Wire's other institutions—policing, government, various criminal or ganizations, the press, etc.—decline is mapped teleologically and charac terologically, with paragons and avatars of the better days pitted against

"Precarious Lunch": Conviviality and Postlapsarian Nostalgia in <i>The Wire</i>'s Fourth Season