This show leaves me completely speechless. Im an asshole. But the gratuitous images and the worn-out theme aside this show has a lot to offer. Season 4 was the hardest for me to take. The newsroom story arc wasnt lost on me i believe some of the characters in the newsroom just didnt grip you as much as the other areas which makes it seem the weaker part. The pictures of his cleaned up corners and happy citizens as a result of Hamsterdam would suggest that the drop was much larger than that 14%. You had the ambitious lying dick with no redeemable qualities, the very honorable and honest veteran, some young black guy who covered Bubbles, the villainous senior editors, and a girl who was a good reporter. watch again the final 5-6 minutes of season 3; episode 4). If season five didnt work for you, then it didnt work for you. I dunno. It continued doing so into the present decade as the Tribune Company followed the Times-Mirror buyouts with even more ruthless abandon. Gus opining that there was a time when no perp walk would take place with a call first being made to the broadsheets to make sure it was covered. I too felt really indecisive about season 2 on my first watch and have grown to love it more and more over time, just like you. Six years later. Jobson develops in future episodes. Or maybe anywhere. I have been seeing quite a lot of this show on TV lately and i find it surprisingly entertaining. The ending was perfect, the way Omar died was perfect, the serial killer thing was perfect, but then whenever it cut back to that newsroom it dragged. Particularly the fat guy in homicide (who pissed me off so much I blocked out the characters name from memory) who would rather jerk off behind his desk to titty mags and suck off the government nipple while the whole city goes up in flames. | The apartment complex we lived in was actually the subject of a widely publicized reformation project (in 96) after having the highest rates of violent crime in the district for 12 years. The writing was a train wreck, the characterization limp, the acting and plotting, shameful and shameless both. Coming into the series after nearly a decade of being exposed to the general hype and season five criticism, I finished season five feeling just as I would imagine you intended. I was wondering, What does it take to become an officer of Every single time I watch this show over again, I notice something I never saw before, and get instant gratification for going back again and re-watching it. I love the WIRE Uncensored. Now youve got the full attention of the media. "Wire in the Blood" is the story of Dr.Tony Hill (Robson Green), a slightly eccentric clinical psychologist who works part time with the police force of Bradford, England. He has a reputation of taking small seemingly unconnected facts puzzling them together and providing a profile for the police to follow. I just watched all 5 seasons over the past couple weeks and it was a pleasure. To me, The Wire was told as an epic novel. I didnt know there were retards saying Each ending sucked so the season 5 was bad. All in all, you really gave us a lot to think about. Just wished it had a normal (13) episode count. I gave up due to some of the most annoying characters I have seen written. Herc just needed to get run over, along with Levy, and bleed out slowly suffering much in the process. It worked, I thought it fell short of the seasons 3, and 4. The Wire finale recap: The end of the line Two things about my Sunday were making me sick. Awards 1 Jun 2015. We said what we wanted to say and now everyone else is entitled to talk back without some counterbitch finding them. Missing a storyIm still writingstill kills me. Norris brought an adult, feminine, vulnerability to her role as Carol Jordan. Season 4 seemed to show Carcetti living up to their ideals, and it *did* seem like things were getting cleaned up. Purse your lips any tighter or hold your nose any higher? After watching the awful Sorkin show The Newsroom that was so dumb and naive it was nice to see some smart and realistic drama about a newsroom. The story the music the acting is just so damn beautiful. I first discovered "Wire in the Blood" by happy accident, I was watching Agatha Christie's Miss Marple on Amazon prime and "Wire in the Blood" popped up in my recommended list. I wish I attended that panel, and heard the insight Im sure you provided. To have the city editor saying such things would have been, well, arch. See if you can purse your lips any tighter or hold your nose any higher. External Reviews While we have been in the longest war in U.S. history we have had to sit through endless sensationalism about: Jeb Bushs crackhead niece Noelle Bush; Terry Schiavo; Tiger Woods; Casey Anthony; Treyvon Martin then George Zimmerman; Michael Brown; and it will never end. No expose published. It was amazing television. Season five was the weakest season imho. Episode 8 of Mayfair Witches season 1 starts with Keith running in the woods trying to escape. Crown me up and kneel, ya bitches. Im sure that to many of these guys, getting Carcetti elected would do as much to inject fresh blood into the citys political processes as it would clear up the problem of those blacks corrupting the process, nevermind how ridiculous those sorts of notions hold up. Done very tastefully. The people changed but the game remained exactly the same. But if I dont play how can I and everyone else fix the rules? Producer Chris Miller explains why. Wire in the Blood, is first of all a showcase for the excellent acting skills of the charismatic Robson Green. Anyway, Im straying from my point: thank you for defining this additional layer to the theme of S5. David. Regarding the final season, was there any sort of fake serial killer or fake serial criminal real-life story that inspired you? That being said, I think what was really being pointed out here, is that the sorts who were under the feeling that the blacks were ruining the city, more or less knew quite well that such levels of corruption in the legal bodies was not limited by race, as Season 5 shows, and that just like w/ many of the black characters, many of the white characters benefit professionally for their lies, cover-ups and stat-jukings. Having worked (briefly) with troubled inner city kids, I thought my heart would breakand it didduring season 4. Fielding is a single mother with a son and a cat, yet in the second episode of s4, "Torment", the writers were able to slide her easily into the role that would have been Norris'. Prayer of the Bone. Watching each character grow into a previous one is riveting, and the guessing game made me click the next episode each time. You wanna explain where the argument is inconsistent? When I say Im an addict to this show I honestly feel like the fiends depicted in the show that dont creep out of their addiction like Bubs happened to do. This is really a two part TV series.. the first three seasons with Green and Norris.. bit.ly/1780gxl .. in the leads, and the second three with Green and Lahbib.. bit.ly/13Pgcqi .. Thanks for making a great series. And to get teachers talking, even on background, about their anger and frustration at this flummery? And to studiously avoid any sustained discussion about whether the depicted newspaper is, in all respects, capturing the meaningful narrative of the depicted city? Its a great show! The cutbacks, management of local papers by big out of town conglomerates and lack of attention on complex issues is something we see in the UK too. There was just increasingly natural interplay between them that made viewing more diverse and interesting (e.g. The plots, moreover, are taut and well-written. The man in black tracked Jenna down at the right house, but he knocked on the wrong door he's tangled up in a deadly Book of Blood story that ends when Ellie since 2010 ive been watching the wire every year (2 tiems this year mind ) Ive tried many times to get family and friends into it and it never happens which really upsets me very much, quite simply the wire has the best charaters, the best acting and defo the best script ever. The show is bases on the books written by crime novelist Val McDiarmid. Why couldnt we have gone one more season with the show? The reason I loved the Wire was because it felt REAL. I was born with scoop mentality and its never left me. Did you always have in mind from the start to have the fake news/fake crime stories play in tandem? Actually, I dont even think of it as a show its literature. Thanks for the reply. Season 5 was great. Almost perfectly sums up my feelings about the series. I actually cared about them as if they were real well, nearly! I think it was something like a 14% reduction in crimes such as shootings and aggravated assault. The systemic problems of the DMV are way too deep and the people in charge are way too invested in their petty self-interests to ever have it another way. Melvin Wiliams passed today RIP! It would be better if he was slick like the Will Grayham character in red dragon. Jumped that shark in high-topped Nikes, we did. Wish there was more, or at least a book. I wanted to like this show, really, and Robson Green is an interesting actor, but it just doesn't cut the mustard for me. missing such a vital snap shot to the Barksdale case. Over the past five seasons it has consistently presented detailed Buy SD $1.99. I think it is, but Id like to hear your opinion on this. But inflated ego, ultimate smugness, etc? Wire in the Blood is one of the most important and valuable series ever produced for television. I would want us to argue subjectively about public policy and social issues. One last thing though .Duquan. There are multiple scantily clad young women who get brutally murdered. Whenever I watch it is like the whole world stops I am just focused on the TV. It is important to give the newcomer a distinctive identity. Now, the fifth season was a bit of a problem. I got my invitation late in the mail and I may as well just see all the videos and photos and banter about it on peoples social media profiles. Thrilled at the fact that you made him irredeemable, because the reporters who do that shit truly are that way. Simone Lahbib is a favorite UK actor, but if forced to choose in this series, I'd have to go with Green/ Norris. These I would use to show my students when teaching a crime profiling class. The Wire is my favorite show of all time, but Season 5 was definitely the weakest. I would really appreciate any help Seemed pretty angry to me. Circling back to the journalism angle in season 5 and your above article, it is sad that so many people missed the real commentary about the total lack of journalistic integrity- not just in Bmore but in the whole country. Omars death/Omar returning to Baltimore: We all wanted to see Omars last stand be in a bloody shootout with a high body count, but anyone paying attention to the story being told knew it wouldnt go down like that. When we were beating the story out, Bill Zorzi wondered whether in the final episode it might be necessary for Gus Haynes to vocalize the theme, to turn to Alma or Luxenberg or some other character and say, Were so thin, and we waste what little resources we have left on the wrong things. The plot simply provided context and structure for socio-political criticism. To me, the climactic conclusion of the show happened in S5E9 and E10 was more of the epilogue, allowing us to digest what happened and gain some insight on where things are headed for the city. There is always a player in the on deck circle, even when the final out is being recorded. I was reading The Stand at the time I posted that response. Im not. WebA psychologist gets inside of the minds of both killers and victims to aid the police in solving gruesome serial killings in Northern England. I knew in my bones as he walked up to the convenience store something bad was going to happen. Watch with Acorn TV. Cocaine Bear, the new However, of the many detective series that my wife and I have watched, British, French, Scandinavian, Icelantic, this series has the sickest, most graphic murders in every episode. Cocaine Bear, the new action-comedy now in theaters, is based on a true story, but only barely. Enter DI Alex Fielding, Simone Lahbib. And whether that is an accurate critique? I just marathoned the entire series in less than 2 weeks (okay, so Im unemployed & have the time on my hands) and now I see why The Wire got so much acclaim in its day. And being a refuge from a newsroom, I thought I was over my grief at the death of real journalism. I became hooked from the first episode "Mermaids Singing" which is done in 2 parts, with each episode my enthusiasm for the show also grew. In closing, I missed you Mr. Simon, coming to do a panel at my school Washington State University in 2012 I think it was, because I had no idea about the show at that time. The vacant murders and 2 lieutenants getting lengthy sentences in exchange for Marlo exiting the business is not hard to wrap your head around. Even recently I remember watching CNN and they were covering the Treyvon Martin case seemingly 24/7 and in the news ticker at the bottom of the screen there was the briefest mention of some protest in Egypt. I am a detective investigator and I am very critical with "who done it" crime solving type movies. The crime drama, which is made No worries. Drugs were just an excuse to pursue their passion, because it is clear that wacking people is what they loved. No one went near the theme; everyone stayed dead-center and literal, oblivious to the big-ass elephant in our mythical newsroom. Its quite apparent that todays 24 hour news cycle is entirely based on sensationalist impact stories. WebSynopsis [ edit] In the fictional English city of Bradfield, men are being abducted and tortured to death using brutal medieval techniques. . I thought this was a really interesting article, especially in the context of the current pandemic which is hitting local papers the hardest. Even as a child I remember sifting through the paper wondering what a presidential blowjob has to do with anything important. The fact that my appreciation for every single season changed over time due to rewatching the show over and over, proves how good this series as a whole really is. In the end, Carcetti, despite being white, was not able to avoid the same trappings of stat-juking number games and political favoritism as his predecessor, Royce, or the mayor before that. But what can you do? And then Season 5 happens. Thats when Pulengs world completely changes. ps And Omar, well I can understand his death, tragic, but it was more realistic than a final bloodfest. The man who plays Tony Hill, the psychologist, is great. Any of you save for a couple sharp journos who were able to stand back just far enough to realize what the real critique was. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Okay, you probably hate me by now so Ill shut up. A mayor was elected governor while his police commanders made aggravated assaults and robberies disappear. In this format youre not going to have stark revelations, a happy and blissful montage followed by a cut to black. Of course, its all still out there, and I can find it and watch it and still enjoy it all, but I feel like Im a decade late to the party. In series 4, Ms Norris has left the show and Simone Lahbib as Inspecter Alex Fielding has the dubious job of reining in Hill. Im proud to be from Home of the Wire Think season 5 could of been way better but liked how Omar died didnt expected it from the little kid. If season five didnt work for you, then it didnt work for you. Additionally though people point to the development of hyper-local news sites as a way of saying that local news isnt dead, these are often little more than blogs or advertising of businesses in the area rather than sustained critiques and investigations. I dragged it past sarcasm, past cynicism, and all the way to balls-out snide. First off, really fantastic article. Sorry. Particularly toward the finale, you created a meta-mirror for us that Im still working out. Web2. What a way for a series to go out. But why would he go around looking for Marlo, wasnt he a bit smarter than that? Im interested in becoming a cop there. Like another commenter, I only noticed the Prop Joe story being missed/overshadowed by the Sun. Politically sensitive casework was butchered or pursued selectively by political interests and departmental indifference. We sucked. I would have liked to have seen more scenes with randy & neymond though just to make it feel like they hadnt been forgotten especially as Michael & dookie didnt even mention them by name about same with nick sabotka maybe a conversation about the docks with someone after abusing the mayor & kracheck I like how it felt like a big open world & people could bump into each other. Marlo gets away clean and he keeps his money, Avon lives happily ever after in prison, McNulty gets screwed, the lying reporter wins a damn Pulitzer, and oh yeah, OMAR GETS KILLED BY A LITTLE KID?! Theres a reason people say youre a genius and why your show is perhaps the best in history. Its disappointing to read the entire comment thread and see that no one picked up on those journalistic themes either, but I saw every single one of them- which is why I watched season 5 in total frustration as every cut back to the Baltimore Sun went straight into the same mire of bullshit all journalists everywhere in America now live in. And yeah, he gave the more-with-less talk to maintain morale and it rang a hollow because at this point, buyout upon buyout, the grey ladies are down to bone already. His rogue decision to stage serial killings was believable but Bunks toothless response and using Lester and his involvement to give credence to Jimmys scheme went beyond the pale. Im so glad I got to bear witness to it, even if I was late. I certainly read that last post and thought thats angry. Even if you're not a Robson Green fan, this will surely garner him new followers. Its all in the game yo. Jack and Liz. And why would carcetti suddenly give them all the money? Note to the producers: Have Robbie Coltraine guest as "Cracker" character in a future episode assisting Hill and Jobson! Summary: Tony is put under police protection when the area mental health commissioner is brutally murdered. I did enjoy everything else about Season 5. While she tries her best to support her parents, Puleng also hates how theyre not willing to give up on the past. Thank you. I feel better about missing the plot about The Baltimore Sun newspaper missing important stories, now I know that the pros missed it too. The character development and the way each characters persona was mirrored throughout each realm (from the street, to the BPD, to the courthouse, city hall, the ports, the newsroom) is the most amazing writing Ive ever seen. Learn how your comment data is processed. Not as cavalier as his "Touching Evil" series; his "Wire in the Blood" character of Tony Hill is much more reserved, quirky, and, being a criminal profiler, is more internalized with his processing of information. Green's vulnerability, intensity and flexibilty in his craft is a complete pleasure. Love if The producers could make a 15 minutes short just to show where all the cast are now. 2) As for the WORST McNultys supercop character finally jumped the shark. You dont like the last season of a television drama, feel free to venture an opinion. Tell me you didnt laugh at the burnt-doll harem in the photogs trunk. When the Wire was first broadcast, in 2002, I decided not to watch it because of the hype. Could this be a solution to the decline of established local titles like the Sun? There are many crime/mystery books and shows out there but few are done this well with excellent character development, believable plots and story lines that are on one hand complex, terrifying, fully engrossing and on the other hand funny, thoughtful and informative. Its tremendously unfortunate a potentially amazing show was turned into a cute little art project. The only story that I noticed that the newspaper missed was when they mentioned Prop Joe. -And Herc? Some shameful shit right there. So fuck what I said. Heres what happened in season five ofThe Wirewhen almost no one among the working press, at least was looking: The mayor, who came in promising reform, is instead forcing his police department to once again cook the stats to create the illusion that crime is going down. There were still good journalists in our make-believe newsroom, and they did some good work just as there are still such souls in Baltimore and every city laboring in similar fashion and to similar result. During the political campaign in Season 3, when Royce was facing pressure from Carcetti, there is a subtle glimpse into the racial component. Fantastic series & Ill tell anyone thats its the best series Ive ever seen. No need to worry about any season of this amazing show. Well said, David. And okay, the city editor, the honorable fellow, the one for whom journalism was an ethos, he got slapped down and thrown to the copy desk. I've enjoyed his first rate performances in two other series I've seen, and can't wait to see how his character's flirtation with D.I. I had only heard of it but didnt know it was the drug I needed in my life to actively engage in social discussions the way you do so well in this series. A moment for one Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. I think not. Even though I dont like those gay fags fuckin each other but thats the world we live in so no problems. However, each action, no matter how small, led to clear and defined reactions that changed the course of events. I meant To say Roger Twigg. There were three full-length movies: "The Mermaid's Singing", "Shadows Rising", and "Justice Painted Blind". The school system is closest to my heart because I grew up in that sad, irreparable school system and the stories of those kids were the ones I really hoped would resolve better so you knew that in the end, at least SOMEONE in that hood got a real chance. I love game of thrones (but its too quick imo), but The Wire is the best. The 'genius' Dr, absentminded of course, to fulfill another clich, who comes across as being more in need of professional help than his patients. I also loved Generation Kill. Green is, of course, the lead of the show and he is brilliant. I found the season 2 a bit less interesting the first time, but I really dont know why, maybe because I was focused on characters like Avon etc, and the guys on the docks were less cool at first sight. Surprisingly because i'm usually no fan at all of the serial-killer genre nor the kind of grisly imagery that this show always provides. President Snow is Katniss Everdeen's tyrannical enemy, and while he may appear untouchable for most of The Hunger Games he has a secret weakness. Well now, its been a week since The Wire s final episode and a certain calm has descended, leaving a little less agita and a little more reflection. I have to say I loved the Wire the first time I saw it. I just want to watch it over and over again without stopping. It would be hard for a committed education reporter to acquire the curriculum of a city middle school and compare it to what children were taught before No Child Left Behind reduced teaching to rote repetition, or to track a rise in the third-grade test scores into the fifth or seventh grade and thereby demonstrate how temporal and false the gains actually were. Entertaining but formula driven and with plot holes! I wonder whats happening in this city that we dont know about. Its not garbage, they just dont get it. I just wish more Americans were still capable of thinking. And remember the part where you saw the lady outside selling snowballs, the postal carrier was able to deliver mail, people were outside hanging laundry so you could tell that the 14% drop was substantial in that district. It was all very realistic and extremely tough to watch. Thats exactly would happen to people in the real world. Omar and Prop Joe were the last good guys among the bad guys and both of them had to go down, while Snoop the Psycho Bitch who deserved at least a few weeks of good torture gets off easy with a single shot to the head. I think the biggest problem with Season 5 is that the Sun people were kind of boring and so many of them were one note. The writing is exceptional, especially for the episode, "Torment". (And yes, I got the theme. That said, I thank you for the bitter pill. The bodies are then found in areas And unsubtle. Uncovered. I just finished the final episode of The Wire. Wouldnt she confront them first? Caught the wire over a year ago & Ive watched it 3 times through since then. This show, its impact, the things its talked about directly and indirectly (as shown above) has along with all that impacted me, and I feel like Ive got enough influence from this show alone to myself sit down and write like Ive been wanting to do, but not just any writing, but writing thats thoughtful as well as entertaining, and also writing that matters. This show mattered and it still does. I felt it was entirely too unrealistic and borderline offensive to the shows entire structure. I always thought the crime reduction % that Colvin reports as a result of his Hamsterdam experiment were too low. If anything I learned after watching The Wire series (for my 4th or 5th time) is that quick comments or knee-jerk reactions about the themes discussed just dont play. Firstly thank you David Simon, Ed Burns and a host of talented and courageous collaborators for telling it like it is. Even more awesome is how you actually continued that same thread from one season to the next, taking one subject matter and examining it from all the angles that make up the context of the entire problem. Perhaps one on the books it is based on might warm me up to it. Dr. Hill comes up with detail after detail about the perpetrator, without any more explanation of how he did it than Sylvia Browne, psychic, ever gives. The great irony (relative to the final season) is that the criticism being leveled against NCLB and the war on drugs was lost on the real-life media in the very same way that The Wires Baltimore Sun missed those very same things in the show. Too short. Also starring Hermione Norris (MI-5) and Simone Lahbib (Loch Ness), these dark and twisty mysteries are "brilliantly edgy" (SFGate.com). The criminals are deeply psychologically twisted, far more so than any person you have ever encountered, even in the newspapers. Endless repetitions of the words "of course" are truly the hallmarks of a second rate detective production. I didnt get hooked by Treme or the mini serie with a mayor though. The shows all involve murder and this is the focus of the plots. As wounded and onanistic and self-absorbed as the profession has become, there are still plenty of people for whom that matters above all. It was way worse than you thought. You let Bubbles live. But youre entitled to enjoy one thing more than another, and youre even entitled to wonder about a filmmakers or writers motivations and standing, whether or not you actually have any evidence of its relevance or not. The first two, "Singing" and "Shadows" are adaptations of author Val McDermid's books; This is a taut British crime drama very much in the "Cracker" mould. Can you give any specific insight into why Marlo was let to walk away unscathed. but I believe even his murder would have been more satisfying for viewers who were waiting for his comeuppance. I came late to The Wire, having heard many great things about it from others over the years. He's like an autistic train spotter. It still is. There wasnt a single interesting person in that arc, except maybe the copy editor championing integrity at all costs. ), [] own slashed staffs and cutbacks, leaving a major metropolitan newspaper that wound up as Simon acerbically noted at the time missing the whole []. It's quite dark, with just enough wit to keep you from falling over the edge into the great abyss. It is our not insignificant loss that more shows weren't filmed. Daniels is probably the best example of this, but to a lesser extent so is Freamon, whose corrupted (by definition of the law) actions lead to retirement from the police force. 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