The game is rigged and Im not sure if I wanna play. If you like Touching Evil or Monk, this series may be for you. Its a great show! I am glad you landed Naymond softly but Randy getting beat down again in the group home then showing up for a second in season 5 STILL in a group home- couldnt Carver have at least followed through on ONE good intention and taken him out of that system?! The character development is quite entertaining. Now youve got the full attention of the media. What a way for a series to go out. If I was forced, I think Id go with 4-2-1-3-5, with 1 and 3 tied. Comparisons with "Cracker" seem off the mark to me. Thanks for this. 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. Such a newspaper was not chronicled onThe Wire. Throughout 1923, Alexandras wealth has come into play (or the wealth of her family, rather). Flagg?? Several years go by since Pulengs sister went missing. The biggest pisser-offers for me in the series were the assclowns in the police department who clearly dont give a shit about what actually happens to actual people. Burns is fuckin awesome. Another topic for another time, but dont wait on our news media to report it. However in the case of season 5, as you pointed out, even the remaining good journalists such as Gus, are, to a degree, complicit in missing every major story. Thats exactly would happen to people in the real world. 4. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The essay notes, accurately, that no one picked up on how disassociative the media has become to the actual issues and realities of the depicted Baltimore in the drama. Uncovered. When one actor leaves a show and is replaced. Or are you just that pissed and depressed about the world that you cant help but force your misery on your viewers? Love if The producers could make a 15 minutes short just to show where all the cast are now. I even tried going back and watching homicide life on the street but without Bunk and McNulty just couldnt get into it. With Robson Green, Elaine Claxton, Hermione Norris, Richard Frame. Its like The Odyssey of Homer. In series 4, Ms Norris has left the show and Simone Lahbib as Inspecter Alex Fielding has the dubious job of reining in Hill. In the first episode of "The Wire," Johnny is brutally beaten for passing counterfeit money to Wallace (Michael B. Jordan), and his death in Season 3 sent Love it. While very formula driven and somewhat unbelievable at times, particularly with the characters often going it alone to catch the bad guys, it is entertaining and very "bingeworthy"! Buy SD $1.99. Dont even know where to start, and I dont think I can critique anything about this show because it critiques itself. Polygon Court hears the case for James Camerons alternate ending. I would not recommend this show for anyone under the age of 16. 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. I wanted catharis toobut I was raised on ER. Liz (Michelle Randolph) suffered a miscarriage in the finale, and it now seems she may be unable to have children again. Six years later. 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. I feel as if I understand it better and see more with each viewing. As it is, I argued, any good journalist will if he or she loves the business follow this story and wince at the stories systematically missed, the undiscovered and unreported tales of the city known to viewers for four seasons. I feel like an asshole now for saying some of that stuff. I just watched all 5 seasons over the past couple weeks and it was a pleasure. The Wire is my favorite show of all time, but Season 5 was definitely the weakest. In the finale, she tells Spencer he needs not waste money on a suit/tuxedo as she has credit aboard their British liner. This makes for some truly unusual and amusing situations, that help bring levity to the gruesome crimes he investigates. I am writing my thesis on THE WIRE This argument strucked me when Omar died and no one noticed it in The Sun No institutional memory, no quality journalism. Is McNulty still clean etc. I am your new lord sovereign of buried, latent, subtextual argument. Please bring us another series. Season 5 in a nut shell is explained in the opening scene by bunk, the bigger the lie, the more they believe One last thing though .Duquan. Awards You made an impact on me David. Yes, that IS the truth for kids all over the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia) but I really wish, David, you could have shown him some compassion as the most innocent among them really deserved some kind of redemption. 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. But if we give upthen what? 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. 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. I started watching this show in series 1. I watched all 3 in order and enjoyed this series. 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. The man who plays Tony Hill, the psychologist, is great. David SImon, I dont understand why you wrote this. It was especially poignant seeing all the since-deceased (or reformed, theres no way I could overlook or forget Dukie becoming Bubbles) characters roles being filled by the New Age.. I found it as an interesting way to dispel the notion that one given group of people is more inclined or indoctrinated to corruption and lies than the other, but also that in any given sector of a society, you will usually find it is those who know that very truth full and well, who perpetuate that lie, in order to make themselves feel better about their shortcomings. 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. August 19, 2002. But the fifth-season story arc began with a wonderful bit of adversarial reporting on deadline good, clean newspapering it was. Ive re-watched this entire series again recently with the HD release (probably my 4th or 5th time watching the entire series) and in many ways it gets better the more I watch it. And a couple of others at alternative weeklies figured it out again, perhaps, because theyre less vested than everyone at the big, vulnerable dailies. Its especially shameful that the media did not pick up on this. You let Bubbles live. Even as a child I remember sifting through the paper wondering what a presidential blowjob has to do with anything important. This statement is meant to include: Mark Letheren(DI Kevin Jeffries); Emma Handy (DC Paula McIntyre) and Peter Sullivan (ACC Paul Eden). I do honestly feel that way about the ending but telling you that personally (digitally, whatever) was completely asinine and unnecessary. 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. The port was referenced a couple of times but would have liked to have a bit more substance so it felt like it all fit. It worked, I thought it fell short of the seasons 3, and 4. The first was Joshua Ferris novel Then We Came to the End, Season 4 seemed to show Carcetti living up to their ideals, and it *did* seem like things were getting cleaned up. I been expressing to folk since 2002 That was the critique. The vacant murders and 2 lieutenants getting lengthy sentences in exchange for Marlo exiting the business is not hard to wrap your head around. I dragged it past sarcasm, past cynicism, and all the way to balls-out snide. Whatever you say, arthouse. That was thematic and no one commented on the argument, which I found disappointing. Entertaining but formula driven and with plot holes! The criminals are deeply psychologically twisted, far more so than any person you have ever encountered, even in the newspapers. No story is subject to referendum, at least not in my shop. Melvin Wiliams passed today RIP! It was too subtle for me to catch on my first watch, and Im sure a 10 hour binge made it even easier to gloss over. For example, for my first watch through, I was bored with Season two. Starring: Robson Green, Simone Lahbib. Each season building toward a singular, connected argument. 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. I can dream sometimes, right? But the rest of you blessed, scribbling souls? The Wire will be studied in the future. If you have not watched any of these, please go for it and watch them in order. I know this criticism in no way helps, the show is long done with, but I loved everything about the 5th season except for the newspaper guys. 2) As for the WORST McNultys supercop character finally jumped the shark. I just thought it was depressing that someone that big in the community wasnt well known by the newspaper people, but for some reason I didnt really put any more thought into them missing things. I am anxious to find out if there is a follow up to Painted? Thanks for the reply. There wasnt a single interesting person in that arc, except maybe the copy editor championing integrity at all costs. I think it was something like a 14% reduction in crimes such as shootings and aggravated assault. In the annals of time, you documented as close to the reality of the DMV as you could get away with, its just too bad that people will always be calling it fiction., (*this is a better-edited version of my prior comment). With the exception of the good journalism that bookended the story arc which is, of course, representative of the fact that there are still newspaper folk in Baltimore and elsewhere struggling mightily to do the job the season amounted to ten hours of a newspaper that is no longer intimately aware of its city. Of course, given if any of that is there. Im nitpicking though I loved seeing the little references to old characters even sourvino being in the final series Top series. Its about the media and powers that manipulating the masses to support a war in Iraq fought on false pretenses. Herc just needed to get run over, along with Levy, and bleed out slowly suffering much in the process. I cant bring myself to use words like the worst, or the weakest, when duscussing a series that is so well written. He has a reputation of taking small seemingly unconnected facts puzzling them together and providing a profile for the police to follow. Beautiful. My favorite character was bubs, I knew someone like him. Everything that happens on this show is explained, the more times that you watch it through. It continued doing so into the present decade as the Tribune Company followed the Times-Mirror buyouts with even more ruthless abandon. Reformthat word evokes so many thoughts for me now after watching The Wire. Almost everything in the show from the dialogue to the outcomes felt refreshingly believable. Season 5 is tremendous, you have such great payoffs for characters, building on all that came before. Has the city cleaned up. The plot simply provided context and structure for socio-political criticism. Id always had reservations about the believability of character who existed in a contained bureaucratic work environment surrounded by lifers, repeatedly stabbing his peers and superiors in the back for wholly self-serving reasons with so few repercussions. Web2. We said what we wanted to say and now everyone else is entitled to talk back without some counterbitch finding them. On my third or fourth watch through season two became my second favorite season, after season 4 of course. Lasher appears and asks her to stop and let him do her bidding. Maybe an education magazine writes a column on inncr-city curricula, or a libertarian website revisits the idea of drug decriminalization. Jobson develops in future episodes. In response to a few specific complaints Ive come across rather frequently in regards to the season: How is it remotely plausible that Marlo walked free? Outside the Wire has arrived on Netflix, and the streamers latest sci-fi military thriller ends with a bit of a bang, to say the least. I confess I thought that journalism was still self-aware enough to get it, that enough collective consciousness of the crafts highest calling remained, that reporters still worried about what their newspapers were missing. Cocaine Bear, the new action-comedy now in theaters, is based on a true story, but only barely. Focused on a fake serial killer, they missed rampant corruption in the city government, missed obvious lying and stat juking in the police department, missed the penetration of thelaw courts by shady lawyers etc. I guess I understood it was there in some sense but initially the theme I was focused on were the institutional problems in the newsroom that are so similar to the problems in other institutions featured in the series. If you like your murder mysteries uncensored this is the best one. Good god, this was the most amazing show Ive seen in ever. I am a detective investigator and I am very critical with "who done it" crime solving type movies. A psychologist gets inside of the minds of both killers and victims to aid the police in solving gruesome serial killings in Northern England. Many found it hard to relate to or invest in. I watched The Wire a second time few years later and I loved season 2. Brilliant series. The third episode not quite as strong a story as the first two, perhaps has something to do with the fact that it was not based directly on the books of V. McD. 2008. Can you give any specific insight into why Marlo was let to walk away unscathed. It was pretty much written on the wall for us when that one kid didnt run away from Omar. You wanna say who cares, the story sucked? During the political campaign in Season 3, when Royce was facing pressure from Carcetti, there is a subtle glimpse into the racial component. It was amazing television. There will be many scenes of hookers and trashy bar people. Did you always have in mind from the start to have the fake news/fake crime stories play in tandem? The plan immediately backfires as Adam is zapped through the chains and he awakens. Thank you for such an amazing show. A good newspaper covers its city and acquires not just the quantitative account of a days events, but the qualitative truth and meaning behind those events. True, the top editor had to get up on a desk amid the deluge of the internet and the declines in circulation and advertising. I started college as a J-student and later moved to English. There were three full-length movies: "The Mermaid's Singing", "Shadows Rising", and "Justice Painted Blind". Painfully honest? And yes, in real life, there wasnt much written about such in my city. Love your comment. Other than Breaking Bad. You wanna say that its an unfair representation of modern journalism? I love the WIRE But why would he go around looking for Marlo, wasnt he a bit smarter than that? For now I will just pass. Not always do we get a "wrap up" episode and we didn't get one here either. Also what I find tedious is that in every episode it try's to make you believe that a number of people are guilty but aren't. Endless repetitions of the words "of course" are truly the hallmarks of a second rate detective production. Anyway, Ive gone on for far too long here. Youre fuckin awesome. Thats it. But absent that kind of reporting, we will all soon enough live in cities and towns where politicians and bureaucrats gambol freely without worry, where it is never a risk to shine shit and call it gold. Criminal Psychologist Tony Hill assists The Police with all manner of complex and disturbing crimes. Hes just being painfully honest. Enter DI Alex Fielding, Simone Lahbib. His entire life he had nothing and no one then ends up back on the street with a needle in his arm. You wanna say so on the producers blog, no worries. Wire in the Blood vol 2 Sharp Compassion. I just love it so so so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Note to the producers: Have Robbie Coltraine guest as "Cracker" character in a future episode assisting Hill and Jobson! Its not likely to change our reasons for telling the stories we do, but neither is the criticism necessarily invalid or unwarranted. Write a television story arc about the betrayal of the working class, the fraud of the drug war or the lie of No Child Left Behind and you cant get off the entertainment pages. The story the music the acting is just so damn beautiful. 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. To the people saying he was stupid for returning to Baltimore in the first place: Marlo used the perfect bait. I may be the only one who remembers how he blew two critical moments in the Port case during season 2 all due to his general stupidity and self-centeredness- along with being responsible for Randys torment due Herc selling him out to find the camera he lost AND poor Bubbles getting brutalized on the street over and over for the exact same reason. Wish there was more, or at least a book. By that, I mean the sense from many of white politicians in the city holding this belief that the city was corrupted because blacks were the ones that made up the majority of the police department, and had a black mayor in Royce. It is a heart trending, visceral, honest portrayal of a modern city. 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%. But most of all, that poor child Duquan who did nothing but suffer from beginning to end. But it went over my head, that the newspaper, completely missed every major story about what went on in the city. Producer Chris Miller explains why. Wow, I cant believe that went over my head too David. There was some love in there for the ink-stained wretches. A moment for one The Lester wed come to know was indeed a maverick, but not a moron. 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. Really? The show and books are dark and twisted. Summary: Tony is put under police protection when the area mental health commissioner is brutally murdered. In series 1-3, Hermione Norris played Detective Inspecter/Chief Inspecter Carol Jordan of Bradford CID, who managed to rein Tony's scattered abilities and make sense of them. Lets be clear, though. All in all, the last season ofThe Wirewasnt that cruel a portrayal, was it? Thinking back on Season 5, theres an interesting dynamic I think I picked up and just would like to know if it was intentional or if Im just reading too much into things. To argue about whether the drama had become arch or unsubtle? If I didnt know the show was set in Baltimore it just as easily could have been set in Lanham, Capitol Heights, District Heights, Temple Hills, Forestville. Im so glad I got to bear witness to it, even if I was late. It would have been nice but it was time to put an end to Dr. Tony Hill's sideline work so it would have benefitted from them giving us one. the biggest feeling that I was left with was that of Newtons Third Law of Physics, the action-reaction law. A police psychologist pursues a serial killer who tortures homosexual victims in increasingly gruesome ways. 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. All Rights Reserved. Great. I love the Hamsterdam plot. Then when people point out the garbage it becomes oh-so esoteric. Though he shows remarkable insight into the actions of the violent and deranged, he also displays that phenomenal lack of social consciousness that is particular to geniuses and artists (as in "Yes, I just invented nuclear fission, but no, I didn't know I was supposed to wear socks and shoes to this award ceremony."). How is Baltimore under Trumps term. Only silver lining to that dark cloud of a series. These I would use to show my students when teaching a crime profiling class. I absolutely love this program so so much! And no, I think season five achieved its goals as the other season, with me being no closer to the world of journalism than others on our writing staff were to the other worlds depicted. For so many reasons. Thank you for this clue-in as well, I admit I missed most of it. 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. Think season 5 could of been way better but liked how Omar died didnt expected it from the little kid. And while I tell everyone who will listen that this is the best show ever made I do feel Season 5 had some hokey yet prominent elements. For instance the homeless serial killer story and the idea that this would be more politically important than closing a case where 22 murdered bodies were hidden away in vacants all over the city. The finale was weak/unsatisfying: I feel that the people who express this opinion dont quite understand the type of storytelling that you were going for. This series is generally well-scripted and acted. Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. 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. Hi there, I read through a few of your articles here. 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. 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'. Anyway, Im straying from my point: thank you for defining this additional layer to the theme of S5. Rowan is following him even though she is hurt and losing blood. You wanna explain where the argument is inconsistent? how many years you figure we been doing the same shit.. Thank you so much for making The Wire, it ruined every other tv show. Okay. Ms. Lahbib is an unknown entity to me, but as I finished watching series 4, I felt a bit queasy. Robson Green is a favourite of mine which is why I really wanted to love this show. It was fuckin awesome. It would not have been easy for a veteran police reporter to pull all the police reports in the Southwestern District and find out just how robberies fell so dramatically, to track each individual report through staff review and find out how many were unfounded and for what reason, or to develop a stationhouse source who could tell you about how many reports went unwritten on the majors orders, or even further to talk to people in that district who tried to report armed robberies and instead found themselves threatened with warrant checks or accused of drug involvement or otherwise intimidated into dropping the matter. Once I learned that wrestling was faked I began to wonder what else on TV, or in print, was fabricated or enhanced. Then the Lewinsky story broke and dominated, and I lost even more faith. 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 was focused solely on the fact that the the newspaper was in a battle over the homelessness killings issue in a sense that their biggest problem right now was sensationalism and lies versus honest reporting. I loved the series. 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. Jordan is done in a tasteful way. It was edgy and gritty, with strong performances from everyone. To wonder whether anyone would be disciplined for cursing in a newsroom, or why they made the top editor wear those suspenders, or whether it was a clich to have a fabricator driving the overt plot? Wire in the Blood is one of the most important and valuable series ever produced for television. They are gradually won over. I understand the story and the tie-ins that you wrote about in this very blog, but I feel like you could have highlighted the bullshit of the media without compromising the core of The Wire, unrelenting, brutal, realism. Production took a huge risk deciding to change setting and characters after only 1 season. Adding to this, the fact that her mother still celebrates the missing daughters birthday bothers her. The show is bases on the books written by crime novelist Val McDiarmid. First off, really fantastic article. Anyway, remember that Colvins 14% were clean numbers (he didnt juke the stats) so 14% is a large increase if you look at it that way. Cmon, its okay to smile. But Ill get back to the journalism angle momentarily. 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 and Sam kill him. I had no memory of this series, he forgot the name, I researched it and found it. Really, someone should have put it to Herc, you have to admit. I gave up due to some of the most annoying characters I have seen written. So thank you for such an absolute terrific ride. Liz (Michelle Randolph) suffered a miscarriage in the finale, and it now seems she may be unable to have children again. No expose published. Ive just completed my third viewing of the entire series. Who am I to bitch about how you decided to end your own show? S5 ran him off a cliff. Unlike most shows, which run at 45 minutes per episode, Wire in the Blood runs at 90 minutes per episode. 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