I been expressing to folk since 2002 An eccentric psychologist, with zero social skills, and a smart and charming female detective come together in Bradfield, England, to solve cases that no normal policemen could ever. Note to the producers: Have Robbie Coltraine guest as "Cracker" character in a future episode assisting Hill and Jobson! Ive just completed my third viewing of the entire series. Okay. Well now, its been a week sinceThe Wires final episode and a certain calm has descended, leaving a little less agita and a little more reflection. A moment for one last question: Production took a huge risk deciding to change setting and characters after only 1 season. Summary: Tony is put under police protection when the area mental health commissioner is brutally murdered. For so many reasons. So they went from 20 to 17. 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 .. We did that, too, because hey, to criticize such a newsroom culture did indeed carry those risks in Baltimore. Jordan is done in a tasteful way. I have to say I loved the Wire the first time I saw it. ), [] own slashed staffs and cutbacks, leaving a major metropolitan newspaper that wound up as Simon acerbically noted at the time missing the whole []. I just finished the final episode of The Wire. Ps. The major American cities are in woeful shape and for various reasons we can not or will not stop this slow-moving train. There is a last minute dash to rescue some young woman being held by a psychopath. Ultimately, thank you for such an epic drama! Its the best series ever 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 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. My friend letting me borrow season one was the tester, and I kept going back for the yellow tops or that WMD (the rest of the seasons). TheSunbegan doing so in the 1990s before the internet, before the Tribune Company did its worst when beat reporting and any serious, systemic examination of issues was eschewed in favor of impact journalism, special projects and Pulitzer sniffing. Did you always have in mind from the start to have the fake news/fake crime stories play in tandem? I actually cared about them as if they were real well, nearly! What a way for a series to go out. The game is rigged and Im not sure if I wanna play. FAQ All in all, this series is great fun. 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. I had no memory of this series, he forgot the name, I researched it and found it. Rowan is following him even though she is hurt and losing blood. So fuck what I said. but please dont make anymore. The people changed but the game remained exactly the same. Thats when Pulengs world completely changes. Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. Its all in the game yo. I was born with scoop mentality and its never left me. Hamsterdam, say. Its a subjective matter that isnt worth a good argument, . I guess Im just ranting about how I fell in love with this show and can never get enough of it. Even though I dont like those gay fags fuckin each other but thats the world we live in so no problems. If you like your murder mysteries uncensored this is the best one. Liz (Michelle Randolph) suffered a miscarriage in the finale, and it now seems she may be unable to have children again. And Kima, would she really be snitching on them? Anyway, thats all. She sends him to chase down Keith and kill him. The excellence of Seasons 2 and 5, and how they are an integral part of the whole, are particularly revealed on repeat viewing. Thanks for the response, even if it got the best of me! This show mattered and it still does. I loved how the series showed its one big circle & for everyone person saved bubbles theres a dookie, Marlo trying to become stringer but him being more like avon, Michael becoming the new Omar & many more. McNulty crossing the Rubicon with the fake serial-killer angle brought up an appropriate amount of conflict about the age-old Does the End Justify the Means question, but really, to have BOTH Greggs AND Herc sell him out?! 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%. 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. Couldnt resist, sorry. I would really appreciate any help I just graduated and I sincerely believe S4 is the best season of any show in existence and overall, The Wire is the best-told story Ive ever experienced in television. I am your new lord sovereign of buried, latent, subtextual argument. Fiction makes everyone comfortable and talkative; journalism good, probing journalism is a much harder, much more rigorous task. 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 end, she asks for a transfer. I learned more from two weeks of practical work, than an entire year of overpaid theory, and eventually switched to English, because I couldnt stand a style that, to me, was tantamount to lying. But if I dont play how can I and everyone else fix the rules? Thank you for your ridiculously worthwhile contributions to humanity. WebSynopsis [ edit] In the fictional English city of Bradfield, men are being abducted and tortured to death using brutal medieval techniques. How is Baltimore under Trumps term. Im not. Please bring us another series. OK so Rawls put him on a boat for while. What the hell, man? One thing I forgot to mention is that I absolutely LOVED the continuity of the whole 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?! But it was still damn above all the other things (books, series, movies). Its not painful to me. In the finale, she tells Spencer he needs not waste money on a suit/tuxedo as she has credit aboard their British liner. 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. My plight feels similar to that of the increasingly-obsolete reporters you mentioned, rummaging through webpage-after-page of marketable impact junk to find substantial material worth digging into. That was a bit beyond the historical reality; at the historicalBaltimore Sun, he was a mere Pulitzer finalist. Notable killings and machinations in the drug world were the talk of the streets. That was thematic and no one commented on the argument, which I found disappointing. Im interested. The show is bases on the books written by crime novelist Val McDiarmid. The political corruption, the cronyism, the back-asswards views on racism which prevent all minorities from getting a real say in anything lest they be deemed racist- and most agonizingly, the completely screwball insanity that is the PG County school system is exactly like the way you depicted life in Baltimore. While in the bathroom, Lawrence and Adam try to stage a scene wherein Adam fakes choking and dying after smoking one of the cigarettes dipped in the corpses poisoned blood. Not because I missed the point about your critique of the journalist world, I got that, but because you sacrificed some of your best characters to get your point across. I didnt get hooked by Treme or the mini serie with a mayor though. The school system has been teaching test questions to improve No Child Left Behind scores, and to protect the mayor politically and to validate a system that is failing to properly educate city children. I was watching for the Barksdale arc and didnt know how important season two was in the overall visual novel. 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'. Starring: Robson Green, Simone Lahbib. 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 biggest feeling that I was left with was that of Newtons Third Law of Physics, the action-reaction law. Wow, I cant believe that went over my head too David. I am a detective investigator and I am very critical with "who done it" crime solving type movies. He has a reputation of taking small seemingly unconnected facts puzzling them together and providing a profile for the police to follow. Ha! I worked at a small, local tabloid, before entering J-school, and rapidly became frustrated as I was lectured on hooks and handles. 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. I just want to watch it over and over again without stopping. Particularly toward the finale, you created a meta-mirror for us that Im still working out. I have an unanswered question about the ending and it appears as though there is (or should be) a sequel to this? I knew that in a general sense the overarching theme was the demise of quality of news journalism, but finishing my binge of the season tonight (after having avoided the show for years fearing it was over-hyped and couldnt live up boy was I wrong!) At least youre not complete sadists. 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. Flagg?? Why did stupid fucking hbo talk over the last episode when you re watch it on demand. Any criticism you get is unwarranted. Watch Wire In The Blood: Prayer Of The Bone, The plastic "blue bag" that Tony Hill is often seen with was gleaned from Robson Green's research for Wire in the Blood, which involved spending time with revered criminal psychologist Julian Boon, who Green describes in part as an "extraordinary, intelligent, nice guy who carried his life in a blue bag and travelled on a double-decker bus. Its tremendously unfortunate a potentially amazing show was turned into a cute little art project. The Mermaids Singing: Part 1: Directed by Andrew Grieve. I was only introduced to this show in 2014 by a friend in college at Washington State University that let me borrow is DVDs one season at a time, and I bought the DVD box set shortly thereafter. Wed get a rant or two from whoever he screwed over, then next episode or season all is forgiven, forgotten and everyones back to good ole Jimmy again. Whenever I watch it is like the whole world stops I am just focused on the TV. 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. That said, I thank you for the bitter pill. No one went near the theme; everyone stayed dead-center and literal, oblivious to the big-ass elephant in our mythical newsroom. Six years later. Its about the media and powers that manipulating the masses to support a war in Iraq fought on false pretenses. 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. I would not recommend this show for anyone under the age of 16. Even as a child I remember sifting through the paper wondering what a presidential blowjob has to do with anything important. 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. The more honest assessment is that it doesnt matter where I stand, or where Ed Burn stands, or what I think. Reformthat word evokes so many thoughts for me now after watching The Wire. The criminals are deeply psychologically twisted, far more so than any person you have ever encountered, even in the newspapers. Entertaining but formula driven and with plot holes! 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. The writing is exceptional, especially for the episode, "Torment". Fantastic series & Ill tell anyone thats its the best series Ive ever seen. 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. If you took out subjective arguments about popular entertainment, the nation would free up a lot of bandwidth and many repetitive stress injuries would be avoided. Herc just needed to get run over, along with Levy, and bleed out slowly suffering much in the process. Ok, maybe I can believe that McNulty would come up with a silly story to get the wire going, maybe, but Lester? I have no idea how you were able to pick one quote out of the whole episode, to show at the beginning because almost every line is of substance. It was a great work of art. Flagg on his last day being the only one who could tap in to the police department to get the low down on Burrells removal. Echoes and Layers: Tony Lazlo Looks Back at The Wire CC2K, Why The Wire Should Be Must-See TV for Baltimore Pundits | Variety, All the pieces matter: analysis, essays, and anything else on The Wire | ReadJack.com. I absolutely love The Wire so I mean no disrespect when I say this (arent prefaces like that always inevitably followed by something kinda shitty and disrespectful?) I really gave this a chance, watching the first two series almost to the end, but it got the better of me: I had the sense of having been there and seen it already. I gave up due to some of the most annoying characters I have seen written. Americans are stupid ppl by and larger, they pretty much believe whatever we tell them I meant To say Roger Twigg. Isnt that what your essay calls for? 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. | Take it light but take it. Who am I to bitch about how you decided to end your own show? And why would carcetti suddenly give them all the money? Love The Wire. In fact, when I was delivering newspapers as a kid back in the 90s I became incredibly skeptical of the news I was delivering. Drug wars, territorial disputes, and the assassination of the citys largest drug importer manage to produce a brief inside the metro section that refers only to the slaying of a second-hand appliance store owner. But life isnt like that. No story is subject to referendum, at least not in my shop. Anyway, Im straying from my point: thank you for defining this additional layer to the theme of S5. Its so damn realistic. It is for this reason that I think Season 5 is so brilliant. The final season of True Blood ended Sunday with a three-year time jump, bringing many of its characters to a Thanksgiving hosted by a pregnant Sookie ( Anna Jack and Liz. Im literally addicted to this show, and watch it through at least 3-4 times a year. I cant bring myself to use words like the worst, or the weakest, when duscussing a series that is so well written. I binged watch all 5 seasons, The Wire is the best tv series in tv history. 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. And at the end there, that other fellow wrote a very sincere narrative about a very real and genuine soul. Throughout 1923, Alexandras wealth has come into play (or the wealth of her family, rather). Great blog, it confirms my suspicions of the final season but wasnt enough to change my mind about it. 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. Metacritic Reviews. He's quirky, he's a little odd, but he helps to provide a different, and intellectual insight into the killer's mind. I was leaning more towards something karmic, but its clear that many of the characters did not get what was coming to them. i do not like hyped up shows, because of an innate sense of superiority which makes me believe than anything that other people like cannot be good. I just wish more Americans were still capable of thinking. 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. 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 Having grown up on the southeast side of PG County inside the Beltway, I can tell you that The Wire was a hit right between the eyes. [] The Wires Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed, by David Simon []. You dont like the last season of a television drama, feel free to venture an opinion. He mixes in just enough idiosyncrasies to make Hill human, endearing and sometimes down right aggravating. 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. Otherwise this character seemed to constantly walk between the raindrops rarely suffering real consequences for his selfishness. Could this be a solution to the decline of established local titles like the Sun? Great job started watching a lil when I was in like 4th or 5th grade before I really understood all of it but re watched it recently and its my favorite series. 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. 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. I realize that this is ten years too late to be of any practical use, but I just thought Id throw it out there. It is a heart trending, visceral, honest portrayal of a modern city. But then I would be as guilty of lazy ad hominem as they have been in assessing the work. Has the city cleaned up. The intelligent and complex story line demands focus to follow clearly, and make you think. Amid buyout after buyout, theBaltimore Sunconceded much of its institutional memory, its beat structure, its ability to penetrate municipal institutions and report qualitatively on substantive issues in a way that explains not just the symptomatic problems of the city, but the root causes of those problems. Plot Summary. As they series progresses, the style of editing and camera work alters. Thats why Im here. 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. I absolutely love this program so so much! Love your comment. 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. Learn how your comment data is processed. Both are similar, and both are very good. Okay, you probably hate me by now so Ill shut up. You wanna explain where the argument is inconsistent? 1 The Office. 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. Im watching Treme now. Whatever you say, arthouse. Its especially shameful that the media did not pick up on this. 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. Good series wish could of been another series though! WebA clinical psychologist, Dr. Tony Hill, delves into his dark side to see into the minds of serial killers, to aid the police in solving their most difficult cases. I did have a question though that I hope you could answer. Im nitpicking though I loved seeing the little references to old characters even sourvino being in the final series Top series. 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