wire in the blood ending explained
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 worked at a newspaper with a POS liar who made up quotes, and the editor was obsessed with him and looked the other way (on the fake quotes and also, grossly, sexual harassment). Even if you're not a Robson Green fan, this will surely garner him new followers. Maybe you were too close? -And Herc? But then I would be as guilty of lazy ad hominem as they have been in assessing the work. 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. For non-British viewers the British actors provide something faintly exotic and alluring, which works fine to subtly draw the viewer into the action of this suspense show. 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. My comment amounts to little more than unwanted negative feedback for a show that ended 5 years ago. I just binge-watched the last 3 seasons after slowly going through 1 & 2 and I feel regret that I almost missed out on this amazing thing that started basically a decade ago when I was just starting high school. Please bring us another series. I would want us to argue subjectively about public policy and social issues. 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 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. Im out. I watched The Wire a second time few years later and I loved season 2. Everyone who complanes about season 5 is just mourning. Im interested. No show has ever, EVER done that. You dont need to justify anything, its a masterpiece. 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. I am anxious to find out if there is a follow up to Painted? Okay. User Ratings So it makes you wonder what actually gets reported and what we all miss day in and day out. Of course, given if any of that is there. 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 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. Now I just read and laugh at bad writing on other TV shows. Metacritic Reviews. What is most unfortunate is that your scathing and accurate critique of Washington D.Cs left armpit (with PG County being its right) and really the entire D.C. area will always be written off as great entertainment and remembered as one of the best shows ever on television. To have the city editor saying such things would have been, well, arch. I started college as a J-student and later moved to English. Ill rant a bit about journalism, or the drug war or any other issue that I rub up against. 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. There's something to be said for being able to binge an entire show from episode one to final episode when cancelled. -- if you're a Robson Green fan, it's a fantastic showcase for his acting. 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. 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. To argue about whether Whiting is more venal or one-dimensional than Valchek? And a couple of others at alternative weeklies figured it out again, perhaps, because theyre less vested than everyone at the big, vulnerable dailies. This show mattered and it still does. Love The Wire. Just wished it had a normal (13) episode count. Throughout 1923, Alexandras wealth has come into play (or the wealth of her family, rather). Herc just needed to get run over, along with Levy, and bleed out slowly suffering much in the process. Im nitpicking though I loved seeing the little references to old characters even sourvino being in the final series Top series. As wounded and onanistic and self-absorbed as the profession has become, there are still plenty of people for whom that matters above all. And they covered more ground, and they knew the terrain in a way that they no longer do. Thanks David for all you did to bring it into the world. What's going on in Val McDermott's head. watch again the final 5-6 minutes of season 3; episode 4). Carcetti seemed to both indirectly affirm the beliefs of the more racist/prejudiced white politicians that a white mayor who could possibly whiten up the administration, would weed out the corruption, and at the same time did his best to work with the black members of the citys congress, businesses, police force and school systems, etc. To argue about whether the drama had become arch or unsubtle? 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. 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"! Thank you for telling these stories. The acting is exceptional. If your a fan of the genre and have not yet discovered Dr.Tony Hill I recommend that you do. He hated closing those foreign bureaus and cutting back further in the newsroom. Couldnt resist, sorry. Great blog, it confirms my suspicions of the final season but wasnt enough to change my mind about it. I meant To say Roger Twigg. Pelecanos, Lehane, Price, Alvarez, Zorzi, the directors, cast, the whole lot. 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. Im actually rigorous about letting criticism of the show stand without arguing back. 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. Lets be clear, though. 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. I cant bring myself to use words like the worst, or the weakest, when duscussing a series that is so well written. No story is subject to referendum, at least not in my shop. I wonder what were missing?. Not that your intention with this blog was to do that. Lasher appears and asks her to stop and let him do her bidding. 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. If I had to wager a guess, something I noticed was that, in the first four seasons, there was always at least one or two characters who were, either struggling or chafing against the numerous failings in the institutions that were highlighted in each season, (I.e. I guess Im just ranting about how I fell in love with this show and can never get enough of it. And to studiously avoid any sustained discussion about whether the depicted newspaper is, in all respects, capturing the meaningful narrative of the depicted city? This show leaves me completely speechless. 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Ps. I agree with the message of Season 5, just not the execution. This show is so brilliant, so uniquely American, such a mind-altering and contemplative rumination on the powerful pull of the system FUCK, I LOVE THE WIRE!!!!!!!!!!! Even though I dont like those gay fags fuckin each other but thats the world we live in so no problems. 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. I think it is, but Id like to hear your opinion on this. 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. It's quite dark, with just enough wit to keep you from falling over the edge into the great abyss. I just finished watching the entire run of the series a couple of nights ago. Then you have the choir, inexplicably, warbling on as if to lend some kind of gravitas to the lacklustre proceedings. Although I understand the validity of some of the endings, I really was disappointed with season 5. The depth, the acting, the setting, the pace, its all spot on :p. I love this show. In Baltimore, where over the last twenty years Times Mirror and the Tribune Company have combined to reduce the newsroom by forty percent, all of the above stories pretty much happened. For me, the series is not about the individual seasons. but I believe even his murder would have been more satisfying for viewers who were waiting for his comeuppance. Its quite apparent that todays 24 hour news cycle is entirely based on sensationalist impact stories. Meanwhile our federal government has wholesaled our highway systems, infrastructure, and debt to any country that was buying while dropping trillions of dollars into the pockets of Halliburton and the rest of the 1% in the name of fighting a war on terror. Please. If you like Touching Evil or Monk, this series may be for you. Every episode is gripping. Hes just being painfully honest. Still, all that being said, it was a hell of a ride and still the best damn tv series ever made. In this sense, life-imitates-art just as art-imitates-life. In the confrontation that follows, Adam shows him the photographs he took 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%. It worked, I thought it fell short of the seasons 3, and 4. Almost everything in the show from the dialogue to the outcomes felt refreshingly believable. I see commentary all the time where the seasons are ranked and there seems to be a common thread. Jack and Liz. Brilliant series. S6, Ep0. The writing was a train wreck, the characterization limp, the acting and plotting, shameful and shameless both. But what is particularly interesting is, aside from McNulty, many of the white characters in the season engage in almost the same amount and level of corrupted games as their black counterparts, in some cases moreso. But inflated ego, ultimate smugness, etc? The dramas final season, depicting a Baltimore newspaper, concluded last week. 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. 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. 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