Why I don’t Want to See ‘The Wire’ Season 5
It all started with a dead guy named Snot Boogie. I am a little late to the scene but I just tore through the first four seasons of HBO’s ‘The Wire’. What can I possibly say about this show that hasn’t been said? Nothing. Even Leah McLaren has spilled some ink on the matter. Christ. But I will say I am not keen on it ending (past tense). More succinctly, I am not keen on watching the show creators search on screen for a ‘fitting’ finale. I understand S5 features news reporters — that means it will be doubly self-conscious. Ick. I am going to pass on season five. The realization of the absurd requires suicide. I prefer not to watch it happen.
A spin off show set in DC or LA? Or simply go back to the story from season one and tell it again.
More Thoughts — captured but not processed
- How many times have you watched your favourite X, wishing you could recapture how you felt the first time you saw it? I just watched everyone’s favourite with fresh eyes. Lucky me.
- The cool Clement Virgo
- Freakonomics — the drug story (which was first?) “The game is rigged.”
- Wonder who would be brave enough to offer all the fast food as product placement?
- Prison blues. Where are the prison oranges? Prison fashion by Ralph Lauren.
- Structure: the cold open — drifting story — punch-to-solar-plexus close
- Season three has the most weak closes. With no case underway, S3 seems to be all drift.
- Ziggy is to season 2 what Bubbles was to season 1
- The slang in season 1 seemed better than the street talk in season 4 — my imagination?
- Manufactured conflict in season 2 — Daniels’ wife, Kima’s girl — seemed out of character
- S4 was my favourite. Holy crap.
- Is there a database of quotes from this series?
- If you have ever confronted violence in your life…
- “Nothing in the world is more expensive than free.”
- “Office so small you had to leave the room to change your mind.”
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