So. I suck at blogging. Oh well.
I haven't posted in a while, although there have been several cases where I had something worth writing about. Now however, I have something that I have to write about. The Wire is (was) possibly the greatest show ever to grace a television screen. I know I mentioned that Dexter was the king here, but I'm sure many people have made similar claims under similar ignorance.
I started watching the show about a month ago, I think. I went through all 5 seasons. There were several days where I just couldn't stop watching. That is the mark of a good show.
As for a summary, Wikipedia is a better source than I, but I'll throw some sentences out there. The Wire is about a few people in the Baltimore police department and their quests for doing their jobs. The main idea of the show is to showcase the corruption and evil and blah blah blah. Where the show shines, however, is in the storytelling and characterization through stellar acting. The show takes the hardest criminals and makes them seem like people. Every time someone dies, be they a "good" or "bad" guy, you feel it. You miss them.
It was a great show throughout, but the 5th season kind of lost me, and the reason for that was that they lost focus on the storytelling and concentrated on the dirt. The big side-story was about the media and the corruption in it, which is pretty damn obvious to everyone already I think. It was boring. The end was alright, seeing the ass-holes squirm and all; but I think a lot of the characters lost their souls.
However. Altogether this was one of the best viewing experiences I've ever had. I hope I can find something to top this, because pretty much everything from here on out is going to look like crap.
2 comments:
I completely agree with your assessments on this show. It is truly the best show that ever graced the television set. I wrote a huge article myself in my blog that covers the entire series. I agree that season 5 was week in some places, but I think the bigger question was: how in the hell would the show be able to top what it did with season 4? It did have a good finale and when you look at the series at a whole you see how ambitious and intricate it was set up to be.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, season 4 was completely awesome. I think one of the problems with 5 was all the new characters; I couldn't really feel for them at all.
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