David Simon, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun for thirteen years, is the executive producer of HBOs The Wire. His entire life he had nothing and no one then ends up back on the street with a needle in his arm. 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. 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. Thats why Im here. 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. Criminal Psychologist Tony Hill assists The Police with all manner of complex and disturbing crimes. David, I just wanted to take a brief moment (6 years later) to thank you for both an amazing show and this write up of your thoughts and insights into S5. 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. Every episode is gripping. 2) As for the WORST McNultys supercop character finally jumped the shark. Season 5 was tremendous, I can only assume the criticism comes from those who still believe that high standards of journalistic integrity are still the goal of the modern news room. I would not recommend this show for anyone under the age of 16. WebA psychologist gets inside of the minds of both killers and victims to aid the police in solving gruesome serial killings in Northern England. Could this be a solution to the decline of established local titles like the Sun? I thought this was a really interesting article, especially in the context of the current pandemic which is hitting local papers the hardest. I did enjoy everything else about Season 5. There will be many scenes of hookers and trashy bar people. And whether that is an accurate critique? Not everything can have a happy ending, I understand. But if you didnt enjoyThe Wirethis season, then lets concede for purposes of this little note that you are correct. 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. Anyway, Ive gone on for far too long here. Cocaine Bear, the new action-comedy now in theaters, is based on a true story, but only barely. I think not. We don't recommend this series. 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. Robson Green is a favourite of mine which is why I really wanted to love this show. "Wire in the Blood" is the story of Dr.Tony Hill (Robson Green), a slightly eccentric clinical psychologist who works part time with the police force of Bradford, England. THOSE cops and THOSE lawyers definitely exist in abundance in all over D.C., the southside, and Baltimore. Season 5 is tremendous, you have such great payoffs for characters, building on all that came before. But inflated ego, ultimate smugness, etc? The writing was a train wreck, the characterization limp, the acting and plotting, shameful and shameless both. There's something to be said for being able to binge an entire show from episode one to final episode when cancelled. I dunno. Criminal Psychologist Tony Hill assists The Police with all manner of complex and disturbing crimes. Some shameful shit right there. When we were beating the story out, Bill Zorzi wondered whether in the final episode it might be necessary for Gus Haynes to vocalize the theme, to turn to Alma or Luxenberg or some other character and say, Were so thin, and we waste what little resources we have left on the wrong things. 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. I was leaning more towards something karmic, but its clear that many of the characters did not get what was coming to them. He has a reputation of taking small seemingly unconnected facts puzzling them together and providing a profile for the police to follow. Key investigations and prosecutions are undercut or abandoned by the political machinations of police officials, prosecutors and political figures. Then when people point out the garbage it becomes oh-so esoteric. Done very tastefully. Note to the producers: Have Robbie Coltraine guest as "Cracker" character in a future episode assisting Hill and Jobson! Brilliant! My favorite character was bubs, I knew someone like him. 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. Everything that happens on this show is explained, the more times that you watch it through. Love it. Although I understand the validity of some of the endings, I really was disappointed with season 5. Cocaine Bear, the new I was watching for the Barksdale arc and didnt know how important season two was in the overall visual novel. Im an asshole. Jordan is done in a tasteful way. People who are innocent are very rude to the police and refuse to co-operate for no apparent reason. Thats when Pulengs world completely changes. 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. 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). When there is an ensemble cast and crew that work their hardest to put out the best product possible, it makes viewing a very satisfying activity. Loved how one episode segues seamlessly into the next, and one season covers one full story in depth rather than typical crime dramas that present a problem and a resolution all in 43 minutes. Thats exactly would happen to people in the real world. Marlo gets away clean and he keeps his money, Avon lives happily ever after in prison, McNulty gets screwed, the lying reporter wins a damn Pulitzer, and oh yeah, OMAR GETS KILLED BY A LITTLE KID?! No need to worry about any season of this amazing show. There wasnt a single interesting person in that arc, except maybe the copy editor championing integrity at all costs. Its a great show! The show and books are dark and twisted. I just re-watched the entire series, and its amazing how well it still holds up. But no, show dont tell is the rule. We certainly expected more attention from the media. Im nitpicking though I loved seeing the little references to old characters even sourvino being in the final series Top series. I also loved Generation Kill. But life isnt like that. Ms. Lahbib is an unknown entity to me, but as I finished watching series 4, I felt a bit queasy. 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 as a child I remember sifting through the paper wondering what a presidential blowjob has to do with anything important. Anyway, Im straying from my point: thank you for defining this additional layer to the theme of S5. The plan immediately backfires as Adam is zapped through the chains and he awakens. Im so glad I got to bear witness to it, even if I was late. Nothing like unrelenting brutal, realism. McNulty, Frank Sobotka, Carcetti (at least in season 3), Colvin and Prez). 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. The serial killer story was just too silly. Hamsterdam, say. Well said, David. Thank you for telling these stories. Gus opining that there was a time when no perp walk would take place with a call first being made to the broadsheets to make sure it was covered. I felt it was entirely too unrealistic and borderline offensive to the shows entire structure. I couldnt believe the level of writing and literary presence of this show. So thank you for such an absolute terrific ride. For me, its all of a piece. I just finished the final episode of The Wire. That was a bit beyond the historical reality; at the historicalBaltimore Sun, he was a mere Pulitzer finalist. In one of the best scenes of the series, There's also a lot of blurry camera work that is meant to show the violent murders but does tend to make one rather seasick! I HOPE THEY COME OUT WITH MORE SEASONS!! During the political campaign in Season 3, when Royce was facing pressure from Carcetti, there is a subtle glimpse into the racial component. External Reviews Season 5 was great. I was lucky enough to have a copy taped from BBC America (cheers, Mom!) But what can you do? The Wire will be studied in the future. 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. 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. Particularly the fat guy in homicide (who pissed me off so much I blocked out the characters name from memory) who would rather jerk off behind his desk to titty mags and suck off the government nipple while the whole city goes up in flames. Robson Green thinks a US remake of his noughties ITV series Wire in the Blood could be "brilliant". It worked, I thought it fell short of the seasons 3, and 4. The game is rigged and Im not sure if I wanna play. If your a fan of the genre and have not yet discovered Dr.Tony Hill I recommend that you do. Note: This article contains spoilers for the entire first series of Blood. Enter DI Alex Fielding, Simone Lahbib. 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. 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 But wait Marlo had to head back to those corners to be himselfthe individual. Brilliant! Its like The Odyssey of Homer. She sends him to chase down Keith and kill him. David SImon, I dont understand why you wrote this. I just graduated and document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Not so much as an offhand reference, and that goes not just for the journalists displeased enough with our newspaper tale, but for the larger number of commentators and critics who thought we did swell. But then I would be as guilty of lazy ad hominem as they have been in assessing the work. Nice piece written here but my only real issues with season 5 The acting is first rate but a few of the episodes really have huge gaping holes in the plot. I guess I will have to reflect on why I could easily accept Hamsterdam and not the phony killer. To me, The Wire was told as an epic novel. Particularly toward the finale, you created a meta-mirror for us that Im still working out. 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. Regarding the final season, was there any sort of fake serial killer or fake serial criminal real-life story that inspired you? Comparisons with "Cracker" seem off the mark to me. Im actually rigorous about letting criticism of the show stand without arguing back. The intelligent and complex story line demands focus to follow clearly, and make you think. You dont like the last season of a television drama, feel free to venture an opinion. All 24 episodes are great! It continued doing so into the present decade as the Tribune Company followed the Times-Mirror buyouts with even more ruthless abandon. If season five didnt work for you, then it didnt work for you. He's quirky, he's a little odd, but he helps to provide a different, and intellectual insight into the killer's mind. There were three full-length movies: "The Mermaid's Singing", "Shadows Rising", and "Justice Painted Blind". It is our not insignificant loss that more shows weren't filmed. Have just finished re-watching the whole series. Over the past five seasons it has consistently presented detailed Thank you for this clue-in as well, I admit I missed most of it. I've been in love with Robson Green for years, and he's in top form here in "Wire in the Blood," a British TV series based on characters created by crime writer Val McDermid. The "Jordan" character was specific to the McDiarmid book "Torment of Others", of which the episode was derived. The Wire was arguably the best television series ever made. Not that your intention with this blog was to do that. I just watched all 5 seasons in short order. 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. Reprinted with Permission. David, let me first congratulate you on making one of the most riveting series to have ever graced the global stage. | Ive just completed my third viewing of the entire series. Its a subjective matter that isnt worth a good argument, . Even if you're not a Robson Green fan, this will surely garner him new followers. The man who plays Tony Hill, the psychologist, is great. Lasher appears and asks her to stop and let him do her bidding. And remember the part where you saw the lady outside selling snowballs, the postal carrier was able to deliver mail, people were outside hanging laundry so you could tell that the 14% drop was substantial in that district. 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. In an interview Robson Green said the phrase wire in the blood was taken to mean a genetic kink, something impure and unusual in the blood, that leads to the Even though I dont like those gay fags fuckin each other but thats the world we live in so no problems. Buy SD $1.99. Im sad I missed all the hoopla, the reviews, analysis, any interviews and behind the scenes footage that was released with and right after the show ended. 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. What really made Season 5 for me was Gus and the newsroom in general. Lasher follows Keith to a random shack in the At least youre not complete sadists. 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. I was reading The Stand at the time I posted that response. There was some love in there for the ink-stained wretches. Each season building toward a singular, connected argument. Isnt that what your essay calls for? David-I just finished the entire series in about a week. Damn, I think I might just sit down and watch the whole thing again to see what else Ive missed. I meant To say Roger Twigg. 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. 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. A mayor was elected governor while his police commanders made aggravated assaults and robberies disappear. Still, all that being said, it was a hell of a ride and still the best damn tv series ever made. Its not painful to me. If you like your murder mysteries uncensored this is the best one. Or maybe anywhere. 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. The Wire is my favorite show of all time, but Season 5 was definitely the weakest. Dont even know where to start, and I dont think I can critique anything about this show because it critiques itself. 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