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Bosu
United States3247 Posts
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sammler
United Kingdom381 Posts
Season 4 is certainly my favourite. The way the youngsters became their elders over the two final seasons was the type of powerful allegory that made The Wire the best show on TV. | ||
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Jinsin5
Canada44 Posts
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Ocular
Canada141 Posts
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
i know the show wasn't that popular while it was airing, but i wonder how their season 4 ratings did. the next season they brought mcnulty back in the forefront drunker than ever and prez is re-written out of the show. | ||
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sharkeyanti
United States1273 Posts
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
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Karliath
United States2214 Posts
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
On August 20 2010 02:54 Hot_Bid wrote: last week TheMango and i were in NYC and we bumped into the actor who plays Marlo. i recognized him from behind from his walk and confirmed it by looking at his face, we go up to him and shake his hand and say YO MAN WE LOVE YOUR SHOW. he seemed genuinely happy we recognized him hehe. I hate you right now. | ||
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OhJesusWOW
United Kingdom127 Posts
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
On August 20 2010 05:34 CTStalker wrote: i'm really surprised how many people like season 4. thinking about it the way sammler describes it makes me appreciate it a little more i guess, but this how i thought about it when i was watching it: they took out the most compelling character completely (mcnulty), re-introduced a weak character who had almost been completely written off the show earlier (prez), and then turned half of what was once a gripping cop show into elementary hour. i know the show wasn't that popular while it was airing, but i wonder how their season 4 ratings did. the next season they brought mcnulty back in the forefront drunker than ever and prez is re-written out of the show. The creators had a plan of all 5 seasons before they even began filming. Their aim was to piece by piece examine how broken postindustrial urban society is, and they planned to do it by, I quote, "masquerading as a cop show"... and they had planned season 4 to be what it was before season 1 was shot. But it's not a cop show. It's literally a 60 hour long visual novel examining the failed institutions of the 20th/21st Century, the "war" on drugs, and how they destroy lives, and Season 4 is the climax where one realizes that even from the age of schoolchildren, people who were born into that situation are damned to live out the same broken cycle all over again. It's a piece damning society, really. Everyone dies or is locked up, and in Season 4 new players fill their roles and the allegorical chess game is always the same - the series has come full circle. The very best police (McNulty, Freamon), the ones who break hierarchy to get their job done - all they can do is lock up a kingpin (Avon), which creates a power vacuum and as a direct result more people die (the Vacants) as a new king asserts himself (Marlo). Youth like Randy, Dukie and Michael get caught in the crossfire, their cruel fates assigned to them from the powers that be - ruthless drug criminals and lame, impotent institutions (the Group Homes, the Police, in Dukie's case the schools themselves) which were meant to help them. Only by the extraordinary efforts of one man does anyone escape the cycle at all - and ironically it's the one kid who probably deserved it least (if there is such a thing as a kid not deserving to be saved... though would you really have wanted Namond to be the one saved, if you could have chosen Dukie or Randy?) Prez in this season acts as the conduit through whose eyes we the audience can observe the messed up situation. He's not the main character, he's us, witnessing. And his storyline is one of very few hopeful ones - I wouldn't have cared if Prez got killed in Season 1, but I valued him as a person by this season's end. And in a show as gloomy as this one, hell I'll take all the hope I can get. | ||
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uga
United States11 Posts
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TanGeng
Sanya12364 Posts
The two most compelling seasons were one and four. Season one was about the dysfunction of the police departments. Season four was about the dysfunction of the education system. Season four though is also one of the most realistic depictions along with season two depicting the blight of major manufacturing cities and commercial ports. Just wondering how Cheese got free in that last episode to get popped. | ||
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
On August 23 2010 17:41 TanGeng wrote: Michael Lee becoming the new Omar was the final surprise scene of the series. The new defense lawyer and the judge was an interesting scene as well. The whole ending on the last episode was awesome. They basically recreated some scenes from the first season (word-by-word if I remember correctly) to show that the cycle continues. | ||
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Gatsbi
United States1134 Posts
"You look good, girl" *BAM* such an amazing amazing show | ||
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kaisen
United States601 Posts
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Jinsin5
Canada44 Posts
On August 20 2010 05:34 CTStalker wrote: I know the show wasn't that popular while it was airing, but i wonder how their season 4 ratings did. the next season they brought mcnulty back in the forefront drunker than ever and prez is re-written out of the show. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The writing staff of the fourth season was nominated for two awards at the 2008 Writer's Guild of America Awards - best dramatic series and best episodic drama for the episode "Final Grades" (story by David Simon and Ed Burns, teleplay by David Simon) The fourth season of The Wire has almost been universally lauded and hailed as one of the best seasons of television ever produced. As of July 2010, it is the highest rated TV season of all time on Metacritic with a score of 98, outscoring even The Sopranos, another HBO series of far greater fame and notoriety I believe this was the only awards the show won as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_(season_4)#Reception | ||
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Ace
United States16096 Posts
On August 20 2010 08:51 HeavOnEarth wrote: Anyone know a site that streams this? :O http://tvshack.cc/tv/The_Wire/ Every episode sitting right there waiting to be watched ^_^ | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
On August 23 2010 17:41 TanGeng wrote: Michael Lee becoming the new Omar was the final surprise scene of the series. The new defense lawyer and the judge was an interesting scene as well. The two most compelling seasons were one and four. Season one was about the dysfunction of the police departments. Season four was about the dysfunction of the education system. Season four though is also one of the most realistic depictions along with season two depicting the blight of major manufacturing cities and commercial ports. Just wondering how Cheese got free in that last episode to get popped. he was out on bail he never went back to get sentenced | ||
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fujimi
Japan32 Posts
But yeah, still a great show. Has a real 1990's feel to it, even though it was made after 2k.. I watched The Misfits before I started watching The Wire, so my standard for being mentally satisfied have been kicked up a few notches. Can't wait for season 2 of The Misfits..! | ||
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