Even as a child I remember sifting through the paper wondering what a presidential blowjob has to do with anything important. Its not garbage, they just dont get it. See production, box office & company info, Drama Trails: 'Coronation Street' to 'Kingdom'. My favorite character was bubs, I knew someone like him. Thanks for the response, even if it got the best of me! Its not likely to change our reasons for telling the stories we do, but neither is the criticism necessarily invalid or unwarranted. Good series wish could of been another series though! Its tremendously unfortunate a potentially amazing show was turned into a cute little art project. 2) As for the WORST McNultys supercop character finally jumped the shark. But inflated ego, ultimate smugness, etc? As wounded and onanistic and self-absorbed as the profession has become, there are still plenty of people for whom that matters above all. David Simon I dont think you have given up yet or maybe you would go off and retire like Marlo. Maybe an education magazine writes a column on inncr-city curricula, or a libertarian website revisits the idea of drug decriminalization. The third episode not quite as strong a story as the first two, perhaps has something to do with the fact that it was not based directly on the books of V. McD. The port was referenced a couple of times but would have liked to have a bit more substance so it felt like it all fit. Adding to this, the fact that her mother still celebrates the missing daughters birthday bothers her. Web2. i do not like hyped up shows, because of an innate sense of superiority which makes me believe than anything that other people like cannot be good. While he is cold and calculating, from the moment we met him Omar has a big heart and made decisions based on his emotional reaction. In the end, Carcetti, despite being white, was not able to avoid the same trappings of stat-juking number games and political favoritism as his predecessor, Royce, or the mayor before that. If you like Touching Evil or Monk, this series may be for you. Copyright 2018 David Simon. The acting is first rate but a few of the episodes really have huge gaping holes in the plot. I am your new lord sovereign of buried, latent, subtextual argument. Sorry. The final season of True Blood ended Sunday with a three-year time jump, bringing many of its characters to a Thanksgiving hosted by a pregnant Sookie ( Anna Although its one of my favorites, the only things in common with "Wire" are forensic psychologists profiling murderous sickos, and helping the police catch 'em. I'm a big fan of good,clever mystery. Its especially shameful that the media did not pick up on this. I certainly read that last post and thought thats angry. But Ill get back to the journalism angle momentarily. Melvin Wiliams passed today RIP! But most of all, that poor child Duquan who did nothing but suffer from beginning to end. Season 2 was the bravest thing ever seen on TV. 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. I wanted catharis toobut I was raised on ER. Not that your intention with this blog was to do that. Perhaps one on the books it is based on might warm me up to it. Its a subjective matter that isnt worth a good argument, especially if, like me, you dont see the seasons as distinct but cumulative. But suggest that high-end American newspapers have been gutted by out-of-town ownership, besieged by the internet and preoccupied by a prize culture that validates small-trick and self-limiting impact, rather than seriously evaluating problems? Jack and Liz. A moment for one People who are innocent are very rude to the police and refuse to co-operate for no apparent reason. Im so glad I got to bear witness to it, even if I was late. That was a bit beyond the historical reality; at the historicalBaltimore Sun, he was a mere Pulitzer finalist. I just re-watched the entire series, and its amazing how well it still holds up. Its a great show! It is for this reason that I think Season 5 is so brilliant. The original essay doesnt do anything to counter anyones opinions as to whether The Wire was good, bad, or indifferent. 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. Liz (Michelle Randolph) suffered a miscarriage in the finale, and it now seems she may be unable to have children again. I know that is a meta-narrative that some people find credible, but I could as easily and as credibly argue that the meta-narrative itself stems from newspaper critics who were too close and too sensitive to the overall critique. I just watched all 5 seasons over the past couple weeks and it was a pleasure. Robson Green thinks a US remake of his noughties ITV series Wire in the Blood could be "brilliant". Americans are stupid ppl by and larger, they pretty much believe whatever we tell them The amount of quotables in this show is amazing. 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%. In this case, our lead character is Dr. Tony Hill. Why would he care about the homeless? You made an impact on me David. Wow, I cant believe that went over my head too David. Not always do we get a "wrap up" episode and we didn't get one here either. 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. Not as cavalier as his "Touching Evil" series; his "Wire in the Blood" character of Tony Hill is much more reserved, quirky, and, being a criminal profiler, is more internalized with his processing of information. Im proud to be from Home of the Wire And a couple of others at alternative weeklies figured it out again, perhaps, because theyre less vested than everyone at the big, vulnerable dailies. I was already a cynic before 9/11, then The Wire came. I recently watched The Wire for the first time this year, and since have done my best to find critical analyses and articles that could help meaningfully fill the void left after the show. And it is clear that between Marlo, Snoop, and Chris, their real game was killing. 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). I sincerely believe S4 is the best season of any show in existence and overall, The Wire is the best-told story Ive ever experienced in television. Hamsterdam, say. While the Arab Spring was happening, the only thing you could find on news TV was tabloid coverage of a murder case. All Rights Reserved. No one went near the theme; everyone stayed dead-center and literal, oblivious to the big-ass elephant in our mythical newsroom. And no, I think season five achieved its goals as the other season, with me being no closer to the world of journalism than others on our writing staff were to the other worlds depicted. And I thanks you for that, because you gave us a piece of truth storytelling. I loved the series. I wanted to like this show, really, and Robson Green is an interesting actor, but it just doesn't cut the mustard for me. Really? I felt it was entirely too unrealistic and borderline offensive to the shows entire structure. There is always a player in the on deck circle, even when the final out is being recorded. Im nitpicking though I loved seeing the little references to old characters even sourvino being in the final series Top series. 1) The newsroom angle was a good idea but perhaps the show writers were a bit too close to it. The clues about The Sun missing important stories are there in plain sight. In the confrontation that follows, Adam shows him the photographs he took I came late to The Wire, having heard many great things about it from others over the years. But no, show dont tell is the rule. A few months ago I decided to give it a go and, as you can imagine, I fell in love. Over the past five seasons it has consistently presented detailed I understand the story and the tie-ins that you wrote about in this very blog, but I feel like you could have highlighted the bullshit of the media without compromising the core of The Wire, unrelenting, brutal, realism. And the depiction of the weak-willed, money-grubbing, ring-kissing top brass at papers was spot-on, too. Lowry got it, and tellingly, he used to work for theL.A. Timesbut is now a step or two removed from a metropolitan daily, writing forVariety. Cocaine Bear is based on a true story but the events especially the ending are very different. Just depressing the way it wallows in the depravity of the serial killers and hits you over the head with it. There are many crime/mystery books and shows out there but few are done this well with excellent character development, believable plots and story lines that are on one hand complex, terrifying, fully engrossing and on the other hand funny, thoughtful and informative. 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?! Pelecanos, Lehane, Price, Alvarez, Zorzi, the directors, cast, the whole lot. Drugs were just an excuse to pursue their passion, because it is clear that wacking people is what they loved. Lets be clear, though. Is McNulty still clean etc. The first was Joshua Ferris novel Then We Came to the End, This feeling of gritty realism was lost on me during the McNulty fake-killer arc. Comparisons with "Cracker" seem off the mark to me. My plight feels similar to that of the increasingly-obsolete reporters you mentioned, rummaging through webpage-after-page of marketable impact junk to find substantial material worth digging into. 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. | This makes for some truly unusual and amusing situations, that help bring levity to the gruesome crimes he investigates. Season 5 in a nut shell is explained in the opening scene by bunk, the bigger the lie, the more they believe Wire in the Blood, is first of all a showcase for the excellent acting skills of the charismatic Robson Green. I couldnt believe the level of writing and literary presence of this show. -- if you're a Robson Green fan, it's a fantastic showcase for his acting. Im watching Treme now. Site Created by Real Fresh Creative. A psychologist gets inside of the minds of both killers and victims to aid the police in solving gruesome serial killings in Northern England. Dr. Hill comes up with detail after detail about the perpetrator, without any more explanation of how he did it than Sylvia Browne, psychic, ever gives. Fucking worthless, fuck hbo! In the end, she asks for a transfer. In the annals of time, you documented as close to the reality of the DMV as you could get away with, its just too bad that people will always be calling it fiction., (*this is a better-edited version of my prior comment). Actually, I dont even think of it as a show its literature. Wire in the Blood vol 2 Sharp Compassion. Jumped that shark in high-topped Nikes, we did. Ive just completed my third viewing of the entire series. Really, someone should have put it to Herc, you have to admit. With Robson Green, Elaine Claxton, Hermione Norris, Richard Frame. Notable killings and machinations in the drug world were the talk of the streets. And to studiously avoid any sustained discussion about whether the depicted newspaper is, in all respects, capturing the meaningful narrative of the depicted city? Also the deal they made with Marlo at the end where he would be free was just nonsensical, unless you want to believe that the DAs office is incredibly pure and moral and would never want to go to court and bust a guy they know is a major killer just because there is a little dirt in their investigation. I may be the only one who remembers how he blew two critical moments in the Port case during season 2 all due to his general stupidity and self-centeredness- along with being responsible for Randys torment due Herc selling him out to find the camera he lost AND poor Bubbles getting brutalized on the street over and over for the exact same reason. Anyway, Ive gone on for far too long here. This is but the latest example of It continued doing so into the present decade as the Tribune Company followed the Times-Mirror buyouts with even more ruthless abandon. Surprisingly because i'm usually no fan at all of the serial-killer genre nor the kind of grisly imagery that this show always provides. -And Herc? Even though I dont like those gay fags fuckin each other but thats the world we live in so no problems. Note: this show is designated TV-MA, because of some intense or violent scenes. Well now, its been a week sinceThe Wires final episode and a certain calm has descended, leaving a little less agita and a little more reflection. Would still give Breaking Bad the nod over The Wire as a better show though. From the Huffington Post, March 17, 2008 I thought this was a really interesting article, especially in the context of the current pandemic which is hitting local papers the hardest. The creative and honest mind of the writers is put on the screen with a quality job of directing. 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. An eccentric psychologist, with zero social skills, and a smart and charming female detective come together in Bradfield, England, to solve cases that no normal policemen could ever. Thank you for this clue-in as well, I admit I missed most of it. For me, its all of a piece. Cocaine Bear, the new Id always had reservations about the believability of character who existed in a contained bureaucratic work environment surrounded by lifers, repeatedly stabbing his peers and superiors in the back for wholly self-serving reasons with so few repercussions. Love it. How is Baltimore under Trumps term. The criminals are deeply psychologically twisted, far more so than any person you have ever encountered, even in the newspapers. It was edgy and gritty, with strong performances from everyone. Drug wars, territorial disputes, and the assassination of the citys largest drug importer manage to produce a brief inside the metro section that refers only to the slaying of a second-hand appliance store owner. Eventually I bought the box set a few years ago and binge watched all five seasons. Unlike most shows, which run at 45 minutes per episode, Wire in the Blood runs at 90 minutes per episode. Given the immense detail used in the stories, the show simply wouldn't work with shorter episodes. The series was cancelled in 2009 due to ITV's financial troubles. The finale was weak/unsatisfying: I feel that the people who express this opinion dont quite understand the type of storytelling that you were going for. And while I tell everyone who will listen that this is the best show ever made I do feel Season 5 had some hokey yet prominent elements. Because the thing I cant leave alone, the thing that makes me giddy as a schoolgirl is this: Whatever else I am a traitorous apostate to newsprint, the angriest hack in television, a kicker of small dogs you must acknowledge that I am now, also, the newly crowded King of Meta. What a way for a series to go out. I agree with the message of Season 5, just not the execution. 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. It's like watching a big budget film on TV. Did you guys just intentionally try to deliver a shitty, unsatisfying conclusion so you can feel like you didnt pander to the audience or compromise your artistic vision or some shit? For instance the homeless serial killer story and the idea that this would be more politically important than closing a case where 22 murdered bodies were hidden away in vacants all over the city. Robson Green in Wire in the Blood. Photograph: ITV ITV has axed Robson Green drama Wire in the Blood after six years in what is seen as the latest cost cutting move by the network. The "Jordan" character was specific to the McDiarmid book "Torment of Others", of which the episode was derived. Its a subjective matter that isnt worth a good argument, . Painfully honest? See if you can purse your lips any tighter or hold your nose any higher. What Rough Beast. Or maybe anywhere. And to get teachers talking, even on background, about their anger and frustration at this flummery? While she tries her best to support her parents, Puleng also hates how theyre not willing to give up on the past. Then you have the choir, inexplicably, warbling on as if to lend some kind of gravitas to the lacklustre proceedings. 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. A few funny lines, too. Buy SD $1.99. Circling back to the journalism angle in season 5 and your above article, it is sad that so many people missed the real commentary about the total lack of journalistic integrity- not just in Bmore but in the whole country. Anyway, for me, its perfect. The Wire is my favorite show of all time, but Season 5 was definitely the weakest. I think it is, but Id like to hear your opinion on this. In closing, I missed you Mr. Simon, coming to do a panel at my school Washington State University in 2012 I think it was, because I had no idea about the show at that time. I had no memory of this series, he forgot the name, I researched it and found it. I fucking love this show. David Simon, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun for thirteen years, is the executive producer of HBOs The Wire. 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. Almost perfectly sums up my feelings about the series. One of the best Crime drama/ Mystery Thriller TV shows ever made, Vivid, believable shows with a charismatic psychologist solving intriguing crimes, Twisted and gory, but I love Robson Green. Each episode is someone chained up. Thanks for a great series and compelling stories and characters, in what was often a pretty bleak scene. For a mystery/suspense,thriller this show easily surpasses virtually all shows in the genre. since 2010 ive been watching the wire every year (2 tiems this year mind ) Ive tried many times to get family and friends into it and it never happens which really upsets me very much, quite simply the wire has the best charaters, the best acting and defo the best script ever. Thanks for making a great series. I gave up due to some of the most annoying characters I have seen written. 6 Apr. I am anxious to find out if there is a follow up to Painted? Every episode is gripping. I didnt know there were retards saying Each ending sucked so the season 5 was bad. You let Bubbles live. Nothing against Robson himself but his character annoys me. And today, with the availability of information (political manifestos, open sites describing tax laws, politicians own blogs describing their veiled reasons behind why their nest needs feathering) etc, its still so easy to spot journalists turning a blind eye and I can only assume either lazily or complicity ignoring the data to suit a narrative theyve been fed, or have a vested interest in continuing. Think season 5 could of been way better but liked how Omar died didnt expected it from the little kid. Grim. 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. 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. The writing, the directing, the acting, the story arcs: are all amazing. Righteous journalism that makes a good reporter get up in the morning. Several years go by since Pulengs sister went missing. Watched the first four seasons in 07-08 and decided to save S5 so I could pretend it wasnt over finally caved this week and watched it, andTHANK YOU! I have no idea how you were able to pick one quote out of the whole episode, to show at the beginning because almost every line is of substance. He displays tremendous potential; one can hope that he will continue to create performances that are filled with the humanity, compassion and insight that "Tony Hill" shows us. The biggest pisser-offers for me in the series were the assclowns in the police department who clearly dont give a shit about what actually happens to actual people. Prayer of the Bone. But for all of it to amount to a forest-and-tree farce? You had the ambitious lying dick with no redeemable qualities, the very honorable and honest veteran, some young black guy who covered Bubbles, the villainous senior editors, and a girl who was a good reporter. But there used to be more of them. how many years you figure we been doing the same shit.. Note: This article contains spoilers for the entire first series of Blood. Brilliant! Ok, maybe I can believe that McNulty would come up with a silly story to get the wire going, maybe, but Lester? No expose published. I worked at a small, local tabloid, before entering J-school, and rapidly became frustrated as I was lectured on hooks and handles. And Omar, well I can understand his death, tragic, but it was more realistic than a final bloodfest. The Wire will be studied in the future. First off, really fantastic article. I was leaning more towards something karmic, but its clear that many of the characters did not get what was coming to them. But if we give upthen what? Write a television story arc about the betrayal of the working class, the fraud of the drug war or the lie of No Child Left Behind and you cant get off the entertainment pages. But the rest of you blessed, scribbling souls? Uncensored. Reprinted with Permission. I binged watch all 5 seasons, The Wire is the best tv series in tv history. Episode 8 of Mayfair Witches season 1 starts with Keith running in the woods trying to escape. It was all very realistic and extremely tough to watch. If I was forced, I think Id go with 4-2-1-3-5, with 1 and 3 tied. A good newspaper covers its city and acquires not just the quantitative account of a days events, but the qualitative truth and meaning behind those events. Throughout 1923, Alexandras wealth has come into play (or the wealth of her family, rather). During the political campaign in Season 3, when Royce was facing pressure from Carcetti, there is a subtle glimpse into the racial component. Criminal Psychologist Tony Hill assists The Police with all manner of complex and disturbing crimes. 1 The Office. But having left the topic at hand to engage in ad hominem characterization, you cant very well expect anything less in return. I also loved Generation Kill. Or are you just that pissed and depressed about the world that you cant help but force your misery on your viewers? Thanks for this. Good god, this was the most amazing show Ive seen in ever. 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. External Reviews The character development and the way each characters persona was mirrored throughout each realm (from the street, to the BPD, to the courthouse, city hall, the ports, the newsroom) is the most amazing writing Ive ever seen. Lasher follows Keith to a random shack in the Wire in the Blood is one of the most important and valuable series ever produced for television. The crime thriller was being eyed for adaptation by Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. When the Wire was first broadcast, in 2002, I decided not to watch it because of the hype. I always thought the crime reduction % that Colvin reports as a result of his Hamsterdam experiment were too low. But absent that kind of reporting, we will all soon enough live in cities and towns where politicians and bureaucrats gambol freely without worry, where it is never a risk to shine shit and call it gold. Thinking back on Season 5, theres an interesting dynamic I think I picked up and just would like to know if it was intentional or if Im just reading too much into things. Most commentary has season 4 as the best and has season 5 as the least best. I watched The Wire a second time few years later and I loved season 2. There's something to be said for being able to binge an entire show from episode one to final episode when cancelled. The editing becomes more choppy, inserting 1-2 second scenes in the middle of something else. Why did stupid fucking hbo talk over the last episode when you re watch it on demand. On my third or fourth watch through season two became my second favorite season, after season 4 of course. 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. By the way, Ive been through journo school in NZ, although I didnt pass (I dropped out), my tutor told me that NZ doesnt have the same problems as the USA regarding the demise of newspapers, because, according to him, NZ newspapers already run on a hard core skeleton staffing level with no subcutaneous fatwhich I always thought was bullshit. 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