The Wire Series 5
Well, I accidentally watched the final episode today - having planned to save it for later in the weekend. If you've never seen the greatest tv series ever made, it's not a great place to start but set aside a week and work up to it.
( Minor spoilers - actually only on the set up of the series, and certainly not how it ends. But you might prefer to go in ignorant )
( Minor spoilers - actually only on the set up of the series, and certainly not how it ends. But you might prefer to go in ignorant )
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There may be issues with drug usage and swearing. And possibly the racial dynamic. It also - and I emphasise this is from the endings of the first four seasons of it which may or may not apply to the ultimate wrap up - does not do consolation. In The Sopranos life went on (or didn't), in NYPD Blue they get their man - in The Wire (ditto) the serious crime squad don't get up the food chain, and if a kingpin falls another takes his place. In Series 5 muffle uffle wuffle muffle.
Usually US TV drama seems to take place in real time - you get Thanksgiving and Christmas but curiously no July 4 and six months suddenly pass, Abby goes into rehab, Ryan goes to Europe, Pacey sails his boat... The Wire's timescale is more complex. It feels like a ( ... )
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