The Wire is Awesome

[my_daroga]

This is old news, I know. But we've got one episode left in Season 3 (NO SPOILERS, PLEASE), and I want to take this moment to rhapsodize about how much I love this show. For those of you who don't know, it's about crime and policing in Baltimore, and it ran five seasons in the mid-2000s

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[cdaae]

I entirely agree.

One of the things that struck me is that although these kinds of people are generally demonized (the drugs gangs, etc), they are actually just doing exactly what consumerist capitalism says we're meant to do. They're just excluded from the acceptable ways of doing it. And of course we don't tend to think of massive corporations as violent, but in fact it's just that they're inflicting their violence on people in the third world, where we don't see it.

I think the final season is my favourite, because there were moments where I thought "oh my god, they're not really going to...?", and then made me laugh out loud. But I won't give you any details, you'll just have to keep watching. :D

[my_daroga]

It's already making all of go, "whaaaaaaaaaa no they didn't oh my god" on a regular basis, so I look forward to that.

And you're totally right. That's especially apparent in S3, with the widening, or deepening maybe, of the criminal exploits involved and the attempt to transition into "legitimacy" and how that parallels the street level. Contrasts, too, but it's more similar than different. The weapons, the tools, are different. The objects aren't.

[my_daroga]

I did hear that! Because it's on the bestseller shelf at Scarecrow Video (I love Seattle). I'll need to get that. I also picked up the Criterion Vampyr for $1 at a library booksale, so I look forward to watching that, too.