. We told the precise story we wished to tell and what happened was supposed to happen. Almost perfectly sums up my feelings about the series. And yes, as many reviewers commented, the transition from Norris to Lahbib could have, and should have been handled with much greater care (CJ abruptly abandoning him without an explanation to addicted viewers, and heading off to So. As it is, I argued, any good journalist will if he or she loves the business follow this story and wince at the stories systematically missed, the undiscovered and unreported tales of the city known to viewers for four seasons. It was edgy and gritty, with strong performances from everyone. The newsroom story arc wasnt lost on me i believe some of the characters in the newsroom just didnt grip you as much as the other areas which makes it seem the weaker part. I was born with scoop mentality and its never left me. Maybe its honest. To argue about whether Whiting is more venal or one-dimensional than Valchek? WebSynopsis [ edit] In the fictional English city of Bradfield, men are being abducted and tortured to death using brutal medieval techniques. 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. What's going on in Val McDermott's head. Jumped that shark in high-topped Nikes, we did. I started college as a J-student and later moved to English. Each episode is someone chained up. Six years later. When the big bust happen since the wire to wasnt legal I figured Marlo was going free. Beautiful. 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. Cocaine Bear, the new All in all, you really gave us a lot to think about. (And yes, I got the theme. but please dont make anymore. Everything that happens on this show is explained, the more times that you watch it through. 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. Pelecanos, Lehane, Price, Alvarez, Zorzi, the directors, cast, the whole lot. In the end, she asks for a transfer. The story the music the acting is just so damn beautiful. Im watching Treme now. Producer Chris Miller explains why. The Mermaids Singing: Part 1: Directed by Andrew Grieve. Note to the producers: Have Robbie Coltraine guest as "Cracker" character in a future episode assisting Hill and Jobson! My comment amounts to little more than unwanted negative feedback for a show that ended 5 years ago. It was way worse than you thought. Stars Robson Green Mark Its not garbage, they just dont get it. 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. 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. Season 4 seemed to show Carcetti living up to their ideals, and it *did* seem like things were getting cleaned up. There will be many scenes of hookers and trashy bar people. basically that whole hood that was the result of DC trying to lower crime stats by forcing all the hood rats over the Maryland line. Just depressing the way it wallows in the depravity of the serial killers and hits you over the head with it. Can you give any specific insight into why Marlo was let to walk away unscathed. Not that your intention with this blog was to do that. That being said, I think what was really being pointed out here, is that the sorts who were under the feeling that the blacks were ruining the city, more or less knew quite well that such levels of corruption in the legal bodies was not limited by race, as Season 5 shows, and that just like w/ many of the black characters, many of the white characters benefit professionally for their lies, cover-ups and stat-jukings. Damn, I think I might just sit down and watch the whole thing again to see what else Ive missed. Regarding the final season, was there any sort of fake serial killer or fake serial criminal real-life story that inspired you? He's quirky, he's a little odd, but he helps to provide a different, and intellectual insight into the killer's mind. He's like an autistic train spotter. 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. Great blog, it confirms my suspicions of the final season but wasnt enough to change my mind about it. I HOPE THEY COME OUT WITH MORE SEASONS!! 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. 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. Explain your displeasure in detail, no problem. I had only heard of it but didnt know it was the drug I needed in my life to actively engage in social discussions the way you do so well in this series. To debate whether Gus Haynes is more of a hero than Bunny Colvin? 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. If your a fan of the genre and have not yet discovered Dr.Tony Hill I recommend that you do. WebRobson Green (Grantchester, Touching Evil) plays a clinical psychologist called in by the police to help investigate serial killers in this acclaimed mystery series based on the books by Val McDermid. Could this be a solution to the decline of established local titles like the Sun? Having grown up on the southeast side of PG County inside the Beltway, I can tell you that The Wire was a hit right between the eyes. Lets say there used to be 20 of those crimes per month a 14% reduction would mean there were now 17 of those crimes instead of 20. And Omar, well I can understand his death, tragic, but it was more realistic than a final bloodfest. But why would he go around looking for Marlo, wasnt he a bit smarter than that? I found Wire in the Blood purely by accident and I am now a die-hard fan. 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. WowIm emotionally drained. Damn I needed that lad to have a happy ending! The show is bases on the books written by crime novelist Val McDiarmid. Its not painful to me. The show and books are dark and twisted. Production took a huge risk deciding to change setting and characters after only 1 season. It is important to give the newcomer a distinctive identity. The suits in Chicago are running scared. Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. Anyway, remember that Colvins 14% were clean numbers (he didnt juke the stats) so 14% is a large increase if you look at it that way. Missing a storyIm still writingstill kills me. WITB is a dark, gritty, British crime drama that most all will heartily enjoy.. should you like the genre. No show has ever, EVER done that. The crime drama, which is made I must comment on the general disappointment around season 5 though: I too was bored by the whole Baltimore Sun room and cast. 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. Everyone who complanes about season 5 is just mourning. He has a reputation of taking small seemingly unconnected facts puzzling them together and providing a profile for the police to follow. What he suddenly turns stupid? Maybe the guys just kind of being a dickhead here. No need to worry about any season of this amazing show. We certainly expected more attention from the media. Dont even know where to start, and I dont think I can critique anything about this show because it critiques itself. No television series has ever lived with me the way The Wire has. A psychologist gets inside of the minds of both killers and victims to aid the police in solving gruesome serial killings in Northern England. Of course, its all still out there, and I can find it and watch it and still enjoy it all, but I feel like Im a decade late to the party. During the political campaign in Season 3, when Royce was facing pressure from Carcetti, there is a subtle glimpse into the racial component. It ran for six seasons and I believe had some specials along the way. All Rights Reserved. This feeling of gritty realism was lost on me during the McNulty fake-killer arc. Melvin Wiliams passed today RIP! It was especially poignant seeing all the since-deceased (or reformed, theres no way I could overlook or forget Dukie becoming Bubbles) characters roles being filled by the New Age.. There was some love in there for the ink-stained wretches. If you like Touching Evil or Monk, this series may be for you. FAQ Several years go by since Pulengs sister went missing. I wonder whats happening in this city that we dont know about. The writing is exceptional, especially for the episode, "Torment". 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. I actually cared about them as if they were real well, nearly! 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. Even more awesome is how you actually continued that same thread from one season to the next, taking one subject matter and examining it from all the angles that make up the context of the entire problem. The systemic problems of the DMV are way too deep and the people in charge are way too invested in their petty self-interests to ever have it another way. The Wire will be studied in the future. Rawls and Valchek were just as bad- and the reason they all irked me so much is because its way closer to the truth than people want to admit. Adding to this, the fact that her mother still celebrates the missing daughters birthday bothers her. Even recently I remember watching CNN and they were covering the Treyvon Martin case seemingly 24/7 and in the news ticker at the bottom of the screen there was the briefest mention of some protest in Egypt. No-one looked at him twice.". Rowan is following him even though she is hurt and losing blood. Lets be clear, though. First off, really fantastic article. 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. WebA clinical psychologist, Dr. Tony Hill, delves into his dark side to see into the minds of serial killers, to aid the police in solving their most difficult cases. You want to suggest that the creator of the project has his nose in the air for being interested in the matter at all, and that you have some insight into his temperament? But then I would be as guilty of lazy ad hominem as they have been in assessing the work. 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 Particularly toward the finale, you created a meta-mirror for us that Im still working out. Sorry. I did have a question though that I hope you could answer. Thats exactly would happen to people in the real world. I think it is, but Id like to hear your opinion on this. Anyway, for me, its perfect. 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. TheSunbegan doing so in the 1990s before the internet, before the Tribune Company did its worst when beat reporting and any serious, systemic examination of issues was eschewed in favor of impact journalism, special projects and Pulitzer sniffing. You dont like the last season of a television drama, feel free to venture an opinion. I absolutely love The Wire so I mean no disrespect when I say this (arent prefaces like that always inevitably followed by something kinda shitty and disrespectful?) Thank you so much for making The Wire, it ruined every other tv show. the biggest feeling that I was left with was that of Newtons Third Law of Physics, the action-reaction law. Not everything can have a happy ending, I understand. Why did stupid fucking hbo talk over the last episode when you re watch it on demand. Site Created by Real Fresh Creative. 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. Im literally addicted to this show, and watch it through at least 3-4 times a year. As Tony the Los Angeles Police Department? And now, with the economic vise that is the internet tight around her, TheSun like so many once-worthy regional newspapers is fighting for relevance and readers. And to studiously avoid any sustained discussion about whether the depicted newspaper is, in all respects, capturing the meaningful narrative of the depicted city? And Kima, would she really be snitching on them? missing such a vital snap shot to the Barksdale case. At least youre not complete sadists. 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. See if you can purse your lips any tighter or hold your nose any higher. Comparatively, many of the black characters who could have made gains by playing the same game, either didnt or chose not to. Thank you for this clue-in as well, I admit I missed most of it. 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 It's quite dark, with just enough wit to keep you from falling over the edge into the great abyss. Hopefully there is some point in time when the majority of people become a little smarter and catch up w/ the intelligence this show possesses. With no consequences for either, even Herc the Assclown who monumentally fucked up every single case he was put on? But it was still damn above all the other things (books, series, movies). Awards Thats right. 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. 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! Its admittedly easy enough, if you are writing a fictional television show, to sit in a diner booth or on a bar stool with a police lieutenant or an assistant principal, an assistant states attorney or a political functionary and have them tell you the good dirt, knowing as they do that fiction is a safe abstraction. We did that, too, because hey, to criticize such a newsroom culture did indeed carry those risks in Baltimore. The crime thriller was being eyed for adaptation by The intelligent and complex story line demands focus to follow clearly, and make you think. 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. Herc just needed to get run over, along with Levy, and bleed out slowly suffering much in the process. Departmental priorities make high-level drug investigation prohibitive. McNulty, Frank Sobotka, Carcetti (at least in season 3), Colvin and Prez). When one actor leaves a show and is replaced. If you have not watched any of these, please go for it and watch them in order. Really? User Ratings The first was Joshua Ferris novel Then We Came to the End, I watched all five series back to back in less than a month bit of an overdose I guess, but just couldnt stop. Actually, I dont even think of it as a show its literature. 1) The newsroom angle was a good idea but perhaps the show writers were a bit too close to it. I watched all 3 in order and enjoyed this series. I just graduated and 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. But for all of it to amount to a forest-and-tree farce? Its so damn realistic. 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?! After watching the awful Sorkin show The Newsroom that was so dumb and naive it was nice to see some smart and realistic drama about a newsroom. 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 major American cities are in woeful shape and for various reasons we can not or will not stop this slow-moving train. It's like watching a big budget film on TV. There were three full-length movies: "The Mermaid's Singing", "Shadows Rising", and "Justice Painted Blind". I am anxious to find out if there is a follow up to Painted? You made an impact on me David. 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. Righteous journalism that makes a good reporter get up in the morning. I just watched all 5 seasons in short order. 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. It would be hard for a committed education reporter to acquire the curriculum of a city middle school and compare it to what children were taught before No Child Left Behind reduced teaching to rote repetition, or to track a rise in the third-grade test scores into the fifth or seventh grade and thereby demonstrate how temporal and false the gains actually were. To the people saying he was stupid for returning to Baltimore in the first place: Marlo used the perfect bait. Too short. From the Huffington Post, March 17, 2008 WebPart of the Wire in the Blood series As this hit British detective drama concludes, clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green, Grantchester) and DI Alex Fielding 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. I've enjoyed his first rate performances in two other series I've seen, and can't wait to see how his character's flirtation with D.I. 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