Spoilers The Wire. Am I the only one that thinks it limped to the finish line?

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The whole fake serial killer storyline was boring.

Omar getting killed by the kid that was pretending to be him in an earlier season was pretty poetic.

The 1st 4 seasons were better than the entire run of BB, imo.

Best parts of the 5th season:

-Dookie becoming Bubbles
-Bubbles redemption
-Herc belps Marlo beat the system
-Mike becomes Omar

Cracked did a great breakdown of BB and The Wire. A funny video, I'll see if I can find it


ETA: Here it is

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I like Clark Johnson

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Check him out in Homicide if you haven't yet. An integral part of an excellent cast and show. Simon's first foray into Baltimore street life.

Nope. I finished the series about 3 weeks ago and almost started this exact same thread but I figured I'd get bashed.

I was okay with the way Omar went out because I felt like in real life a character like that would have to go out in a similarly unassuming and unexpected way.
But I was pissed off with the lead up to his death. They turned Omar into a a whiny gimp limping around hellbent on revenge. I felt like the Omar we knew to that point was too smart and too "in the game" to let his emotions blind him into getting killed.


The news paper angle was pretty lame too. They did a terrible job with that story line, but even at its best I think it still would have been lame. I didn't care at all about any of the newspaper characters. I don't even know any of their names.

The fake serial killer thing was just stupid.
McNulty was one of the best characters in the first two season and they turned him into absolute shite. From the only decent cop trying to actually catch criminals to a lunatic making up a serial killer, messing with bodies and evidence, and lying to reporters. I realize he had his demons with alcohol and stuff but c'mon. He was also a pimp the first few seasons but not he can barely hold onto an insecure and average looking woman like Beady?


I did think it was badass having Mike turn into the next Omar. And having Dookie turn into the next Bubbles just shows the cycle of the streets.


Overall after the first few episodes of the season I felt like the only reason I kept watching is because I wanted to see how it ended and what happened to the characters.

Bodie died at the end of season 4, brah.

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The fake serial killer thing was just stupid.

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I didn't like that storyline at all, but if you look at it within the framework of McNulty and that crew doing whatever it takes to keep the wire going, it makes more sense. I mean, even someone like Lester Freamon (a pretty moral guy) got in on some of it because it was that important to keep the wire open. Also, I liked that it showed the ineptitude of detectives from a different angle (for example, how esily everyone bought into the whole red-string serial killer angle), and how easily others can buy into it when it benefits them (like the reporter and the paper)...to the point where McNulty even shocked himself when news outlets started reporting on it and he realized that it had sort of taken on a life of its own. That was cool.

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McNulty was one of the best characters in the first two season and they turned him into absolute shite. From the only decent cop trying to actually catch criminals to a lunatic making up a serial killer, messing with bodies and evidence, and lying to reporters. I realize he had his demons with alcohol and stuff but c'mon. He was also a pimp the first few seasons but not he can barely hold onto an insecure and average looking woman like Beady?

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But that's reality. McNulty, while a good detective, was ultimately an a-hole drunk who basically fricked over everybody in his life that meant anything to him. He had the wife and kid (kids? Don't remember if he had more than one). But he threw that all away chasing pussy and the bottom of the bottle. And he had hot women as well, but that was never anything more than just arse to him, and he never cared about them at all. But at some point, he became so worthless (on a personal level) that he couldn't keep pulling arse like that, and Beady was all he had. And I'd like to hope that in the end, when Beady takes him back despite him fricking her over just like everyone else before her, he realized that she was a good person and didn't deserve his bullshite and he tried to clean himself up. But who knows..

Now, the more I'm sitting here talking about S5, the more I am liking it. But it definitely was my least favorite the first time I watched it.

As for the BB comparisons, it definitely did have a better finale overall, but as great of a show as BB is, it doesn't remotely touch The Wire for me. TW is hands-down the best show I've ever seen. BB is prolly top ten (maybe even five). And no shoe that I've ever seen has stirred up the emotions that I felt during that final montage sequence at the end of S5 of The Wire (Lost came close though).

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The 1st 4 seasons were better than the entire run of BB, imo.

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Bodie died at the end of season 4, brah.

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Word. Couldn't remember if it was end of S4 or early in S5.

Anyone else think Jay Landsman looks like a fat Jon Cena?