re: The Wire Season 2

Two did a magnificent job of basically telling a story about the docks, but meanwhile, the main intention was to set us up for the collapse of the Barksdale organization or lack thereof. Two did show us a lot of the bigger picture, but the story of Frank, Nick, Ziggy, Horse, etc. was basically over and done and not brought up on a larger scale ever again.

When 3's first episode starts out and Royce helps dynamite the towers and they fall and scatter dust all over the place to the point where people are covering the mouths and eyes...brilliant and poetic foreshadowing of the "Oh shite" that was going to come with tearing down those towers. The mentality of City Hall to "destroy" drugs by tearing down its current main suppliers totally backfired and the smoke that didn't clear after the demolition proves that. City Hall created an open market again and allowed Marlo Stanfield to become what he was. It's stuff like that which make The Wire the best show HBO ever had its grip on. I think The Wire could have squeezed out 5 more seasons for a perfect 10 and chosen other layouts and areas like digging into eastside/southeast side the way they dug into west; perhaps the factories downtown; the airport; perhaps some sort of back and forth issue with Annapolis and Baltimore. Baloo could probably pick out what I am saying here and nail where the 6th season would have taken place and centered around. Had 5 not been the last season, more people would have liked it and I am speaking of those who thought the whole serial killer thing was overboard. You had to close out McNulty somehow. They did.