The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season

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I can't believe it's all over. Not as good as season 4 in my opinion. But there are some brilliant moments in Season 5. Once you've watched the first season, there's no stopping till you've seen them all. Another great season - which neatly wraps up every story line that was ever started. Addicted Wire fans won't bother reading the reviews anyway.

In order to fully fund the police department, he decides to rig a series of deaths to make it seem like a serial killer. I guess you feel overtly protective of him through the series, and maybe waiting for him to fall off the wagon once again. The series truly adjusts its focus back to McNulty, an excellent cop who will go to any length to solve his problems, ethics be damned. Only time will tell. However, in a sad note, two of the four boys who stole last season, return to heartbreaking results. Almost as if to replace Bubs as an addict, Duquan, or Dukie, finally eeks out of Michael's life to start living on the streets, and becomes the new addict. Who wasn't rooting for Dukie, a child who's life was being evicted from apartment after apartment, who excelled in school, and made a connection with Mr. In the meantime, we have five seasons of the finest show ever, and that's good enough for me.

For five seasons, we lived and breathed with the citizens of Baltimore; the drug life that thrives on the streets, and the police that strive to stop it. One story that had me absolutely entranced was Bubble's journey. I found the final ten to be very complete, very true to the intent of the series, and very emotional. From addict to recovery poster boy, Bubs upswing from his season four heartbreaking suicide attempt was a true American hero story, and it becomes aptly covered in the Baltimore Sun, which provides the "focus" for the season, albeit a slightly unfocused one. Much has been opined about the quality of the final shows, how some people felt let down, and incomplete.

And then it begs to wonder, how many Dukies are there on our city streets, and how many of them do we as a society step over and ignore. Additional storylines cover the endless chain of drug people that simply take up where others leave off, and Marlo's gang is no exception. The Wire was always a complicated show, and it never took it's assignment lightly, a slice of American life that has never been captured in such a complete and honest way. The Wire has been a total experience, one of the best television shows ever on the tube, and it's hard to say goodbye. Will people look back fifty years from now, from an idyllic society, and wonder how anyone ever lived through such times and not tried to stop it.

My contempt for McNulty overall grew with his character development this season; which is probably most true to his character, but it didn't make me like him. Bubs finds his dignity this season, and it's beautiful. In seemingly trying not to repeat the fall of Barksdale and Bell, Marlo's story wraps in an interesting way, with some just desserts being handed out. Soon, the "spree" catches fire, and McNulty is in it up to his eyeballs. The characters, written so complete and so believable, are alive to us, and dare I say, could be our friends and companions, albeit fictional.

In ten episodes, the Wire wraps up. Plot wise I recognized why that happened, but it totally broke my heart. Prez. We've lived on the streets, and seen many crimes and killings, and experienced pain and sometimes joy. Maybe it's only at the end of something that we begin to truly appreciate what we had all along.

However, as Bubs story progressed, it was his that compelled me the most, and I was drawn into it with a quet dignity.

"You gotta let em play, this America man." Those words are true even to this day. David Simon and Ed Burns deliver the most complex and interesting group of characters and story ever put on T.V. The entire police department has been set with budget cutbacks and is cut off from overtime. Along with several other equally important story arcs the show delivers in style again, the characters from Bunk to Herc to Marlow to Omar to the Polititians to the dope runners on the street all deserve Emmys all around and the show should be in an art gallery, because thats what it is, art. This season of the wire may be the best last season of any show in the history of the world.

Every season unfolds like a novel and this season completes the series in one of the most elegant and classic ways.

Its the only Drama that I watch over and over again.

I thank The wire for lettin me play and I hope to find another show to watch.

Needless to say the show was ten times better than I ever expected.

In my final works I'll leave with something a wise man once told me.

My father told me it was a good TV show and my expectations were in the line of a grittier version of The Shield on FX.

When I turned 17 years old for my birthday I recieved the first season of The Wire as a present.

In city hall the newly elected mayor is getting ready to run for the govoners chair and Marlow and his crew and getting ready to take over the whole city.

Buy it. It, without a doubt, exceeds any HBO Special up to this point, including may I say, THE SOPRANOS; and we have the complete DVD series on both. The Wire is superior in every respect in it doesn't leave you hanging at the end of each episode as THE SOPRANOS had a tendency to do. Keeps you on the edge of your seat. We got hooked on the THE WIRE by accident. The low life drug scene, the corrupt Baltimore police dept and the opportunistic politicians all intertwined make this the most enjoyable series both my wife and myself have watched.