The Wire season 5 ep10
Mar. 17th, 2011 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightSo yesterday I watched the last ever episode of The Wire.
Spoilers for that behind cut
Like most people I guess I don't think season 5 quite reaches the heights of previous seasons, but it's still seriously good telly, and the last episode didn't disappoint. Even the stupid imaginary serial killer plot didn't seem so stupid when the chickens finally came home to roost.
Of course, it wasn't all hugs and puppies, but I wasn't expecting that. Just glad that some characters came out of it well - Pearlman and Daniels, Carver, Bunk, Sydnor, even Lester Freamon, despite his blotted copybook. Best of all, loved seeing Bubbles finally allowed upstairs to eat with his sister and family. His story was the most touching and uplifting of all the season 5 storylines. I'm also pleased that everyone on the street seemed to forget who Marlo was almost instantly, much to his shock, and pleased, too, (in a rather shamefaced way) that Slim Charles survived the series and got revenge for Prop Joe.
Bad stuff too, though, of course - Nerise as mayor and Valchek, of all people, as police commissioner. Next to him, I suspect, Burrell in retrospect will seem like a model of efficiency and probity (I always kind of liked Burrell actually). Scott Templeton getting his Pulitzer leaves a bad taste in the mouth too (meant to, I guess), and the fate of Dukie and Michael is horribly tragic.
I still think The Wire is the best TV show I've ever watched, season 4 in particular. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. And one of the things I like most about it, which has really hit home after how much I disliked the Being Human finale, is the lack of overt moralising. Hate that.
Isn't it nice when a TV show doesn't let you down at last knockings? Precious few of them manage it.
I now have to decide what to watch next. Whatever it is, no way it can compare.
Spoilers for that behind cut
Like most people I guess I don't think season 5 quite reaches the heights of previous seasons, but it's still seriously good telly, and the last episode didn't disappoint. Even the stupid imaginary serial killer plot didn't seem so stupid when the chickens finally came home to roost.
Of course, it wasn't all hugs and puppies, but I wasn't expecting that. Just glad that some characters came out of it well - Pearlman and Daniels, Carver, Bunk, Sydnor, even Lester Freamon, despite his blotted copybook. Best of all, loved seeing Bubbles finally allowed upstairs to eat with his sister and family. His story was the most touching and uplifting of all the season 5 storylines. I'm also pleased that everyone on the street seemed to forget who Marlo was almost instantly, much to his shock, and pleased, too, (in a rather shamefaced way) that Slim Charles survived the series and got revenge for Prop Joe.
Bad stuff too, though, of course - Nerise as mayor and Valchek, of all people, as police commissioner. Next to him, I suspect, Burrell in retrospect will seem like a model of efficiency and probity (I always kind of liked Burrell actually). Scott Templeton getting his Pulitzer leaves a bad taste in the mouth too (meant to, I guess), and the fate of Dukie and Michael is horribly tragic.
I still think The Wire is the best TV show I've ever watched, season 4 in particular. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. And one of the things I like most about it, which has really hit home after how much I disliked the Being Human finale, is the lack of overt moralising. Hate that.
Isn't it nice when a TV show doesn't let you down at last knockings? Precious few of them manage it.
I now have to decide what to watch next. Whatever it is, no way it can compare.