Hes just being painfully honest. Season 5 is tremendous, you have such great payoffs for characters, building on all that came before. That was a bit beyond the historical reality; at the historicalBaltimore Sun, he was a mere Pulitzer finalist. Some shameful shit right there. I was wondering, What does it take to become an officer of This statement is meant to include: Mark Letheren(DI Kevin Jeffries); Emma Handy (DC Paula McIntyre) and Peter Sullivan (ACC Paul Eden). The pictures of his cleaned up corners and happy citizens as a result of Hamsterdam would suggest that the drop was much larger than that 14%. While the Arab Spring was happening, the only thing you could find on news TV was tabloid coverage of a murder case. It was all very realistic and extremely tough to watch. i do not like hyped up shows, because of an innate sense of superiority which makes me believe than anything that other people like cannot be good. Thanks for the reply. However, of the many detective series that my wife and I have watched, British, French, Scandinavian, Icelantic, this series has the sickest, most graphic murders in every episode. Could this be a solution to the decline of established local titles like the Sun? A few funny lines, too. 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. A moment for one last question: No need to worry about any season of this amazing show. I must comment on the general disappointment around season 5 though: I too was bored by the whole Baltimore Sun room and cast. Im vaguely reminded of the backlash we (I) felt when Seinfeld came to an end, having been blinded to what we were ignoring for so long that the hyper-reality we were caught up in seemed like the be-all, end-all. Any criticism you get is unwarranted. I confess I thought that journalism was still self-aware enough to get it, that enough collective consciousness of the crafts highest calling remained, that reporters still worried about what their newspapers were missing. I love the Hamsterdam plot. In this sense, life-imitates-art just as art-imitates-life. Love your comment. The great irony (relative to the final season) is that the criticism being leveled against NCLB and the war on drugs was lost on the real-life media in the very same way that The Wires Baltimore Sun missed those very same things in the show. WebSeason 6. I was reading The Stand at the time I posted that response. WebSynopsis [ edit] In the fictional English city of Bradfield, men are being abducted and tortured to death using brutal medieval techniques. But suggest that high-end American newspapers have been gutted by out-of-town ownership, besieged by the internet and preoccupied by a prize culture that validates small-trick and self-limiting impact, rather than seriously evaluating problems? Learn how your comment data is processed. We did that, too, because hey, to criticize such a newsroom culture did indeed carry those risks in Baltimore. Enter DI Alex Fielding, Simone Lahbib. And to studiously avoid any sustained discussion about whether the depicted newspaper is, in all respects, capturing the meaningful narrative of the depicted city? McNulty crossing the Rubicon with the fake serial-killer angle brought up an appropriate amount of conflict about the age-old Does the End Justify the Means question, but really, to have BOTH Greggs AND Herc sell him out?! We certainly expected more attention from the media. I just marathoned the entire series in less than 2 weeks (okay, so Im unemployed & have the time on my hands) and now I see why The Wire got so much acclaim in its day. Wire in the Blood is one of the most important and valuable series ever produced for television. And no, I think season five achieved its goals as the other season, with me being no closer to the world of journalism than others on our writing staff were to the other worlds depicted. There is always a player in the on deck circle, even when the final out is being recorded. Then when people point out the garbage it becomes oh-so esoteric. Sometimes the jumps in logic can seem a bit far fetched, but that is what makes it interesting and fun, without having to be a series of mindless chase scenes and explosions. I watched all 3 in order and enjoyed this series. In Baltimore, where over the last twenty years Times Mirror and the Tribune Company have combined to reduce the newsroom by forty percent, all of the above stories pretty much happened. What a way for a series to go out. Thats when Pulengs world completely changes. Anyway, for me, its perfect. However in the case of season 5, as you pointed out, even the remaining good journalists such as Gus, are, to a degree, complicit in missing every major story. I am glad you landed Naymond softly but Randy getting beat down again in the group home then showing up for a second in season 5 STILL in a group home- couldnt Carver have at least followed through on ONE good intention and taken him out of that system?! But what can you do? You wanna say so on the producers blog, no worries. I learned more from two weeks of practical work, than an entire year of overpaid theory, and eventually switched to English, because I couldnt stand a style that, to me, was tantamount to lying. I would not recommend this show for anyone under the age of 16. This show, its impact, the things its talked about directly and indirectly (as shown above) has along with all that impacted me, and I feel like Ive got enough influence from this show alone to myself sit down and write like Ive been wanting to do, but not just any writing, but writing thats thoughtful as well as entertaining, and also writing that matters. It is our not insignificant loss that more shows weren't filmed. how many years you figure we been doing the same shit.. missing such a vital snap shot to the Barksdale case. This show is so brilliant, so uniquely American, such a mind-altering and contemplative rumination on the powerful pull of the system FUCK, I LOVE THE WIRE!!!!!!!!!!! And while I tell everyone who will listen that this is the best show ever made I do feel Season 5 had some hokey yet prominent elements. Okay. The political corruption, the cronyism, the back-asswards views on racism which prevent all minorities from getting a real say in anything lest they be deemed racist- and most agonizingly, the completely screwball insanity that is the PG County school system is exactly like the way you depicted life in Baltimore. 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. Isnt that what your essay calls for? For me, the series is not about the individual seasons. I just recently bought the Blu-ray box set as well, just to have it in both editions and to see the reunion at the Paley Center. Thats why Im here. ), [] own slashed staffs and cutbacks, leaving a major metropolitan newspaper that wound up as Simon acerbically noted at the time missing the whole []. I found Wire in the Blood purely by accident and I am now a die-hard fan. Uncovered. The criminals are deeply psychologically twisted, far more so than any person you have ever encountered, even in the newspapers. But the fifth-season story arc began with a wonderful bit of adversarial reporting on deadline good, clean newspapering it was. 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?! I cant bring myself to use words like the worst, or the weakest, when duscussing a series that is so well written. Ohhh, and the commissioner and Senator Davis, you might as well have been talking about our infamous Marion Barry and his cronies all over the place. I think the biggest problem with Season 5 is that the Sun people were kind of boring and so many of them were one note. The clues about The Sun missing important stories are there in plain sight. | It was as good as I remembered and then some. If my state of mind can be presumed by this fellow, certainly Im entitled to note his own. Well played. I know this criticism in no way helps, the show is long done with, but I loved everything about the 5th season except for the newspaper guys. You dont need to justify anything, its a masterpiece. I feel like an asshole now for saying some of that stuff. We told the precise story we wished to tell and what happened was supposed to happen. And a couple of others at alternative weeklies figured it out again, perhaps, because theyre less vested than everyone at the big, vulnerable dailies. By the way, Ive been through journo school in NZ, although I didnt pass (I dropped out), my tutor told me that NZ doesnt have the same problems as the USA regarding the demise of newspapers, because, according to him, NZ newspapers already run on a hard core skeleton staffing level with no subcutaneous fatwhich I always thought was bullshit. The 'genius' Dr, absentminded of course, to fulfill another clich, who comes across as being more in need of professional help than his patients. I think it was something like a 14% reduction in crimes such as shootings and aggravated assault. Its not painful to me. Africa was not at all logical to their 'can't do without you' relationship). 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 dont like the last season of a television drama, feel free to venture an opinion. But all the endings mean something and other endings would have been the wrong ones. Anyway, Im straying from my point: thank you for defining this additional layer to the theme of S5. 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. Some of the most compelling Ive seen. Not so much as an offhand reference, and that goes not just for the journalists displeased enough with our newspaper tale, but for the larger number of commentators and critics who thought we did swell. I was born with scoop mentality and its never left me. I absolutely love this program so so much! Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. But it went over my head, that the newspaper, completely missed every major story about what went on in the city. 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. In the finale, she tells Spencer he needs not waste money on a suit/tuxedo as she has credit aboard their British liner. I guess I understood it was there in some sense but initially the theme I was focused on were the institutional problems in the newsroom that are so similar to the problems in other institutions featured in the series. How is Baltimore under Trumps term. 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. | David SImon, I dont understand why you wrote this. This series is generally well-scripted and acted. I can dream sometimes, right? So it makes you wonder what actually gets reported and what we all miss day in and day out. Much respect, and I hope you still read these. Wow, I cant believe that went over my head too David. Liz had sent a distress call to the two medics, and they all make an attempt to flee in an ambulance. It was nuanced and I really saw Gus as the lead protagonist of this season and lester and mcnulty as shifty antagonists. Flagg on his last day being the only one who could tap in to the police department to get the low down on Burrells removal. So they went from 20 to 17. Circling back to the journalism angle in season 5 and your above article, it is sad that so many people missed the real commentary about the total lack of journalistic integrity- not just in Bmore but in the whole country. Of course, given if any of that is there. Just wished it had a normal (13) episode count. Its quite apparent that todays 24 hour news cycle is entirely based on sensationalist impact stories. "Wire in the Blood" is the story of Dr.Tony Hill (Robson Green), a slightly eccentric clinical psychologist who works part time with the police force of Bradford, England. He has a reputation of taking small seemingly unconnected facts puzzling them together and providing a profile for the police to follow. There wasnt a single interesting person in that arc, except maybe the copy editor championing integrity at all costs. Even if you're not a Robson Green fan, this will surely garner him new followers. I do honestly feel that way about the ending but telling you that personally (digitally, whatever) was completely asinine and unnecessary. 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. I agree with the message of Season 5, just not the execution. Yes, that IS the truth for kids all over the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia) but I really wish, David, you could have shown him some compassion as the most innocent among them really deserved some kind of redemption. Favorite scene is Avon visiting The Pit. Watch with Acorn TV. And yes, in real life, there wasnt much written about such in my city. The acting is exceptional. So lets happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun. And Kima, would she really be snitching on them? The "Jordan" character was specific to the McDiarmid book "Torment of Others", of which the episode was derived. There were three full-length movies: "The Mermaid's Singing", "Shadows Rising", and "Justice Painted Blind". Metacritic Reviews. Wire in the blood is now one of my favorite crime/Mystery/Drama shows for T.V. Theres a reason people say youre a genius and why your show is perhaps the best in history. Im interested. Id always had reservations about the believability of character who existed in a contained bureaucratic work environment surrounded by lifers, repeatedly stabbing his peers and superiors in the back for wholly self-serving reasons with so few repercussions. Given the corruption in the Baltimore you portrayed, it isnt hard to imagine an offender being released for even more serious charges. Have just finished re-watching the whole series. If your a fan of the genre and have not yet discovered Dr.Tony Hill I recommend that you do. The acting is first rate but a few of the episodes really have huge gaping holes in the plot. Im an asshole. Its like The Odyssey of Homer. Key investigations and prosecutions are undercut or abandoned by the political machinations of police officials, prosecutors and political figures. No one went near the theme; everyone stayed dead-center and literal, oblivious to the big-ass elephant in our mythical newsroom. Many found it hard to relate to or invest in. The plan immediately backfires as Adam is zapped through the chains and he awakens. Every time I sit down to watch it again, more and more of the depth reveals itself. Wish there was more, or at least a book. 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. But there used to be more of them. Ok, maybe I can believe that McNulty would come up with a silly story to get the wire going, maybe, but Lester? If season five didnt work for you, then it didnt work for you. Meanwhile our federal government has wholesaled our highway systems, infrastructure, and debt to any country that was buying while dropping trillions of dollars into the pockets of Halliburton and the rest of the 1% in the name of fighting a war on terror. Please. 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