I don't know if I've mentioned it here before but I am a Wire junkie. I netflixed the show a couple years ago, and whizzed through the first four seasons in a month or so. By the time the fifth season aired it was damn near impossible to wait a week between episodes. I know a lot of people ain't too keen on the fifth season, and admittedly it is a lesser one (especially coming on the heels of the fourth season, the most masterful piece of drama ever created for television), but I still dug it.
Because we both went through Wire withdrawal after the show ended, my roommate eventually picked up all five seasons on DVD. I have tried to avoid watching it. I've got less than no free time available, and I know if I start I won't be able to stop until I plow through every goddamn episode again. I tried not to give in but it was futile. Having these discs in the aprtment was the equivalent of going to a vacant in the Western, dropping a fistful of red-tops in front of a fiend and telling him, "You don't have to shoot this shit or nothin', but I'm gonna leave it with you anyways. Do with it what you will."
Needless to say, I started watching again a couple weeks ago. Sleep be damned.
Anyways, here are a few of my favorite scenes:
2 comments:
As great as the Wire is, I do not understand the writers (and the fans) viewing Omar as some sort of hero.
But the fourth season is, in full, just about as good as any 13 hours of TV could ever get. (With season 5 almost being as bad as any 10 hours of TV could ever get.)
Clearly Matt has not seen Degrassi.
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