Not everything can have a happy ending, I understand. In the first episode of "The Wire," Johnny is brutally beaten for passing counterfeit money to Wallace (Michael B. Jordan), and his death in Season 3 sent No need to worry about any season of this amazing show. The people changed but the game remained exactly the same. I may be the only one who remembers how he blew two critical moments in the Port case during season 2 all due to his general stupidity and self-centeredness- along with being responsible for Randys torment due Herc selling him out to find the camera he lost AND poor Bubbles getting brutalized on the street over and over for the exact same reason. McNulty, Frank Sobotka, Carcetti (at least in season 3), Colvin and Prez). Ill rant a bit about journalism, or the drug war or any other issue that I rub up against. Hamsterdam, say. I am anxious to find out if there is a follow up to Painted? Whatever you say, arthouse. ps External Reviews Actually, I dont even think of it as a show its literature. It's quite dark, with just enough wit to keep you from falling over the edge into the great abyss. I am your new lord sovereign of buried, latent, subtextual argument. Another topic for another time, but dont wait on our news media to report it. This statement is meant to include: Mark Letheren(DI Kevin Jeffries); Emma Handy (DC Paula McIntyre) and Peter Sullivan (ACC Paul Eden). 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. Purse your lips any tighter or hold your nose any higher? Love your comment. Lets be clear, though. Everyone who complanes about season 5 is just mourning. Its not painful to me. but please dont make anymore. Beautiful. No television series has ever lived with me the way The Wire has. 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. For now I will just pass. This feeling of gritty realism was lost on me during the McNulty fake-killer arc. That said, I thank you for the bitter pill. The next thing journalists should be writing about is the impending fall of the U.S. empire, because its coming and were gonna see it in our lifetimes. Simone Lahbib is a favorite UK actor, but if forced to choose in this series, I'd have to go with Green/ Norris. Theres a reason people say youre a genius and why your show is perhaps the best in history. Write a television story arc about the betrayal of the working class, the fraud of the drug war or the lie of No Child Left Behind and you cant get off the entertainment pages. There wasnt a single interesting person in that arc, except maybe the copy editor championing integrity at all costs. I feel like an asshole now for saying some of that stuff. The writing is exceptional, especially for the episode, "Torment". Though he shows remarkable insight into the actions of the violent and deranged, he also displays that phenomenal lack of social consciousness that is particular to geniuses and artists (as in "Yes, I just invented nuclear fission, but no, I didn't know I was supposed to wear socks and shoes to this award ceremony."). 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. And today, with the availability of information (political manifestos, open sites describing tax laws, politicians own blogs describing their veiled reasons behind why their nest needs feathering) etc, its still so easy to spot journalists turning a blind eye and I can only assume either lazily or complicity ignoring the data to suit a narrative theyve been fed, or have a vested interest in continuing. I wanted to like this show, really, and Robson Green is an interesting actor, but it just doesn't cut the mustard for me. I hated Marlo for his ruthlessness but I respect that you gave him a realistic ending-they could not realistically build a case against him bc of police corruption. Not that your intention with this blog was to do that. It still is. I feel better about missing the plot about The Baltimore Sun newspaper missing important stories, now I know that the pros missed it too. I just graduated and I found the season 2 a bit less interesting the first time, but I really dont know why, maybe because I was focused on characters like Avon etc, and the guys on the docks were less cool at first sight. or something, but instead he was just another man shot, and his name fittingly echoed into the folklore of the streets, Im a latecomer to The Wire and I think its the best thing Ive ever seen on television. Another Silence Of The Lambs/Cracker knock-off, without the storylines, I'm afraid. I just wish more Americans were still capable of thinking. The acting is first rate but a few of the episodes really have huge gaping holes in the plot. Green's vulnerability, intensity and flexibilty in his craft is a complete pleasure. I do honestly feel that way about the ending but telling you that personally (digitally, whatever) was completely asinine and unnecessary. The writing, the directing, the acting, the story arcs: are all amazing. I thought this was a really interesting article, especially in the context of the current pandemic which is hitting local papers the hardest. 2) As for the WORST McNultys supercop character finally jumped the shark. If you have not watched any of these, please go for it and watch them in order. No. It would have been nice but it was time to put an end to Dr. Tony Hill's sideline work so it would have benefitted from them giving us one. At least youre not complete sadists. 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. -And Herc? What is most unfortunate is that your scathing and accurate critique of Washington D.Cs left armpit (with PG County being its right) and really the entire D.C. area will always be written off as great entertainment and remembered as one of the best shows ever on television. 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. Nice piece written here but my only real issues with season 5 Its a great show! Isnt that what your essay calls for? And yes, in real life, there wasnt much written about such in my city. When we were beating the story out, Bill Zorzi wondered whether in the final episode it might be necessary for Gus Haynes to vocalize the theme, to turn to Alma or Luxenberg or some other character and say, Were so thin, and we waste what little resources we have left on the wrong things. Hi there, I read through a few of your articles here. I felt it was entirely too unrealistic and borderline offensive to the shows entire structure. The first two, "Singing" and "Shadows" are adaptations of author Val McDermid's books; This is a taut British crime drama very much in the "Cracker" mould. If I didnt know the show was set in Baltimore it just as easily could have been set in Lanham, Capitol Heights, District Heights, Temple Hills, Forestville. Politicians then took credit for the limited gains that were, of course, unsustainable as the students aged into middle school. I must comment on the general disappointment around season 5 though: I too was bored by the whole Baltimore Sun room and cast. Thats exactly would happen to people in the real world. Maybe its honest. Take it light but take it. "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. I dunno. We have some of these initiatives in the UK but Im not sure about the situation in the US, and Im curious to know what you think. What he suddenly turns stupid? School principals in Baltimore and elsewhere in Maryland were obliged to teach test questions to pump scores at the expense of meaningful curricula. Not as cavalier as his "Touching Evil" series; his "Wire in the Blood" character of Tony Hill is much more reserved, quirky, and, being a criminal profiler, is more internalized with his processing of information. ), [] own slashed staffs and cutbacks, leaving a major metropolitan newspaper that wound up as Simon acerbically noted at the time missing the whole []. Polygon Court hears the case for James Camerons alternate ending. 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. Note: this show is designated TV-MA, because of some intense or violent scenes. And Kima, would she really be snitching on them? It would be better if he was slick like the Will Grayham character in red dragon. It worked, I thought it fell short of the seasons 3, and 4. But then I would be as guilty of lazy ad hominem as they have been in assessing the work. Why couldnt we have gone one more season with the show? I meant To say Roger Twigg. But inflated ego, ultimate smugness, etc? That being said, I think what was really being pointed out here, is that the sorts who were under the feeling that the blacks were ruining the city, more or less knew quite well that such levels of corruption in the legal bodies was not limited by race, as Season 5 shows, and that just like w/ many of the black characters, many of the white characters benefit professionally for their lies, cover-ups and stat-jukings. (Think "Cracker" meets "Inspector Morse" meets "CSI").There is a bookish, academic quality to Doctor Hill, without him being tweedy and standoffish (he's more human, and less lofty than Morse). Just the slow motion walk through of him seeing his operation in action, and the perfect timing of Polk (or Mahone?) 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. Image via NBC. Robson Green is incredibly impressive (and maybe a little bit scary) as eccentric psychological profiler Dr. Tony Hill, and Hermione Morris does a great job as tough DI Carol Jordan, a woman in what is still very much a man's world. In this format youre not going to have stark revelations, a happy and blissful montage followed by a cut to black. It was as good as I remembered and then some. 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? Some of the most compelling Ive seen. In fact, when I was delivering newspapers as a kid back in the 90s I became incredibly skeptical of the news I was delivering. The clues about The Sun missing important stories are there in plain sight. A few months ago I decided to give it a go and, as you can imagine, I fell in love. Amid buyout after buyout, theBaltimore Sunconceded much of its institutional memory, its beat structure, its ability to penetrate municipal institutions and report qualitatively on substantive issues in a way that explains not just the symptomatic problems of the city, but the root causes of those problems. I would really appreciate any help Politically sensitive casework was butchered or pursued selectively by political interests and departmental indifference. | And it is clear that between Marlo, Snoop, and Chris, their real game was killing. You want to suggest that the creator of the project has his nose in the air for being interested in the matter at all, and that you have some insight into his temperament? I HOPE THEY COME OUT WITH MORE SEASONS!! It is our not insignificant loss that more shows weren't filmed. This is but the latest example of Well played. The Wire is my favorite show of all time, but Season 5 was definitely the weakest. That was a bit beyond the historical reality; at the historicalBaltimore Sun, he was a mere Pulitzer finalist. What to say, what to say, what to say? I just finished watching the entire run of the series a couple of nights ago. 7.2 (359) Rate. 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!!!!!!!!!!! The "Jordan" character was specific to the McDiarmid book "Torment of Others", of which the episode was derived. Its tremendously unfortunate a potentially amazing show was turned into a cute little art project. He's quirky, he's a little odd, but he helps to provide a different, and intellectual insight into the killer's mind. To wonder whether anyone would be disciplined for cursing in a newsroom, or why they made the top editor wear those suspenders, or whether it was a clich to have a fabricator driving the overt plot? Season five was the weakest season imho. WebPart of the Wire in the Blood series As this hit British detective drama concludes, clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green, Grantchester) and DI Alex Fielding Wire in the Blood vol 2 Sharp Compassion. I dragged it past sarcasm, past cynicism, and all the way to balls-out snide. If you like your murder mysteries uncensored this is the best one. Its especially shameful that the media did not pick up on this. I just thought it was depressing that someone that big in the community wasnt well known by the newspaper people, but for some reason I didnt really put any more thought into them missing things. Having worked (briefly) with troubled inner city kids, I thought my heart would breakand it didduring season 4. Its a subjective matter that isnt worth a good argument, especially if, like me, you dont see the seasons as distinct but cumulative. He's quirky, he's a little odd, but he helps to provide a different, and intellectual insight into the killer's mind. Tell me you didnt laugh at the burnt-doll harem in the photogs trunk. The world is still debating the relative merits and detractions of the final episode of Vince Gilligans meth-world saga Breaking Bad, with some quarters feeling And whether that is an accurate critique? This season has opened up my eyes to an important point: what exactly are we missing by focusing on all this sensationalist garbage? I just finished the final episode of The Wire. Rawls and Valchek were just as bad- and the reason they all irked me so much is because its way closer to the truth than people want to admit. The depth, the acting, the setting, the pace, its all spot on :p. I love this show. Over a television drama. Im interested in becoming a cop there. The dramas final season, depicting a Baltimore newspaper, concluded last week. For example, for my first watch through, I was bored with Season two. 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. Almost everything in the show from the dialogue to the outcomes felt refreshingly believable. I dunno. Cmon, its okay to smile. There are many crime/mystery books and shows out there but few are done this well with excellent character development, believable plots and story lines that are on one hand complex, terrifying, fully engrossing and on the other hand funny, thoughtful and informative. Explain your displeasure in detail, no problem. Coming into the series after nearly a decade of being exposed to the general hype and season five criticism, I finished season five feeling just as I would imagine you intended. He displays tremendous potential; one can hope that he will continue to create performances that are filled with the humanity, compassion and insight that "Tony Hill" shows us. Couldnt resist, sorry. But if we give upthen what? I absolutely love this program so so much! In one of the best scenes of the series, The writing was a train wreck, the characterization limp, the acting and plotting, shameful and shameless both. You seem angry. I wanted catharis toobut I was raised on ER. And then Season 5 happens. 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?! People who are innocent are very rude to the police and refuse to co-operate for no apparent reason. I guess I will have to reflect on why I could easily accept Hamsterdam and not the phony killer. Several years go by since Pulengs sister went missing. Thank you for such an amazing show. 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%. And to get teachers talking, even on background, about their anger and frustration at this flummery? Whenever I watch it is like the whole world stops I am just focused on the TV. Producer Chris Miller explains why. No worries. It was all very realistic and extremely tough to watch. What really made Season 5 for me was Gus and the newsroom in general. The major American cities are in woeful shape and for various reasons we can not or will not stop this slow-moving train. I was born with scoop mentality and its never left me. Anyway, thats all. To me, The Wire was told as an epic novel. ITV has axed Robson Green drama Wire in the Blood after six years in what is seen as the latest cost cutting move by the network. 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. Liz had sent a distress call to the two medics, and they all make an attempt to flee in an ambulance. Great. 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. And why would carcetti suddenly give them all the money? What the hell, man? Web2. Of course, given if any of that is there. There's also a lot of blurry camera work that is meant to show the violent murders but does tend to make one rather seasick! Criminal Psychologist Tony Hill assists The Police with all manner of complex and disturbing crimes. I guess Cedric Daniels, Stringer Bell and Bunny Colvin tried with horrible results. You wanna explain where the argument is inconsistent? Really? Pelecanos, Lehane, Price, Alvarez, Zorzi, the directors, cast, the whole lot. In this sense, life-imitates-art just as art-imitates-life. Ok, maybe I can believe that McNulty would come up with a silly story to get the wire going, maybe, but Lester? Just wished it had a normal (13) episode count. I found this series especially delightful because Robson Green's character lives within the confines of his own mind. For me, its all of a piece. I've been in love with Robson Green for years, and he's in top form here in "Wire in the Blood," a British TV series based on characters created by crime writer Val McDermid. What is the Japanese language plot outline for Wire in the Blood (2002)? Buy SD $1.99. He's like an autistic train spotter. My favorite character was bubs, I knew someone like him. Departmental priorities make high-level drug investigation prohibitive. Ms. Lahbib is an unknown entity to me, but as I finished watching series 4, I felt a bit queasy. David SImon, I dont understand why you wrote this. But the rest of you blessed, scribbling souls? Please bring us another series. Interesting article. I can dream sometimes, right? With no consequences for either, even Herc the Assclown who monumentally fucked up every single case he was put on? I would want us to argue subjectively about public policy and social issues. But if I dont play how can I and everyone else fix the rules? Not because I missed the point about your critique of the journalist world, I got that, but because you sacrificed some of your best characters to get your point across. Im out. I knew in my bones as he walked up to the convenience store something bad was going to happen. It wasnt until maybe the 3rd time that I understood these theme about the newsroom. What a way for a series to go out. 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. I even tried going back and watching homicide life on the street but without Bunk and McNulty just couldnt get into it. 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