The Wire is Good. Ya Feel Me?
We're on Season 4 now, and the show continues to exceed expecations. Just when I feel like I'm ready for a break (we've been watching Season 1-4 continously for the past few weeks) the show does something else that just sucks me completely back in.
I LOVE how they constantly bring in new characters, yet still manage to keep the old characters involved, interesting, and always around. That is, unless they kill them. I really miss D'Angelo and String Bell, but there's always Cutty, Carcetti, the retired police Major...it's great.
There are times when I have no clue what the actors are saying. Perhaps I'm just not street enough? But, I do find myself picking up on a thing or two here, bringing me ever closer to my goal of being both hip and hop. I'm really curious to know what, say, a sociologist would think of the show. Specifically a criminologist. The show starts with the streets and the cops, evolves towards corruption, then city politics, the federal outlook, back to the street, then to the source with school children.
It's just so brilliantly written and seems to be just so...real? I guess that's partially the scary thing. Holy crap do we live in a messed up world.
(posted by grant at 4/21/2008)
