Interesting unique insight, although I disagree with a decent bit of it. Still a good read

Need some Kima itt

ah, ok, cool. Thanks.

i'm re watching (first re downloading) the entire 5 seasons now because i want to re-evaluate all the stuff i missed the first viewing.

Thought it was best to just merge that thread into this one. No need for seven different Wire threads in here.

GOT has at least 2 so wire should have at least 5.

GOAT tv show. Breaking Bad had a shot, but messed it up by going one season too long.

wat? It was the wire that went one season too long. BB still has the chance to be GOAT if they give us an expert finish.

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Breaking bad steadily improved after a weak second season. The last season was better even than the first IMO.

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in terms of GOAT, S5 took show from 'untouchable' to 'possible to surpass'

You're wrong about the wire. it was perfect. leaves us wishing we had more. which is what one fewer season of braking bad would have done.

i suppose it's possible bb could recover from the travesty of the last 8 episodes, but it's gonna be hard.

What the hell show were you watching?

what? Nothing about s5 so far has been short of spectacular.

This is definitely true. Avon likely would have beat Marlo if Stringer never ratted him out. When the cops raided Avon's hideout, he had like 20 guys with machine guns and hand grenades just about to move on Marlo. Slim Charles was watching Marlo Chris and Vinson eat dinner at the rim shop and had just called Avon to let him know that Marlo's muscle had left. I'm pretty confident Avon would have won the war one way or another if he didn't end up going to jail. He was better organized, richer, and had more connections in the criminal underworld. I feel like an ultra-ruthless guy like Marlo who rules on fear and fear alone can only get close to the top when there is a major power vaccum. Marlo was wrong when he thought Barksdale was weak. He mistakenly thought Stringer's attempts to make a deal were done at the direction of Avon. In a way, Stringer's the one responsible for starting the war. If he hadn't shown Marlo the "weakness" of attempting to make a deal, Marlo might have just bided his time running a few corners until a better opportunity presented itself.

this ainec

I recently finished S5 and have to agree that this series was as close to perfect as any series cane ever be.

i can see myself doing a re-watch at some point, and I almost never re-watch anything anymore.

I am on my 3rd rewatch of the series in the past 2 years. There is just so much going on in each episode with the character developments and sub-plots that rewatching is a necessity imo..

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Love this show,1st 4 seasons are great and season 5 is still pretty decent but the weakest of the lot imo.It did however have my favourite comic moment of the entire series.When McNulty and Kima go to the F.B.I. for a psychological profile of the serial killer and they nail it the look on McNulty's face is priceless.

stop tricking yourselves into thinking s5 was any different or less good than the rest

i wish i had never seen the wire...

you're right. i was personally hoping all the characters would be killed in a sudden nuclear explosion because unsecured nuclear warheads are a constant looming threat in modern society that nobody likes to think about, and the setup was perfect, nobody thought about a nuclear attack for 4 and 3/4 seasons; the opportunity for social critique was there, ripe for the taking. it was very unlike david simon to squander such a perfect opportunity to cap his magnum opus.

just no payoff, really.

also, we need a Slim Charles writeup

yea and see agent koutrous was just trying to stop something like that happen but everyone just called him corrupt for it. sometimes people with the best intentions can't beat the systematic rot of nuclear warfare.