The Wire: Greatest Show Ever Made

I think all the people who exist in the world that think season two is the best have posted.

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season 2 is awesome. I like season 4 best, because Michael and Dookie and Bodie and shit. But yeah, it is fiercely unappreciated.

SHITBIRDS.

s2 is just jarring, but the series wouldn't be nearly as good without it and the season itself isn't bad.

Season 2 isn't the best, but it's a really good season. It shows not only how the upper echelons of criminals never get caught, but also how the economy is the biggest indicator of whether people turn to crime. Watching dock workers who could once support an entire family, slowly erode until they can't even afford car payments unless they ship drugs? It's an essential part of the story. Every facet fits together to show how crime isn't something inherently bad people do--it's something that happens when inequality has reached levels where people start to lose hope. When someone feels like they have nothing to lose, societies control fades.

That's why The Wire is great...It's the story about the slowDeathof a City.

Most people who stuck with it enjoy season two, more often than not after a full series rewatch. Ziggy's character for example seems terrible first time round but watching it again knowing whats coming and the motivations behind it all give it much more oomph.

4 >> 3 >> 1 >> 2 --------> 5

I may rate 2 the fourth best season but that's still above 99.9% of shit that's on telly. 5's still okay but the newspaper stuff just wasn't as well written as the docks, the school, Hamsterdam or just plain Bodymore in season one. The know-it-all character that was played by Simons right hand man being an especially obvious culprit.

Hamsterdam is about as close to a realistic and honest consideration of the multifaceted challenges of drug legalization as you're gonna get in television short of a documentary/political piece. It's not close to perfect, but it's more honest than a political piece would be and more useful than a documentary piece would be.

Edit: That season was really about hamsterdam. The troubled kids (why they are that way and how to help them) was integral to it. Plus we got to see Shitbird, Jr. grow into a decent human being and we got to see Carver mature into being good po-lice -- which was also nice. Overarching message of the season (and the show, really): The system is broke as shit, but not everyone in it is retarded. In fact the only reason it doesn't completely fall the fuck apart is because of that 1/10th "not a shitbird" minority.

Adebisi_sl said:

Wasn't S4 the

season?

That was an awesome story.

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Exactly. Season 4 is my favorite, with the third season a very close second.

I actually loved how underwhelming the death of Omar was, also. He didn't go out in a blaze of glory the way most shows make a lead character die.

Instead it was a very realistic end. He gets killed by a kid in a convenience store. Shit happens. The kid won't even go to jail.

I too enjoyed season 2 the most. Followed by 1 then 3/4/5 in that order.

guess theres spoilers in here