Sur écoute - The Wire

Season one: When you walk through the garden. You gotta watch your back.... Excellent. A realistic probe into the drug underworld of Baltimore. The police work here is miles away from the completely fictional solutions presented in the filtered out world of Bruckheimer’s CSI where serial killers are sent to jail on the basis of a broken nail in a can of Coke. This is the unpleasant reality where the biggest fish get off Scott-free (or at worst with the lowest possible penalty) and where the legislative authorities look at cops doing their job like bothersome pests that do more harm than good. We see a police unit where everybody has their qualities, but negatives too. A corrupt cop, a drunk, a squealer, a layabout, an idiot, take your pick. They’ll all get to you in the end. Bunk roolzz. Season two: "They can chew you up, but then they gotta spit you out." The docks. A more picturesque environment and even greater corruption than last season. Which makes season two even more tasty. Fewer drug stories, which means that when one comes up, it’s all the more powerful. The new location does good for Avon and Deem. Meanwhile the excellent Idris Elba as Stringer Bell gets the prize for being the toughest dude. The tidied away Jimmy enjoys his death sentence on the water by destroying stats. And the dockers, those damn dockers - I hated Ziggy from the very start, Frank turned out to be a full blown Robin Hood and Nico at least had a brain, but no instinct whatsoever. Of the newcomers, I like Amy Ryan, Brother Mozoune, but mainly I’m over the moon that Bunk gets more room to perform. I like that scumbag more and more. Season three: "I caught him, Bunk. And he doesn’t fuckin’ know it." The finale of a trilogy, you could say. All the storylines from previous seasons are getting closed in a gigantic finale that, under certain circumstances, could be a happy ending, if this weren’t The Wire. An excellent story. Great characters. The development of all the characters is something that everybody should learn from creators of this show. Even a third year in a row they manage to surprise us (I laughed out loud at the scene in the gay bar) and still convincingly. My favorite, String, gets some more space and you can finally tell what kind of a man he really was. I don’t know if with this third season the show hasn’t achieved its peak, and from now on it will start to decline. We’ll see. Season four: "You play in dirt, you get dirty." Eliminating the two main characters resulted in a slower start. Jimmy and String are resting (both in a little differently) and their replacement with children in the first couple of episodes wasn’t such a good idea, but in the end it turns out that the creators had everything well thought out and they still serve us an absolutely top notch watch. Tommy Carcetti was a very pleasant surprise (don’t try to tell me that his name has nothing to do with Tony Varcetti from GTA: Vice City :) and his campaign to become a first white mayor of Baltimore (almost like the first season of 24, only back-to-front) has a lot of excellent moments. It‘s obvious that with this season The Wire is preparing the ground for the finale. I’m curious if everyone gets what they deserve, especially that fucker Clay “Shiiiieet" Davis. Season five: "What the fuck did I do?" The best season yet, in my opinion. Jimmy was missing in the previous one, but he enters the fifth season in all glory and when him and Lester both get to work, thing starts to happen. When I said that I was entertained by all the previous seasons, in this one I was literary laughing out loud thanks to an absolutely brilliant idea and all the things relating to it. They say that you should stop when you reach the top and the Wire stopped at its absolute zenith (the final goodbye was executed flawlessly). The wheels keeps spinning and on the edge between the light and the darkness is where its the best. (19/07/2010) (moins) (plus)