ITT - We post the worst season of their respective series
I'll start
ITT - We post the worst season of their respective series
I'll start
Season 5 is misunderstood. Its the obligatory when good guys go bad season. Like how Scott started to make shit up McNulty started to do the same thing for the separate but similar needs. Its the always untold story about how people who should have been able to stop something bad didn't and had to cover it up.
Season 3 is the worst with the Hamsterdam crap though.
Rewatching it right now. The problem is that Seasons 1-3 is all the same characters more or less. By 4 everyone except Prop, Cheese, and the police is gone, so they had to literally start from scratch with the schoolkids, almost giving a Stand By Me feel to the season.
Then 5 comes out to be the McNulty power hour, with some characters going through the motions. Whole thing reminds me of fan fiction told by someone who just read Death Note.
Did appreciate the newspaper stuff though, but it was a little late. Ironically this is what David Simon knows the most about, and he waited till the end to cap his story he was already telling and try to shoehorn his own career woes into. That makes the whole season seem self indulgent, compared to the rest which felt raw and uncompromising. At least compared to something like CSI, or Law and Order at the time.
>that Seasons 1-3 is all the same characters more or less
2 pretty much shifts most of the drama from the hood to the port, we get a bunch of new characters and they are the focus of the season arc.
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but outside of the Hamsterdam arc, the power struggle between bros Avon and Stringer, while also going up against Marlo, was downright Shakespearean
It's incredible how much the show improves in S2 and later.
it's so bad
i actually love it
Doubted the answer for a while