I binged all the seasons of The Wire during 'Rona and have not read a single post in this thread.
I know there were always stating that it was the best TV series etc etc, so I wanted to give it it's fair shot.
I didn't know anything about it other than it was a police show. To be quite honest I thought this was the tv series with Michael Chicklis in it. Thankfully, I was wrong.
My random thoughts:
First season my reaction was that this was a pretty good overall series. Definitely entertaining and well written. Then as I rolled through seasons 2-4, I really enjoyed the layers of the writing as far as characters from previous seasons were intertwined through the story line while some may have just made spot appearances in their new story line. The number one thing I saw from the series overall was the evolution of your emotions towards certain characters. You rooted for some people you hated in the previous season and you saw some people you were pulling for before make bad decisions and fuck their life up.
Seeing McNulty and Rawls on screen together made me laugh because in The Affair tv series, Rawls is the father in law to McNulty.
I recognized Bunk's actor from Jack Ryan and Beadie from The Office.
Obviously there was some heartbreaking scenes in regards to the teenagers in the series.
I fucking loved Snoop. By far gave me the most LOLs during the series.
I thought the actor that played the passionate newspaper editor killed it in his role.
Clay Davis dude played his role perfectly as well.
Nudity level went way down as the series developed. That's bullshit.
Herc working for Levy was a little too convenient. ( FYI - he has a small role in The King Of State Island movie that just came out)
I ended up loving Prop Joe.
It was good to see the Wee-Bay scene that has become such a popular GIF around here.
I will say that I was not a fan of season 5 in regards to the fake serial killer angle. I hated that angle. I get that they had to find a way for Jimmy to self sabotage himself one final time, but that plot line was weak.
The whole rat race for police commissioner at the end was kind of a mess.
I thought for sure that as McNulty was walking down the sidewalk outside the Irish bar in the final sequence that Bunk was going to come outside and throw up.
Overall, I thought the series deserved the praise it has received from fans. I don't know if it deserves GOAT praise, but it is definitely in the top 5 discussion for me. Very well done overall and they definitely delivered on giving us an ending we all wanted.
I look forward to reading through this thread.