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Another great installment

[Mike-on-TV · 9/10 · 27 September 2006]

Episode 3 of The Wire opened with the revelation that the infamous Omar is planning on making some bigger moves this winter. Who can blame him? What with all the hustlers still scared of him, he should be on top of people like Marlo in a couple of weeks/episodes.

I enjoyed the correlation between Marlo taking over what's left of Barksdale's streets and Commissioner Rawls sending in a new lieutenant to stir things up at the wire. It seems to be working. But I'm sure that as soon as we have mayor Carcetti in office there will be a new program set in to place. Perhaps it will be a witness protection wire! There is a little more McNulty this week than we experienced in last episode. It's tough to predict how this detail will form and what importance McNulty will be in it. But it appears that every one of the major players left in the unit is going to homicide. Perhaps Major Daniels will be able to keep the wire afloat. Daniels himself gone through some kind of transformation since his promotion, we see this when Detective Greggs is in his office and all we have to know that she is talking to Daniels is that it's his voice responding. It may look bleak at the moment but I'm speculating that the newest Major at the Baltimore Police Department will find the position to be a touch too methodical.

It's impossible to touch on everything that happens with this enormous cast. With everything that goes on I'm surprised that we even got to McNulty this week. He seems to have very little presence this season. Hopefully something will happen at one of the schools and he will find a passion for fighting alongside our favorite team of police, again.

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Don't mention it

[snoozejonc · 10/10 · 8 October 2022]

The Major Crimes Unit has its wings clipped and the new school year begins.

This is another very strong episode from a brilliant season of The Wire.

For me the most interesting scenes involve Namond, Michael, Randy, and Dukie. These all involve great character writing and superb work from the young actors once again.

We see the build up to school and the first day from student and teachers perspectives. The first few chaotic sequences of students crowding into the building and classrooms are exceptionally good. I love the realism in the depiction of newly trained Prez and the experienced Grace Sampson. Plus it does a good job of introducing some more of the student characters who become more prominent as the season goes on.

The reintroduction of Bunny Colvin has some contrivances for certain things to happen, but you can't help get excited at the prospect of this character's arc turning in the direction of the middle school. Robert Wisdom is on great form as ever.

Lieutenant Marimow makes a big impact and he is wonderfully portrayed by Boris McGiver. This plot feels plausible and typical of how the self serving leadership of this type of organisation would handle this type of situation.

It's good to see Omar back on the screen and his opening jaunt to the local shop is a hilarious sequence that sets the tone for his involvement in the episode. Michael K Williams is great as always but the visual storytelling and humour is outstanding.

A domesticated McNulty is an amusing prospect and as entertaining as the banter between Bunk and his adopted family is, you do feel a definite sense of foreboding about the future.

Plenty of other characters contribute well such as Royce, Carcetti, Rawls, Herc, Carver, Marlo, and De'Londa. However, the narrative has so many intriguing plot lines developing that is is difficult to cover them all without an essay.

Another 9.5/10 for me, but I round upwards.

4x03

[formotog · 6/10 · 24 August 2020]

I honestly don't really know what to say. I think at this point, the show has definitely lost me. I've lost my motivation to watch it, and I don't have much hope that it will ever get that much better. It's not bad, but it's not good either. The show is now full of plot threads I don't care about. We got several very cringe scenes of Prez trying to teach a classroom, Omar doing what he's been doing for the last three seasons, very little McNulty, very little of the actual detail which has now been dismantled, and too much of the mayoral election once again. It's hard to say exactly what I think because there's no denying this show is still very well written, at least from an in-universe-stance, so to speak. However like I already said, good writing doesn't make gripping television, and I honestly don't know if I'll be able to finish this show as quickly as I wanted because I don't know if I have the willpower to do so

High 6