The Wire - Season 1
The Wire is a series about which countless things have already been written and said by a multitude of people, critics, academics and ordinary viewers. In addition, it often appears very high on lists of the greatest series of all time. So, we are talking about a series of known value and it would be borderline funny if I made a post to recommend you to watch it.
I started watching it for the first time and I wanted to jot down random thoughts about Season 1, which i finished yesterday. Of course, SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST SEASON OF THE WIRE.
- The 1st thing I love about this series is that none of the characters can be described as completely good or bad. The motivations of the characters are always consistent with each character, but also highly complex. Case in point is our protagonist McNulty, who starts and maintains the case against Barksdale, not to rid his poor fellow citizens of a drug lord, but (also) for selfish reasons.
- I don't think there has been another series so deeply, essentially and mercilessly critical of American authorities and institutions.
- A particularly bold move for a series from 20 years ago to have 2 main gay characters, neither of whom carry even half a gay stereotype.
- The sequence of scenes before and after the shooting of Kima is for a tutorial on building scenes of police action and emotional tension.
- Rewatching the series longer my dominant feeling was bitterness at the complete impasse in which the penniless residents of the housing complexes of west Baltimore live. Even those who make money through the drug trade (which seems to be the means of getting rich, if you are unfortunate enough to have been born into this environment) never really escape from this. With the exception of Barksdale and Bell, everyone else we see is spending their money on meaningless crap, it becomes apparent that they literally don't know what to do with it.
- How I love the portrayal of Bell's character, who is the only one who wants to essentially break away and become an entrepreneur. I. Elba embodies him fantastically, he stands out like a fly in milk from the way he moves, the way he wears his glasses.
- The whole story of Wales is heartbreaking. From taking care of the young children together with Put, so that they would not be harmed by foster parents of dubious morals and values, until, of course, their end, which came as a natural consequence of everyone's inability to escape.
- Babs' story is also heartbreaking. The scene where he goes to the AN meeting and gets up to get the badge, just to feel good about himself for a little while is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen.
- The McNulty-Banks dialogue consisting of nothing but f*ck.
- Kima's steely morals when she refuses to recognize Wei-Bei and flies to Bank, who tells her that if she recognized him the trial would be a lot easier, she snapped "sometimes things in
life come hard"
-Omar is the definition of a larger than life character. I also found it very touching that Brandon was brutally tortured but never nailed his partner.
Really excited watching one of greatest series ever made .
- Omar is the definition of a larger than life character. I also found it very touching that Brandon was brutally tortured