Warning: Spoilers
In 2009 I got Dallas the complete series of The Wire on DVD for his birthday. I’d never seen the show but had heard great things about it. Dallas had seen 3 of the 5 seasons and had always wanted to watch the rest. When we got the DVDs we powered through and watched the first 2 or 3 seasons but then for some reason stopped. Earlier this year we started back up and we finished the entire show a couple months ago.
I have to say, I agree with the 50 billion people you’ve already heard say this was like the best show ever. I loved it. The writing was superb. The acting superb. I was sad in the end to say goodbye to these people:
I loved Kima, I loved Bunk, I loved the cop turned teacher, Prez. Carver. Cedric. McNulty turned into such an idiot at the end but we all loved him anyway. Dallas teases me because I might have loved Stringer Bell just a little too much. Every time Idris Elba, the actor who played Stringer Bell, is on another show, Dallas makes sure to point him out to me. It was a sad day when Stringer Bell got shot! I almost didn’t want to keep watching, but of course, I did. Omar.. OMAR! What a badass! Love him. And Bubbles. Poor Bubbles. So many heatbreaking moments with him.
As the series goes, I loved the first season where we got to know everyone. And then Kima got shot. I was sucked IN! I think the second season was my least favorite… with the shipyards. The third season, Hamsterdam, was great. I think it was the fourth season I liked the best: with the school kids. I got so involved in each of their stories. I was pulling for each of them and Prez, the teacher. The fifth season was mostly politics and journalists. And it tied everything all back together.
I’d seen this graphic years ago, before I’d seen the show, and of course I didn’t really “get” it. Now… looking back at it… so awesome.
Finally, here’s an awesome clip of the 100 greatest quotes from The Wire:
If you have not seen this show, you must get ON it! I believe it’s streaming on HBO Go. You can get it on disc from Netflix. I bought our set discounted on Half.com. We even caught a few episodes, unedited, on DirecTV. Figure it out and watch it. No excuses!
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, but it was Cook’s Tour that I read. 
