Back in Baltimore
Step one towards recovery is acknowledging your addiction.
And man, I am addicted to the finest show on television, the Wire.
Having just finished off the fourth season off a dvd, it’s time to bite the bullet and buy the last season on its day of arrival. Obviously this means that I’ll break my habit of buying the scandinavian releases, but the publisher already changed the format of the box, so the layout of the shelf is already ruined.
The fourth season adds yet another aspect of the city into the volatile mix. Schools. And schoolkids. And while the introduction feels awkward at first, it’s woven into the arcing plotlines excessively well.
But what on earth has happened to McNulty, the guy who basically wrote the book on epic bingeing. Domesticated? Or just biding his time for a display of drunken disorderliness that reaches biblical proportions.
And do check out the three “prequels”, various characters seen before maturing into the forms on the show: Proposition Joe, 1962, McNulty and Bunk, 2000, Omar, 1985.
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