The Wire, S05E01- More With Less (Patreon)

Hey everyone, hope you're having a great weekend! I'm bringing you this late episode to get you all depressed so that Monday seems even more hopeless than usual. Yay! 

This episode starts off the season a year after the previous season ended. Carver has been promoted, McNulty is back to drinking (and cheating?) and basically fucking up his life, Bubbles is working a real job and trying to stay clean, and Marlow is apparently trying to test the waters with overthrowing Prop Joe. Tons of things have changed, but truthfully it's all pretty much the same.

Except that now we're getting a POV from a new group, the press. And this is interesting because it's not TV news that we're focusing on, it's a newspaper, which people often claim is dying off in competition with the internet. I wonder if we're going to be seeing more of that in coming episodes, or if it's going to be mostly a focus on how they're reporting and the personalities of the people involved. 

Anyway, this looks like it's going to be an interesting season and I'm pretty excited about seeing where they go with these new faces. Thanks for listening!