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The Wire Season 5 EP 1 & 2 Early Uncut Access (Patreon)

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2025-05-04 17:45:00
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2026-06
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We are HERE! I'm excited to get through this season of The Wire. This has been something deeper than I ever could have imagined in the best of ways. Instantly rising to the top of shows I've watched in my life..let alone stories..let's get to it!

EP 1: https://youtu.be/bRVgW9QuSag

EP 2: https://youtu.be/a_pjkGHHRT8

EP 1 & 2 Uncut: https://vimeo.com/1081283343/b18dd6eea3

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TES

Excited to see what you think of this season. Very different than the others, but I guess you can say that about all of the seasons in their own way

MR

These first episodes of Season 5 are the worst in my opinion. Everything's so shit and hopeless. It does get better though.

William Davis

I don’t like this season as much as season 4, but it still has some great moments, especially in the last two episodes. Also, you were right, there’s no serial killer, McNulty was tampering.

TES

Did you recognize David Costabile who appeared in the newspaper office, that it's Gail from Breaking Bad?

Kana Kawase

The first scene with the photo copier is funny, but it also sets up the theme for the season. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it. Queue McNulty trying to fake a serial killer case to get the brass to give the cops the resources they need. This also ties in to the newspaper story line, of course. Sensationalism sells. I think a lot of this season is David Simon, a former journalist, venting his frustrations with his former occupation. The actor you recognized from Daredevil is Clark Johnson. He directed the first two episodes of the first season of The Wire, in addition to being a lead in David Simon's earlier series, Homicide: Live on the Street. Gale Boetticher from Breaking Bad is in there, too.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

This is the weakest season for me. It is only 10 episodes and it needs to be 14 to 16 for what they are trying to cover and some storylines don't get the space to breath and build depth. But it at least all the big moments hit right.

MrBooShoes

You mentioned in your into moving into some sci-fi. I think the show Firefly and its subsequent movie Serenity would be worthwhile. It's a fun show that has a few episodes with some excellent filmmaking techniques. It's a single short 13 episode season that ends abruptly before getting a movie to tie up the lose ends. It's a good show that also displays creative ways of resolving story that is interrupted or curtailed by being canceled.

MrBooShoes

McNulty is an alcoholic. Partly what drive him to drink is the brutality of the job, same with Bunk. The fact that McNulty got roped back into the job is what triggers his alcoholism to come back, partly because of the nature of the job and partly because he's working with Bunk who is an alcoholic as well and the influence of that close partnership rubs off. McNulty got away from the job and got clean. He gets pulled back in and the disease spreads back into his life.

MrBooShoes

I like that you clicked the new lens of the "faction" of thr media. Season 1 was the drug dealers and street cops. Season 2 introduced the international criminal element being imported. Season 3 brought the politicians in, Season 4 added the school system and Season 5 the media. They all represents factions of society, and what's interesting is the media represents the collective consciousness/awareness of society. One could write essays upon essays breaking down how the wire comments on all these aspects of society. Such a richly detailed and nuanced show

Chris Winter

As a side note, the actor who plays rookie journalist Scott Templeton is Tom McCarthy, director of the award-winning drama "Spotlight".

Martin Heron

It's a weird one: the media faction to this season is probably the weakest new introduction - the most new stuff all at once since the S2 ports, but not as immediately central to the plot and more just exploring news media. And I think since David Simon and many of the other writers are journalists, a lot of the observations can feel a bit self-satisfied, especially some of the copy corrections scenes in these early episodes. But man, everything this season does with this faction of the story is still so horribly relevant today, like it feels like a handbook of all the ways news media has completely caved in on itself, and why it's happened.

Brandon

I always forget how much I hate Scott. He's the reporter that clearly made up the story about the kid in the wheelchair. When he was at the stadium he couldn't find an interesting subject for his story about the first Orioles game of the season and we never see him talking to anybody in a wheelchair. There's nothing more annoying to me than someone that wants to be seen as a brilliant writer, some kind of rare genius that always words things in the perfect way.