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The Wire, Season 5, Episode 3 (Patreon)

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2025-09-03 23:39:33
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Jonathan

The Six Flags is in the DC suburbs about 40 minutes from Baltimore. It just closed after 40 years under different names and is being demolished.

Jonathan

The serial killer storyline is what brought down the season for me. If it had been more subtle it would have been better but the red ribbons and all of that is just too fictional. What I liked about The Wire is most of this either did happen or could happen. I get what they were getting at with it and there is a story behind it. My assumption is this was a more slow burn originally but the shortened episode order made them make changes.

Pam Nail

There were references in season one to stuff with Daniels from before the events of the show. It's not the stuff with the wire; it's from way before. McNulty's FBI friend warns him that Daniels is dirty. Burrell threatens Daniels with spilling whatever it is early on. There's definitely something in his past that we've never been told about -- the most we've heard is that he had some suspicious amounts of money.

dys

All the layoff talk is so real, it's almost word-for-word to what management said to us when about half my team was laid off and then half of the remainder was laid off six months later in the great tech industry layoffs of 2022-2023. As a team lead I got almost exactly the same talk Gus did about losing the people on my team.

dys
>>186100810

I think it's perfectly good storytelling still, just a big stretch from the usual realism of the show.

Ed
>>186109479

Its also, for a part, literally what gus said to alma when her story got cut in this episode right before this scene. "Smaller news hole" "advertising is down" "not managing it well" and Whiting, 3 minutes later also uses those first 2 quotes but as a manager didn't blame the managing part.

Roland

The scary thing is that the cuts [at the Baltimore Sun] were only the start of a devastating landslide loss of local and national journalism.

steve borden

Monk coming in the clutch with the line of the show “Nice Dolphin Nigga”

Roland

In the quick glimpse of the fortifications behind Omar, I'm guessing that's Okd San Juan in Puerto Rico, which would make sense since they wouldn't need passports to get there.

Roland

I found out what the six flags actually are from watching the excellent comedy-thriller movie Vengeance (2022).

George Samoila

if you think back to season 2 and 3 and the barksdale/dockworkers cases, now seeing mcnulty say "we need to kill again" and veteran detective Freamon instantly being on board with a criminal conspiracy to make up a serial killer, you can tell why this isn't the most highly rated season, it still has stellar moments as it is the wire, and I enjoy every episode even on the nth rewatch, but it is goofy and jarring lol street-wise the show is darker than ever and in this episode even the streets are just dark as hell, nothing changes except maybe the faces on the corners also, the actress playing Alma the journalist was married to the actor who played D'Angelo

prolifik5

They really tried to make us believe that Lester, the guy who was warning Jimmy about obsessing over cases and not having a life just two seasons ago, would jump straight into this serial killer bullshit no questions asked. 😂 Think about how far off the rails (and drunk) Jimmy had to be to talk himself into this scheme, and then explain to me how a fully sober Lester needs so little convincing - especially since there's still so much legwork to be done to make Jimmy's plan even remotely viable. It also feels a bit dubious that Lester would be THIS hung up on Marlo when he also has the massive Clay Davis case to hold his attention. Again, they tried to sell it with his behaviour this season, but I'm not quite buying it.

Raul Panzar
>>186212321

It's not crazy at all, we're just seeing a Lester that we've only heard about. This is pre-pawn shop Lester coming back. Remember what it was that got him into the Pawn Shop unit in the first place. He refused to carry out an order that he felt was political in nature and not stemming from good police work. He was told to not do his job and he refused. The closure of the Major Crimes Unit is a similar situation in his eyes. He views the order to back off of Marlo Stanfield as entirely political and not having to do with proper police work. Lester has reached a point in his career where he is happy to disobey just like when he was a young Homicide Detective. He knows the consequences and isn't afraid of them anymore.

Jeremy Hicks

I think a big part of the problem with this season is that it's only 10 episodes long. With all the new characters, they had to rush some of the storylines, so it doesn't feel as organic as previous seasons.