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The Wire, Season 5, Episode 6 (Patreon)

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2025-09-25 00:42:00
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The Dickensian Aspect

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Wire5 6

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trenton gragg

The Scott storyline is probably Simons critique on the journalism scandals of Stephen Glass and Jason Blair caught fabricating stories.

prolifik5

The complaint Gus mentioned to Scott was genuine. Fletcher is the one who told Gus about it earlier in the same scene.

prolifik5

I'm sorry, but I just don't see any evidence of Scott being smart or talented. A smart reporter would have realised there was something fishy about Jimmy's claim that he also received a real call that tallied with Scott's fictional one. A talented reporter could have turned that guy's rant about steroids in baseball into a legit story, rather than making up some bullshit about a black kid in a wheelchair listening to the games outside the stadium. As far as his writing, we don't see much of it directly, but there are multiple insinuations that it tends to be florid and over-the-top. When he goes to interview with the Post, they tell him his style is "a little wrought" (which Scott tries to cover by claiming it's what he's being instructed to do). In this episode, Gus compliments on him on the vet story, but it's almost a backhanded compliment because it implies that his stories are usually "overwritten" and this one is a departure from that. I guess he'd make a decent pulp novelist though. 😂

dys
>>188294355

He'd probably never be as good as Gus or Alma or that one experienced reporter who got laid off, and he definitely just got lucky with the vet story, but it seems like if he just put in the work he could be decent.

dys

The main reason I didn't like season 2 as much originally was just because of how much it reset all the momentum, the first half of season 1 was already a slow burn and then we had a slow burn again for the first half of season 2 setting up a brand new case. Whereas seasons 3 and 4 hit the ground running and paid off so much of what had been setup in the previous seasons. I was very invested in season 2 by the end however.

Jori

What people tend to forget is that despite great reviews, pretty much nobody watched the show when it was airing. This means that some of the satire and meta-commentary of the serial killer plotline is lost on present-day viewers. Basically, all the people were watching mediocre shows about exciting stuff, while The Wire is set in the "wrong zipcode".

Raul Panzar

Loved your discussion on season 2. Yes, on first watch it can feel jarring to geta whole new set of characters in a new location that isn't the hood, but I think what many people don't catch until a second viewing is how tightly linked the docks storyline and the Barksdale storyline are linked thematically. The theme of that season is not "the docks", the theme is Economics, and how a floundering economy leads people into a life of crime. Both the Barksdales and the docks are dealing with a bad economic situation. The docks obviously don't have enough work to employ all their union members. The drug dealer version of a bad economy is when the Barksdales lose their NYC drug connect and have to scramble to find a new steady supply of drugs. There is a scene in the middle of the season at Butchie's bar that serves as a thematic touchstone to the whole season. Butchie is discussing Baltimore drug history, and how one of the West Side kingpins back in the day got "a piece of that French Connection", and that once drugs started flowing steady, the violence went down because when drugs are steady, things run like a business and violence only happens when absolutely necessary. But if you don't have a steady supply, violence goes up because then it becomes a fight for holding your territory against other drug crews that have a better supply than you do. And that is exactly what we see play out with the Barksdales in season 2. They lose their supply, violence goes up. Frank Sobotka and Stringer are dealing with similar situations and come to a similar conclusion: their only solution is to make a deal with The Greek.

Nicholas Reed

This episode highlights one of the things I love about the character of Carcetti: he is a great dissection of how power corrupts otherwise decent people. His rant about needing to protect the homeless was genuine and off the cuff because he was actually upset about it and he couldn't hide how he felt about a problem he wanted to solve, but then when it "played" and could help him politically, it stopped being a problem to solve and became just another political game. A microcosm of his character: a man who seeks power to solve real problems, but never actually stops seeking power long enough to solve them.

Jonathan

The detective at the opening of the episode wasn’t the guy who died he’s already died in the filming of the show. That’s Ed Norris who is the former police commissioner of Baltimore in real life.

Jonathan

The school I work with did work with the homeless down in the area where Scott was in this episode. We made survival backpacks with a blanket some clothes and toiletries and passed them out down there when other groups were coming with food.

MrRuss50

I love the amazing quotes this show put out. From " Hes not exactly Bob Woodward". To this episodes " that's some spiderman shit", you were close when you said Superman lol. " Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel", thought that was a William Randolph Hearst quote but the internet says I'm wrong :(

Youtalkingtome
>>188322365

That's a really good point too. This season may not be what Season 4 was, but it certainly deserves it's flowers