The Wire Season 5 (4-6)

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Episode 4

Think it is with this episode that I’m not certain if I’m going to like this season at all. I know that I am responding from a purely emotional spot, but come on they killed Prop Joe! I love this show, and the characters are so finely put together, and the way they are rolling all this fake ass serial killer stuff together and the way that Marlo is taking over everything is just so hard to watch, and then they killed Prop Joe. I think what it is for me, is that between killing Butchie, which was sort of like the shock kill, like *blam blam*, pay attention bitches anyone could die now! Then killing Prop Joe in this episode it has definitely become *blam blam* anybody and everybody can and is gonna die! The emotional roller coaster is sometimes a little hard on the system and this season is just ripping me up watching all my favorites drop off.

Episode 5

Okay I thought episode 4 was emotional. I was freaking wrong. They are just messing with me this season. Messing with me to see how much I will end up yelling and screaming at the television like a freak. The short answer by the way, a lot. Omar jumped out of a window, fell to what looked to be his death, and no one can find him. Add to that McNulty and Templeton are now jerking each other off to create a serial killer out of thin air. The world has turned upside down. Not to mention Beadie (Amy Ryan) is still trying to make it work with McNulty, bless her. On top of all that there is politics constantly going on in the background as the Carcetti (Aidan Gillen) administration tries to figure out how to fix problems and get moved into a bigger office while Clay Davis (Isiah Whitlock Jr) just tries not to get sent to jail. There is so little that makes sense in this crazy season as they push and pull and rip my emotions from one extreme to another and it all has to start making sense at some point, I just realized that this season has less episodes and this is the mid-point episode. Did I mention I’ve been yelling at the television? A lot?

Episode 6

There is a lot in this episode that is just freaking amazing, but after watching it I have to say one of the things that just cracked me up was McNulty telling Freamon (Clarke Peters) what a pain in the ass he was always asking for more more more and how he finally understood some of what the bosses must have hated about trying to deal with Freamon on the wire cases. The idea of McNulty relating to the bosses really cracked me up for a while. Aside from that popping out at me I think what really struck me is the fact that Bunk is sneaking up on Chris and could very well put him in jail on that emotional murder of Michael’s stepfather. Somehow that just would be kind of perfect.