Only Spenders
The Wire - Season 4 (2006)
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Everyone grows up in The Wire this season. Or anyway, people change. The cynic's lesson is how hard it is to be better - that intentions become unrecognizable the more you muscle through. But The Wire is great because, at some point or another, it lets each character be his best - or as close as he gets to good - and it's those possibilities that make the worst bearable. Because there's lots of unbearable in The Wire - as rough and sad as fiction can be. The show's hard to watch sometimes, especially when it's kids. But that's the thing - they're great, great kids.
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Everyone grows up in The Wire this season. Or anyway, people change. The cynic's lesson is how hard it is to be better - that intentions become unrecognizable the more you muscle through. But The Wire is great because, at some point or another, it lets each character be his best - or as close as he gets to good - and it's those possibilities that make the worst bearable. Because there's lots of unbearable in The Wire - as rough and sad as fiction can be. The show's hard to watch sometimes, especially when it's kids. But that's the thing - they're great, great kids.
posted by NPK at 8:54 AM
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