From street hustlers to stevedores to mayoral candidates, we take a look at every season of 'The Wire' in order of greatness.
Few television series can match the sheer legacy of HBO's The Wire. Along with The Sopranos, it essentially reinvented what television could be, proving it to be as fruitful an artistic medium as film. Even at a distance, it’s easy to see what made the show such a lingering success: of course, there’s the acting, writing, and direction—all of which are top-tier—but there’s also something more.
But even with a show as consistently fantastic as The Wire, not all seasons are created equal. Particularly because each season shifts from one city institution to the next, there are undeniably times when the series succeeds more than others. From street hustlers to stevedores to mayoral candidates, let’s take a look at every season of The Wire in order of its greatness.Season 5 Don’t misunderstand. The Wire at its worst is still miles ahead of most series at their best.
Even if it succeeds at tying up nearly every loose end the previous seasons had left, even if it ends the story of the series with the kind of poeticism one would expect from The Wire, it still remains in the shadow of the show at its prime. This season also takes a fantastic risk that every season of the series would follow. With the drama shifting primarily to the Sobotkas, the Stevedores, and the Greek’s importation empire, the series established its ambitions as particularly grand. Here was a show that wasn’t just about any one thing — or any one group of characters — it was about an entire city and those who inhabit it as their lives intertwine, intersect, and branch off into different directions.
Season 3 After two excellent seasons of drama, Season 3 established The Wire as the best program on television. Dramatically speaking, little else can compare with the Machiavellian tragedy of Avon and Stringer, which comes to full fruition here in the best scene of the entire series. We at long last see the inevitable fracture between two men who once seemed unbreakable but now operate according to entirely opposite fundamentals.
There’s plenty of screen time given to the rising Stanfield Organization as they take over territory from the shattered fragments of the Barksdales.
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