Don’t Tell Me! I Haven’t Seen The Wire Finale Yet. I Want to Savor it.
Why do I do this to myself? I’m backed up on TV shows. There are so many shows I love, and I’m VERY big on digital versions of shows. So I tend to have episodes of shows for MONTHS. And if it’s a show I really like I might have a whole damn season backed up. So No. I have not seen the last Wire episode because I’m still halfway through episode 4 of this season, and I think there are like a total of 9. But I can’t help myself! For shows I really like I don’t want the magic to end. Last year I was positive Curb Your Enthusiasm was ending so I’ve got the whole season on disk, and “feggitaboutit” with the Sopranos-I’m still holding onto the final 4 episodes. Yes, I’ve heard there’s some sort of boring fading out ending but I don’t know exactly what yet. By the way, have you heard there’s a Sopranos movie in talks right now?
But seriously what can you do? In a world where TV quality comes and goes and TV execs can’t seem to make up their mind and they kill good shows left and right you HAVE to hold onto the good ones. HBO obviously is in a class by itself. Because for the last few years, let’s say from Deadwood on, they’ve just been rockin the house. For years now. Hell, I even enjoyed Carnival. A lot, in fact. And like I said Curb and the Wire just have not comparison. Even their comedy specials have set the standard for televised stand-up.
But the Wire is SO special. It’s got that team. That magical team that gave us Homicide and OZ. Jesus, OZ. I tell people who’ve never had cable and got excited about Prison Break that yeah, it’s a nice show but the show it’s trying to be (OZ) was singularly bizarre and gritty. The Wire of course is set in Baltimore, and I can’t prove it but I’m positive is based was made into a series because of Charles Dutton’s mini-series The Corner. Dutton, of course was the original Roc before Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling persona THE Rock took off. And a few years he did a short series for HBO called The Corner, and set in Baltimore and centered around the street level drug dealings done primarily by the Black population. And about a year later The Wire hit the airwaves. Wanna know a secret? I still haven’t watched the last episode of the Corner!
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