So GoT had a shit ending.
Ending an series can be a difficult job (often because people don't want it to end) but it can be done well.
The Wire's ending was pure kino.
So GoT had a shit ending
Angel Morgan
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Kevin Bailey
If you think about it, and I've thought about it a lot, Baltimore was kind of the main character all along.
Daniel Myers
No shit
Evan Perry
Yeah, kinda like the Midwest is the main character of Fargo.
The Wire is a weird example, though. I mean it's not like you can learn much for screenwriting purposes from it - they could have appropriately ended it after any of the five seasons, since the ending is "nothing really changes"
Best fucking show ever made, btw. I cannot overstate how much I love The Wire.
Tyler Rogers
kek
Dominic Wright
What are the chances that I’ll like The Wire if other police dramas/procedurals bore me? Is it really that much different and better?
Jordan Bell
The Wire's ending was good.
The Shield's last two episodes were some of the best hours put to television.
Lincoln Taylor
>he literally quoted David Simon
You sure are one smart user
David Reed
Californication's ending gets my dick hard with the last shot.
Asher Bailey
I think that while it technically can end any season, the 5th did the best at showing the cycle and younger characters filling old roles like Dookie being the new Bubs and Micheal being the new Omar and such. Was pretty damn kino at showing how the players may change but the game stays the same, even if the last season wasn't the strongest the last episode was great.
Joseph Bailey
Justified
Nolan Brown
Who had better tits - that Wire gf in the second season or bad poosey in GoT?
Ryder Flores
Fraggle Rock ending was pretty good.
Noah Gonzalez
It's hardly a police drama, it's a show about gangs. Unions, cops, niggers selling crack, niggers importing crack from Greeks (the nigger of the sea), niggers running gangs in schools, niggers ganging up to steal money and drugs from the nigger gangsters who sell drugs, nigger gangs going to war with other gangster niggers over territory-
It's hard to convey in a short little Chan post, but the amazing thing about the wire is how it manages to tell a story about all that, in an interesting way, while making all the characters feel alive and human. And there's (almost) never a moment where it becomes ham fisted or unrealistic, so when you've watched the entire thing, it feels so real and raw and fresh that you will probably wind up re watching the entire series at least once if you make it all the way through.
Oh, AND? Literally too many good characters to list. Pic related doesn't make most people's top 5, and yet he infinitely mogs most other shows' best characters.
WARNING : SEASON ONE STARTS OUT REALLY BORING, AND REMAINS BORING FOR A FEW EPISODES.
it doesn't explain anything or introduce the characters, you're just supposed to know them already because you're supposed to be watching the show for the fifth time already. It was a bold strategy for a TV show, and it's no surprise it struggled with ratings.
If you absolutely cannot tolerate atrocious niggertalk, you will not enjoy this show.
Christian Brown
Nobody liked S5 of this show when it came out. This is the same revisionism I see here about The Phantom Menace.
Ethan Collins
>WARNING : SEASON ONE STARTS OUT REALLY BORING, AND REMAINS BORING FOR A FEW EPISODES.
Jokes on you, I fucking loved the slow pacing of season 1 and the REAL detective work of it.
Jack Taylor
>that Wire gf in the second season
The politician slut who worked for Lord Baelish? Her tits were easily better
Forgot my fucking pic
Christian Gomez
the lugenpress arc ruins the whole season
Jaxson Nelson
Justified had a great ending because they kept bring in new characters and stuff like it wasn't even having its series finale 2 eps later.
Chase Campbell
The first two episodes of season 1 are my most re-watched episodes, and among my favorites, but my first viewing I was just wondering "who is this guy? Who is that guy? Who is she?" etc
Logan Gray
probably because THE WIRE was intended to end after 5 seasons.
THAT was the story it was going to tell.
Everything else exists as a fucking consumer product that keeps getting bled until it can't bleed anymore
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Charles Gonzalez
Nicky's baby mama and its not even close
Easton Lewis
Henry Adams
? I think the newspaper stuff was probably my least favorite thing about the show, but I wouldn't say it ruined anything, in fact in my opinion it added to the show.
What did you dislike about it?
Evan Ross
lel
Michael Kelly
The Shield is the most kino series finally
Luis Morgan
The Wire ending sucked though cause Marlo won and McNulty, Lester, and Bunny lost.
Cameron Reyes
Ohhhhh yeah, forgot we got to see those.
Actually, I think they filmed every season with no idea whether they'd be picked up again. That said, I don't know how the fuck they would have continued the show after resolving the story arc of the biggest character on the show.
Hudson Flores
Lord Baelish vs Tommy Carcetti, who wins in a campaign for presidency??
Brody Reed
n-name?
Joshua Brown
I hope ur joking
Why are they sleeping on top of the covers with their clothes on??? Haha user weird show you posted
Chase Russell
A white mayor in a black city? Impossible. Unless horses vote.
Brody Collins
>The Wire ending sucked though cause Marlo won and McNulty, Lester, and Bunny lost.
welcome to Greek Tragedy 101, pleb
Carter Brooks
>Lord Baelish vs Tommy Carcetti, who wins in a campaign for presidency??
the one who runs against the Moolies
Camden Perez
You should check out Game of Thrones, friend :)
Jaxson Stewart
Based greekposter
Parker Smith
>Based greekposter
but, of course, I'm not eben greek
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Alexander Scott
How am I joking? The only good death at the end was slim charles blasting Cheese in the head. The only other satisfying moment is Rawls getting the picture of his van overseas with the longshoremen.
Carson Long
TDKR had a cool ending.
Michael Cooper
Oh, you posted it before I could.
EFUGE EFUGEEEEE
Seriously, people call all sorts of lukewarm bullshit "KINO" and they haven't seen the wire. Shit makes you sad
Carter Howard
Because you seem to think that it's the show's obligation to satisfy your wish-fulfillment fantasies instead of depicting life as it actually is
Connor Hernandez
>EFUGE EFUGEEEEE
it roughly translates
> DID HE HAB HANS?
> DID HE HAV FACE?
Jack Bailey
Angel's ending is the GOAT. The last season is also its best by a mile, which is so rare to see.
Landon Miller
>The only good death at the end was slim charles blasting Cheese in the head
uh, sweetie
have sexual intercourse
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best death scene ever captured on film
Eli Hall
How did you get through 5 seasons of realistic portrayals of plot lines and character arcs yet somehow suspect a hollywood type fictional happy ending? The show is literally about how institutional and systematic failures in our society and politics makes the drug game impossible to overcome and the cycle of violence and corruption to go on endlessly. You expected a happy ending there? Even if Marlo was arrested another would immediately take his place. Game stays the same. If anything it just gets more fierce.
Owen Baker
I'M NOT EVEN GREEK!
Camden Clark
I'm leaving now, coincidentally to buy illegal drugs from a black guy, but I will leave this thread with a giga kino scene,
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Parker Fisher
>The show is literally about how institutional and systematic failures in our society and politics
a lotta words to just say
> niggers
Cooper Foster
>bring a bunch of people to your country, refuse them education for hundreds of years then make it difficult for them to find good work and decent pay and equal rights
>suddenly shocked that they now are involved in criminal activity
Man white people sure are smart. Like the scorpion and the frog here.
Carter Morris
Chris beating the pedo wasnt the last episode, stupid.
Jonathan Price
I tried watching this but I literally couldn't tell the black people apart from one another. It was too confusing so I dropped it after like two episodes.
Bentley Kelly
SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT IT TAKES AT LEAST 1 MILLENNIA TO ESCAPE SLAVERY AND JOIN CIVILIZATION
Nolan Price
Those pollack idiots didn't even realize they were dealing with backstabbing russians
Alexander Cox
Kind of tempted to start up the Wire next week, is it more like a cop drama or focused mostly on gangsters in Baltimore?
Dylan Price
i love the Wire because it is the love work of David Simon, who was hell-bent on showing the injustices of black America
Produces The Corner and The Wire and even Treme that illustrate black American plight accurately like nothing else
> ENDS UP EXPOSING HOW THEY BRING IT ON THEMSELVES
Daniel Ward
>is it more like a cop drama or focused mostly on gangsters in Baltimore?
you could say that if you hate both
Evan Nelson
>yfw The Wire called fake news 10 years in advance
Blake Moore
>What is africa.
Chase Davis
Always shocks me a cuckfuck like David Simon made such a great show. Guess political leanings don't detract from actual talent
Austin Walker
>OUR GREATEST ALLY
what was Simon trying to tell us?
Brandon Brown
Fun fact: The writers had some kind of experience with every job portrayed in the show.
Xavier Cook
GREEKPOSTER
KALIMATA
Chase Howard
>Greeks (the nigger of the sea)
kek
Mason Powell
>tfw he's not even greek
James Sanders
*rips his israeli passport*
Matthew Davis
It was still a different era where racial politics weren't that hysterical due to social media amplification, he definitely went full retard with his blog and the trayvon case and becoming a Hollywood (and Obama) darling... his sanctimonious arrogant jew really started showing, and also became less interesting as a writer, his shit on The Wire was probably offset by Ed Burns, and other no nonsense writers who were just interested in depicting real shit and telling a good story instead of shoving a message down your throat. No way he'd do a character like Levy now. GK was fantastic but everything afterwards fell flat.
Julian Bell
>the wire ending was good
That whole last season made no sense
Camden Ward
>whole last season
fake news
it was Simon jerkoff material for his days in the Baltimore Sun
Zachary Richardson
I think the way they don't handhold the audience and doesn't explain police and drug dealer jargon or explain who characters are makes your brain work overtime trying to work things out, making you more engaged with it. I probably wasn't entertained the first few episodes of season 1 but I was hooked because I wanted to make sense of it.
Jason Reyes
Exactly. The last season was all about the ways and reasons different people Bullshit each other.
Treme was still pretty good.
William Bailey
The montage itself made up for the bizarre season. It was Simon grinding an axe against his former workplace.
Jaxon Murphy
The Wire was good because it didn't try to endear a piece of shit like McNulty to the audience any more than it tried to endear a piece of shit like Stringer Bell to the audience.
McNulty is an absolute piece of shit, fuck anyone who identifies with him or likes him. You probably missed the point.
Sebastian Gray
>JIIIIIMMMMMMMAAAY
Jace Fisher
i know this is a fuck niggers board and all but bunk was one based nigger
would get shitfaced and smoke cigars with before crashing my car into a wall and getting caught fucking dinner waitresses
Eli Cooper
McNulty was a piece of shit as a person but as a character he was the perfect focal point for the sprawling story they were telling.
>not wanting to share a beer with Fremon and listen to his stories from the old days
Charles Thomas
So where was he actually from?
Daniel Fisher
probably Russian Vors, the Israeli passports when they disappear were the clue
Ayden James
Macedonia
John Cox
Ultimate pleb-filter ending
Jackson White
The Wire's ending was good because it stayed with itself thematically. When Omar dies, it comes out of nowhere, it's unceremonious, but the game is the game. The whole ending is exactly about that sort of transcience - it was a critique of the drug trade and the tactical arms race it engaged in with the police, but also the Darwinian nature of urban capitalism and the ruthlessness of "The System." There's no sugarcoating. Randy's story ends in a way that isn't neatly tied up - he just becomes another casualty of the drug war. It's not all bad, but it's not all good. Game of Thrones didn't bother establishing a clear point of view, and then when they did they just threw plot armor on all the Starks and called it a day. I will say that McNulty's story in Season 5 of The Wire was trash, but it at least *made sense,* whereas Game of Thrones left loose ends, dropped characters, added fan serviced plot armor, and had more plot holes than I think I've ever seen on TV.
This is explicitly mentioned by the writers. Are you trolling or...?
Cameron Sanchez
See, that's how you write a character. I had to remind myself he was a bad guy when he died.
Samuel Butler
It's not really a procedural, it's more of a drama relating to drug wars that were fought in the 1990s.
Sebastian Johnson
Stringer, Bodie, Snoop...this show will never be topped for making me hate characters and then be sad for them by the time they go.
Jack Johnson
I still don't like Season 5 but the ending itself was good. Most of people's hangups over season 5 had to do with McNulty's story and the press subplot being fucking boring.
Isaiah Gonzalez
The right episode order.
Adrian Wilson
>posts a guy famous for portraying an Italian mob boss
ok fren
Cringe
Austin Adams
Simon was nothing if not aware of racial stereotypes, even if he ended up being a total libtard about it. Talk to anyone in public office on the East Coast, they all understand how ethnic blocs work in a way that West Coast fags just won't be able to relate to.
Evan Brooks
This
Oliver Lee
Our lens into a piece of shit situation is a piece of shit.
Pottery.
Connor Allen
Reminder what he did to his own innocent friend
Evan Jenkins
McNulty looking around and realizing he just fucked a teenager is priceless
Connor Walker
Fucking glorious. I've seen them more times than I can count, but fucking glorious.
Luis Hughes
I believe he's from Cyprus.
Christian Price
How my hair look man?
Kevin Young
I had the same reaction to it.
>I'm just a humble nigga with a big ass dick
He was funny. I did like seeing the contrast with him and Lester and the colonel who set up Hamsterdam. They all grow up on the corner and just end up going a different way. I thought it was funny how the cops end up beating on civilians (S5 I think), shaking down dealers (S4), and trying to intimidate the local gangs (like when Prez, Herc, and Carver go to the towers in Season 1). I saw an article recently that there were some cops who got chased out of a neighborhood by the locals, just like in the show. Really makes you think about how fragile the system is, even with a surveillance state in place.
I think it's because of how raw you know it's going to be. Snoop was probably the only one I didn't really care about, but I know what you mean - you just see this look in their eyes, and all three of them die alone as anonymous nobodies. I read an article years ago that said black gang culture (rap music and that sort of thing) was essentially rooted in a romanticization of Italian mobster movies and this sense of enduring fatalism - "This is my corner, I ain't going nowhere!" The article claimed that if we thought of these kids as being more than thugs, we would see them as products of a perverted system. I was heavily into /pol/ and sort of laughed it off at the time, but I'm beginning to think the narrative might have some value. If you're at all into this sort of thing, I would suggest reading "On the Sidewalk, Bleeding." It's a short story that speaks to the desire to escape the senseless enmities of gang violence, wanting to be something, anything else, knowing that your life could have been so much more.
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>I had to remind myself he was a bad guy when he died.
Kevin Thomas
Masterfully delivered. All three of them want to put on this image, dying with a reputation. Only Bodie really manages it. You can tell both Stringer and Snoop are thinking about all they have left to live for. It's despair, a fall from grace. We saw this portrayed elsewhere recently, and it was a good performance in an otherwise forgettable season.
Hunter Martinez
>I would suggest reading//
Julian Martin
All 3 episodes written by Pelecanos I believe, did all the penultimate episodes. Simon's trigger man.
Juan Bennett
Bodie goes out like the truest G...
>Run wit it motherfuckers!
Brody White
what was he?