With a new
crime lord in town and the Election Day for the mayor of Baltimore approaching
we follow the lives of a group of school kids.
I had my
reservation at the end of season 3 but I must say that I was wrong, the
creators of this incredible series were merely laying the groundwork for this
season, in my opinion the best one and certainly one of the best things that I
had the pleasure of seeing on my TV.
As is customary
for the wire there is a new setting, the school system, with a bunch of new
characters, a gang of school kids. This makes everything that happens on the
screen so much more harrowing because beforehand even with relatively sympathetic
criminals they were still people who choose the wrong side of the law, instead
here we literally see the enormous pressures that drive so many kids to
criminal life. Watching the fall from grace of not one but many boys who, in a
different setting, would have been perfectly normal people made our viewing
really intense.
A lot could
be said on how there is a complex system that creates monsters and what could
be done to correct it.
The creators
again with the character of Bunny Colvin point the finger at the hypocrisies of
the school system while proposing solutions that not everyone will like but
that are anchored in real life.
As I said
in the beginning I thought that the creators where unsuccessful in tackling the
dark side of politics, I was really glaringly wrong. It was simply the start of
a multi season arc and here we start to see that even electing the right person
for the job is only the beginning.
Is
difficult to say more without spoilering it, suffice to say that this season is
a masterpiece on every level.
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