The Wire - The Complete Third Season
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Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete Third Season
Movie Review: The Wire (season 3)
Summary: 5 Stars
Really cool. It seems a lot of seasons' 1 & 2 were spent setting up for 3. I enjoyed it a lot. The Wire has replaced The Sopranos as my number one program. This would have been the case even if The Sopranos continued to run. Can't wait for more.Movie Review: Best show ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I dont have much to say beyond what the many other reviewers have said about this terrific show. I truly think it is in a class by itself, though I have been consistently impresseed with HBO's programming. It's not a show that is fun to watch with other people while drinking/ having side conversations. Not that shows like that are bad, but The Wire is best watched alone, starting with season one episode one.
I like all the seasones of this show but season three ratchets up the intensity another notch. The conflicted relationship between Stringer Bell (my favorite character ever) and Avon is just brilliant. The ending montage gets me everytime. When Avon looks back at the courtroom looking for Stringer his facial expressions say everything. If you've seen the end of Season Three watch episode one of season one and the last episode of season one. D'Angelo (in episode 1) and Avon (In the finale) look behind them at the courtroom audience and Stringer is there in the back both times.
The lyrics also fit Avon's situation perfectly.
This show is genius. It is highly critical of most every institution it analyzes yet doesnt jam anything down your throat. Its also pretty tragic overall so if you're looking for happy endings, you should still watch this show but be prepared.
Movie Review: Shakespheare in Baltimore....The Finest Season of the Greatest Show on Television
Summary: 5 Stars
In Season 3 of David Simon's groundbreaking series, Lt. Daniels' Major Crimes Unit has turned its attention back on Westside drug dealers. Ultimately, as in Season 1, the targets are the drug kingpins Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell.
But while in Season 1 and 2 the police were the clear heroes of the show (if notoriously flawed and human), in Season 3 The Wire's subtle critique of the drug war becomes a more significant theme. The police-work conducted by McNulty, Greggs, Daniels, and Freeman remains exciting and heroic, but their efforts are now on the margins of the true movement and import of the story. When Barksdale is finally busted, it is not so much the result of their police-work as the anonynmous tip of Stringer Bell. Bell (an charismatic and compelling character in his own right, who continues to grow in Season 3) has become increasingly disenchanted with "the game", and reaches out to "Bunny" Colvin of the Western with information on Avon. In the end it is questionable whether Major Crimes has accomplished anything, or whether it was the relationships with actual people forged by Colvin's humanity that actually made a positive difference.
Major "Bunny" Colvin of the Western District has become sick of the drug war--convinced that the tactics employed do not constitute real police work. So he starts pushing all drug trafficing in his district into 3 zones where drug dealing is more or less legalized. In the meantime, he hides this strategy from his bosses, while his friend "The Deacon" begins organizing outreach and condom/needle distribution among the addicts who begin gathering in these districts and no longer have to hide. "The Game" gradually becomes gutted from the inside out, as the violence associated with drug dealing is no longer necessary. When murders or thefts among the dealers occur, the dealers themselves begin turning to the police for protection--building relationships and passing information. Utimately even the ruthless Stringer Bell begins to trust Colvin and prefers Colvin's experiment to the destructive reality of grinding on the street. In the end, Colvin's story asks vital questions as to what police work is all about, and how the police can best protect and serve.
But what lifts Season 3 of The Wire above all television that has come before it is the story of Dennis "Cutty" Wise, which features in every single episode. Cutty is a convicted felon who is released from prison after 14 years...estranged from his family and all meaningful ties to the community.....as well as to himself. Indeed the only people who are initially prepared to reach out to him are Avon and his crew, who respect Cutty's legendary reputation in "the game". Cutty's journey takes him to the street, back into the game, back out, and ultimately upon a path to redemption, upon which he must "travel from A to B all by myself". I don't want to ruin the story for you--I'll only say that his struggle to find meaning and purpose in the midst of the urban nightmare is nothing less than sublime. His conversations with such awesome characters as Bodie, Slim Charles, Avon, The Deacon, and other denizons of the urban landscape are conducted in a Baltimore street slang that Simon renders into Shakesphearean poetry, whose final object is not merely extraordinary realism but striving towards a vision of redemption. It is the sort of timeless art that just gets better with repeat viewings.
If you are new to The Wire, start with Season 1, episode 1-3. Give yourself a chance to get used to the language, the realism, the all-to-human characters. And be prepared for the story to keep getting better and better.
Movie Review: The Wire season #3
Summary: 5 Stars
Season #3 is just as good as seasons one and two. I can't wate for season four. The actors are spot on with their roles. It is easy to belive that what you are seeing is real. The wrighting and story are great. You will want to watch all three seasons in correct order to keep the story line stright. And as with seasons one and two, put mom and the kids is another room when watching as it can get a wee bit randy and rank at times. I love this show, and don't ever want it to end. It is worth your time and money. Sit back and enjoy the ride. Movie Review: Great series. Period.
Summary: 5 Stars
The characters are fully fleshed out, the story is intricate and brings the first season's characters back to the foreground for a swift climax and resolution. Worth every penny.