Yeah itâs fucking awful. I watched it recently and itâs some of the worst TV made.
The one little criticism of the show I noted is we get very little McNulty v Rawls from the middle of season 2 until the very end.
They were some of the best exchanges.
The entire thing or just the serial killer storyline?
Iâm tempted to say the whole thing⌠The newspaper side was awful too⌠Between them thatâs most of the season⌠The bits in-between are ok.
Itâs about 40 percent nonsense and 60 percent good.
The co op Greek, Joe, Marlo and Omar thread in season 5 is brilliant. The paper angle and serial killer isnât. Worth watching for the first bit though
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I always enjoyed the opening scene to series 5 where they use the photocopier as lie detector to some poor unsuspecting home boy
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The walk by with the McDonaldâsâŚ
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Yeah the staged murders in S5 wasnât a great storyline. The paper stuff I was ok with.
Apparently Simon always saw that as the final series, but had mentioned a few times about another series on the emerging Latino community in the city (that being 5 and the newspapery one being 6).
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The episode where McNulty spent half a day pinning the floater (and the subsequent 13 Jane Does) on Rawls and City Homicide was brilliant. 3 hours studying sea tides 
Youâre not the run-of-the-mill kind of asshole, are you, Jimmy? Youâre a special kind of asshole.
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A gaping asshole
I actually liked the Baltimore Sun arc
We should take a list of real-life Baltimore criminals and/or cops that appear in The Wire
Melvin Williams as The Deacon
Donnie Andrews (part of the inspiration for Omar) as Donnie
Felicia âSnoopâ Pearson as Felicia âSnoopâ Pearson
Cops
Jay Landsman as lieutenant Dennis Mello
Ed Norris as Ed Norris
Who else have we?
The couple running the kitchen which bubbles volunteers at in series 5
Edit - sorry not cops/criminals
Oh yeah, so long since Iâve season s5 (13 years) I forgot about them
That was based on a real-life occurrence
Just like the Ray Cole death, the death of Raymond Foerster was written into the series after he passed away after filming his season 4 scenes. Just watching the episode now.
wonderful