The Last Wire
Monday, March 10, 2008
My only prediction for The Wire was that McNulty would get caught and, while getting fitted for bracelets, would look back at Lester Freeman with an expression, like, "help me out here," and Freeman would look back at him with an expression, like, "what do you want me to do? Someone's gotta stay out here and do good po-lice work." Which would have gone to show how much these actors could do with their faces.
Well, that didn't happen, and in fact, the knives were pretty much sheathed for this ultimate episode. No one went to jail except Chris. We were uplifted by the killing of Cheese (in order, I guess, that gangsters can congratulate themselves on having a code of haphazard ethics) and by McNulty's refusal to blame the serial killings on the one mentally ill person who steps up for it. What else? This was the worst season of a very good show.
posted by Greg Purcell @ 12:35 PM,
