TV: The Wire Season 5
Previously, I wrote about the high regard in which I hold the television series The Wire. This week, I finished watching its final season.
Until the last episode, the season was almost unbearably depressing. Everyone was on a downward trajectory where everything was going to fall apart.
It speaks to the heart and just how much substance there is in this series that the final episode made me smile and uplifted my spirit. I realize that I am twisted for feeling this way.
Give me this ending at the end of a previous season, and it would be a punch in the gut. Have I become so immersed in the world painted by this series that I would rather see it cycle rather than see it crash and burn?
The ending makes me feel that I’m not really going to lose the characters I’ve come to know. It’s comforting but it’s also somehow wrong. I feel unsettled about my satisfaction.
But I know that I am better for having watched this show. I’ve learned a lot and thought about issues in completely new ways. The Wire has challenged me as an artistic creation and as social commentary. I know I’ll be thinking and referencing this series for years to come.
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