It’s lamentable to see them go, but it’s right and poetic too, and helps to give the show it’s authenticity. Other shows would stretch as much air time out of them as they could, until it becomes impossible to care too much what happens.

While it’s choc full of highly developed character arcs and wonderful performances that bring them thrillingly to life, the show isn’t about them. Well, it is about them, of course, but it’s about more than them, and to focus on them is to underplay the other narratives that really make the show great, in my opinion.

The Wire is about holding a mirror up to American society, it’s about the death of the American working class, about the numbers game that’s killing policing and schooling, it’s about the political machine that ensures nobody is responsible. It’s leading characters are the justice system, the police department, the schools, the streets, and the political machinery that infests it all.

In the light of all that, this or that character’s life or death become a mere device in the painting of the bigger picture.

Having said all that, I was gutted when D’Angelo was killed too! Frankie Sebotka also, though that was a little more inevitable.

zya around!

I gave up the booze about a year & a half ago & haven’t touched a drop since. The main reason being that I was fed up with paying good money to feel like shite the next day & it’s amazing how much money you save by not taking part in drinking related activities.

There are downsides though. There’s no way of saying that you’re off the ale without it sounding like you used to have a serious drinking problem. Also, you’re mates will be very suspicious of you & find you the world’s most boring person because apparently beer = good times.

Good luck staying on that wagon hangover free.