Post by nowimnothing on Aug 7, 2014 11:18:39 GMT -5
Ok, had a couple of days to digest, but just a few closing thoughts.
Favorite season? 4, the kids just killed me.
Favorite scene? All "Fuck" crime scene with Bunk and McNulty
Did it live up to the hype? Mostly yes, I would recommend the series to just about anyone and I cannot say that about much else in pop culture. I would put it on par with Breaking Bad. Neither are perfect but they do represent some of the best of what TV can be.
What do I wish had gone differently? I wish season 2 was more closely integrated with the rest of the series. Syndor was underdeveloped. McNulty needed to face more consequences of his actions throughout. The newspaper team was underdeveloped.
Biggest gut punch: Michael leaving Bug followed closely by Carver leaving Randy
Biggest surprise: Wallace (after that murders of main characters was less surprising even if they were not expected)
Favorite character: Omar
Most satisfying moment: Omar selling the drugs back to Prop Joe.
I don't know what I am going to do with myself now that I am not writing these a couple of times a week. I liked the process of thinking closely about the episode in order to write about it, but I do not think my forte is writing. I do much better reading and commenting. Sorry if the reviews lacked too much depth. I just did not have time to write a lot about each episode. Thanks to whoever turned me on to the Sepinwall reviews at the start. I never read each one until after I finished mine for that episode here, but they did shed a lot of light on things I missed.
Favorite season? 4, the kids just killed me.
Favorite scene? All "Fuck" crime scene with Bunk and McNulty
Did it live up to the hype? Mostly yes, I would recommend the series to just about anyone and I cannot say that about much else in pop culture. I would put it on par with Breaking Bad. Neither are perfect but they do represent some of the best of what TV can be.
What do I wish had gone differently? I wish season 2 was more closely integrated with the rest of the series. Syndor was underdeveloped. McNulty needed to face more consequences of his actions throughout. The newspaper team was underdeveloped.
Biggest gut punch: Michael leaving Bug followed closely by Carver leaving Randy
Biggest surprise: Wallace (after that murders of main characters was less surprising even if they were not expected)
Favorite character: Omar
Most satisfying moment: Omar selling the drugs back to Prop Joe.
I don't know what I am going to do with myself now that I am not writing these a couple of times a week. I liked the process of thinking closely about the episode in order to write about it, but I do not think my forte is writing. I do much better reading and commenting. Sorry if the reviews lacked too much depth. I just did not have time to write a lot about each episode. Thanks to whoever turned me on to the Sepinwall reviews at the start. I never read each one until after I finished mine for that episode here, but they did shed a lot of light on things I missed.
