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Last week the final episode of David Simon’s The Wire was leaked, I just finished watching it.
I viewed the truncated season with mistrust, Season 4 had been powerful, funny and touching. It was also a dark, horrible slog to get through that ended on the blackest of low notes. I have been surprised at the majesty of these final 10 episodes, their wit, charm, the fact that it being the final season gave Simon licence to go wild, writing beyond even his excellent standards and bringing a fitting conclusion to the show.
I’m here upset not because of anything the show did in it’s final year (Although the regular ‘Where are they now’ montage will cause you to giggle like a child at one characters fate and immediately make you weep at another) but because that is it for ‘The Wire’. Whilst Simon even had characters within the show reading ‘Generation Kill’ - a journalist’s account of the Iraq war dealing with similar themes as The Wire, we must stand solemn and understand that a narrative as exquisite as this comes only once a generation.
