david robertsJust watched the last two episodes of the last season of The Wire w/ the 19yo (who's been watching it for the first time). Holy shit. I'd forgotten. That show deserves every single bit of the critical praise heaped on it.
The way that final season wraps up all the threads from the previous seasons ... every character has their arc & gets their resolution. Every theme is drawn out & underlined, but it's all showing, no telling. Genuinely amazing feat of writing.
Malraux@drvolts to me, one of the big themes of the wire was how even as the people involved in these big issues change, the underlying events have a power all their own. So the finale really closes the loop with showing how the next groups dealers, cops, and users were all going to continue the cycle.