Come Jan­u­ary, The Wire will be air­ing it’s fifth and final sea­son, Jan 6. Here is a brief snynop for the fans:

The fifth and final sea­son of ‘The Wire’ cen­ters on the media’s role in address­ing — or fail­ing to address — the fun­da­men­tal polit­i­cal, eco­nomic and social real­i­ties depicted over the course of the series, while also resolv­ing sto­ry­lines of the numer­ous char­ac­ters woven through­out the nar­ra­tive arc of the show.

The Wire is one of the best series on TV that focuses on what’s bro­ken in this coun­try from the cor­ner kids who sell drugs to the law whose job it is to put them behind bars. Life on the streets told from the law and the crim­i­nal point of view.  Last sea­son (4th) focused on the bro­ken school sys­tem and the sea­son finale (5) will focus on the media with it’s fas­ci­na­tion with vio­lent crime while turn­ing a blind eye to soci­etal and eco­nom­i­cal prob­lems that has con­tin­ued to dis­tance many from the Amer­i­can dream.  The show also will empha­size the mar­riage between the media and cor­po­rate Amer­ica who con­trol the news that we see and hear every­day. What I love about this show is it’s nov­el­is­tic approach to the gritty and real­is­tic por­trayal of the urban com­mu­nity and it’s war on crime and drugs. The Wire was never a show that was a “huge hit” with the pub­lic, like say, The Sopra­nos. But that’s ok because as far as I am con­cerned, The Wire is a show that is ten times bet­ter than any show on TV today. You best believe. I saw the very brief pre­view for the new sea­son and it states that “McNulty” is back to drink­ing again. All I can say to that is: wel­come back McNulty. McNulty was domes­ti­cated last sea­son and com­pletely unrec­og­niz­able to me…but now he’s back.

The cre­ator of this won­der­ful series, David Simon, who is mar­ried to nov­el­ist Laura Lipp­mann, has plans to cre­ate another series that is set in New Orleans with a story arc that focuses on the jazz musi­cians who were dis­placed by Kat­rina. All I have to say to that is: bring it on. Mean­while, enjoy an “Invi­ta­tion to the Set” of HBO’s The Wire. It’s also reported that episodes of sea­son five can be viewed as early as Decem­ber 31 on HBO On Demand.

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