Sun 9 Mar 2008
Nice headf*ck with that bar scene, because it was in the previews, leading all down the path that Bunk or another undeserving cop was going to get got. Or that McNulty was going to kill himself. I did like it. Ok, I loved it. My favorite episode of the season. I attribute it to the fact that it made me wait. I was unable to look into the future. Dookie’s outcome? Come on. Did we need that? Marlo’s outcome? A leeeeeeeeetle loose, that one. The cops won the lottery - got off easy….impossible. The newspaper plot fizzled, did it not? And the dubious writer on the top of the world? Me thinks not. Predictably, Bubbles at the dinner table felt nice, but was only included to offset Dookie’s issue. Michael as the new Omar? Wrong again. What is Lester going to do for a living? eBay? I’m still left with a positive taste in my mouth, even with the ends hanging all over the place.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:33 am
NO ! Dookie….No….
March 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Out of all the outcomes depicted, I actually thought Marlo’s was the most well-considered. His wealth and new connections will never supplant the fact that he’s from the streets, and it’s not hard to extrapolate his inevitable death in them.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:20 am
“That was for Joe.”
“This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money.”
March 12th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Lester got his pension. He’s retired.
Jimmy, on the other hand? Not clear what he will be doing. But I like that they left that hanging.
And the Marlo scene was brilliant. He has everything Stringer Bell wanted except that Marlo has no use for it. Now he’s a man without a country; he’s out of place in the business world and the streets have already forgotten.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Lester is gonna sit home and make models while his former stripper girlfriend teaches pole dancing for lotsa cash to Baltimore soccer moms.
I am okay with Michael as Omar; better than Michael dead.
And if they were gonna go with the BS lying reporter getting the Pulitzer, then why not go full force with Dookie getting fostered by Presbo???? Come on!
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
“more with less” comes up again and again throughout the season and i noticed in the “making of season five thing” hbo had on demand, david simon said that they always tell you “do more with less” and he said that it’s bullshit, that you can’t do more with less. interesting that the last season would be 9 episodes while the others are 13 and, because of it being the final season, they couldn’t leave us in the dark like they have in previous seasons. do you think david simon cut off his nose to spite his face? the whole newspaper storyline was odd too, because for the first time, the show had two dimensional characters and it felt like simon was letting his personal feelings interfer with the integrity of the show but also, could that bias be a reflection of bias in corporate media? what’s up with that guy? generation kill? how bout, yeah?