Why is this The Wire last season?!
Question: Every this show has gotten better and better , but yet this is the last season for it, do you think that there are still question unanswered, and that the show should go on. what do you think
Answers: Every this show has gotten better and better , but yet this is the last season for it, do you think that there are still question unanswered, and that the show should go on. what do you think
Its because you should always end at the peak of sucess. How long do you think they were gonna show episodes of them spying on Marlo Stanfield? Two more seasons? lol
idk
Why is this in the RHH section?
Anyway, this is my favorite show of all time and I am sad to see it go. But I am also glad that it's leaving while at the top of its game. And it's been awesome to see all the cameos this season by characters from past seasons.
As far as WHY this is actually the last season, the story has been told. What more needs to be said? There actually was a possibility that a sixth season of The Wire was going to address Baltimore's growing Latino population but none of the principal writers new enough Spanish or were well-versed on the culture so it was scrapped.
It's the last season because David Simon says so. He's the author and creator of the show (with Ed Burns). But he's stated several times in several interviews way back in 2006 when Season 4 came out, that there's no more to write about. The story arc is finished. He's addressed the themes that he's had from the beginning. He's addressed the themes of the drug war, the effects on the working class (season 2), the problems of change and reform and the muddling of politics (season 3), the effects on the school system and the kids (season 4), and now, the last season, the theme is the effects of the newspaper, how it dictates what is news, how the newspaper is used to and even dictates policy - and ultimately, how all of these things result in a broken system.
David Simon has said that the ONLY thing he could conceive of covering is the changing Baltimore demographics with the influx of hispanic population. He's admitted that neither he nor his writers have enough knowledge to write a good season to cover that theme.
That has been his explanation.