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I think saying that the show has either gotten way better or way worse with the season 4 finale is being unfair. The writers could have written the show into a hole, or opened it up to completely new possibilities. There's no saying how season 5 will be until we see it. I am such a dedicated fanboy to this show that I will eagerly await season 5, and it will have to be seriously awful for me to not like it. I do think that John Lithgow's season arc beat the hell out of the previous season's characters, Rudy, Lila, and Miguel, so they will have to take a new direction with this season.

I'll just say that I trust the writers. I don't think they did what they did at the end of season 4 out of desperation to do something exciting, I think they have an idea where Dexter has to go and it was an unavoidable consequence.

But, yeah, we always have Breaking Bad if this season flops.

Thursday, September 16th, I'll being enjoying my cheese steak in the beautiful sunshine.

Hopefully there will be Cricket. Hopefully there will be McPoyles. And hopefully either Kaitlyn Olsen or Mary-Elizabeth will give us a nipple shot. Chuck, Mac, Glenn, make it happen.

The new Futurama episode is probably one of my favorite all-time.

I just watched the first episode of Mad Men. Me likey.

Finished season 3 of The Wire, and my mind is blown. I tried this show a while ago and couldn't get into it, but I gave it another try and haven't been able to stop. Season 1 was particularly hard to follow because there was too much information to take in too quickly, all the character's names, positions, responsibilities, and roles. Once I caught on, though, the complexity really is compelling. The grittiness and depth of this show is really unlike anything I've ever seen. I'm so happy I still have 2 seasons of this show left.

I finally finished The Sopranos like 2 weeks ago. It was such a great show to experience, however being a tv show meant that it wasn't above the problems I naturally have with television shows. I've yet to watch a show that embraces all the things that make shows different as a form of storytelling. I'd like to have a discussion about the sopranos if anyone has finished watching it.

I've also started watching two new shows, the shortlived Pushing Daises which is very cute and fun. I'd recommend wankerness keep his distance, because of it's similarities to indie movies. I also started watching Psych, which is just awesome through and through. (not perfect, I could still probably tear it down, but I like it)

Season 4 was my favorite, with season 1 being the second best. I got into 1 after about 4 episodes, since I kept that HBO characters page open at all times throughout the entire series. ( http://www.hbo.com/the-wire/cast-and-crew/index.html ) 1 is a great intro to the series cause it has the most straightforward plot with the least overarching societal issues brought into it, and it has a character that the audience can really identify with in D'angelo. Also, it packs an emotional wallup towards the end that isn't equalled until season 4. 4 is some of the most depressing stuff I've ever seen, it's by far the most emotionally involving of the 5. Unless you hate kids.

Season 3 has the worst rep, but I think it was my third favorite. I mainly just loved the whole Hamsterdam thing, and Bunny is one of my favorite characters ever, he just radiates good intentions. I also was glad that they wrapped up the stuff with the season 1 crew and do a great transition into the season 4/5 characters. Marlo and Snoop are some of the most compelling and terrifying characters I've ever seen. Snoop especially is really creepy, helped by the fact that the actress is basically playing herself (and was convicted for murder when she was a child :/). It took me a few episodes to really notice that character, but she really makes an impression. She's somehow charming, yet really fucking scary.

I didn't like season 2 much, just cause I never really got into any of the new characters. I HATED that Ziggy guy, and I couldn't tell the Russians apart. I'll have to rewatch it sometime cause it's often labelled the best or second best.

Season 5 feels too short, and they introduce a whole new set of characters in the paper and feel kind of half-baked, but even though it's nowhere near the level of the other 4 seasons it's still some of the best television ever.

I need to rewatch every season, urgh.

EDIT: Wow, looking at this character list, I clearly remember nearly 50 of these characters. The characterization is so vivid despite the oddly flat, non-dramatic feel. Some of the characters are nearly heartbreaking cause they're so likable and the show is so bleak that you're sure they're going to die at any moment, notably Cutty and Bubbles. It really sucks you into the desperation of the ghetto in a way no documentary has ever been able to do.

Also, Clay Davis is one of the funniest heels of all time. SHEEEEEEIT.

Ive been closet-watching true blood and I'm just getting tired of it. The first season was decent, the second season was a cluster fuck, and the third season keeps on piling up useless additional characters. There is even more nudity and sex, as well as a sex scene where bill is screwing lorena and literally twists her neck 180 degrees around.

Yeah, that was the single most depraved scene I've ever seen in a tv show, by a long shot. My female friend was beyond horrified, haha.

I actually like this season quite a bit, some of the episodes are lame and half the subplots are terrible but Russell is by far the best villain the show has ever had, his speech on TV in the last episode was so hilarious. And the way he's carrying the guy around in the jar with him! Fuck, I love that guy.

True Blood is losing my attention very fast. Maybe its because I'm chest deep in The Wire and everything else seems lame, but pretty much all of the individual stories that are going on I don't find compelling at all. First two seasons were solid, but this one, just...ugh.

But as for the Wire, I'm on the 3rd to last episode of the 4th season. I've heard this season gets emotional, and don't spoil it, but if ANYTHING bad happens to Pryzbylewski I'm going to fucking cry. If it's the kids, they had better do some good deeds now because they're pricks and wouldn't care that much. Partlow and Snoop are pretty damn intimidating, though thats actually 99% Partlow. Snoop is just fucking annoying. Carcetti, I didn't like at first, but he's grown on me. McNulty has had pretty much no screen time! He needs to get his out there and put some wires up on Marlo.

Carcetti is basically anticipating the Obama campaign/administration, it's eerie and depressing.

You don't like any of the kids? I liked all of them besides maybe Michael, though a lot of the scenes with him taking care of his brother were heartbreaking. The main kids were all really strongly characterized. This show does more to show the futility of the inner-city schooling system more than any number of news articles I'd read saying the same thing had done. Really scary stuff. Prez is a saint.

Snoop was annoying at first but after a while she really grew on me and I was always looking forward to her scenes. She's one of the most distinctive villains of all time, if nothing else. That scene where she buys the nailgun early in the season is probably her highlight, the first time I watched it I was just like "who the hell is this character" but rewatching it after I got acclimated to her I realized how great it is. She seems like kind of a comic-relief moron at first but after a while you start to see the menace lurking just below her easygoing surface. She's at least as scary as Partlow. Partlow always seemed to me to be a kind of old-school muscle like Wee Bay was, who does all kinds of horrible things and is a seriously tough and scary guy, but at heart has some sense of honor about the whole enterprise. He's much more cold than Wee Bay was with his goddam fish, but he never seemed like a borderline psychopath like Snoop. Marlo also creeped me out a lot more, Partlow was just carrying out orders.

WIRE RELATED UPDATE: I was watching THE WATERBOY for about 15 minutes last night and was very sad to see D'Angelo as his one friend on the team. Poor guy. The Wire cast just about every single non-famous black actor that exists, I think.

Halfway through season 5 episode 8 = NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Only 2 episodes left, and only 4 days until I move back to college, that timed up well. I will eventually go back and rewatch season 1, though.

just started watching bored to death. pretty darn good

I've finished it -- as a whole I have very few words except for absolutely fantastic.

3 > 4 > 5 > 1 > 2

yeah ive finished the show now. it was pretty good. if it comes to dvd with good extras i might buy it