If they had done everything wrong, David Simon reminisziert in a feature for the fourth season of The Wire could, his creation to be just a cop show. Of course The Wire is also a cop series. But yet it is also much more, in their attempt to depict reality through fiction. After one year Break came back in a performance of David Simon and Ed Burns, and built, like the three seasons before, mainly on the experience of the two series creator. Before the HBO series in its fifth and final year dedicated to the views of the media landscape and thus the experience of the learned journalist Simon, the focus of the fourth year moves into the schools.
These were taken up the adventures of Ed Burns, after his time in Baltimore's homicide several years was active as a teacher at an urban high schools. Was the theme of third season of "Reformation", respectively, for the failure of these characters like Major Colvin (Robert Widsom) and Stringer Bell (Idris Elba), the fourth year is obviously the theme "education". The Wire begins to cast a critical and sometimes shocking glimpse into the urban education policy. Burns share the experiences of himself here Prez (Jim True-Frost) and Colvin, who had both the events of last year left the police service and now work as an educator.
it is still chaotic at Dukie (Jermaine Crawford), whose parents beat him, steal, and neglect. Only through the social commitment of Prez it is with the boy during the fourth season better. As the last of the bunch is the orphan Randy (Maestro Harrell), who lives with a foster mother and tried as a schoolyard-Entrepreneur and candy-dealer. Namond, Michael, Dukie and Randy are ultimately a bridge between school and street, and thus the link between the world of drugs and the world of education that seem to go in Baltimore, at least in the African-American neighborhoods hand in hand, and the life of three of them will change.
penetrates the same time, the series also in the life of the only African-American students, using four of them received minor roles. The figure is most present Namond (Julito McCullum), son of Wee-Bey (Hassan Johnson) and corner-dealer for Bodie (JD Williams), the mother of all it is that it occurs in the same footsteps as his father sentenced for life. In addition, Namond is the only one clique, the criminal is active, even if the quiet and intelligent Michael (Tristan Wilds) occasionally helps out at the Corner. He has come to terms, however, as the other three with a damaged home, he teaches his little brother by the drug addiction of the mother alone.
The verdict against Avon (Wood Harris) from Mission Accomplished Marlo Stanfield's (Jamie Hector) on the West Side now unrivaled. Even later, Bodie is no choice but to deal drugs for Marlo, while Slim Charles (Anwan Glover) to right hand of Proposition Joe (Robert F. Chew) is. At the same time Marlo gets increasingly out of control and starts at random people from his soldier Chris (Gbenga Akkinagbe) and Snoop (Felicia Pearson) can execute on. Must believe in another, a security guard off because he confronts Marlo or a supplier, so you murder Omar (Michael K. Williams) can be blamed, the unconscious is advised Marlos way. is
Marlo again remains the objective of the Daniels' launched special unit, even if Daniels (Lance Reddick) has now risen to Major Colvin and superseded. However, it lacks Freamon (Clarke Peters) and Greggs (Sonja Sohn) to hide the bodies that Chris and Snoop in abandoned houses. By Randy from unwittingly Boys of Summer at one of Marlos murders participant, the first two worlds start early with the police investigation surrounding Bunk (Wendell Pierce) to merge Herc (Domenick Lombardozzi) and Carver (Seth Gilliam), of which are specific start Herc and Carver now completely to develop in different directions. is
While Herc over the season increased his demonstrated incompetence, Carver shows from Margin of Error that is lost to him but not hops and malt. Something similar happens McNulty (Dominic West), who found his peace with his being a policeman and a seemingly happy, sober and monogamous life with Beadie (Amy Ryan) has started. Since West wanted to spend more time with his family but in London, McNulty appeared relatively little in the fourth year, and then only as a marginal figure. He is still at least as much maturity as Sydnor (Corey Parker Robinson), the only remains a familiar face in the background.
Gave The Wire in previous insights, at least in the private life of the triumvirate McNulty-Daniels-Greggs, so does this too back in the fourth season. Instead, almost exclusively dedicated to Namond, Randy, Dukie and Michael in focus, as well as additional Councillor Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen), whose campaign to become mayor, in Margin of Error finds a successful conclusion. Anyway, the series this time is devoted probably more because of the election campaign the world of politics, as was the case last year. At the same time Carcetti is also one of the characters who live through this year, a positive change, if he renounces his promiscuity like McNulty.
illustrates Basically this season, how much is in the school and the U.S. political system in disarray and how you have the drug problem at its root, and thus tackle the schools. Shall adopt Cutty (Chad Coleman) on a side job in which he cashed truants and bring in their class. But when he sees through the system (the student must appear only once per month, which is why it makes other days are left alone), Cutty is the job at last. Prez is also in Corner Boys and Know Your Place confronted with absurd school policy, if he only intended to prepare his students for specific tests, rather than to give them knowledge.
In the fourth year The Wire is a two-edged sword. Although the series has never tried before, real processes critical and entertaining recycle what you ultimately succeed too. Seen in the fourth season surpasses in its importance to their predecessors, without him at the same time to excel on the narrative level altogether. For in any season use was so obvious to cinematic role models, what the claim of the series, portray real-life urban fiction, a negative notice. For example, look at Dukie and Co. in Alliances in the best Stand By Me-style a corpse or rewarded Colvin Know Your Place a school exercise as in Dangerous Minds with a classy restaurant visit.
The character development sometimes gives slightly when characters as Namond and Michael towards the end react quite unprepared and unexpectedly in 180-degree turnaround for the relay begins and the extremely prominent and ambivalent role as that of Marlo is not really begin to analyze each year. will self of a series that neither character nor an act, but primarily provide a social city, we should expect more. Basically, the new figures, but as every year, very interesting, well-staffed and beneficial to the development of the story, but this increase is at the expense of the ensembles around police and Co. McNulty.
Although the character development on strike at the end, is one of the season finale Final Grades , followed by his predecessor episode That's Got His Own and Unto Others of the best episodes this season. Its notable feature is certainly the ease, attention turned to the school system without at the same storylines of other characters such as Bubbles (Andre Royo) great to ignore. "It could have, if we'd done everything wrong, been a cop show," said David Simon. And that The Wire is more than a cop show, even if they meet their own needs can not always completely, it is characterized as a deserved feature.
8 / 10
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