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Jerusalem posted:One nice thing about "rating" seasons of The Wire is that whichever one ends up as the "worst" (season 5) it's still head and shoulders above most all other television out there. What was the point of the serial killer plotline? Almost every other major plotline seemed both realistic (enough) and provided insight into some system or structure or group of people. Was it just to show that the newspaper's bosses were eager to print sensational stories, even if they were a little fishy? Surely there were ways to do that that were had some basis in reality.
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th3t00t posted:Just finished my 4th re-watch and I've got to say season 5 didn't feel quite as bad as it has previously. I think Hampsterdam was a way more unrealistic storyline than the Red Ribbon serial killer. I think McNulty's call to the reporter is where that plotline becomes too farfetched. Adding bitemarks and ribbons to corpses feels like he's just inventing evidence to connect the bodies, but him making that call crosses the line into actually impersonating a serial killer. Plus the voice he uses is so goofy and sounds like what a dim person thinks a serial killer sounds like.
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