I've reached the fifth season. It's been good, but not great. Nothing really special leaps out.
In fact I'll be glad when I've got to the end of the series as it's becoming a bit of a bore. It's more politics than police work, and not a lot of scenery. I think spotted an alleyway that Dan Bell went down during his last Saturday night drive (there's a generator behind a wire fence in the back yard of one of the empty houses now, indicating that someone's squatting there), but the notorious Leakin Park has barely had a
look in.
I now realise what this meant:
The only part of the show I ever thought was kinda weak was the somewhat goofy 'fake serial killer' plot of season five.
McNulty jumping the shark to fabricate a serial killer has really killed my interest.
I still think what this series lacked is a strong, charismatic central character. Dominic West barely appeared in season four because he wanted to spend more time at home in the UK.
The main characters all have their moments, but overall it's sprawling rather than focussed like the type of shows with a character's name in the title, e.g.,
Bosch,
Longmire, etc.
After I get to the end of
The Wire I have all of
Ray Donovan lined up. That's 74 hours' worth, but it does have a character's name in the title.
As an aside, I was curious about Snoop (or Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson as IMDB lists the character).
The actress, Felicia Pearson, was playing close to home.
Born: May 18, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Trivia (4)
Launching a recording career under the name Snoop From The Wire. [2007]
Pled guilty to drug charges stemming from her arrest during a DEA raid on her house. She was sentenced to a seven year suspended jail sentence with three years supervised probation; she had spent 30 days in jail. [August 2011]
She was born prematurely on May 18, 1980 and she weighed only three pounds; she was so small that she had to be fed with an eyedropper. Her parents, now dead, were both addicts, and she was born cross-eyed. She was placed in a foster home as an infant and later adopted by her foster parents.
On April 27, 1995 when she was 14, she got into a fight with a 15-year-old stranger named Okia "Kia" Toomer. She pulled out a gun and shot him twice, according to court records. He died two hours later on the operating table at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was tried as an adult, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to eight years in the Correctional Institute for Women in Jessup, Maryland. She earned her G.E.D. while still in prison, and was released in 2000 after serving five years of her sentence.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1787519/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
