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Political wire12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() There may be people who find such trenchant insight interesting to read. It's that, for purposes of this thread, I just don't care. "Suchandsuch is right-wing prick who has blood on his hands because of blahblahblah," may be entirely true. But I will delete any personal flames, which have nothing to do with The Wire, directed at either of them. I know there are certain readers here who nurse a visceral dislike for Goldberg and Douthat. It all felt deeply cynical.Īnyway, before I throw this to comments, a bit of essential concern-trolling Let me apologize to the vast majority of my commenters, but experience has taught me to handle this in advance. I even hated the manner of Omar's death-not that he was killed by Kinard, but that he was basically brought back into the plot, simply to be killed. He hosts The Matt Walsh Show podcast on The Daily Wire.He is the author of the books Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians as well as The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Lefts Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender. I most disliked the ease with which Marlo took over the city's drug trade. Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986) is an American conservative political commentator, podcaster, writer and author. I thought the serial killer turn-particularly the way Freeman embraced it-was hastily executed. I thought that the press angle was poorly done-and saying "Yeah well it's reporters who are objecting" is a weak, ad-hominem defense. It felt like a desire to show futility of systems became the author of plot, not character. Now, nihilism was always at work in The Wire, but at the end, I felt like it just became too much. ![]() I thought this was less true in Season Five, when a clear ideology did emerge, but it wasn't left or right. T's a testament to the genius of the show that its depiction of Baltimore (and by extension, America) offers fodder for liberal, conservative, leftist and libertarian readings - much like reality itself! In this sense, The Wire is the rarest and most precious of beasts: A work of art that's intensely political but rarely devolves into agitprop.
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