This Sunday, "The Wire" shuts down for good, with a 90-minute finale. After sixty episodes, it’s finally coming to an end. Templeton, the fabricator at the newsroom (apparently named after the rat from "Charlotte’s Web"), is running out of room, as is everyone else. Mayor Carcetti wants the police to clean up their own mess; McNulty (right) is scrambling to get out of the bed he’s made for himself; Marlo has risen to the top of the game and has nowhere to go but down. With the old masters of the drug game dead, and new kids coming up, everything gets set to repeat itself.
Look at McNulty’s face there: He’s unhappy, but not disappointed, because disappointment requires thinking it’s going to turn out better. He’s no fool, although he acts like an idiot.
Meanwhile, in the world of TV viewers, everyone’s getting ready to mourn and celebrate "The Wire" and […]
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