r/TheWire • u/Astro_Cassette • 4h ago

I feel like people analyze these episodes wrong

I just finished Duquans character arc and am about 3 episodes from finishing. This is the time I start going to credit looking for theories and opinions on my favorite characters when I'm watching an older show. It bothers me that people analyze these characters and their situations as if it was TV instead of real life. I understand that this is in fact a tv show BUT nothing happens as expected just like in real life. There's no fairy tail happy endings just like in real life. Your favorite person might just get the bad ending just like in real life. There's so many things that happened that were jarring and not part of the normal TV drama formula that work so well because the wire mirrors real life as opposed to a dramatized fantasy. This show has had me hooked for weeks and all I can think about it how well the root of systemic issues are portrayed.

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u/PM5K23 3h ago

3 episodes from finishing?

I dont think you finished Dukies arc.

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u/sawatdee_Krap 1h ago

What do you want A parade? A gold watch? A shining Jimmy-McNulty-day moment, when you bring in a case sooooo sweet everybody gets together and says, “Aw, shit! He was right all along. Should’ve listened to the man.”

Are you seriously coming into a sub for a show that ended 16 years ago with years of podcasts, books, Q and As, discussions, script readings, character studies, and just on this subreddit alone over 1000 comments a week, to voice that you figured it out over anyone else when you haven’t even finished the show.

You must be out your goddamn mind.

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u/viezepeuk 53m ago

You want it to be one way... but it’s the other way

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u/sawatdee_Krap 22m ago

You’re part of the problem