The Wire Season 5 - Filming Complete

jArgHA

Just read an interesting article on the final season of The Wire, due for release in January 2008 (see link below). The 5th Season's central theme will be the media and filming ended just a couple of days ago. Wikipedia states that there will be only 10 episodes in this last season, although there is no mention of this in the article.

Article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201454_pf.html

Thought this was a bit scary:

...Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who did time as a teenager for killing a 16-year-old girl, made her acting debut last season, playing an assassin...

fta keith

I hope TG4 shows series 5 but at about 11pm next year

tvnutz

Can't wait for it,but will be sad as well to see the best show on tv come to an end.

Jilm

Wikipedia states that there will be only 10 episodes in this last season...

Did the makers plan for there to be only 10 episodes in the 5th series or were HBO only prepared to finance that many?

chalkitdown1

Jilm wrote:

Did the makers plan for there to be only 10 episodes?

True dat. All in the game, yo'.

jArgHA

Not sure about the 10 episodes, my guess is maybe David Simon wanted it that way. In any case, the final episode (like in Season 4) is about an hour and a half which will be cool.

Even though the show is for the most part not predictable, my guess is in Season 5

Michael will kill Omar Little, simply because when Omar and his buddy were scouting out Marlo's gang, Omar referred to him as 'just a kid'

BTW what's the story with the shot of Rolls appearing in a gay bar back in Season 3 - there was no more references to this afterwards (apart from when Jay sees some graffitti in the bathroom which says 'Rolls sucks c**k') ?

jAH

dubmick

who is Jay? I can't remember

I remember that bit with Rolls in the Gay bar. Definitely expect to see that developing (eh..but I don't want to see too much if you know what I mean;))

DeepBlue

jArgHA wrote:

BTW what's the story with the shot of Rolls appearing in a gay bar back in Season 3 - there was no more references to this afterwards (apart from when Jay sees some graffitti in the bathroom which says 'Rolls sucks c**k') ?

I'm glad they just left it there and didn't go anywhere with it. It was quite funny and it seems clear that Jay doesn't know that Rawls really is gay.

dubmick wrote:

who is Jay? I can't remember

He's Jay Landsman - the rotund homicide sergeant that occasionally acts as a buffer between Rawls and McNulty.

jArgHA

yeah the guy in homicide who's always got a copy of Hustler or the likes on him

Damn shame it has to end. I remember watching Season One on TG4 ad being hooked. Every aspect of the show was perfect. I think my only complaint has been that there just isnt enough of it.

ixoy

I've mixed feelings about season five being the last. On one hand, you can't have enough but on the other hand, you probably can really - we don't want a decline in quality and we've had four pretty much perfect seasons up until this. I also admire the idea of just sticking to your convictions and filming the five seasons as that's the story, and world, you want to explore.

Roll on January '08 then.