So.
Michael became Omar.
Dukie became Bubbles.
Sydnor became McNulty (Season 1 McNulty — not bullshit serial-killer McNulty)
Carver is on his way to becoming Daniels.
Slim Charles becomes Prop Joe.
And Marlo, who looked like he was on his way to becoming Stringer, not surprisingly proved instead to be cut from the same cloth as Avon — unable to walk away from the game.
Some things I particularly liked from the episode:
- Slim Charles killing Cheese (If you heard a group of white people in Federal Hill being too loud last night, that was us... we cheered)
- Michael becoming Omar (not that this was a positive development for his character, I just feel like we need an Omar to restore balance to the universe)
- Valchek (Valchek!) becoming the stats-faking Police Commissioner of Shelia Dixon Nerese's dreams
- the return of Freamon's near-blind stripper girlfriend Shardene
- Prez
- Chris Partlow befriending Wee-Bey (though I would've like to see Avon there as well)
- and Norman's inability to keep his shit together and not laugh
I also liked this bit from Slate's TV Club:
Instead, we got Jimmy and crazy Larry. I suppose this particular pairing was meant as grim commentary on the fate of the American city? Jimmy's final "let's go home" was intended to remind us—as if the previous 64 hours and 59 minutes hadn't—that only lunatics and hopeless romantics would want to make their home in Baltimore.
When Slate started running TV Club on The Wire I started reading Slate again. Guess I'll stop now.
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