I have read a bunch of reviews today and they are all over the place. I liked the finale but most likely because I wasn't expecting it to be the greatest TV show of all time as some people seem have been expecting. I just wanted
closure and we got a lot of it.
Bubbles redeemed and welcomed back to the family hearth.
The "old" McNulty passed away and toasted at a wake so the "new" McNulty can try to move forward with Beadie, with the homeless dude as McNulty's angel to the afterlife (that being boring (and life-sustaining) suburban family life).
The real detectives staying on the job - Kima and Bunk.
Even Micheal-cum-Omar - don't we sleep better at night imagining somewhere in the dark corners of the city lurks an avenging angel who only punishes the evil.
On the darker more cynical side, life goes on as before, with rough political justice having shaken-up the box but left things much the same pile of fly-specked dung --
A vain, corrupt, power-seeking mayor rules in Baltimore (Narisse), while a vain, corrupt, power-seeking governor rules in Annapolis (Carcetti)
Stupid, corrupt, political hacks run the Baltimore City Police (Valchek) and the Maryland State Police (Rawls)
One good cop leader is now a lowly PD (Daniels) but at least his chickie (Rhonda) is now a judge
A new corruptible police detective (Sidenour) is emerging from the womb of the infamous homeless murders and looking to further corrupt an already corrupted judge
Seventy-five percent of poor, innner city black kids end up cold-blooded murderers (Michael), pathetic drug addicts (Dookie) or detached and damaged abused/abusers (Randy), at least fortunately, one-in-four (Namond) get out for good
And so the story goes on as it started . . . on any given day, at any time in the city, you are likely to find two police detectives crouched over an unmourned murder victim like two gas station attendants checking the air in your tires
It was a great ride and I look forward to re-watching the whole thing a few years from now. The bad news is that there is no other show to look forward to, except maybe the last season of The Shield.
Also, I don't know if any one mentioned this before but I think Simon snuck another smile in there for us - Templeton on the show is a rat of the highest order and TEMPLETON IS THE NAME OF THE RAT IN CHARLOTTE'S WEB.
