The Wire 4x05 Reaction

Finally found time to listen to your episode review. You're both starting to annoy me with how smart and thoughtful your analysis is. That's all I'm going to say. 🤣 Well done and I'm glad you're enjoying the season.

You're out of focus for a lot of this video. The auto-focus on the camera keeps switching between you two and the microphone on the table, even in the first 20 seconds alone you can see this happening. It would a lot easier if you keep auto-focus on, but switch to a bigger f-stop number (ie. smaller aperture) to increase the depth of field. That way both you two and the mic will all be in focus. I can't imagine this would significantly affect lighting or require you to move the camera position, as it's a small space you're shooting in and you're already quite close to the lens. It's not like you're standing 50 metres away in a field or anything. At most you may just have to bring the ISO up the tiniest bit, which won't effect your image quality, and that's assuming you'd even have to do that much which you most likely won't. If anyone else has a better suggestion as to how to mitigate the issue, let me know and I'll edit this comment to include it.

Prez is in my top 3 characters. He goes from taking out a kids eye to giving one clothes and food while trying to help many others. All of these kids he’s trying to help are in similar situations to the one the kid was in who he assaulted. It’s not even that he’s trying to make up for what he did he’s just genuinely changed from his mistakes and became a good person. Him, Dennis, and Bunny are the heroes of this show. Truly trying to help the kids and community as best they can. Chris and snoop are actually Just two grim reapers walking Baltimore. Him killing that worker made him have zero chance of being anything other than that. Pure evil. Unless he kills namonds mom then I’ll forgive him. Sometimes the situations they’re in are so crazy and outrageous to me I can only laugh. Like when donut unlocked prez car or them just casually pointing out the bullet type that was shot probably not even a street away from them. Randy’s situation is so heartbreaking to see. No one should have to be dealing with the guilt that they just basically got someone killed let alone an actual child. Sherod’s as well. He can’t even read and is expected to be doing like tenth grade work or whatever it is. That is so insane they are just telling him they aren’t going to give him a change to succeed but they have to do something to look like they’re trying. Michael wants to stay away from the “game” so bad but he has no other options. All his time goes to bug which makes it so much harder to improve his own life. There is nothing in his life that he can turn to besides this thing that is so very actively trying to recruit him, it’s a hopeless situation for all of them unless they can get lucky. Dukies seems to have the worst home life or at least equal to michaels, but at least he’s getting some help from prez🙏. Hopefully he can become who he should be. Namond with any other parents is a nice hard working kid but with Weebay and Delonda he’s just a corner kid. With them expected him to be one which is beyond crazy wanting the worst possible scenario for your child either dead or prison. They get rarely any to no opportunities from anyone besides the one that plagues every one of their corners and streets, and there expected to not take it? And then do what? nothing because they don’t have anything else. Then once they do that one opportunity they get locked up and lives ruined. If only getting these people help and opportunities was profitable then we would see instant change. The cops and politicians are so incompetent that its just funny at this point. There’s so much to discuss and so many layers in the show. This season is so depressing but also so good and its basically just getting started. A special piece of television.

I love the scenes with Prez in this episode, feels like he's slowly getting to speak to the kids more and finding his way in the job. The scene where Donut opens his car and says "no problem chief" always makes me smile.

Happy to have you back! I agree that it's impossible feels like an impossible task to try to help some of these kids. But Prez and Bunny are giving it a shot and that's all we can ask.

That poor woman, all she did was show up to work and now she’s dead for something that has absolutely nothing to do with her, Chris and Snoop are indeed just plain evil. The scenes with the boys are the BEST scenes this season. I just love watching all the boys whether in school or out even though it also breaks my heart to watch them. I love how close they all are and how they look after each other, one of my favorite parts of this episode was when Randy and Dukie explained to Prez why Michael can’t make detention, it was really cute to see them defend him and explain his situation. I also love seeing Prez learn more and more about these kids as time goes on, so he can better understand them. I can’t tell how crazy it is to watch the man who took a kids eye out in the first few episodes of the first season NOW being a teacher to kids, I mean he technically should never be around another kid again,lol, but for storytelling purposes it’s great. Each one of them boys’s situation is so drastically different and yet the same in the regard that they can’t escape it and it’s circumstances that were entirely out of their control. It’s crazy cuz this season has already been too much to handle and we’re not even halfway done with it yet.

The opening scene is darkly humorous but also depressing. The boys hear gunshots- not alarmed. Police siren- not alarmed. Then the junkie walks up and they assume it is a zombie and run away in terror. It shows that they are still just kids afraid of a monster, but also illustrates how numb they have become to the real dangers in the environment they live in.

I’m glad we are back with the greatest TV show ever… behind The Sopranos of course.

Lola your hair is stunning! ❤️

Woop woop! Another good episode, let's see what you have to say about Chris, Marlo and the crew...