I see McNutty and Freeman as private eyes, Marlo takes up the Omar role of outsider picking on the drug dealers...er....lets see who else is alive...maybe the first season involves a conflict between our two P.I.s and the awesome Bunk....Bubbles has a blip regarding his substance misuse disorder....and er aw, help me out...

I saw the young boy as more the Omar character as we see him with a shot gun robbing the stash exactly like Omar did.

true dat.
Marlo is not admirable as Omar was (at least to me) - maybe Marlo should die in a random pointless, even accidental shooting......what about in prison, whats going on in there ?

cricky this attempt at a thread died a death....ah well I should stick with the music forum, much better class of individual frequent those streets.....

maybe us lesser interesting people are aware that mcnutty and freeman are mcnulty and freemon and crikey does not have 2 c's! abt time you roused yrself '73!!!

Actually it's FreAmon. I'm pretty sure there won't be another season of the Wire (sadly, as it was the best show in history), but if there is, it seemed clear that Michael was set to become the new Omar (grew up and went to school in the area, like Omar, then started robbing dealers) and DuQuan was going down the Bubbles route (a nice guy, but weak and hooked on heroin). Btw Marlo wasn't admirable AT ALL: he was arguably the most evil character in the show (which is saying something) - remember the security guard in the shop where Marlo took something without paying? And Little Kevin? He just killed people for fun, nothing to do with the game (okay, I guess you could argue he was protecting his reputation, but really, the security guard? Come on - nobody would have known if he'd just left it).

Would be very interesting to see how it all went in a 6th season. Seemed like Freamon was happy with his miniatures, his pension and his hot ex-stripper, but McNulty could go any direction. And the Greek issue (among others) was left unresolved.

Btw in the interview on the S3 DVDs, the creators said they were very interested in doing a show based around the education system. The schools season of the Wire was excellent - wonder if they're going to follow it up with a whole show?

Mr Corkhill - I love The Wire and am fully aware of Jimmys name - it was an attempt at humour but it obviously withered and died in the thin cold atmosphere chez Corkhill (did you have a brother or two ? Jimmy and Billy ?)
anyway about is strictly speaking spelt about and not abt also you appear to have missed out two letters from the word yourself - I am assuming this is humour and inded have howled with the hilarity of it..anyway Mr Stephen (spell checker extradonaire of Liverpool - blimey you are one of them off tvs famous brookside !) how about suggestions for The Wire 6.

Thanks Mr Gribben - I fully agree about the evil of Marlo...and also agree an education based series of a similar nature would be fascinating (my guess is you may be in education yourself?) I work in NHS and enjoy - in a silly way - the parallel corruption of poisonous management spending tax payers money on I.T. and outside private consultants while cutting resources and fiddling the figures on the clinical front-line. While in the clinic everyday I work with the abused, drugged and damaged - if only there were an English writer who would approach this area in the same morally complex and multiple layered way The Wire has in Baltimore...cheers.

I know Season 6 starts with Bubbles waking up out of a fever dream of withdrawal....seasons 4 and 5 had all been a dream.....then we get to re-write it so that Omar's death isn't so random, abrupt and real to be bearable.

I agree with Scroamer - Michael (for it of he whom you spoke) is the next Omar. Interestingly the character has some sympathies with Michael of the Godfather - reluctantly taking the game on further. Series Six should be about the broadcast media. The only criticism I have of the brilliant series was that to look at the press per se was a little anachronistic. I know it was about the dying of the press, so surely it should continue to the moribund nature of the TV. By the way, has anyone read Homicide - Life on the Street? So many stories from the Wire are in there and were true, even the photocopier lie detector they also used in the TV series Homicide.

Yes I enjoyed Homocide, and thought it added to enjoying The Wire - have not got around The Corner yet, might be a bit too grim....