What's your favorite season of The Wire?

[Syder]

It will forever and always be Season 4.

 

[nuggetgamer52]

Season 4 was masterclass
If I had to rank them..
S4
S2
S1
S3
S5

 

[Luxorek]

Hard choice as it's been a while since I last watched the Wire. Like seven years while.

I remember Season 1 blew my mind back then. It opened my eyes to the inner workings of police and city politics, but also to the life of gangs and people who get caught in between. Season 2 was a slight dissapointment since it moved away from that and featured more of criminal aspects of Baltimore port terminal. Then again I'm Polish so it will always gets props from me for showing the life of Polish-Americans. I grew to respect Pryzbylewski, symphatize with Sobotka and loathe Valczek.

Season 3 and 4 I barely remember. Was it the Hamsterdam and Marlo stuff? Never watched the fifth season.

I sincerely hope Baltimore is nothing like it was shown in that show now though. Because it seemed like a genuinely awful place.

 

[Dan]

I really need to watch this again.

 

[Yasuke]

Season 4 is a work of art - every damn episode killed me.

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[Lulu]

3 easily.

 

[MikeOfAllTrades]

Season 2 gave us Frank Sobotka, so that one.

 

[Deleted member 13037]

Probably 4 since it was my introduction to the show. Had no idea what I was missing (literally) but it turned out to be a good entry point.

 

[StrangeRoboMemory]

4th season is absolutely the best, by far.

 

[Arta]

Every annual rewatch for me it jumps between 3 and 4. 3 has the conclusion of characters and a way of life we've followed since season one.
4 is just a masterpiece.

 

[RDreamer]

Just finished watching the show for the first time a few weeks ago.

My feelings on ranks:

4 = 2 > 1 > 5 > 3