Eye Candy #370 - "The Wire Season 2"

The Wire Season 2:  An interesting contrast to Season 1: whereas Season 1 was fairly self-contained, wrapping up most of the salient threads so they didn't need any further closure, Season 2 is all about starting more and more threads and revisiting all the plot threads you thought were done, spinning bigger and bigger and bigger, while resolving very little (though we do have at least one major player from Season 1 exit Life's stage in Season 2). The detail from the first Season have all received their "rewards" for jobs well done, including postings to the Harbor Detail, the Evidence room, and various assorted other places. But the remnants of Avon Barksdale's organization are re-grouping, and there are new problems to tackle, like corruption on the Baltimore waterfront, such as smuggling, hijacking, sex trafficking, and murder. We get a lot this season on the ins, outs, and troubles of Baltimore longshoremen, as well as the local Greek mob. A dead Russian girl ends up floating in the harbor, and McNulty and Co. are back in action. I've grudgingly given this a 4, because it was inferior to Season 1. But I do want to see Season 3, based on what happened in Season 2. So I guess its mission was accomplished.