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I think most people's issue with season 2 is: - It has few likable bad guys - ziggy is annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoying and a lot of people don't want to watch a 1
by grogenaut 6y ago
I think most people's issue with season 2 is:
- It has few likable bad guys
- ziggy is annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoying and a lot of people don't want to watch a 12 episode train wreck.
- it's totally different than season 1
3 has the most epic plot swing, but I know people who really found hamsterdam unbelievable.
4 is quite tight, but it's about schools, maybe it didn't jive with you. I thought it was great.
5 has issues because it was about too new of a phenomenon (tried to pull in the NYT's journalist making up stories which had happened a year before). The rest of the stories backing the seasons were about well digested topics they could be quite sage on. I actually really like season 5.
Also the wrap up to the series (the outtro) is amazing end to a series IMHO.
- tptacek 6y agoI mean, Kasey has a framed letter from David Simon apologizing for the killing of Ziggy's duck, so I'm guessing he'll disagree with you about (2). Season 5 is a mess.
- leetcrew 6y agothe greeks make up for how annoying ziggy is. "did he have hands? did he have a face? yes? then it wasn't us. idiot." fucking brutal. it's interesting that, aside from certain politicians, the greeks are the only people that really "win" in the show.
- tptacek 6y agoAnd they aren't even Greek!
- pimeys 6y agoI found Ziggy a great character and important part of the series when watching the series for the second (or third) time. I can find similarities between him and D'Angelo: both of them do not really fit the frame they've born into. Both of them try to get out from that frame. The whole season 2 is about how people turn into criminals and why. This time it happens to white working class men and this is one of the reasons I find the second season essential.