SPOILER ALERT: Usual rules: No giving the game away if you've gone further; don't spoil it for yourself if you are further behind.
Bloody hell, who here thought that Prop Joe wouldn't make it? Certainly not me. And I'd just been enjoying the story of his schooldays (as recommended by JoeDoone and Prospero13 last week).
Twenty-two bodies in the last series, Chris, Snoop and Marlo are back into their stride this series. They've bought Cheese. And he's given them his Uncle. But Omar wants Marlo. McNulty wants Marlo. Herc may yet even get them Marlo (has he the brains for it?). Lester, it turns out, wants Rawls.
The newsroom story arc is enjoyable in its own right - Gus and Twigg's old school and Templeton's Washington Post ambitions belittled - and I'm not quite sure where it's going. But it's all the better for that.
Clay is so far up shit creek that he doesn't even have the energy for a sheeeeeiiiiiit. Just one more for old times' sake please.
Carver has grown into proper pOlice. McNulty started this show in a bedsit. I think he's going to end it in one too. Kima wishes her life could go the other way.
To those of you naysaying last week that a) the McNulty storyline is unbelievable and b) that this series is not as good as 1/2/3/4 (delete where applicable), I say:
- I always had faith in the story writers, they've always done right by us before and tonight was a cracker.
- We don't know as much as we think we do, and one of the beauties of this show is the way that stories unravel in surprising ways.
- Enjoy it while it lasts - for it will soon be gone
And here is Paul MacInnes' review. This week he focuses on rats: Cheese, Burrell, Templeton and even, in a blast from the past, poor old foolish Ziggy. Over to you EnglishRed, jamie12, joedoone, Salgado, prospero13, Gormenaghast, Totus, foxtrotdelta, PauloT, saintsnowy, gimplord, darren73, lifelister etc etc etc....
