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The Wire Season 4
The Wire Season 4 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.6/10. 13 episodes on JioHotstar from 10 September 2006.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 4 is the show at its most morally serious and its most personally devastating. Four boys in a Baltimore middle school - Michael, Dukie, Randy, Namond - become proxies for every failure the series has been cataloguing: policing, the drug trade, city politics, now education. The school scenes have the density and compassion of the best social realism in any medium; the kids are written and performed without sentimentality and without cruelty. Carcetti wins the mayoralty; the political machine immediately begins to compromise him. The Marlo storyline advances with a coldness that is almost unbearable. Critics who placed this season among the greatest single seasons of any drama were not overstating it. RT at 100%; the show had become a reference point for what television could do.
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The Room
“The schools season is The Wire's most emotionally devastating achievement - four children against a system that was never built to save them.”
Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)
Season Over Season
The show's emotional summit: the systemic argument fully expressed through four specific children and what the system does to them.