The incorporation of the unions, the election and the Greeks are three things that made this show better than a good series, turned it into a portrayal of Baltimore as a whole, from the drugs to the socioeconomic issues to the political climate and how it all ties in. David Simon really made a masterpiece man
@@mikewest712 Nah they were a great juxtaposition. The union guys had jobs, families, and were in a position that a lot of the criminal characters would have loved to be in, but they still had to do illegal stuff to make ends meet because they had been neglected/abandoned by the system; and the packages they help smuggle drive the main conflicts of the show in the drug world.
@@autismisuncontrollable4925 Notice how Frank is wearing an orange safety vest, symbolizing the fact that he indeed works for the Union, it's the little details that make the Wire great
I found The Wire quite hard to get into at first. I didn't understand the hype. Slowly though while watching the first season I became invested. I had difficultly remembering all the different characters and telling them apart at first. So when it was time for Season 2, I was hugely confused with all the new characters again and I was invested in what was going on at the street level. I was disappointed in the change of focus. In the end Season 2 became one of my favourites, it has some of the best moments of the whole show.
From my first watch about 12 years ago, I saw the 1st season and enjoyed it. Then I started watching the 2nd and didn't get what was going on. I almost quit during the bar scene in the first episode where the dock workers are all drinking and singing. But as someone once said about The Wire, "If you give the show your time, it will reward you.". And holy carp it did with this season. After that, I learned to go into each new season with a clean slate.
Always felt Frank Sobotka had one of the most tragic arcs in the show, season 2 in of itself was a real gut wrench rollercoaster emotionwise. He may have been dirty in ways, messed up and had the wrong ideas and approaches in others, and wasted the use of being union leader towards aiding the dock workers. But he always had good and honest intentions for what he was trying, to make the docks a stable, busy growing and important place, to give his workers a chance to work a good honest job for stable money and living. Right intentions, wrong approaches. He was dirty mainly by association, but not malicious. And he had a sense of right and wrong inside.
@@bthaman1855 So what? Ziggy confessed to the murder. Case closed. This is a TV show, yo. This is what it is. There is no 'Frank should have blah blah blah'. The story was written to unfold as it did. Folks need to get a grip and remember that The Wire is fiction.
It's insulting to call The Wire a "TV show", its truth and ugly reality ‼ As President Obama rightly said its not a TV show but the greatest piece of art 🎨 ever produced in last few decades..
God that would be the life. Your the son of the Union boss of the docks, and you can do whatever you want without fear because your dad will never actually fire you. Even when you kill a Greek fence.
Crazy coz i worked the wharves here in Timaru, New Zealand and the one thing we lacked was, unity. Oh we had a union rep, not a shade on the real reps from 30 year back but our joint was full of back stabbers and liars.
i wish The sopranos and the wire had cameos of their character in each other shows . like frank sabodka accepting money from chris moltasanti to drive of some of that japanese technology, only to open up the can and have Phil leonardo come out talking about how he was in there for 20 years and didn’t say a peep.
