[ SECRET POST #2744 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2744 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[slr2moons]

Wise choice, OP. I'm a little over halfway through the final season, and it's painful to watch. Not in that agonizingly good way, either. I'm quite disappointed. If things aren't improved by the end of the final ep, I'm going to try to overlook this season, personally.

To be fair, I do like a few things. Not all the characters are acting like idiots. A couple have even improved. And according to Wiki, the newspaper room scenes are extremely accurate to what happens in newspaper rooms IRL. It gives an interesting glimpse into that high-pressure career.

[liz_marcs]

As someone who used to be a newspaper reporter, I can confirm that the newspaper storyline in season five is so true to life that I had flashbacks. Hell, at one newspaper where I worked, I even had the plagiarist/fantasist co-worker that no one could prove was making shit up (he was found out after I left that particular paper and was fired). And this was a mid-size newspaper and not a huge state-level newspaper like the Baltimore Sun.

The newspaper portion of season five is the reason why I can't completely pretend season five doesn't exist the way other people do. It's also the season I have a hardest time bringing myself to re-watch because the newspaper storyline just makes me so angry.

[slr2moons]

Ooh, thanks for the confirmation on the newspaper scenes' accuracy. How very interesting that the show's writers got it so right! I know *I* wouldn't do well in that type of work environment, you have my respect! :D

Now I want to re-watch all the newspaper scenes from the start of the season, to fully appreciate them. I'm sure I missed something, since for most of the first half I was in denial about everything else going on with the characters. Argh.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - They really ought to get it right, the show creator was on the Baltimore Sun staff for twelve years. I wouldn't be surprised if he's using material directly from his own work experience!

[liz_marcs]

David Simon says on the DVD commentaries for season five that a lot of the scenes were directly lifted from his time near the end of his employment at the Baltimore Sun.

In fact, he wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets while working as the crime beat reporter for the Sun. When the Sun decided to buy him out in lieu of laying him off, Simon took the buyout and went to work as a writer on Homicide: Life on the Streets, the television series that was based on his book.

The rest is history.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I thought the last season was horrible. Wish I hadn't watched it at all.