Originally Posted by
jaymar88
Last episode I saw was when the cop adopted that one punk ass kid who got beat down in the juvie hall.
he was on the porch and saw that one dude bumpin while passing by
i think in season 5 daivd simon (who also wrote Homicide: Life on the Street) is going to have these kids grow up and go at each other.
I took this wikipedia
i think it sums up the show
Simon described the second season as "a meditation on the death of work and the betrayal of the American working class... It is a deliberate argument that unencumbered capitalism is not a substitute for social policy; that on its own, without a social compact, raw capitalism is destined to serve the few at the expense of the many."He added that season 3 "reflects on the nature of reform and reformers, and whether there is any possibility that political processes, long calcified, can mitigate against the forces currently arrayed against individuals." The third season is also an allegory that draws explicit parallels between the War in Iraq and the national drug prohibition, which in Simon's view has failed in its aims and become a war against America's underclass.
Writer Ed Burns, who worked as a public school teacher after having retired from the Baltimore police force, has called education the theme of the fourth season. Rather than solely focusing on the school system, the fourth season looks at schools as a porous part of the community that are affected by problems outside of their boundaries. Burns states that education comes from many sources other than schools and that children can be educated by other means, including contact with the drug dealers they work for. Burns and Simon see the theme as an opportunity to look at how individuals end up like the show's criminal characters, and to dramatize the theory that hard work is not always justly rewarded.