I will say, as someone watching the show for the first time, while I think season 1 is better overall, the last montage of the pier honestly got me pretty good. I'm also kind of taken aback at how much of a "bottle season" 2 is feeling like as I watch 3, very little of it feels connected, which honestly is disappointing. I knew that season 2 wasn't as well received due to going in a completely different direction but man this is very much a U-turn story wise if I've ever seen one, even if the end of season 2 was building up to going back to the Barksdale storyline. It's just disappointing not seeing characters like Beadie return, even if most them did sort of wrap up their arc by the end of 2.
Also obligatory McNulty image:
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