Famous Last Words

THE PITHY SIGN-OFFS THAT STAY WITH US, FROM SCREEN AND PAGE

By ANDRE PAINE

“The extended montage shows who’s up and who’s down ” “Let’s go home” THE WIRE (2008) Some shows end with a bang, others with a whimper. After five compelling and often bleak seasons, The Wire’s finale got it right. As a feature-length conclusion to one of the most acclaimed TV shows of all time, the closing episode had to be something special. Creator David Simon’s masterstroke was an end sequence that felt like a separate mini-series compressed into five minutes. As disgraced cop and boozy philanderer Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) contemplates the Baltimore skyline, a montage reveals the fates of characters you’ve lived with over 60 episodes. Simon created a series that heralded a new Golden Age of television. A former newspaper reporter, his drama had the revelatory impact of…

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