Jesus Christ, "The Wire" is good. Last night's episode (my backwater bullshit town doesn't get On Demand, so I'm resigned to waiting for Sunday nights) was another fuckin' masterpiece, launching the election plotline into the stratosphere. Watching Royce's collapse was cathartic as hell after all the bullshit he's pulled over the past couple of seasons. He's fucked with a capital FUCKED. Losing delegate Watson, fucking Burrell over, all but promising Commissioner to his lietenant, then watching the Lieutenant jumping right into Carcetti's ship. Then losing Delegate Watson, who's gonna jump about 4 points into Carcetti's lap right out of Royce's base. And then ... here come the bodies. Looks like, from the previews, that it's gonna be Randy that lets on that Marlo's been dumping all kinds of bodies in all kinds of abandoned houses. The timing is perfect for that to surface just prior to the primary.

Chris and Snoop approaching Michael - gotdamn, that's a rough spot to be in. The producers let on that they were crafting Season 4 as the makings of a gangsta, and they're doing a sublime job of showing the pressures that are being exerted on these kids. In the first episode, it looked like Michael was the least likely one to be taken into the life, with Namond pretty much already lost to the game. Now it looks like Michael's the one that's going gangsta, with Namond somewhere on the fence. Dookie's in rough shape (I'll have to review the earlier episodes to see for sure, but it seemed to me that the dude that gave Bubbles the beating was Dookie's dad, who we know's been selling Dookie's clothes, probably winding up in Bubbles' shopping carts.

The interaction between Prez and the kids was refreshing. After the madhouse that was his first few days, it's good to see them developing a rapport. Prez's reaction to the kid breaking into his car, brief as it was, was priceless. And then there's the dynamic of Bunny's research study that'll separate the Corner kids from the Stoop kids. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

And that's not even getting into the Marlo/Omar feud. Marlo's a stupid, vicious thug, but not so stupid that he can't eventually see sense in joining Prop Joe's co-op. The plan to set Omar up (get his shopkeep buddy to finger Omar for a murder that Chris was responsible for) so one of Marlo's boys can do him in prison isn't too bad, but with McNulty getting in on the investigation, it probably isn't gonna work. That, and the development of the bodies...

Damn. I think I have to watch the damn show again.