Wed, Oct 1
After finishing the final episode the other night I re-watched episode 1 and found lots of cool parallels I'd missed from just 1 viewing. The "nicely done" line used between McNulty and Stringer was particularly good.
Have season 2 on order from amazon and can't wait already :)
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