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Here's how you have to define the two "best" seasons:

Season 4 was the best season, in terms of writing, acting, pacing, stories, etc.
Season 2 was the most important season. It's what ties everything together. You just don't know it at the time.

And once you're done with the whole series, you'll have that wee-Bey "oh, snap!" look

AckDaQuick wrote:

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Here's how you have to define the two "best" seasons:

Season 4 was the best season, in terms of writing, acting, pacing, stories, etc.
Season 2 was the most important season. It's what ties everything together. You just don't know it at the time.

And once you're done with the whole series, you'll have that wee-Bey "oh, snap!" look

So besides the streets, why was season 2 the most important as far as education, media, politics, ect. as shown in the show??!??

That's all secondary to the overarching plot. The show kept hammering home how the rampant drug trade was dictating the lives and decisions of everyone, from families in the war zone, all the way to how government dealt with the problem.

Take the education story line for example: Drugs destroy families, and kids in those families are likely to drop out of school and run with the wrong crowd (Dukie becomes a junkie, Mike latches onto Chris and Snoop, Randy ends up in a group home, Naymond gets saved because daddy wised up in the joint). The point of the 4th season was to show that yes, there are a lack of resources in the public education system, but to blame the education system is a cop-out. They specifically showed the home lives of all those characters to essentially absolve the education system of its responsibility. You can't blame the public schools for Dukie becoming an addict. You blame the non-existent parents. Why? Drugs. And to completely understand it, you have to know where it all comes from. They establish it in Season 2, and they revisit it throughout the rest of the show. It's an unknown and unstoppable force, with major players in all sorts of positions, that no city government is equipped to handle.