The Wire

[thepop 4409]

Just finished season 4. Not my favorite show but damn good. I see why it's highly praised.

[Incredulity 11643]

Finish up, wait 3 months and do it again.

it’s better the second time.

Edited April 1, 2018 by Incredulity

[Yesh 911]

So much better than CSI, Law and Order, etc if you want a police/crime show.

[Yesh 911]

Oh and sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

[Seger78 258]

16 minutes ago, thepop said:

Just finished season 4. Not my favorite show but damn good. I see why it's highly praised.

Omar in court is one of my all time favorite television moments 

[Seger78 258]

7 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Finish up, wait 3 months and do it again.

 

Ex-wife's ideal sex schedule

[TexArcher 37761]

Watched it for the first time last fall.  Great show.

P.S. What the fuck did I do?!

[Tom 2959]

14 minutes ago, Yesh said:

Oh and sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

 

[Parliament 14224]

 

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2652]

Best show ever 

[Goo Punch 4275]

Yeah, I’m gonna have to rewatch all of this again soon. Such a great show. 

[Ben Tobin 374]

Just finished S. 5 and my first run through.  Outstanding.

[Kringelbert Fishtybuns 943]

I poured some out for Snot Boogie last night. Poor slow bastard.

[SMUlawUTgrad 81]

Just finished my second rewatch. Still so great. Still very applicable which is very disheartening.


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[ConferenceRoom 6141]

Greatest of all time.

[NorthLoop 14180]

Listening to them explain text messages to eachother sure dates it but it still doesn't feel that long ago to me

[ERhine 1894]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0451498143/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522605254&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=all+the+pieces+matter+the+inside+story+of+the+wire

This is worth the read if you're a fan.

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

Watch this soon if you haven't.  Even 2-3 years ago it didn't seem so dated, but the flip phones and the lack of information due to no portable internet are starting to seem really antiquated.

 

[Rivers 80]

8 hours ago, crackamacgowski said:

Greatest of all time.

this

[Homercles 10205]

Omar in court is one of my all time favorite television moments 

Oh indeed

[BigBenBamboozle 1952]

One of my favorite scenes in the entire run was S4’s lunch between Bodie and McNulty.  Great microcosm for the show’s excellent nuance between cops and criminals. 

[UT Lawnghorn 758]

On 3/31/2018 at 8:42 PM, thepop said:

Just finished season 4. Not my favorite show but damn good. I see why it's highly praised.

On one hand I want to pos rep you for starting this thread. On the other, I want to neg you for saying it's not your favorite show.  I'm conflicted so I guess I'll just leave you with this.

[lateshow 1304]

On 3/31/2018 at 9:04 PM, TexArcher said:

Watched it for the first time last fall.  Great show.

P.S. What the fuck did I do?!

Fify

[Parliament 14224]

 

[thepop 4409]

5 hours ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

On one hand I want to pos rep you for starting this thread. On the other, I want to neg you for saying it's not your favorite show.  I'm conflicted so I guess I'll just leave you with this.

I don't usually care for crime shows

[ERhine 1894]

I don't usually care for crime shows

[TwiceHorn 31429]

Odd bit of trivia that I picked up on on my second run through, Lt. Mello (Bunny Colvin's right hand man in S3 and later Western District commander) is portrayed by the real Jay Landsman.

 

So this guy:

Is played by this guy:

[SpiralOut 1813]

S'all in the game though, right?

[TwiceHorn 31429]

Oh indeed.

[Celery Man 20929]

Odd bit of trivia that I picked up on on my second run through, Lt. Mello (Bunny Colvin's right hand man in S3 and later Western District commander) is portrayed by the real Jay Landsman.
 
So this guy:

Is played by this guy:

Or vice versa. I think that’s what you mean and now I’m having a funny.. wait which way to say that is correct, but the guy pictured in the police uniform (in his role as Bunny’s right hand guy) is in real life the homicide squad leader who is portrayed by the fat guy. Also his balmer accent is great.

Also, the dude who looks like Paul Mooney and is killed in the same scene where Omar jumps out the window is the real life inspiration for Marlo’s character.

Also Snoop is basically not acting. And Slim Charles is a musician in a DC based go go band.

[Goo Punch 4275]

I have a buddy who looks a helluva lot like Slim Charles. He’s 6’7” and everything, played ball at USC, but grew up in NYC. 

 

/cool starry bra 

[Gil Bang 25906]

I saw Snoop on a Blue Bloods rerun the other day.

[TwiceHorn 31429]

Possibly dumb question. Who did Michael kill at the end of S4? Was it supposed to be someone we knew? 

 

Earlier, when Marlo tells Chris to

 

whack Bodie

and suggests the pup,  Chris says he shouldn't do someone he knows. 

 

Found it on a Wire wiki, it was the guy that was abusing Bubbs.  Still don't know why he was on Marlo's shitlist.

Edited April 9, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[Parliament 14224]

Elba shoulda played Avon Barksdale and via versa. Wood Harris just doesn't have the gravitas to pull it off. All he does is squint and talk all badass.

[Kringelbert Fishtybuns 943]

Maybe, but Stringer was the more interesting character.  He played it superbly and I can't imagine anyone else playing it.  I guess they could have pulled a Hayley Mills and put two Elbas on the screen, but that would be a little weird. 

[Firemans4Horn 18033]

String was a much more important character to the story imo. And obviously Elba crushed it. 

[SimonBolivar 10957]

On 3/31/2018 at 8:59 PM, Yesh said:

So much better than CSI, Law and Order, etc if you want a police/crime show.

That's like saying that sex with a 10 is better than traveling to Kandahar to save $5 on a root canal.

[Sbbruin 21824]

I finished Season 1 a few months ago but haven't picked it back up while I'm watching all 7 seasons of GOT.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

3 hours ago, Celery Man said:

 

 

That dude who got killed in the flying Omar scene was married to Fran Boyd, who was the centerpiece of Simon's Wire forerunner The Corner, which was his own response to Homicide. The Corner focused on the McCulloughs, a drug-addled family living in West Baltimore. Fran had a bit part in The Wire too, as did her son DeAndre. (He was Brother Mouzon's incompetent bodyguard.) Dude who looked like Mooney died a few years back of natural causes, and DeAndre McCullough OD'd on hydro. 

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Or vice versa. I think that’s what you mean and now I’m having a funny.. wait which way to say that is correct, but the guy pictured in the police uniform (in his role as Bunny’s right hand guy) is in real life the homicide squad leader who is portrayed by the fat guy. Also his balmer accent is great.

Also, the dude who looks like Paul Mooney and is killed in the same scene where Omar jumps out the window is the real life inspiration for Marlo’s character.

Also Snoop is basically not acting. And Slim Charles is a musician in a DC based go go band.

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2018 by MaybeACoordinator

[TwiceHorn 31429]

Another bit of trivia, Colicchio, the high and tight, aggro street cop, is an actual LTC USMCR and has a degree in studio art from Vassar.

[BigOrange1 6432]

4 hours ago, Parliament said:

Elba shoulda played Avon Barksdale and via versa. Wood Harris just doesn't have the gravitas to pull it off. All he does is squint and talk all badass.

you are just full of horrible takes aren't you?

[Sleepygrad 1029]

4 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

String was a much more important character to the story imo. And obviously Elba crushed it. 

all of this

[WhatTheBuck 28771]

4 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

That dude who got killed in the flying Omar scene was married to Fran Boyd, who was the centerpiece of Simon's Wire forerunner The Corner, which was his own response to Homicide. The Corner focused on the McCulloughs, a drug-addled family living in West Baltimore. Fran had a bit part in The Wire too, as did her son DeAndre. (He was Brother Mouzon's incompetent bodyguard.) Dude who looked like Mooney died a few years back of natural causes, and DeAndre McCullough OD'd on hydro. 

 

Clarke Peters, who played Lester Freamon in The Wire (and Big Chief Albert Lambreaux in Treme), played a junkie in The Corner. Not just any junkie, the big junkie.

I read the book before I saw the mini-series. The book is so much better than the mini-series. The show was okay but you should definitely read the book. It has a lot more depth and detail. 

[Hook1997 5351]

Great show!!  It’s been a few years, it’s about time to watch it again.   Is it on amazon now?

Edited April 10, 2018 by Hook1997

[ERhine 1894]

Is it on amazon now?

Yes

[TwiceHorn 31429]

10 year anniversary of the end.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-st-wire-cast-20180413-story.html?outputType=amp

 

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180412-how-the-wire-became-the-greatest-tv-show-ever-made

[Homercles 10205]

My wife watches Empire, and holy shit there’s good ole Bubs (Andre Royo)! I loved reading about his ‘street oscar’ where a dude handed him a vial telling Andre he needs it more than he does.

Casting in that show was unbelievable.

[TwiceHorn 31429]

So, finished the second run through it.  As I think was noted at the old place, everything seems to change a little with subsequent viewing.  S5, man, really weak.  S2 may have been my favorite on this run.  I have always been a defender of S2.

 

I suppose everything will change again next time I watch.

[Mez2 4023]

i'm just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick

[Eastwood 4394]

On 4/9/2018 at 3:24 PM, Parliament said:

Elba shoulda played Avon Barksdale and via versa. Wood Harris just doesn't have the gravitas to pull it off. All he does is squint and talk all badass.

The whole run-up from the beginning to the end of Season 3 was to show how Avon's crew was truly being run by Stringer and Avon was just a name to rally it all behind. Avon was just a corner man at heart. Stringer was the true business man. It was casted exactly the way it needed to be.