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Po-lice did Bernard a favor. So long season 3. You were kickass. Got DAMN this show is good. Better than GoT or Sopranos or any other big show you want to put it up against. I’ll always love Deadw

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Safe to say this is one of the better pieces of mail I've ever received. In response to a comment I made on Twitter. 

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Isiah Whitlock Jr.  Ever seen Cedar Rapids?  He was hilarious in it.

 

He has a brief role in 25th Hour (very solid flick) as one of the detectives that busts our boy Norton.  Even lets loose a sheeeeeeeittt.

 

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ok... two seasons down. it's good... really good. excellent writing, feels very authentic and the acting is stellar. reminiscent of NYPD Blue in the feel of it, which i think makes sense given the overlapping seasons. 

Bunk is my favorite, followed by Omar... but i'm worried Omar won't have a good ending 😕 that's the game, baby... don't spoil me!

i appreciated how they went from the black/projects-centric storyline to the white working class plot...great job intertwining the stories... and showing how they all feed up to corruption🤨 i've only watched one episode of S3 so far... but from that i'm guessing we're going to get a clearer picture of that slice of the story.

man...Baltimore bureau of tourism must have hated this show lol. pretty bleak. 

having said all that... it's an excellent cop show... but it's still a cop show. i don't find anything groundbreaking, it's full of pretty standard cop-show archetypes. Omar is the obvious exception... what a great character! also there are so many Oz alum! takes me back to that TV time lol. 

anyways... guess i'm saying it's really good but i'm not sure it's that much better than other HBO product... it's certainly not the most original.

 

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ok... two seasons down. it's good... really good. excellent writing, feels very authentic and the acting is stellar. reminiscent of NYPD Blue in the feel of it, which i think makes sense given the overlapping seasons. 

Bunk is my favorite, followed by Omar... but i'm worried Omar won't have a good ending 😕 that's the game, baby... don't spoil me!

i appreciated how they went from the black/projects-centric storyline to the white working class plot...great job intertwining the stories... and showing how they all feed up to corruption🤨 i've only watched one episode of S3 so far... but from that i'm guessing we're going to get a clearer picture of that slice of the story.

man...Baltimore bureau of tourism must have hated this show lol. pretty bleak. 

having said all that... it's an excellent cop show... but it's still a cop show. i don't find anything groundbreaking, it's full of pretty standard cop-show archetypes. Omar is the obvious exception... what a great character! also there are so many Oz alum! takes me back to that TV time lol. 

anyways... guess i'm saying it's really good but i'm not sure it's that much better than other HBO product... it's certainly not the most original.

 

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having said all that... it's an excellent cop show... but it's still a cop show. i don't find anything groundbreaking, it's full of pretty standard cop-show archetypes. Omar is the obvious exception... what a great character! also there are so many Oz alum! takes me back to that TV time lol. 

anyways... guess i'm saying it's really good but i'm not sure it's that much better than other HBO product... it's certainly not the most original.

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i mean NYPD Blue debuted almost 10 years earlier, Hill Street Blues like 10 years before that...but okay 🙄

having said that, i acknowledge the reasonable comments to withhold judgement until i finish the whole series 😁 peeling back the various 'layers' that make up this bleak urban American landscape...i assume there's more of that to come.

 

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Consider whether this is a sociological drama, as opposed to character-driven.

That is, are the main characters really the city and institutions of Bawlmer, Maryland?

You've only gotten a small taste of that in the shift from the projects to the docks, but bear it in mind.

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having said all that... it's an excellent cop show... but it's still a cop show. i don't find anything groundbreaking, it's full of pretty standard cop-show archetypes. Omar is the obvious exception... what a great character! also there are so many Oz alum! takes me back to that TV time lol. 

How often, on average, would you say you check your phone during an episode?

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How often, on average, would you say you check your phone during an episode?

none? weird question lol 🤨 shows like this, it's usually plugged in another room. 

 

now... watching Yellowstone? that's mostly background noise 😆

 

ETA i also turn CC on so i don't miss any of the nuances in dialogue, especially the slang. for The Wire. not Yellowstone. heh.

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My fav show of all time, it's time for me to watch again as it's been a couple of years. Definitely a show you can't be on your phone for half the time and expect to pick up on everything.

Also, Nick's girlfriend in season 2 were the most unexpected and amazing set of tits that have ever graced a tv screen. I want a behind the scenes on how those got displayed. Did she offer them up for the scene? How does that even work, was it in her contract? I need some details.

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Also, Nick's girlfriend in season 2 were the most unexpected and amazing set of tits that have ever graced a tv screen. I want a behind the scenes on how those got displayed. Did she offer them up for the scene? How does that even work, was it in her contract? I need some details

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ok... two seasons down. it's good... really good. excellent writing, feels very authentic and the acting is stellar. reminiscent of NYPD Blue in the feel of it, which i think makes sense given the overlapping seasons. 

Bunk is my favorite, followed by Omar... but i'm worried Omar won't have a good ending 😕 that's the game, baby... don't spoil me!

i appreciated how they went from the black/projects-centric storyline to the white working class plot...great job intertwining the stories... and showing how they all feed up to corruption🤨 i've only watched one episode of S3 so far... but from that i'm guessing we're going to get a clearer picture of that slice of the story.

man...Baltimore bureau of tourism must have hated this show lol. pretty bleak. 

having said all that... it's an excellent cop show... but it's still a cop show. i don't find anything groundbreaking, it's full of pretty standard cop-show archetypes. Omar is the obvious exception... what a great character! also there are so many Oz alum! takes me back to that TV time lol. 

anyways... guess i'm saying it's really good but i'm not sure it's that much better than other HBO product... it's certainly not the most original.

 

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i mean NYPD Blue debuted almost 10 years earlier, Hill Street Blues like 10 years before that...but okay 🙄

having said that, i acknowledge the reasonable comments to withhold judgement until i finish the whole series 😁 peeling back the various 'layers' that make up this bleak urban American landscape...i assume there's more of that to come.

 

 

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I think after you have seen more of it, you will begin to see it as a bigger thing than a cop show with some interesting characters.

I think being "warned" that season 2 represents a shift, instead of having to cope with the "wtf," maybe slows down that realization for some.

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i mean NYPD Blue debuted almost 10 years earlier, Hill Street Blues like 10 years before that...but okay
having said that, i acknowledge the reasonable comments to withhold judgement until i finish the whole series peeling back the various 'layers' that make up this bleak urban American landscape...i assume there's more of that to come.
 

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I think after you have seen more of it, you will begin to see it as a bigger thing than a cop show with some interesting characters.

I think being "warned" that season 2 represents a shift, instead of having to cope with the "wtf," maybe slows down that realization for some.

Yep, the Wire is a story about the modern American city, with the drug war as the friction point underpinning the narrative (think I’m actually stealing David Simon’s words). What makes it so great is that the characters and storylines all represent broader social arguments but are nonetheless compelling in their own right. Where Treme failed, IMO. 

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just wrapped up S3... final two episodes were 😲. Avon and Stringer both turning on each other was some dramatic shit!

season as a whole was pretty gripping... i'm a government/political nerd anyway, so i really dug it. so frustrating and ragey at times! fatalistic... everything so broken and corrupt, how can it ever be fixed?? even the cops and politicians rage against the machine.

i am annoyed by the pronunciation of Carcetti's name lol... really seems like the second 'c' should have a 'ch' sound. but i'm not Italian or from Bawl-more so what do i know 😜

it is more than a cop show, more than even a cop/criminal show as stated above. Bawl-more is the primary character, as a stand-in for...i dunno, the corrosion of the American dream, the rot hidden by the shininess of unchecked capitalism... something quite expansive. and uniquely American. Stringer was a pretty tragic character in that regard; Avon amazed at his 'crib overlooking the harbor'; Cutty struggling to start something positive; 'the game' on literally every level...shades of Michael Corleone 'it's not personal, it's just business'.

i'm sure i will go back and read this thread and others have expounded more eloquently (i haven't read anything beyond this page so i won't be spoiled).

it is still full of a number of traditional cop show character tropes, i don't see why everybody got their panties in such a twist over that observation after just two seasons 😋 i appreciated the 'natural police' exposition throughout this season, an interesting way to think of law enforcement.

blink and you miss Rawls in the gay bar 😆 

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