n e way the best part about mcnulty looking at the newspaper which none of u grasped is that he doesn't pay for it. he makes the guy hold the box open for him and if you listen closely you'll hear the guy say "cheap motherfucker!" as he walks away
― am0n, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
lol people like mcnulty are the reason the sun's circulation is going down the tubes!
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
tru. also the world wide webs
― am0n, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
freamon does whatever is EFFECTIVE, that's why he's the man
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah cool lester smooth is awesome.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
you'll hear the guy say "cheap motherfucker!" as he walks away
This was some of the funniest shit from this episode. Hungover, untucked, three-day-old shirt McNulty, cheaping a newspaper. Hilarious.
― B.L.A.M., Monday, 21 January 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked him riding the bus to the crime scene even better. (Was that Ep 2?)
― Oilyrags, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that was great
― am0n, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
uh yeah it's hilarious (and i laughed) but am i the only one who thinks these HILARIOUS MCNULTY HIJINKS are actually lame easy-out gags that avoid any deeper characterisation? where the fuck is beadie? or mcnulty's kids? as if he could be continuing down this road without any slapback - and as if he's in the same place emotionally as s1 where beadie getting enraged (or, as in s05e01, remaining there for him) wouldn't matter to him.
this whole episode was so hamfisted. ok, "cool lester smooth" - but that kind of 2-dimensionality is so boring to me. as if he'd have no reservations about this retarded plan. god.
i hold the Wire to a higher standard than fucking law and order or whatever. ha-larious mcnulty and wise-cool lester and badass omar do not something altogether exceptional make.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
shit's hilarious this season. it's borderline satire.
mcnulty missing a story in the paper is no more ridiculous than the somewhat predictable thread from season 4 which saw randy's name get out on the street as soon as herc needed some leverage (saw that coming from a mile away). the serial killer thing is no more nuts than hamsterdam. actually, far LESS nuts. the newspaper stuff is pretty accurate from what i have heard. HQ in chicago just canned the l.a. times editor (third one in four years or something) because he refused to cut $4 million off the budget. one story i read sounded a lot like the editor's speech.
― omar little, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i think this big emphasis on how "realistic" everything about this show is has always been sort of misplaced
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
where the fuck is beadie? or mcnulty's kids? as if he could be continuing down this road without any slapback
she was in a scene or two already, but yeah, could stand to be in there more (hopefully without a boilerplate been caught cheatin' confrontation). but goddamn you're hopping up and down a lot about these first 2 or 3 episodes, if The Wire has taught me nothing else it's that a lot of strands can seem to go nowhere or make no sense before coming together beautifully at the end of a season.
(xpost Tracer Hand OTM, there's a lot of big-d Dramatics in this show and plenty of contrivances, always has been)
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not concerned about realism, more consistency. Like, Hamsterdam and McNutty drinking and Herc being a massive fuck-up and getting some kid almost killed - different seasons! Not all piled together fighting for time.
Plus Saintly Editor and evil Editor-in-Chief going at it. (nb: the newspaper doesn't bother me - Burrell and co. have always been black-hat villains w/ no redeeming facets)
― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
at this point I can't even tell if there are people who actually think his name is "McNutty" or what
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
as if he could be continuing down this road without any slapback
as if he'd have no reservations about this retarded plan.
Face it gramophone, we can rationalize any wah-wah you drop! ^_^
― Leee, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Burrell an unredeemable villain? wtf.
I mean you could say that more about Rawls and even that's a stretch at times.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
The guy who plays the managing editor (I guess - not the old white dude w/ journalism dean buddy) is really good, actually. You can see where he's stuck in between the other two - trying to do a good job, but not an awards whore/lackey or willing to rock the boat too much.
― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah Clark Johnson is awesome so far, every season has at least 1 really great addition to the cast and he's it this time.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm mostly concerned about finding out who rawls was talking to in that gay bar in season 3 o_O
― omar little, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
argh see i think milo is talking about the MANAGING editor, not the old dude - we need to find out these guys' names
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
city editor: Clark J managing editor: curly hair (Jewfro?) editor-in-chief: old white dude
― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
aha, hbo.com to the rescue
City Editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow Executive Editor James C. Whiting III
nice of 'em to tack on 'the Third' for that guy
― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
strangely, the hbo website says klebanow "has a weakness for attractive young female reporters with questionable writing skills" .. ?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
can someone explain to me what exactly's going on with marlo, the greeks, prop joe's money, and the antilles? i thought marlo was going to the greeks to cut prop joe out of the action, but it's prop joe who's helping him come up with "clean" money? huh?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
This was alluded to in I think the very first scene at the Sun in episode 1, w/ the dudes outside bullshitting and having a smoke.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Does Prop Joe know why Marlo's asking for clean cash? The young'un could be sticking it to the fat man by getting him to tie his own noose.
― Leee, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand, Monday, January 21, 2008 9:31 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^^^ this needs to be said again and again
― max, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
for the record, i don't give much of a shit about realism. what i admired in the wire was all the greyness, complexity and intelligence of its characters, even spread across their disparate personalities.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Like, Hamsterdam and McNutty drinking and Herc being a massive fuck-up and getting some kid almost killed - different seasons! Not all piled together fighting for time.
thats what i'm saying, i really think hbo's 10 episode cutback might be to blame for this
― am0n, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
they talk about Klebanow's perv streak during one of the bull sessions on the smoking dock
― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
has every episode had an exchange between Alma and S. Glass about the Sun being a good paper vs. nuh-uh I wanna for the Times dammit?
― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
if not already posted, streaming episodes here
http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/The_Wire.html
― am0n, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/newsletters/wirebmore/thewire_bmore.jpg
i'm going to this tomorrow, hopefully will be able to afford to bring home some kind of cool memorabilia.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
pretty sure i saw sonja sohn getting out of the elevator i was about to get into this weekend.
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
sean the wire is chock full of intelligent people doing dumb things! i agree that there's more of it this season so far, but that's fine by me
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Fresh Air interview with Michael K Williams (Omar) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18299087
― dave 2¼, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
-- omar little, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:39 PM (Monday, January 21, 2008 12:39 PM) Bookmark Link
YESSSS this has been killing me!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
some gay guy?
i was expecting his implied homosexuality to resurface at another point that season but it never did.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
stop with all the innuendo, guys, Jess didn't even move to Baltimore until later.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
kinda sad that the show has more exposure than ever, but the weakest start to a season. Hope new watchers aren't going "the fuck is with this serial killer bullshit?!" and not giving it a chance.
― milo z, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Well if new viewers come from a cops/robbers procedural, the serial killer plot is going to be pretty standard convention, i.e. they won't know any better.
― Leee, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
lol Alex
― am0n, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously; what are they going to think - "well it's ok - but it's no Nash Bridges."
even if omar turns out to be marlo's long lost brother, separated at birth - and episode 8 is done entirely as a musical it will still be 1000000000x better than any of the other garbage time cop shown polluting the airwaves!
xpost
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
meta: One of the cops (the dude with the earlier homeless case) was reading 'Generation Kill' when McNulty was talking to him. (My stepbrother wrote that book. HBO series comes out in September, produced & screenwritten by Burns/Simon..)
― dave 2¼, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
dudes im worried about this season. the serial killer thing do not like.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
here's what i think they should do. marlo and omar run into each other down tropical way. it's super-tense but then who do they run into but the detectives of the western, who are ALSO down there on vacation!!! then they all team up and go after clay davis, who is running a smuggling operation down there. mcnulty and marlo have to team up! eventually they learn how to work together and even earn some grudging respect for each other. and at the end of the season they have a big party at prop joe's carribbean villa. with some lovely ladies ;) last shot, mcnulty drinking rum, looking at the bottle and saying, "i could get used to this stuff." (maybe him and bunk open a bar on the beach after it's all over)
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
._.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
and bubbles sings a song with the band!
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
do not read the spoiler thread, slocki. u will b sad.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link