Homicide: Life on the Street: classic or the best show ever created?

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I didn't know that. I haven't seen the episode where Pembleton fights with his wife...yet.

So do they EVER explain why Bo and Bolander get suspended for drunken behaviour and then NEVER come back??

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And on Pembleton...I enjoyed the scenes where he was suspended and you saw him at home in an apron desperately trying to cook for his wife. Domesticated!

I am also about 85% certain that I will be getting the Homicide book for christmas and maybe...just maybe...one of The Shield box sets, finally.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Only in passing. Bolander opts for early retirement and Beau...you do know what happens to Felton, don't you?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Errrr, no probably not. Don't say! It's "Beau" not "Bo"? Well, I guess I'd never seen it written down.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's when Meldrick fights with his wife, when Brody comes over for dinner...Teddy Pendergrass plays a role. In the fight, not in the episode.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Do we like Brody?

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Bo is on Days of our Lives, Beau is on Homicide.

I guess they deal with the final fate of Beau Felton in one of the later seasons, with the "younger, sexier" cast.

I like Brody.
Have you seen the one where they watch Brody's documentary? A lot of that is lifted straight from the book. A lot of the first season is too. It's pretty cool the way the characters started out as pretty straight takes on the people in the book and then by the end they were all really different. Good writing or something, I guess.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you seen the one where they watch Brody's documentary?

No!

One of my favorite episodes is still that one in the first season where they spend the whole night in the station and it's hot and there's wall-to-wall music.

Some of the music is a bit weird, though. Belly playing while Pembleton and Bayliss go smashing down doors and looking for suspects?

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that one! Where Frank won't even loosen his tie and he's drinking coffee and Gee wants to kill him. And the kid who had Adina Watson library book. Oh yeah. Fuck Christmas, I'm staying home and watching all my tapes. Which are unlabeled.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Adina Watson, do they ever solve it in like, the last episode or something?

And WHAT is an "Araber"? Is it a Baltimore thing?

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it might be a Baltimore thing. It's someone who sells produce--usually apples--from a horse & cart. (the produce is stored in the cart, not that horse, that would be gross)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Brody == David Simon?

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Max Perlich

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

sort of. loosely. Same way that Giardello is really the Gary D'Addario (the real-life Balto PD Lt. who frequently cameoed as the commander of the QRT (SWAT) unit.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You know who never fails to crack me up?

http://members.aol.com/hlots98/barnfather.jpg

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What is Ned Beatty best known for? Deliverance?

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The actor's name: Clayton LaBoeuf
How cool is that?

xpost

And Superman I & II

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'd like to go to Baltimore. A distant cousin of me owns a coffee shop there, I think.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

of mine

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, despite the fact that it comes across as full of stupid killers, drug dealers, crooked and/or lazy cops, and pretty-boy jerks who live on boats, Homicide paints a pretty sweet picture of Baltimore.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

John Waters and Barry Levinson's other work add to that impression.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Which Homicide book, Adam? The David Simon one, the sweet, presumably OOP episode guide or is there a new one?

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a total sucker for "city as a character" narratives (see also: Mordecai Richler, and, uh, Batman)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The David Simon book.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

God, Clayton LaBeouf's character was a dick.

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

He wasn't as bad as, oh crap, the guy from the other shift who later became captain. What's his name?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The fat, white guy? Roger something or other...

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

GAFFNEY

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That's right!

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I am only a few episodes into his tenure as captain.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish it was still on CourtTV, I can't afford all these goddamn DVDs.

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

NETFLIX

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I cna't afford that either!

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, did you know that Ami Brabson (or something close to that) who played Pembleton's wife is actually Andre Braugher's real wife (or was at the time)?

Yup. And I've met her, she came to a knitting meetup in L1v1ngst0n, NJ.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My god, rosemary

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I know he wasn't born in Canada. But he was actually living in Toronto during Homicide. His sister (who still lives there) told me that he coached his daughter's basketball team and would jet back and forth between Balto and T.O.

I actually ran into him in the photography section of the Chapters on Bloor street, near Avenue Rd! I looked over and said, "holy crap, that looks like Meldrick!", and then realized it was. He nodded and went back to whatever book he was looking at.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

=:0

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

He would nod. That's just like Lewis. I can see it now.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Rosemary and Sean are my new heroes.

So the difference between Gaffney and Barnfather is that Gaffney is just a dick, but Barnfather was always trying to balance being a cop with the politics of his office.
The mayor, he was a dick too. Remember when he left Pembleton out dry on the Congressman investigation. Fuck. He lost my vote. No, he was the commissioner wasn't he?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I just spoke to someone from Baltimore on the phone!

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Barnfather is just a machine that says no to things.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know what one of my favourite moments was? When Munch ran into Gee at the laudromat. And Gee was wearing his headband from Alien! (did you know that Yaphet Kotto was offered the Lando role originally, but he didn't want to by typecast as the black guy from space)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Max Perlich
No, I meant whether the Brody character was really modeled after David Simon.

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think so; or, maybe that was partially the intention originally, but it seems to me that perlich basically created all the elements of the character. I don't think I liked brody very much, he seemed very superfluous (although the documentary episode basically makes him ok).

I forgot about what happens to beau until just now!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I will always remember Max Perlich for his role in Drugstore Cowboy.

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

And Angel's guide in Buffy Season Two!

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the fun facts from The Homicide episode guide was that Max Perlich was actually arrested for assualt while he was in H:LOTS.

― C0L1N B, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Clark Johnson alluded to that in the commentary. It was a hangun-related incident that involved a parking space!

― Dial Rat For Terror (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I hadn't even started to go into the commentary, just re-watching the episodes (I caught them on the first run when I was about 16, so even more things I'm appreciating now that I didn't catch back then).

I got to the episode where Luther Mahoney is first introduced (at the end of Season 4) and it's really interesting to really see Kellerman's character at that point. I think that was one of my favourite character arc in any TV show, so it'll be fun going through that in the next few weeks (just got Season 5 for my birthday).

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I just spoke to someone from Baltimore on the phone!

I LIVE IN BALTIMORE. WORSHIP ME

― contribute, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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