"The Wire" on HBO

also is snoop actually a gay character? you just never hear about their lives iirc

or did you mean keema

also is snoop actually a gay character? you just never hear about their lives iirc

― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:37 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seeing as her character is based on the real person, i would say yeah?

it's mainly that he says "'tween" instead of "between" that makes it overly precious for me. also lol @ hoos having to lay down the law with you.

― some dude, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a thin line between anthony hamilton drums and wire quotes

isn't felicia pearson the actress gay too? i thought i remembered her sayin in an interview somewhere that she was proud to play a gay character or something like that

there was at least one line where Snoop referenced her sexuality pretty clearly (Bunk: "I'm thinking about pussy" Snoop: "Yeah, me too"), which is certainly more concrete than the speculation on Chris. anyway the number of gay characters on The Wire is great (and kinda funny considering how LOGO will run shows that had like one supporting character who had a same-sex relationship in 2 episodes), I just think having 2 of the most cold-blooded killers on the show be gay is enough, 3 would be verging on silly.

lesson: all gay people are cold blooded killers

I was just saying I liked how different he was, because he was an ambigious character but in a human way. Not saying he is gay. It is a nice offset to the evil robot Marlo whose only sexing looked like a case of ghetto NOTGAYS and you know, she ended up shot. So with Marlo it is because he is stone, Chris seems to keep so much from us to protect his crew and his own sanity and its quite charming how subtly it is pulled off.

lesson: all gay people are cold blooded killers

― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my bro did throw a knife at me one time

snoop explicitly says she's gay more than once on the show

chris has a legit family that he has to say bye to when he's on the run towards the end of season 5

watch yr dvds

So with Marlo it is because he is stone, Chris seems to keep so much from us to protect his crew and his own sanity and its quite charming how subtly it is pulled off.

Meh. I don't think the writers bothered with Chris much other than a useful cold blooded killer, it's just the dude who plays him is so normal looking that it makes the whole thing more sinister.

this thread is making me consider watching the whole series front to back for a third go; i bought the box set almost a year ago and it's still in the plastic. Woulda tried it already except gf says "she's not ready to commit" to that experience.

dealbreaker imo

she already went through it once! no judgments.

It’s been great observing my gf see this show for the first time. I could tell she was not too into for the first few eps, then I notice her coming around, Kima gets shot and she’s all “OMG this show is crazy put on the next disc damn it”

the first episode is not good imo but it improves really fast

Chris - wikipedia has something about a domestic sexual abuse backstory for him, hence him going to town on michael's dad

wikipedia has that huh

thasswhatIsaid, wiseguy

this thread the last few days is probablythe most i've even thought about The Wire since it went off the air, kind of been getting some space away from it after being so intensely into it for a few years. maybe that way i'll enjoy re-watching it all more at some point when i finally buy the DVDs or get them for Xmas or something.

rewatching it has been great (we're up through season 3). nice to not be constantly be playing catch up with who's who and how everything connects and kind of enjoy the overall structure.

been re-watching homicide this winter. man if u think wire's season 5 is bad...

haha i came to homicide after the wire and was like 'really? this is it?' - guess it must've been a lot more of a 'thing' in its time

i loved Homicide at the time and have been meaning to revisit it, but yeah i'm nervous about it having aged poorly

homicide is... okay? it's better than the corner.

i actually think the first 3 or 4 seasons are solid and have some gr8 writing/acting, for a network show at least. but then this fucker pops up and its all downhill from there

http://www.classictvhits.com/cast/1870.jpg

iirc homicide is entertaining but it really has the fontana touch - super-catholic, earnestly liberal in a somewhat dated feeling way - the acting's prob better than The Wire, all things told

it's more of a network show is all.

i only saw the first 3 seasons, come to think of it

Homicide's dialogue in the first few seasons is right on...or at least I remember it being that way. Haven't rewatched in a while.

yeah i was gonna say, it's pleasing to watch in the way that a really good cop show is

And yeah, I don't think I saw it all the way through, I stoppped after maybe S3?

andre braugher as pembleton is p unfuckwithable

It was sort of groundbreaking for its time but hasn't aged especially well. But there are great scenes and episodes.

+ yaphet kotto

andre braugher as pembleton is p unfuckwithable

― am0n, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'black & blue' episode where he convinces the kid who didnt shoot someone that hes guilty in the interrogation room is amazing. I DID THIS FOR YOU GEE. best TV ever

season one fyi

YES YOU DID
YOU KILLED HIM

YOU PUT THE BULLET OUT THERE

when homicide's good, it's as good as any other cop drama you'd care to name -- but it also had some horrible, horrible episodes. i haven't watched the whole series tho.

been re-watching homicide this winter. man if u think wire's season 5 is bad...

― am0n, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:15 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i am only two discs into season one and think it's classic/best show ever created. better than the wire by far. i'll have to check the book out.
― ghetty green (eman), Friday, August 5, 2005 12:16 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

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is that the whistler? xpost

/buffy geek

been re-watching homicide this winter. man if u think wire's season 5 is bad...

― am0n, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:15 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i am only two discs into season one and think it's classic/best show ever created. better than the wire by far. i'll have to check the book out.
― ghetty green (eman), Friday, August 5, 2005 12:16 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

― Princess TamTam, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:29 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he said he was talking about the later seasons

I wasn't talking to you. Just assume that I'm never talking to you.

how are you unbanned exactly

http://www.pyngo.com/content/images/pyngo/images/screen_question2.jpg

Interesting question *slowly raises a mirror to your face*

i loved homicide but i was kinda always comparing it to nypd blue, which seemed to be a lot more humorless and backwards-thinking w/r/t style and topic (beyond america getting its long desired fleeting glimpse of the butt of dennis franz.) but it did get lame with the arrival of the jon seda seasons.

i always thought the initial core bunch of detectives was pretty awesome. melissa leo was always kinda underrated, i liked her character just because she was so awkward and strange and original.