"The Wire" on HBO

yeah, kellerman is kind of interesting. my initial thought was that he was brought onto the show as a pretty face to boost ratings or whatever but then he becomes so unlikable as the series progresses...

the actor that plays him is good too. menacing at the right moments.

weird to me to hear giancarlo esposito described as gus from breaking bad, coz he seems such a staple of american indie films down the years - spike lee, jarmusch etc. - and u see him pop up a lot elsewhere.

this was dope btw http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109842/

damn forgot about her

― am0n, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, could be getting my timelines for character intros/exits mixed up too.

weird to me to hear giancarlo esposito described as gus from breaking bad, coz he seems such a staple of american indie films down the years - spike lee, jarmusch etc. - and u see him pop up a lot elsewhere.

Yeah, I think I prob. first saw him as Buggin' Out in Do the Right Thing.

Yeah he's been around forever, love that dude.

He's been in a lot of short-run tv cop shows, but there was one he was in that I loved...I looked through IMDB but I can't figure out what it was. Maybe New York Undercover?

I stopped watching Homicide after Season 1 -- there were some great scenes and plots, but there was also the network-y corny plots involving a guy dressed as Santa and a parentless baby. Was that Jake Gyllenhaal's first real acting role?

Yeah, I think I prob. first saw him as Buggin' Out in Do the Right Thing.

― Pink Friday XIII (jaymc), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:52 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i knew the connection w/ this dude & homicide but never gus for some reason

One of my favorite episodes was when Melissa Leo goes home to Maine ?)...Massachussets (?)...somewhere where there are crabs, anyway, sorry my geography gets hazy on that lol...and her Dad and brothers are all crab fishers...she was such a great character, I really enjoyed seeing a woman on screen not really 'made up' at all, just hanging out with guys and not trying to kiss them and all that...she was so real for TV at that time, I dug it.

Gee could I ramble any more? Make of that what you will.

she goes to the eastern shore of maryland

but there was also the network-y corny plots involving a guy dressed as Santa and a parentless baby. Was that Jake Gyllenhaal's first real acting role?

― sarahel, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

this episode is the only one that really strikes me as blrggroghru
but mostly bcuz of the role of the mother of the baby ... the acting is super-theatrical & script was worse

so some dude's issue with the line is because Bubs drops the first syllable of "between"?

thin line 'tween between and 'tween

the thing with Melissa Leo's character -- I dunno -- it definitely was a stage in TV trying to create strong female characters, though she struck me as a prettier, less realistic Christine Cagney

I'll buy that. Hard to get much realer than Cagney & Lacey, as far as women in cop shows go.

i wonder how they say "ambulance" in baltimore

i think it was largely because of her hair, which didn't seem to fit in w/her line of work -- kinda like Naymond's ponytail

I loved her look, the baggy pants, always standing with her hands on her hips.

hey gr80 - the word "douchebag is pronounced the same.

seriously dude - take your tropical bro crepe act to another thread

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/01/bealefeld_the_wire_a_smear_tha.html

wait what xp

so some dude's issue with the line is because Bubs drops the first syllable of "between"?

― sarahel, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:06 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

partly but not entire -- it's just what tips it over from tolerably pretentious to ugh

yeah http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/xgllya_2.gif

as if bealefeld doesn't have bigger problems than some tv show
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-friendly-fire-shooting-20110110,0,4108960.story

so some dude's issue with the line is because Bubs drops the first syllable of "between"?

― sarahel, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:06 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i totally dont get what his point was either but i figured we were ~letting it go~

we want this thread to be the other way is what we're saying

good job letting it go, deej

i just want this thread to be discussion of The Wire; felt like maybe we'd derailed a bit much on the subject of Homicide

thnx bro ^__^

i agree w/ sarahel

2 thread cops with clashing personalities, forced to be partners. what hijinks will ensue?

I'm getting too old for this shit.

wait who are the thread cops?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH3JQjcweM

nevermind. u_u

the wire sucks: discus

my favorite wire character is Larvell Jones

But back to Brianna -- I really liked the fact that she was developed as a character, because in so many scenes like with Bodie's grandma, Lex's mom, and Andre's wife, you see that "The Game" also involves women that might not be direct players, but you know that it has a real effect on their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvK0IZVpbOE

but then this fucker pops up and its all downhill from there

aw, <3 m perlich, now I wanna watch Homicide

when I realised who Gus in Breaking Bad was played by, I youtubed the Buggin' Out sneakers scene from Do The Right Thing to show my housemate, and she was like "but wtf that guy's black!"

but then this fucker pops up and its all downhill from there

aw, <3 m perlich, now I wanna watch Homicide

when I realised who Gus in Breaking Bad was played by, I youtubed the Buggin' Out sneakers scene from Do The Right Thing to show my housemate, and she was like "but wtf that guy's black!"

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

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:53 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah I remember this being pretty heavily signposted during the show

i wonder how they say "ambulance" in baltimore

― gr8080, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this post just screams "tropical bro crepe"

http://www.moviesandlife.net/images/max-cady-cape-fear1.jpg

no reason for your mans to panic
you dont want to see no ambalances

roxy - who are your favorite characters from The Wire?

Nunya Biznazz