I think I like and hate Poliakoff in equal measure.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
pack a bowl for the final 10 eps
what kind of pipe are you smoking, literally
― dexpresso (Z S), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
If you haven't seen Party Down yet...
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Among the reasons I would love Prime Suspect, max suspiciously forgot to mention that everyone smokes constantly all the way through it like it's their collective full-time job.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
not enough love for veronica mars itt
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
First 2 seasons are great.
― Ya Bish Bosch (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
when i made my list above i forgot that i had just recently watched NYC 22, a cancelled show (only made it through 13 episodes, all on netflix instant now) that is probably as close in spirit to 'the wire' as you could get if you made a network procedural that was focused on cops only. created by richard price, focused on one harlem precinct and the surrounding neighborhood, basically it tracks rookies as they get trained in 'community policing'. one of the rookies is an ex-journalist / auteur stand-in who switches careers in middle age, so he kind of acts as an in-show point of audience contact, and kind of as an attractor for the kind of david simony stuff you might expect to be in the show's dna somewhere. it has to be, world-building-wise and just visually, one of the most place-grounded shows i've seen in forever.
― j., Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
RIP big man
http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/01/r-i-p-the-wire-star-robert-prop-joe-chew/
― Number None, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
heaven needed a hustla
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ey0FDh444VU
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 January 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
hey j., did you ever catch up w/the newsroom? i was really enjoying yr take on it in the thread & didn't hear anymore after you said you couldn't get hold of it anymore
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Friday, 18 January 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
aw man RIP, he couldn't have been that old
― fiscal cliff paul (k3vin k.), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
(nope, sorry schlump, no access.)
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyewqmAKHto
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
oh those numbers from the ripped screeners that leaked really took me back
― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.hulu.com/braquo
'the french wire'
(haven't seen, can't vouch)
― j., Wednesday, 13 March 2013 06:12 (eleven years ago) link
that seems like extremely high praise. it's good tv but from what little i've seen here and there it felt more like the shield maybe. it was created by olivier marchal, who's directed a few movies in the same vein, think cops and the bleak lives they live or something to that effect (if you've seen mr-73 or 36, quai des orfèvres for example).
― Jibe, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
<3 The Shield <3
― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah the shield is great. Braquo is similar in that its cops crossing a line and going too far and of course it doesn't end too well for them.
― Jibe, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://davidsimon.com/gus-triandos-1930-2013/
― j., Thursday, 18 April 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, first comment
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 April 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
This is a pretty cool behind the scenes article about how the actors got familiar with Baltimore:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/david_simon_s_the_wire_a_behind_the_scenes_look_at_mcnulty_kima_bunk_and.html
― Moodles, Monday, 8 July 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
Still, Bubbles may have been more than a cliché, but it was a difficult character to play day after day. “My character’s head space was not a pleasant one,” Royo said. “I’d look at Idris? Nothing but bitches outside his trailer. Dom West? Nothing but bitches. Sonja? Dudes and bitches. Me? I’d have junkies out there. They fell in love with Bubbles. I’d go into my trailer and clean my shit off and come out and they’d look at me like, ‘You’re not one of us. Fuck you.’ And then when I had the Bubbles garb back on, it’d be, ‘Hey! What’s up? Welcome back!’ That’s a head trip, man. That shit eats at you.”By the third season, he said, “I was drinking. I was depressed. I’d look at scripts like, ‘What am I doing today? Getting high or pushing that fucking cart?’”
By the third season, he said, “I was drinking. I was depressed. I’d look at scripts like, ‘What am I doing today? Getting high or pushing that fucking cart?’”
― Moodles, Monday, 8 July 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-01-27/lifestyle/35438800_1_probation-officers-adults-sonja-sohn
on sohn's post-show community outreach
― j., Monday, 8 July 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
that bubbles quote, lol.
still feel like season 5 taints my memory of the show as not being as great it actually was.
― marcos, Monday, 8 July 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
i never got around to affording season 5 dvds so that has been working out ok for me so far
― j., Monday, 8 July 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
started rewatching for the first time in ages, I forgot how much of a shock it is when Kima, ostensibly the honorable, good cop out of all of them starts beating the shit out of one of the low-rise boys (Bodie?) when he punches a cop.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 8 July 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the one cop who WON'T hit anyone is mcnulty; in many ways, he's the model police officer!
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 July 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
S5 really isn't as bad as its rep suggests.
― Simon H., Monday, 8 July 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it’s not as good and is perhaps a bit OTT, but still has so many great moments, and good to see the the decline of local newspapers, which I experienced at first-hand over 15ish years in UK local media, covered in such a great TV show.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 8 July 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
I rented and watched all 5 seasons as they came out and later got them all on DVD. Even though I've had the DVD sets for a long time, I still haven't yet re-watched seasons 4 or 5, while I've watched the first 3 seasons multiple times. Gotta make some time for them.
― Moodles, Monday, 8 July 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/8618bcd4a0be0a6c7e0231336aee0084/tumblr_mqzln8OQ0k1s683d8o1_500.png
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
Ruff ruff!
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link
XL
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
who is that??
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:12 (ten years ago) link
the cartoon dog?
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
Lisa Frank?
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:42 (ten years ago) link
Shopped :(http://24.media.tumblr.com/ef92e119edc51cb97ff3a220c39008e9/tumblr_mseiowp9tb1qaqw03o1_500.jpg
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Saturday, 31 August 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
aw
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 August 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
there are a lot of sick people out there
― Number None, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
Can’t believe they shopped it out. :.(
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire
― Divvy Bikes to Watch Out For (Eazy), Monday, 9 December 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
In retrospect I hate The Wire and wish I had never watched it.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 07:21 (ten years ago) link
hummmmm - why is that?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link
It ruined him for every other TV show including the new girl
― pro ana newsom (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 10:25 (ten years ago) link
I just finished this. I will miss Lester the most.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
then you should watch Treme
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
2 eps away from the end of S2.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Was thinking about it. I caught a couple of eps on a free HBO weekend and seemed worth a look.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link