"The Wire" on HBO

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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 (eleven 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?’”

Moodles, Monday, 8 July 2013 17:30 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, the one cop who WON'T hit anyone is mcnulty; in many ways, he's the model police officer!

S5 really isn't as bad as its rep suggests.

Simon H., Monday, 8 July 2013 19:36 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

Ruff ruff!

Jeff, Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link

XL

not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link

who is that??

k3vin k., Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link

the cartoon dog?

not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link

Lisa Frank?

Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:42 (eleven years ago) link

:(

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link

aw

YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 August 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link

there are a lot of sick people out there

Number None, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link

Can’t believe they shopped it out. :.(

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...
two months pass...

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

one month passes...

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

My wife got pulled in after I watched S1 which forced an immediate rewatch. By the time we got done with S4 she was ready to bail because she was so heartbroken.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link

Treme is slower and more melodramatic than The Wire, but Clarke Peters plays one of the more lovable characters, so that might fill the Lester-sized hole in your heart.

nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link

thanks for the tip. I just don't know what to do without him peering over his granny-specs.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link

Currently on s2e7 of my 3rd go round. They killed D again :(

make flowers on me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link

I think on balance s4 was the best and most fully realized season.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

lol @ cutty declining a flyer on election day: "nah man i can't vote" "conviction?" "yeah" "felony?" "MOVE ON, man!"

difficult listening hour, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link

Oh man, this is going to be streaming on Amazon Prime soon. Think I'll finally get around to Season 5.

how's life, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link

Season 5 is underrated imo

Kadeem Hardson (rip van wanko), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link

I need to revisit 4 and 5. I have both on DVD, but haven't gotten around to watching them again since the first time.

nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link

I read this thread along with watching the wire recently and managed to buffer my expectations for the 5th season to the degree that I enjoyed it quite a bit. There is much that is good about it, serial killer stuff aside... and even that didn't bug me because it illustrated such prime McNulty assholism.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link

just started rewatching and had forgotten how inept and dumb prez starts out as

purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link

Prez was a superb example of the way this show creates characters. To think of him at the beginning of the show, as you describe, to the end, his last appearance ("I think I won't see you again... for a while") is one of the highlights of the series.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link

yeah prez has such a great redemption; he goes from such a punchable turd to almost my favorite dude on the show

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link

yup. by the time he's telling the kids not to cooperate with the police - totally different person.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link

Prez was a superb example of the way this show creates characters.

yea definitely. characters like poot or bodie that i didn't give a shit about in the beginning (or was even mildly annoyed by) i ended up really loving and caring about, seeing the characters develop and grow over a few seasons

marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link

lol waht even Poot? Boadie is an obvious turnaround, but I never really got a sense of character development from Poot, probably because he ended up becoming a tertiary character.

Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link

yea i think b/c poot was able to get out of the game? working a job at foot locker while all this other shit was going down kind of endeared me to him, made me feel relieved for him

marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link

been a long time since i've watched the show, so maybe in my head that development was more significant than i thought. but seeing characters get deeper and deeper into some shit and then seeing others escape it, even if it wasn't a heroic escape, seemed significant

marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link

"so maybe in my head that development was more less significant than i thought."

marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link

That job should've been Duquan's. >=(

Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link

right!

marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link


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