Interesting article on dubbing The Wire into German:http://blog.babbel.com/the-words-should-roll-out-of-the-mouths-on-the-dubbing-of-the-wire-in-german/
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Interview, rather.
David Simon Blasts The New Baltimore Police Department Policy of Withholding The Names of Officers Who Use Deadly Force
― eman, Friday, 27 February 2009 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
another good DS article on the same topic in today's Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703591.html?hpid%253Dopinionsbox1
― SBarro (some dude), Monday, 2 March 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
THE WIRE COMES TO BBC2 THIS SPRING
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Thursday, 12 March 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
good luck uk
― goole, Thursday, 12 March 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/02/if-rappers-were-characters-from-the-wire
Has this been posted? It's surprisingly decent, tho McNulty was really really robbed.
― droling lapdogs (hmmmm), Friday, 13 March 2009 02:56 (fifteen years ago) link
real pleasure noticing that mcnulty and i were swigging from matching bottles of jameson tonight
― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a Clay Davis in nearly every little, backwoods town.
Boss Hog, pretty much.
― Eephin' Pageant (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Some casting news on David Simon's new project.http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-3-10-new-oscar-nominee-joins-hbo-s-tremeFinding it kind of hard to visualize how this show will work at the moment, the concept seems quite nebulous
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
So this starts on BBC2 tonight. You all been good boys and girls telling everyone you've ever met to tune in now it's not on FX at 3 in the morning or whatever?
― there's a big metaphor going on in which pussy is medicine (a hoy hoy), Monday, 30 March 2009 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i bought series 1 on dvd and then lent it to someone after only watching the first 5. that was before christmas...
(am tempted to buy the others as well rather than be a slave to nightly bbc2 showings. is only £15 a season after all)
― koogs, Monday, 30 March 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Best way to watch wire is three-four eps at a time tho. I stand by dvd
― swedes put dill on fields of salmon (fields of salmon), Monday, 30 March 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM. I don't know how I would have handled having to wait a WHOLE WEEK for a new episode.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It's mon-fri, 11:20pm, a bit too late really (projecting my life onto entire BBC2 viewers now), but I can't be bothered starting to concentrate on something at that time.
Was it on weekly when it was first shown (either HBO or FX)? - this seems like such a stupid question, I'm sorry. lol dvd boxsets.
― new drone spider (j.o.n.a), Monday, 30 March 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, it was a weekly show during the HBO original run.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
> It's mon-fri, 11:20pm
that would be too easy:
Mon 23:20 The TargetTue 23:20 The DetailWed 23:20 The BuysThu 23:20 Old CasesFri 23:35 The Pager
― koogs, Monday, 30 March 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
With the iPlayer, isn't it now basically on whenever you want though? Just start a day late.
― krakow, Monday, 30 March 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm like 80% certain I played craps with Marlo in Shreveport this weekend. Is he in the new David Simon project?
― too many misters not enough sisters (milo z), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
did u get shot? if no, prolly not marlo.
― continuous flow crustastunna (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
did it have hands? did it have a head?
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
this seems better, so far, I think:
― the pinefox, Monday, 30 March 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
WH ----??!!
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Cagney and Lacey being a better show than The Wire is a special kind of challops.Thanks for giving me a reason to hear the themesong again, tho'.
― continuous flow crustastunna (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
that kind of challops will get you a SB, son
― hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not saying it's a GOOD challop, just a special one.
― continuous flow crustastunna (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
just started re-watching this. <3
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Am going to start watching this again this week - excited!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
friend of mine the other day telling me how shes watching it for the 1st time - so jealous - already done 1-4 x2
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only seen like 4 episodes so it kind of is like the first time for me.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i might need to start over
still think the opening scene is G.O.A.T American Drama
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
like maybe it'll be boring and played at some point, but i bet countless theses/dissertations will use "you got to, man, this is america" as an epigraph or whatever for decades to come
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
snot boogie
btw 2/3rd seasons of big love are pretty great
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Pinefox is autistic, right?
-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 9:38 PM
― ¸„ø¤º°¨º¤ø „¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø ¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º „¸¨°º¤ (eman), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Half my weekly phone conversation with my mom now revolves around her talking about the Wire. Yesterday she was bitching about Ziggy and telling me what the Greeks are up to now.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope.
― Jouster, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://media.sheknows.com/articles/Cagney-And-Lacey.jpgcagney: You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off the culture of drugs… lacey: Just like you, man. cagney: Excuse me? What? lacey: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game though, right?
― velko, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i got to the bit where the female witness changed her testimony before i fell asleep...
― koogs, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
The backlash has started in earnest, guy in the pub at the weekend was giving it, "The Shield is much better anyway"
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
11pm loooool; seinfeld and larry sanders all over again
wd never recommend someone watch the wire anyway
― lo (cozwn), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the shield being better than the wire isn't such an inscrutable challops. the wire really soured its reputation with season 5
― lo (cozwn), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
also its fans in the media are the most disgusting savages etc obv
I don't think the shield is better than the wire but I can totally understand why some ppl wd
some of the scenes in the shield are as intense as any in the wire
character is just as strong, language is obv weaker in the shield but when was that ever gunna be an issue... plot iono, it's a tossup I think... shield has that horrible complexity going on too
― lo (cozwn), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I suspect that an awful lot of people just don't like being told something's good - esp. by the BBC or Channel 4 etc.
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, and as expected, it's not iplayable
> the wire really soured its reputation with season 5
and i'm having real trouble with the last series of the shield. is just washing over me. has for a while.
― koogs, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm just about to start season 7; I heard (nrq) it was great?
― lo (cozwn), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I had that problem with the last several seasons of the sheild until an event that I posted about months after it happened and still got spoilhammered for once I did. Suffice it to say - stick with it, ye shall have thine reward.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:50 AM
brings up a good point. the hype for it didn't really start here until somewhere between the 4th and 5th season airings
― ¸„ø¤º°¨º¤ø „¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø ¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º „¸¨°º¤ (eman), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like to see the shield in its entirety, a couple early episodes i caught were really good
also ppl should stop sleeping on this show
― ¸„ø¤º°¨º¤ø „¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø ¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º „¸¨°º¤ (eman), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ i just started s01 of that and it is awesome. (btw wtf happened to weeds? boring as shit now. or was the appeal of that always rly just mlp lookin' hot?)
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link