"The Wire" on HBO

also i feel bored whenever carcetti is on the screen. can't remember if that changed in s4 when he becomes mayor

De'Londa Brice (Namond's mom) gotta be the worst

i put this on the "your terrible ideas" thread already but:

i want to photoshop frank sobotka on the cover of the new swans album:

http://i.imgur.com/Ildk6Gg.png http://i.imgur.com/eAuwKwn.jpg

lol

ziggy and that fuckin duck.
and burning money.
frank and ziggy got the son/father they deserved imo

At least Nicky got out and grew a mustache.

also rewatching s3 i forgot how funny it is when snoop's bragging about shooting stringer, "pullin money out of his pockets and shit cryin like a lil baby"

dont forget ziggy's penis

never forget

I know it's the odd duck (har har) of the bunch, but I have a real soft spot for S2. The dock workers were a lovable group of characters, even that fuck up Ziggy. Kind of wished they figured more into the plot later on, but maybe it's for the best they didn't.

I mean, there's kind of an air in S3 of bringing back all the characters and plots people loved in S1 and burying any reference to the dock workers as if the whole season were a horrible mistake. A shame, really.

oh yeah i like S2 a lot but its prob my least fave

We see the dock workers later, though. Nicky heckling Carcetti, and Johnny Fifty in the homeless encampment in season 5.

I thought for sure Nicky was going to figure back into the story sometime later but it never really happened

we do see them, but they don't really figure into the plot in a significant way

I saw season 2 first so it's kinda my favourite.

De'Londa Brice (Namond's mom) gotta be the worst

this x1000000

how abt the cop who goes on a triple date w/ herc and carver then gets shot doing a hand-to-hand the next day

D'Angelo's mom was pretty bad

Dozerman? xp

Brianna Barksdale >>>>> De'Londa Brice

d'angelo's mom did some fucked up things but i ultimately found her to be sympathetic especially in season 3

theresa d'agostino is just insufferably arrogant

i mean, so are many of the characters on this show but she is just awful. other smug assholes are fun to watch, e.g. rawls

i love the docks season unreservedly. Fucking great stuff.

ziggy is good

most of the dock workers' lives are kind of ruined after s2 tho—but you do see the greeks again in 4 and 5, no?

The reason why most of the dock-stuff didn't feature that largely into the overall plot is that it took place at the docks... Most of the series is the story of the inner city, and the docks were just too far away. The pieces that did fit, like Beadie Russel and the smuggling operation, did feature pretty significantly.

wish there was a season 6 that focused on the hispanic/latino community, that would've been rad

another cool thing about season two is that it illuminates a culture that's a little more obscure than the means streets/inner city schools/a newspaper

Season 2 has Omar in court therefore it is the greatest of them all

hard to argue with that

that's a little more obscure

blue collar white guys? not that obscure. but i guess if you mean stevedores then yea

wish there was a season 6 that focused on the hispanic/latino community, that would've been rad

― marcos, Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was Simon's wish, but he felt like they didn't know enough about it to make it happen in time.

s7 all about a doping scandal in the ravens locker room

s8 is about beef between the As & Orioles, ripped from Today's Headlines

trying to remember, was it was basically:
1 - corners
2 - docks
3 - back to the corners
4 - school/mayoral race
5 - newspaper?

because if so makes sense that the docks disappear after their focus season, the school and newspaper plotlines are also only foregrounded for one-season arcs too, right?

I think David Simon saw it a bit like:
1 - Drugs/Police
2 - Work
3 - Reform
4 - Education
5 - Information

Season three is a bit tough to nail down, thematically, what with Hamsterdam and all that.

yeah, there are lots of reasons why it makes sense that they didn't return to the dock workers, I just would've enjoyed seeing them again.

brio and frederick both right

except maybe i'd say s1 was about the housing projects and s3 going back to the corners after losing the towers/pit the barksdales had fought so hard to get/hold on to

i feel like the layers of reform/education in 3rd and 4th seasons were still present when the s5 layer of media/information was the focus

yeah - that's true... and school - or at least kids' daily lives - was a big part of the narrative throughout

I think S4 was my favorite. I just loved those kids.

Same here - would have much preferred to stay with them more through Season 5 in place of all that fake serial killer shit.

really if they took out the serial killer bullshit and maybe stretched out the season for a couple more episodes s5 would've been just fine.

pretty much, yeah, I even think the fake serial killer plotline could have worked in way scaled-back form. But it just felt like it went on and on and pushed things off the rails to me.

s4 is good but i never ever get the urge to watch it again, whereas 1-3 i can sit thru quite happily. Then again Prop Joe is my favourite character.

s4 prob too downbeat for my tastes, although it should be.

I read this thread as I was watching the show (earlier this year) so I was ready for S5 to be much much worse than it was

s5 isnt that bad, i think it maybe would have been better if David Simon didn't have such a bone to pick w/ his journalism past? idk