"The Wire" on HBO

just saying that inner city social workers are engaged w/ the streets, in a different way than cops yea definitely, but social workers are working w/ urban kids all the fucking time, any kid or adult who goes through "the system" for crimes (especially drug-related crimes) is probably gonna see a social worker at some point

when i represented some kid busted for dealing heroin he had a social worker and she seemed pretty plugged in. couple of social workers i know/worked with have seen some pretty dark shit. it's a little unfair to characterize them as wimpy, you have to have iron skin to handle that stuff on a day to day basis, especially since you're working personally with your clients and not killing them/throwing them in cages.

otm

i have a friend who's an art therapist at a halfwayhouse in east LA for girls coming out of juvie and man, the things she has to process...

it's not "all social workers"

it's one wimpy social worker

he doesn't represent all social workers you guys, it's not a characterization, it just works better for the story if he'a a little wimpy

i mean he's from a university right?

no i get that it was convenient to make him wimpy for the contrast w/ bunny, i'm just saying he was a cheaply written character. though it says a lot for the show that the poorly written characters stand out so obviously since all the other characters are so fleshed out and deep

also s4 has some REALLY great rawls moments, one of the best characters on the show imo, guy is captivating

Not to worry: Season Five would offer plenty of cheaply written characters.

yeah i love the shit out of rawls

The second season of OITNB shouts out a couple times to The Wire.

i really wish there was a youtube supercut of every time bodie spits

totally! same goes for daniels' "THIS IS BULLSHIT"

lol yes

I'd also like a supercut of Lance Reddick delivering dialogue from over his shoulder. Between this show and Fringe it's his signature move.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KVyRqloGmk&feature=kp

I'd also like a supercut of Lance Reddick delivering dialogue from over his shoulder. Between this show and Fringe it's his signature move.

lol I'm thinking he picked it up from Tyra Banks.

I'm noticing a lot more the way Reddick is sort of a meta version of the classic "IN MY OFFICE, NOW!" superior officer from every cop show ever. A lot of characters function that way especially in the PD -- setting up and thwarting your expectations of cop show archetypes (also e.g. McNulty as the rogue cop and Bunk as his sober partner who gets dragged into things).

Like in other shows he'd just represent *AUTHORITY* but in this show he's authority that has both selfish and selfless motives and is also hamstrung by even bigger *AUTHORITY*.

I don't know if I use the word sober to describe Bunk. Certainly more willing to tow the company line than McNulty.

Yeah maybe "hinged" is more what I mean.

feel like carcetti is so much more watchable in s4 because he has norman wilson around all the time:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/The_Wire_Norman_Wilson.jpg/250px-The_Wire_Norman_Wilson.jpg

http://hbowatch.com/the-wire-being-remastered-rebroadcast-in-hd-by-hbo/

Internet at my house has been down for a week and will be down another week and my wife is out of town helping her mom so I was like aggghhh my shows but then the Wire gold box I bought at a discount three years ago was like hi hello. So I'm 3 episodes into a rewatch. This'll only be my second time through. So fucking good. Love Bubs so goddamn much.

Heh, I just resumed my second rewatch -- started season 2 this last weekend.

And every single scene with Ziggy is still mega uncomfortable to watch.

Goddamn Zig.

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/the-wire/episodes/2/22/stray-rounds-04-1024.jpg

Looks like McNutty has a movie out soon.

McNutty has a new show out soon (The Affair on Showtime)!

i blocked so much of ziggy out of my mind xps

McNutty has a new show out soon (The Affair on Showtime)!

Doh right, that's the teaser I saw last night.

early buzz is super positive

Y'all should check out the Andre Royo (aka Bubbles) interview with Marc Maron at www.wtfpod.com

Really good conversation.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-in-hd/

At the last, I’m satisfied what while this new version of The Wire is not, in some specific ways, the film we first made, it has sufficient merit to exist as an alternate version. There are scenes that clearly improve in HD and in the widescreen format. But there are things that are not improved. And even with our best resizing, touchups and maneuver, there are some things that are simply not as good. That’s the inevitability: This new version, after all, exists in an aspect ratio that simply wasn’t intended or serviced by the filmmakers.

Still, being equally honest here, there can be no denying that an ever-greater portion of the television audience has HD widescreen televisions staring at them from across the living room, and that they feel notably oppressed if all of their entertainments do not advantage themselves of the new hardware. It vexes them in the same way that many with color television sets were long ago bothered by the anachronism of black-and-white films, even carefully conceived black-and-white films. For them, The Wire seems frustrating or inaccessible — even more so than we intended it. And, hey, we are always in it to tell people a story, first and foremost. If a new format brings a few more thirsty critters to the water’s edge, then so be it.

This time Wallace shoots first

Proposition Jabba finally shown as David Simon intended him to look

lol

Freamon can distinguish between nails and rivets from 3 feet

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/way?mbid=social_tumblr

This 16:9 transfer sounds like a disaster, but I haven't seen any of it yet. I'd prefer they just cleaned up a 4:3 version, but I guess even that's not really necessary for this show.

I just caught a bit of season 4 on HBOSG, which I don't get in HD so it's letterboxed. Didn't notice anything too bad with the framing.

This is a very cool interview:
http://www.avclub.com/article/jamie-hector-loving-wire-and-building-his-own-back-213516?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

Put in first episode of season 4 a few days back, it is still the pinnacle of the art form known as television. Am now on episode 6. Two things I notice due to recent other products of culture: 1) Serial. They do talk quite a lot about Leakin Park, Lester and Bunk go there to look for Lex, and Woodlawn is even mentioned in episode one. 2) Actress. I watched the doc with Brandy Burre, who plays Theresa D'Agostino. She explains that she was pregnant during season 4, and it's pretty imposible to not notice once you know. There's a running gag where she is always in those big ugly campaign sweaters, but in episode six, at the win celebration, she is in a smart black dress, and wow she's big.

she was pretty great on the show.

What doc?

Actress.

this show would be so much better if they kept the season 1 themesong throughout

I like the Neville Brothers version

this show would be so much better if they kept the season 1 themesong throughout

― pursuit of happiness (art), Monday, January 12, 2015 7:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i am not clear on why this would measurably improve anything but 4 minutes of each episode?

(assuming one agrees that the season 1 song is the best version, which i don't)