"The Wire" on HBO

There's a Clay Davis in nearly every little, backwoods town.

Boss Hog, pretty much.

Some casting news on David Simon's new project.
http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-3-10-new-oscar-nominee-joins-hbo-s-treme
Finding it kind of hard to visualize how this show will work at the moment, the concept seems quite nebulous

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?

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)

Best way to watch wire is three-four eps at a time tho. I stand by dvd

OTM. I don't know how I would have handled having to wait a WHOLE WEEK for a new episode.

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.

Yeah, it was a weekly show during the HBO original run.

> It's mon-fri, 11:20pm

that would be too easy:

Mon 23:20 The Target
Tue 23:20 The Detail
Wed 23:20 The Buys
Thu 23:20 Old Cases
Fri 23:35 The Pager

With the iPlayer, isn't it now basically on whenever you want though? Just start a day late.

I'm like 80% certain I played craps with Marlo in Shreveport this weekend. Is he in the new David Simon project?

did u get shot? if no, prolly not marlo.

did it have hands? did it have a head?

this seems better, so far, I think:

WH ----??!!

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'.

that kind of challops will get you a SB, son

I'm not saying it's a GOOD challop, just a special one.

just started re-watching this. <3

Am going to start watching this again this week - excited!

friend of mine the other day telling me how shes watching it for the 1st time - so jealous - already done 1-4 x2

I've only seen like 4 episodes so it kind of is like the first time for me.

yeah i might need to start over

still think the opening scene is G.O.A.T American Drama

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

snot boogie

btw 2/3rd seasons of big love are pretty great

Pinefox is autistic, right?

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 9:38 PM

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.

I'm like 80% certain I played craps with Marlo in Shreveport this weekend. Is he in the new David Simon project?

Nope.

http://media.sheknows.com/articles/Cagney-And-Lacey.jpg
cagney: 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?

i got to the bit where the female witness changed her testimony before i fell asleep...

The backlash has started in earnest, guy in the pub at the weekend was giving it, "The Shield is much better anyway"

11pm loooool; seinfeld and larry sanders all over again

wd never recommend someone watch the wire anyway

the shield being better than the wire isn't such an inscrutable challops. the wire really soured its reputation with season 5

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

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.

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.

I'm just about to start season 7; I heard (nrq) it was great?

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.

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, 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

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

^^ 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?)

1st season of weeds was really hit or miss and its all been downhill from there. imo the appeal is the cast which is pretty uniformly terrific but they really cant save the terrible terrible writing

i couldnt get into breaking bad

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, March 31, 2009 11:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gotta admit i dropped this as a challop the other week, just coz some dude was all like i MUST watch the wire and... argh by now. just want a moratorium on it, and will try to maintain a dignified silence during the next few months with it on every night. i think the whole 'phenomenon' is an index of the blogification of the papers more than anything. one british paper in particular has published something about 'the wire' pretty much every day for at least a year.

iirc people liked 'the sopranos' just as much, but the years when it was a really big deal were just before the internets went really total supernova. hard to date that shit (2003–05?) and this is getting a bit HRO anyway.

just want 2 be left alone now.

what is this mysterious paper that can't be named

the Guardian having an exhaustive plot summary of episodes of the last series the morning after they aired in the US or whatever was well crap. I never understood the point of it.

i think the whole 'phenomenon' is an index of the blogification of the papers more than anything

Sub-Marcello at best.

Everyday it seems I am more and more glad I don't read the Guardian

ok matt, why do you think the wire is more saturation-covered than was 'the sopranos'?

there is a phenomenon out there, for sure, of people feeling they simply MUST see 'the wire', and also one of people complaining about the pressure.

and maybe that existed a little bit with older series, but imo to nothing like the same extent.

i reckon it's because of THE BLOGS.