"The Wire" on HBO

Seems like they were mostly released from the quota after the first season or two when they became the lead Respectable Production for HBO.

idk I found p much every sex scene involving Tony (or one his henchmen) fucking to be gross and ugly rather than titillating but ymmv

They existed and were generally with incredibly attractive women - it's kind of a shifting goalposts to say "I thought they were gross so they don't count," because you could say the same of The Wire's sex scenes. It's not like either was staging True Blood-orgies or pretty people.

I was just saying I didn't find them titillating. I would argue that in every case the scenes served a dramatic or narrative function.

Rome taught me that landing strips were a Roman invention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoyq88niVEU

LOL

p much covers the show's aesthetic

haha

Just got through the whole thing and enjoyed 1st 4 seasons.
5 only seems to get any good when Lehane writes his episode.
Just seems hollow until then or something. Like they've got character sketches for people who've been better embodied earlier and are moving them around in an unconvincing story.
Sad, just seems so lacking beside other seasons.

I was thinking about this season 5 scene where McNulty confronts Templeton: https://youtu.be/i98zHfCZQO8

Kind of a dumb scene, isn't it? What does McNulty have to gain from this? He's safe as long as Templeton has to maintain the lie, but what if Templeton gets caught? Then he'd have no reason not to spill the beans on McNulty.

Maybe the point is that McNulty is being increasingly reckless, but it's played as though he's delivering a smackdown.

he's at the end of his rope at that point and i think he seriously does not give a fuck and thus goes with his impulse. this being mcnulty, he's ego-driven enough to think that it /is/ a complete smackdown.

so much lol @ that tautology supercut

Arh, nice! The way they vary the use of tautologies. Best. Show. Ever.

Best ever show ever.

Good show, nothing more.

it did what it did

the best stay the best

lol

show's influence lives on

http://qm-coorpration-channel.wikia.com/wiki/HBO_Slogans

October 1996–April 2009: "It's Not TV. It's HBO."[127]
2006–2009: "Get More" (slogan for the HBO website)
April 2009–present: "It's More Than You Imagined. It's HBO."
2010–2011: "This is HBO." (only used for IDs)
2011–2014: "It's HBO."

HBO is HBO.

doo do-doo, do-doo, do-doo-doo-doo-doo

Not quite sure what this image means but I like it:

http://i.imgur.com/DJbtn.jpg

Standard D&D Alignment chart, plus the impressively wacko step of imagining it as a noughts and crosses board for black v white.

british ppl don't call it tic tac toe?

wtf had not noticed the black v white thing o_O

but thanks for the info now it's googlable and I see there are lots of those charts https://www.google.dk/search?q=the+wire+d%26d+alignment&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Malorie Blackman reference?
http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-400/1087-1/CE6/F14/E5/%7BCE6F14E5-D390-4813-AB0C-E13D37698285%7DImg400.jpg

noughts and crosses

http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png

Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?

so dumb of people to change the historic name of tic-tac-toe to "noughts and crosses" two years ago

The different names of the game are more recent . The first print reference to "Noughts and crosses", the British name, appeared in 1864. In his novel "Can You Forgive Her", 1864, Anthony Trollope refers to a clerk playing "tit-tat-toe". The first print reference to a game called "tick-tack-toe" occurred in 1884, but referred to "a children's game played on a slate, consisting in trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored". "Tic-tac-toe" may also derive from "tick-tack", the name of an old version of backgammon first described in 1558. The U.S. renaming of Noughts and crosses as Tic-tac-toe occurred in the 20th century.[3]

I'm gonna go with the "tit" one.

clay davis otm

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt

Jeez the anglocentrism, it's called ''Kryds og bolle''

Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa andrew farrell just got really heated about tic tac toe!!!

whoa andrew farrell just got really heated about tic tac toe noughts and crosses!!!

Sorry for my countryman's continued impertinence, he meant , please don't get mad.

Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa andrew farrell just got really heated about tic tac toe!!!

― k3vin k., Tuesday, June 9, 2015 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name

the game be the game

Unless they're some smart-ass naughts.

callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name

Mr Currie if you're nasty.

Just rewatched the first episode. 2 things.

1. Don't know how I never noticed that Bubbles literally blows bubbles when he shoots up.

2. It's kinda implausible how nobody else in BPD (especially in narcotics) had any idea whatsoever about the Barksdale crew, but McNulty did and was familiar with Stringer Bell and the others.

Eh, I kind of feel that the show's view is that what makes a good cop is that details niggle at you. Also that there aren't a lot of good cops.

It does sorta ring false, compared to the rest of the story. The cops learn much more about the street in later seasons. Like, when Bunk tries to free Omar in season four, all the detectives know that he never kills citizens. But that's what tv-shows are like, they sorta fall into place over time. Wire is more fully formed than most, but there are still small weird things.

Nick Sobotka is Liev Schreiber's brother!

Yeah I was kinda shocked when I learned that the same guy played Porn Stache on Orange is the New Black

Sydnor makes an appearance on OITNB too.

i was at a convenience store buying a water over the weekend and frank sobotka was in front of me. his jeans looked brand new.

Hadn't noticed that same actor thing with Subotka(?) but am noticing it a lot across other series I'm watching.
Just saw a guy from Longmire stop Tony Soprano for speeding for instance.

&more topically since its the same source material as The Wire, the actress playing Carmela Soprano played a sergeant in Homicide.