haha
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 29 May 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 May 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Friday, 29 May 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 29 May 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
so much lol @ that tautology supercut
― Nhex, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Arh, nice! The way they vary the use of tautologies. Best. Show. Ever.
― Frederik B, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Best ever show ever.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 31 May 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Good show, nothing more.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Sunday, 31 May 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
it did what it did
― got bent (mild cheezed off vibes) (s.clover), Sunday, 31 May 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
the best stay the best
― Frederik B, Sunday, 31 May 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
lol
― gr8080, Sunday, 31 May 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
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."
― j., Sunday, 31 May 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
HBO is HBO.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 10:38 (nine years ago) link
doo do-doo, do-doo, do-doo-doo-doo-doo
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Not quite sure what this image means but I like it:
http://i.imgur.com/DJbtn.jpg
― niels, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 07:28 (eight years ago) link
Standard D&D Alignment chart, plus the impressively wacko step of imagining it as a noughts and crosses board for black v white.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
british ppl don't call it tic tac toe?
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 09:05 (eight years ago) link
wtf had not noticed the black v white thing o_O
― niels, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
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
― niels, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 09:22 (eight years ago) link
Malorie Blackman reference?http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-400/1087-1/CE6/F14/E5/%7BCE6F14E5-D390-4813-AB0C-E13D37698285%7DImg400.jpg
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
noughts and crosses
http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
so dumb of people to change the historic name of tic-tac-toe to "noughts and crosses" two years ago
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
clay davis otm
― j., Tuesday, 9 June 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
Jeez the anglocentrism, it's called ''Kryds og bolle''
― niels, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
― 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, 9 June 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, June 9, 2015 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
the game be the game
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Unless they're some smart-ass naughts.
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
Mr Currie if you're nasty.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 07:19 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hikikomori Povich (tsrobodo), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Nick Sobotka is Liev Schreiber's brother!
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 27 June 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I was kinda shocked when I learned that the same guy played Porn Stache on Orange is the New Black
― Hell Books (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 June 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
Sydnor makes an appearance on OITNB too.
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Sunday, 28 June 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 June 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 June 2015 08:35 (eight years ago) link
&more topically since its the same source material as The Wire, the actress playing Carmela Soprano played a sergeant in Homicide.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 June 2015 08:38 (eight years ago) link
she also played a prison guard in Oz
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 June 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
falco was an officer's wife on homicide, not a cop herself
(the officer was the one who was blinded when shot, who crosetti listened to miles davis with)
― j., Sunday, 28 June 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
Yeah sorry think I got the 2 confused and I haven't actually seen Homicide yet to any degree. Just got hold of the first series. I was just looking through IMDB for other things cast members had been in yesterday and thought I'd seen her elsewhere. Had been thinking that the cast was probably studded with people I knew from other roles or at least had seen in bit parts.
I think a number of Wire people also turned up in Good Wife. Think at least KIma has been on there and think I saw a couple of others but that show seems to almost constantly have people well known from elsewhere cameoing.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 June 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
there is a thread for Wire Actors in other things fyi
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 June 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Off the top of my head, Good Wife cameos include Herc, Dee, Bodie, Chris P., Burrell, Kima, Carver.
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Monday, 29 June 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Monday, 29 June 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
worth its own thread? Cast looks interesting at least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj5Nt-HoBhw
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link