Homicide: Life on the Street: classic or the best show ever created?

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The previous one was better, 'cause it had Skoda as the bad guy! Also, Curtis and Falsone talking about their kids??? SHOOT ME NOW.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 8 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck, is it gonna air again?

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 8 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

the very first H:LOTS/L&O crossover was the best. It was early in the series, maybe first or second season. It was in the pre-show teaser. Mike Logan was dropping off a prisoner into the custody of Pembleton and Bayliss and they were dissing each other's cities. But the best part? The prisoner was John Waters (who later played a bartender who nodded in agreement to one of Munch's rants, presumably a different character).

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

That John Waters scene was indeed classic.

can the Jon Seda hate, y'all. The dude was one smooth smoothie. If anyone got close to ruining Homicide it was Michelle Forbes and that ex-fireman who killed the drug kingpin.

Man, the fact that I can't remember half the characters names reaffirms I must check out the DVDs.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Kellerman! Kellerman was great when they didn't lay the angst on him too thickly. He was always trying to eat his gun.
Kellerman and Lewis were a great team. Great dialogue. Almost as good as Crosetti and Lewis.
and Shiner!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I just have a distinct memory of the angst being laid on too thickly. And Michelle Forbes (that was the coroner, right?) can just get run over by a truck.

There was a time were Homicide made me believe that Max Perlich was the bombdiggity.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

like the time he ruined Lewis's marriage!
no one wanted to live with him!

Michelle Forbes, yup, she was Julianna Cox, the angsty/sassy coroner. She had some good moments.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean, you can rent (at least) the first two series from Queen Vid, I think.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

What was that stuff with Braugher pounding his fists on a coffin? Was that from when it had jumped?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god. the symbolic aneurysm coffin.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Pembleton (Braugher) handed in his badge while standing over his partner's hospital bed. He may have banged on it. It was usually Gee who banged on things though.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

What happened to him? I think there was a big buzz round him as an actor at the time.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda just pray he's been doing a lot of theatre. I'd hate to think Frequency was his most recent acting peak.

What did people think of that TV movie they did a year after the show ended? I only saw a bit and was kind of bothered by how much of it just seemed like a damn cast party (even in heaven!).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

he's still on that Hack show, where David Morse is part Travis Bickle, part Batman, and part Job.
If that show's still on.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

can the Jon Seda hate, y'all.

No. Fucking. Way.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

aw, come on! I loved seeing him in those beer ads after the show ended!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Seda and Limp Bizkit? I love Anthony, but I fear him too.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey I'm not saying Seda wuz robbed at the Emmys. I just don't get why he's being hated on.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I had issues with the whole "heaven is the coffee room" thing (only I think Crosetti says when Gee asks for espresso, "hey where do you think you are, heaven?" so I guess the coffee room is purgatory???)
it seemed so incongruous with the rest of the series.
like the whole series, I thought there were good, bad, meh, and great parts. Like the fact that it had Clark Johnson in it, that was great.
Bayliss as completely useless whiner...meh.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

According to imdb, Seda played Sally 'Fish' Pescatore in the 2001 William Baldwin vehicle Double Bang. This seems fitting.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

esp. since he was basically Daniel Baldwin, the less sweaty sequel!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, big love for the sweat of Daniel Baldwin! I can't wait to see that on crisp digital imaging.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a Law and Order/Homicide crossover on TNT tonight.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 15 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate to say it, but i coulda done without the Pembleton stroke subplot. i mean he was on fire and they give him rainman duty. i thought it was unfair. i could listen to him talk forever.they should have given someone else a stroke. watched Glory a week ago and i had forgotten his part as the uptight educated civil war soldier.(he stutters in that movie)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, it was kind of frustrating when Pembleton got the stroke because he was already the most compelling character and while that did give him a new dimension, it kind of ended a lot of what was great about him. I'd be fine with his gradually diminished role in the show if he had succeeded in crossing over into movies, though...ah well.

love the show, but I have a big Baltimore bias of course. I could probably recognize every other exterior shot. the house where Pembleton lived whenever they showed him at home on the show is on my dad's street, and my dad was an extra in a couple episodes, once as a coroner, once as a cop.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 15 January 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I read an interview with Braugher where he was saying that he thought this guy who was unstoppable in the interview room was getting boring, so he wanted him to have some new problems. I can see the point, and the stroke scene itself is great, but I missed the old Pembleton too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 January 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It was pretty freaking bold to depower your toughest character. I really liked watching Pembleton recover, dealing with the fact that he couldn't live up to his self-image.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I ended up with an extra set of the Homicide S4 DVDs, if anyone's interested.

'Retail' is $100, I was going to put them on Ebay at $50, but if any ILXors are interested, I'd sell for $40, or something in trade. Just send me an e-mail.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(sweet God that was quick, I think they're sold)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn.

― Huck, Saturday, 27 March 2004 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I only recently learnt that Hallmark, a channel I have, is showing episodes of Homicide what seems to be every night! Also, I wrote a brief item about it on Freaky Trigger, if anyone is interested.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I am interested. Is it easy to find?
(I am fairly unfamiliar with FT)

― Huck, Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It's worth familiarising yourself - loads of great writing all over the place, and I'm not on there too much! That bit I mentioned is at http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2004_03_01_dys_archive.html#107999327862701916.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The Homicide DVDs are fucking great--the lack of extras is mildly annoying especially considering the price but what is $$$ when you've got Yaphet Kotto?

― adam (adam), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Brilliant.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

NOT better than The Shield, but a wonderful counterpoint.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It gets better than the Shield, trust me. How many episodes in are you?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

7, I think.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried not to read upthread becasue I don't want to think about all these great characters leaving.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

season 2 and 3 will kill you with joy

you should read the book it's based on too!`

you can always enjoy John Munch on Law and Order. Oh, no you can't, because they don't do anything with him.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It can't get better than the Shield. There's filet mignon and then there's rotisserie chicken. now pick between the two.

Oh wait, you're a vegetarian.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I hated Munch at first, but he is brilliant.

the episode where they spend a whole night in the station with wall-to-wall music was an absolute masterpiece,

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Kyle, this week all I have done is sit inside and watch cop shows stuffed to the eyeballs with painkillers.

It's wonderful.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

you're off work? what a way to live!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

though i did start hallucinating that a ziplock bag was floating around my room during Homicide last night.

(no, I'm at work today)

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

after you're done with homicide you should move on to the Wire. A new season of which should be starting soon!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

what is it?

I am thinking of writing my own cop show so i never have to leave this daydream.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wire is an HBO series set in Baltimore and created by David Simon and uses a fair number of the same directors and writers that worked on Homicide, but concentrates on the vice squad and wiretapping. THey spend a whole season on one case; it isn't just police-centric as you also learn all about the lives of the people they are investigating. There aren't any one-off episodes, it's a serial, and the plot is pretty intricate and complicated, but it's fascinating. Unfortunately they haven't reused any Homicide characters as far as I know.

Have you watched Oz yet?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, tried the first few eps. of Oz, but I found it very drama-clubby and annoying, to be honest.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

And Sarah pretty much hated it, so I'd never get to see it all anwyway.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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