Russert is terrible but I like Kellerman just fine. I like his doofy voice and extreme angst.
Yeah, that three-part serial killer thing is ridiculous, but I think the third season is overall my favorite. Just so many incredibly strong episodes.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:49 (four years ago) link
concessions to dopier network-mandated convention
where
― j., Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:57 (four years ago) link
The last episode we watched was the one where Lewis and Bayliss both fell in love with the woman who slept in a coffin. The whole tone was very sitcommy and jarring; reminded me of Twin Peaks season 2.
― Chris L, Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
Thought I would remind everyone that Homicide has a really good Thanksgiving episode, "Hate Crimes." Lewis negs a redheaded lie detector technician into going out with him, Bayliss agonizes about his sexuality, Kellerman agonizes about being Kellerman, Pembleton is a badass as usual, and Munch goes skiing. It's a classic.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
i miss watching this live when it first airedfelt like this amazing secret that only cool ppl knew
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 November 2019 06:54 (four years ago) link
we're still cool
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
are u tho(jk)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
i… i…
:-(
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
I just recently realized how good this show is and binge watched almost all of it. I haven't been able to find the final season yet tho *sobs*.
I won't say it's the GOAT, personally I'm still partial to Six Feet Under but The Wire has maybe aged better than 6ft.
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
I'm definitely going to come back and read the whole thread asap but my hot take is that it's bothersome how the network did their best to kill the show after the 1st season (and continually disappeared great characters for not good reasons).
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
If you haven't seen the final season yet, you probably want to lower your expectations. There's a major drop in quality imo. The series finale is good though.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 1 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
the series finale is quality and the reunion movie is good
mostly i tune out around season 6, though of course season 6 was the one with "subway" so it's not an absolute thing. i find the entire character of kellerman (he lives on a HOUSEBOAT) kind of excruciating, which is also how i feel about the "buying a bar" plotline.
i'm not sure how i feel about the "bayliss is bi" plotline. i think it's a good idea but i don't know that it was handled particularly well. still, i figure they get credit for trying. if the show was made today he'd probably be non-binary as well. the show wouldn't be made today because a show starring mostly "good" murder police wouldn't have room for non-binary characters, just like actual murder police wouldn't have much room for non-binary detectives
that's the challenge about "homicide" for me, at the end of the day i am supposed to empathize with the police, the moral heart of it is an approach to justice that, if it existed in the first place, was gone by the time "the wire" was made
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
I liked the "Bayliss is bi" plotline because I thought they set it up very well. Every season from Season 2 on had a "Bayliss is weird and conflicted about sex" episode, and then it got clearer and clearer that he was in love with Pembleton, so by the time he actually came out it made a lot of sense.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 1 December 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
RIP Yaphet Kotto.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
That cold open where he runs into Munch at the washateria on their day off...
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 05:41 (three years ago) link
rewatching (rip Andre Braugher)havent watched it in years, not since it used to get rerun on Bravo or one of those early rerun cable channelsanyway man i think this show is the ultimate comfy pair of slippers rewatch show for me. it’s all so familliar: the patter, the characters, just so good. that first crosetti lincoln rant and i was home <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 December 2023 05:25 (five months ago) link
started slowly watching this from the beginning and ffs they've got yaphet kotto and ned beatty and andre braugher doing supporting roles and it's so good. 'iguana style'? G
also lol that everyone, including pembleton, refers to bayliss as a kid, when kyle secor is five years older than andre braugher
also ned beatty would never have sent wendy hughes into mortal danger the way j-l picard did
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 06:19 (four months ago) link
fuck, i could just watch yaphet kotto randomly move about the room
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 06:22 (four months ago) link
i love how he delivers his lines, it’s like watching free jazz or something
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 January 2024 06:35 (four months ago) link
also appreciate that it only took 1.5 episodes for me to *hate* that uniformed superior guy who shits on G
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 06:39 (four months ago) link
i don't even know his name, i just know i'm gonna spend like 100 episodes hating him
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 06:43 (four months ago) link
so punchable
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 January 2024 06:44 (four months ago) link
haven’t even mentioned meldrick or munch
i should make a clip of ned beatty, in the premiere, declaiming ‘Detective Munch’ over and over again
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 07:13 (four months ago) link