"The Wire" on HBO

it’s wild to watch this now too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpST8KE3vSI

Michael K. Williams talking to different versions of himself on getting typecast as a black man. pic.twitter.com/uRowCxU4Tf

— chu (@chuuzus) September 6, 2021

last line really hurts now

Great clip, vg.

What is it VG, in UK I‘m getting:

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ugh ugh ugh

xpost chewshabadoo - HBO shortfilm “Typecast” - Michael K Williams as himself, and in character as Omar, Chalky & Montrose in conversation together talking about the question of typecasting & how/if it applies to him as an actor

wow, that video hits hard. what a great actor, what a loss.

David Simon essay on MKW in the New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/opinion/michael-k-williams-david-simon-the-wire.html

I dunno, that felt a bit off to me somehow, can't put my finger on why.

it felt somewhat guarded, and if that is whats going on I am ok with that.

like to me gnot knowing dick about him) this death is deeply personal and even though he is a writer by trade he’s maybe not willing to mine his own grief for us just yet (or ever)

maybe it felt a bit patronising? like isn't it great that a mere actor became concerned with the overall themes of the show?

Cut To Black podcast pays tribute

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81OGE1ZmE5OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/YmI4YzFmYzAtZjRkYS00ZThlLWIzMTItZDk4YTQ4ZTUxY2Mw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj469jp5fryAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

Here's a public link for that (m4a)

Wow, afaict it's rare that there's ever any follow-up on these things:

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/michael-k-williams-overdose-arrests-1235170332/

do you think the hand-to-hands and controlled buys are going to get them up past the street level?

David Simon does not approve

Please don’t @ me on this. I do not think Mike is honored or properly remembered by more incarceration in his name. Knowing him and his thoughts, I think he would be appalled at this. End the goddam drug war. https://t.co/IYZTSzgHEa

— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 3, 2022

I was going to post basically the same thing. One of the arrested is 70 years old

wonder who their lawyer is

just makes a sad thing even sadder
arresting the dealers is just surface level bullshit, meanwhile fentanyl is basically a standard compnent in street heroin all over the country & no one w the power to do anything abt it seems to give a fuck

Simon & Pelecanos back in Baltimore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOz3dn3vuU

whoaaaaaaaaaaa

Holy shit, Delaney Williams as Kevin Davis?

Other former Wire cast members include Jamie Hector, Tray Chaney, and Domenick Lombardozzi.

Jon Bernthal + Jamie Hector ? I am sold.

honestly -- in retrospect, Jon Bernthal would have been a really good McNulty

Oh wow, this is a side note, but I went over the Wire subreddit to check for more information on this show. Instead found out that Benjamin Busch, the actor who played Colicchio (the asshole cop with the goatee), has been over in Ukraine giving some kind of combat instruction to Ukrainian volunteers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd5nOZeOYGc

looking forward to the new show, not the new war

cannot wait for new show, looks so good

Looks like a bit of penance from Simon for his overly-generous treatment of the Baltimore police.

and we get josh charles too, baltimore’s own :D

Love Jon Bernthal's repugnant bad guy face, "dough on the table" policing is kinda ripe for this exploration. Stoked

yeah bernthal is perfect for this

Am I crazy or wasn’t he playing this character on The Shield?

Haven't all of his major roles been variations on a dirtbag?

Bernthal was not in The Shield

I was thinking of Walton Goggins!

I get Bernthal and Thomas Jane confused (not just because the we’re both the Punisher)

Oops typo. I am not in fact the Punisher

there's a dedicated thread for these fascinating revelations :)

i am a fan of Bernthal, Thomas Jane and Walton Goggins ... my first Bernthal experience was as Shane in Walking Dead, kinda dirtbag, kinda hot tbh

could definitely see him hooking up with diner waitresses after getting drunk and crashing his car

I waited til I finished my full series The Wire rewatch until I watched this trailer!
Some real 'Ryan on Line of Duty' feels seeing Marlo there.

And Herc? Donut? Jay? Dukie?
Should be good.

should we start a new thread for the new show - it’s so good

Yeah, different thread makes to me.

Yeah, I think it's a good idea. Great first episode.

ok done & done

Lake Trout & ACAB: David Simon’s “We Own This City” on HBOMax

Rewatching first four seasons, up to 3 now. Still enjoying but man, that scene where they mistake Cheese killing his dog with killing his "dawg" is some lame sitcom shit compared to the rest of the ep

LESTER: We've been listening to him all night. Something about looking for a "free show."

BUNK: Fuuucck, ain't nothing free out there. We're getting set up!

Season 1 had plenty of lame sit-com shit, that scene where they’re trying to get that table through the doorway, the cop trying to figure out how to injure himself so he can get out of work, sub-Office Space level shenanigans.

god, Avon was so bad at running shit. not that Stringer didn't fuck up on his own, but talk about having literally all the wrong priorities.