― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― yaydrian (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, I would recommend all of Price's books. Wasn't that Richard Price as the literature teacher in the prison class in Season 2?
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm guessing that if season four of the wire happens with its supposed public school-focus, i bet some of the themes of samaritan figure in prominently.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/actors/clarke_peters.shtml
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I KNEW McNulty was an English guy putting on an American accent as soon as he opened his mouth.
― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
YES YES YES
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Height 6' (1.83 m) Trivia
Has brown hair and brown eyes
Was one of seven children - five girls, two boys - born to George & Moya West - his parents divorced in 1996
His father owned a plastics-manufacturing plant and his mother was a homemaker who loved the theater.
Began appearing in community theater by age 9
Once spent four months as a cattle herder in Argentina in 1988 trying to be "different". Afterwards he enrolled at Dublin's Trinity College, graduating in 1993 with a B.A. in English literature.
Has never been married, but has a 3 year old daughter named Martha with former girlfriend Polly Astor
Graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995.
I don't read the Netflix slipcases. This was no exception.
― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
In a lot of ways I prefer the grand operatic story of The Sopranos, and I sure as hell think that everything from season 3 onward on that show is pretty much as good as it gets, but The Wire is so tight. There's no such thing as a weak episode in this show. Not a moment is wasted.
My personal favorite season of SFU is season 3, actually.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 19 March 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't think 6FU or the Sopranos really match up to the Wire at all. 6FU was really great starting out, but this last season turned into some bizarro homoerotic grand guignol. Which isn't HALF as awesome as it sounds. Sopranos was always wildly uneven, and for the last couple years the only good eps have been the ones in which important characters are killed. The cardboard hatefulness of the Sopranos pisses me off too, esp. in comparison to The Wire - even the sympathetic characters are monsters. which, yeah, is obviously the point, but it makes it hard to remain invested in the show when everyone drips venality and cruelty. The uneven writing makes it even harder, obv. Things definately did improve last season, but after all the meandering it's difficult to care about how things will conclude. (and for a show in which character comes first [wtf does that mean anyway], the people in it sure are fucking static)
― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Saturday, 19 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 19 March 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 19 March 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
The only kinda gratuitous tv-watching that I can remember from the last two seasons was that bit in "Cold Cuts" when Tony is getting all freaked out by that 60 Minutes report on how easily terrorists could get stuff into US docks.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― scg, Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I guess the only way I can refute this is by going back and looking at those eps, which sounds like a pain in the ass. I know that WHAT they're watching usually has some kind of thematic relevence, but I never felt like it enriched the narrative or contributed much? It also frequently came off as self-parody to me. I guess I just prefer more to be HAPPENING in my tv (cf. the Wire), and this particular trope always felt emblematic of the show's slothfulness.
(and yeah, not unrealistic, but it's hardly a documentary etc blah blah)
― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― scg, Saturday, 19 March 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
The Sopranos seasons: 3 > 5 > 4 > 1 > 2
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link
1 > 2 > 5 > 3 > 4
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
(Not seen Five):
But 1 > 2 > 4 > 3.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Marx, Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Alex In SF, I can't believe that you really believe that "Proshai, Livushka" is the worst episode of the series. I'd easily place that one in the top ten or top fifteen. If you really think that duds like "Commendatori," "D-Girl," and "A Hit Is A Hit" are better, then hey, whatever. We're not going to see eye to eye on this!
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Also "D-Girl" is great. The other two are just okay though.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, what else were they supposed to do? Pretend the character never existed? Please be even a little bit realistic or sympathetic about this. That one scene isn't that big of a deal, but the rest of the episode is VERY strong. It was a great send off for that character, who had run her course either way.
Ralph Cifaretto > all other similar antagonist characters on the show combined, and has the best death episode of anyone in the five seasons to date.
I'm not that sour about Jackie Jr, but I do agree that it's not one of the best subplots in the series. A lot of the reason that I love season 3 is the stuff with Tony and Carmella, the introduction of Ralph, "Pine Barrens," and the Gloria Trillo storyline. I have a certain fondness for season 3 because it's the season where the show really comes together. Season 1 and season 2 are good, but there's some flailing in season 2 that makes me suspect that the writers weren't 100% sure where they were going with it, and were still reeling from the massive success of the first season.
I saw that Wire episode with "I Walk The Line" at the start of it (it's called "Storm Warnings") for the first time yesterday. I agree, it's exceptional. It's hard to pick stand-out episodes in the Wire because it's all so consistent, but yeah, that's on the shortlist for me.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, the "Jar Jar" Livia is the same episode as her wake. The wake is the majority of the episode, and that one scene with her is no more than two minutes.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link