"The Wire" on HBO

because it sound intersting?

would hang up an oil painting of tracy morgan as thomas jefferson, on a horse

http://www.brandonbird.com/artisticintent.html

http://www.brandonbird.com/battle_of_the_heroes.html

yeah there have been a fair number of other wire threads, i'm sure it's somewhere, let's not lose sleep over it

http://www.brandonbird.com/images/coach_02.jpg

there are things there that look like spoilers but aren't and things that don't look like spoilers but actually could be. did i just blow your mind?

That makes sense, and I think the first thing I saw falls into the first category. Gah, I've only got 2 or 3 episodes left so really i should just leave anything Wire-talk-on-the-internet alone for a bit longer.

I just started watching this again for the third time. I am hopeless addict.

I noticed something in Episode 8 of Season 1 that I couldn't find confirmation of elsewhere and I wondered if anyone else could shed some light: at the end of the episode Bunk picks up a woman in a bar. Later Jimmy gets a phonecall and has to go rescue him. When he arrives he finds Bunk dressed in a pink dressing gown and trying to burn his suit. However is the woman Bunk seduces none other than Randy's foster mother from Season 4, Ms Ana? I could have sworn it was.

IMDB says no

so, baltimore seems to be going ahead with its own season 6, with or without david simon.

been a long time coming but daaaaaaaaaaamn

Oh, Neresepaws

we're having dinner tonight w/ my mother-in-law who works in the city court system, i'm hoping i can get some new inside dirt

http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/dixon_sheila.jpg
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEILA

there's a local morning show DJ that plays a loop of Ready For The World anytime they're discussing Sheila

very disappointed that sheila is not as hot as nerese

i guess this was posted already? http://wbal.com/apps/news/templates/story.aspx?articleid=19396&zoneid=24&utm_source=rss

"I want to make it clear, though, that I will continue to put all of my energies into running the City of Baltimore during these perilous economic times. And with God's grace, I am confident that the city, my family and I will weather this sheeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiittt."

oh i see the link now

I think it's kind of funny that The Wire can't resist the Hollywood touch of making Nerese Campbell 25 years younger and way hotter than Sheila Dixon.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:34 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thank god for that h-wood touch imo

― omar little, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:34 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i guess its easier to weather a storm in mink and lamb coats

do you think this'll be a become a big enough national story that there'll be a bunch of dixon comix on the rightwing cartoonists thread!?

persian lamb coats

looking forward to billytheheretic's take on this

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I don't think IMDB is conclusive either way, as the role was so small in the original Season 1 episode it doesn't look like it is credited at all on the IMDB cast list to Denise Hart or otherwise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt074943/fullcredits#cast (unless I've misread it, which is likely :-))

Oh well...

Bell vs. Scott
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998589.html?categoryid=1043&cs=1

he'll play a no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin's corporate office who will throw Michael Scott into turmoil.

by sexxin all the ladies amirite

absolutely

Michael Scott: Shh, just stop. Here's what you do. You tell him that you're his friend and that you're gonna help him and that everyone's gonna be all right. And then you put a wire on him and you find out who's selling him drugs and then you get that guy and you flip up, turn him into a snitch. You follow that guy to the people who's really really bad. Been watching The Wire recently. I don't understand a word of it.

^^ Oh man, let's move this to the OCD television-crossover thread for me and Jaymc!

P.S. Why do I get the feeling Elba will be playing an equivalent of the other-branch manager on the UK version, cool-guy Neil?

It's been a long time since I saw the UK version, so I don't remember Neil, but wasn't the manager of the Stamford Branch supposed to be kind of a cool guy?

i wonder if they'll make any jokes about amy ryan's character that will blow nab's and jaymc's minds

Oh wow, I forgot that this bridge had already been crossed

wasn't there already a version of Neil? at the other dunder mifflin office jim temporarily went to?

Sorry, I didn't watch all of the earlier seasons, maybe I missed it

THIS IS GONNA BE FUCKING AWESOME

The Office getting all the good Wire cast-offs. Eventually they will take over the entire Dunder Mifflin staff. but clearly starting with the hot ones.

Edris Elba's other upcoming project does not look so great: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/obsessed/

So did all the Wire cast members' pink slips have phone numbers on the back for American Remake Of Britishes TV Show Casting CentreCenter, or what

Complete DVD box set is on supersale @ Amazon again:

http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete/dp/B001FA1P1W/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232660451&sr=8-1

$81.99

ch-ching!

btw what is with those "wire prequel" videos on amazon? can't really investigate @ work.

Gah can I resist this? So hard. . .

If they are the ones I am thinking of they are 5 minute vids of young Omar, Prop Joe, and McNulty.

urgh i really don't need it but i want it

i found a torrent that had mp3s of all the DVD commentaries from the first four seasons but nothing for season five yet-- someone bump this thread if they see one plz

damn you merkins, I got that boxset a month ago for the equivalent of $125 :(

Are they called "The Wire Chronicles?" They should these really short, almost-amusing vignettes about, like, Omar and Prop Joe as kids, or when Bunk and McNulty met -- not much to them except mild chuckles about them being very "in character," but they're like a couple minutes each, so it's not a big investment.

Actually to be honest the only worthwhile thing in them is a kid doing a decent impression of Prop Joe's looking-over-one-shoulder mannerism