"The Wire" on HBO

Commuted Sentence, got that Commuted Sentence, 3 for 10...

uk fans, there is a charlie brooker doc abt 'the wire' on uknova. it was on fx the other night.

charlie brooker is about the last person i would want to hear talking about this show

i'll watch it tonight and see. kind of know what you mean, but british television criticism is the shame of the nation and brooker is better than the others. i don't know who i'd pick in the uk to do it. well, other than penman, but i say that about everything.

ok i'm halfway through. it's bad. if brooker ain't the right guy to present, his UK interviewees are more wtf. nick hornby ffs. a lot of it is brooker talking to two random guys about life in b'more, seven y.o.s with aks and whatnot...

ugh! way to pollute the wire for me

they were all fucking idiots with absolutely nothing to bring except they were just about famous and liked 'the wire'. but they didn't have a single thing to say about it except "it's better than other cop shows". which is always a big cop-out (PUN). it was brooker on autopilot too.

roffle/smh @ the wire getting no emmy nods to studio 60 getting 5.

RAPPER Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who plays a vicious drug dealer on HBO's "The Wire," once served time in the shooting death of a teenager and made ends meet in jail by selling homemade sex toys. In her upcoming autobiography, "Grace After Midnight," Pearson writes, "It ain't like setting up a Starbucks in the mall . . . I crafted them in four sizes. Made them as real-life as possible. I knew my workmanship had to be solid or I'd get complaints." She was paid with cans of soup, packs of cookies, candy and, once, a joint.

http://www.midheaven.com/fi/Images/Kids-4color3.jpeg

top right - johnny the junkie

Whoa holy shit @ Snoop: crafter of fine prison dildos.

It took me two eps to figure out she was a girl, but she god oddly cuter throughout the season. Or maybe that's just me.

she GOT oddly

Watching episodes with her after reading the article where her past was spelled out made her character just that much more creepy.

More than creepy: frightening.

laugh track

Unfair and lame. That scene's funny without a laugh track.

I just finished the first season of "The Wire" yesterday and had to rewatch select parts of the episodes over again. This show is poetic. This show is epic. Man, once I watched that chess scene between D'Angelo, Wallace (R.I.P.) and Bodie I was sold: "The king stay the king". This show is so quotable.

What's poetic about that scene is how wrong Bodie is. :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/us/09baltimore.html?ex=1344312000&en=70424f792e2f754f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

not gay enough

actually, xpost to myself, i meant d'angelo, not bodie, but you knew that

Munch! Munch! Munch!

Finally got around to this show - I'm up to episode 5 tonight if I get my other shit done.

http://baltimore.craigslist.org/tfr/399463929.html

Hurry and you can be in it!

That's for the finale - a big musical number.

IS SEASON 4 OUT ON DVDS YET

no, if hbo hews to their old strategy, it will probably come out when season 5 airs.

can someone with a torrent burn it to dvd for me? that would kinda rule tho.

check yr e-mail

fuk, I'm already through episode 8. Wire why you take over life?

thanks hurting, unfortunately i don't have the plugin to watch, and my computer is muy slow.

http://baltimore.craigslist.org/tfr/399463929.html

Hurry and you can be in it!

-- Oilyrags, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 00:38 (Yesterday)

thx for the tip! got the call today, shoot is tomorrow (tentative)

if my am0n gets in the wire i will be so happy

i hope i get in the wire

good interviews
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/12/05/listening-in-part-i
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/12/06/listening-in-part-ii
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/12/07/listening-in-part-iii

dag I totally should've responded as soon as i saw that ad, hesitated and waited :(

you could probably still respond. i think the ad said they were filming up to the end of august

LOLZ at hurting gettin' wire hooked.
I've got 3 and 4 on DVD fer computer, hit me up.

From what I've read, it seems that the season 4 dvd set will be out around Christmas, a couple months before season 5 begins.

that is so awesome that bunny's deputy is the real life jay landsman. in homicide, landsman was just amazing -- the funniest fucker there was.

am0n maybe email me w/ the text of the ad before it got taken down if you have it, i only procrastinated because i don't have many photos i can submit but i'm sure i can dig something up.

i don't have the ad but check yr email

One thing that strikes me about a show is the degree of respect with which the drug business is treated - like finally someone recognizes that this is sophisticated organized crime and not just a bunch of dudes in skullcaps looking menacing on a corner.

I know that's a strange way to put it, but I always felt there was a huge disparity between the excessive respect lavished on the mafia and the condescension to black gangs.

Just read in the current Esquire that Steve Earle has a role this upcoming season.

he's been in it before, as a drug counselor

o whoa, he's *Waylon* - I knew that dude looked familiar

Did anyone see that Lance "Lt. Daniels" Reddick is going to have a recurring role as a villain on the next season of Lost? Kinda rad, especially since Lost and The Wire are going to be on more or less simultaneously, thus giving us a double dose of that guy.

i didn't realize that was earle. makes sense i guess since he was a notorious addict iirc

I think this was mentioned on the thread already but Earle recorded "Way Down In The Hole" for the Season 5 theme, too.

lance reddick as a villain sounds amazing