Homicide: Life on the Street: classic or the best show ever created?

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The Wire is an HBO series set in Baltimore and created by David Simon and uses a fair number of the same directors and writers that worked on Homicide, but concentrates on the vice squad and wiretapping. THey spend a whole season on one case; it isn't just police-centric as you also learn all about the lives of the people they are investigating. There aren't any one-off episodes, it's a serial, and the plot is pretty intricate and complicated, but it's fascinating. Unfortunately they haven't reused any Homicide characters as far as I know.

Have you watched Oz yet?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, tried the first few eps. of Oz, but I found it very drama-clubby and annoying, to be honest.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

And Sarah pretty much hated it, so I'd never get to see it all anwyway.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

that's about how much of it I saw too! it was like, "hey we're on cable, let's get with the anal rape!" The Wire is not like it at all (it's the other half of the Homicide creative team)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Adam is finally watching Homicide. I feel like, uh, I don't know.
I'm reading Belzer's book right now. it's sorta not funny, in a not-really-supposed-to-be-funny sort of way. I didn't realize it was going to be that way though.

Meldrick Lewis is actually Canadian. Sort of.

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Homicide makes me want to be a homicide cop. Even though Ned Beatty's character just stated his salary and it's $15K less than mine.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, that was 12 years ago or something.

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

But yeah, me too.
Actually the Hardy Boys made me want to be a detective first, and then Sherlock Holmes and then Batman, but eventually the first few seasons of L&O and all of Homicide cemented it. Aside from the fact that I couldn't ever be a beat cop and I'd fail the physical.
But like, going around talking to people and trying to make sense of lies and paperwork? That's so up my alley. Journalism is sort of my cop-booby-prize.

But I always wonder, and there should totally be a comic book series about this, how the hell did Munch ever make through his time in uniform?

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe we should be partners.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

What is the story with the actor who plays Munch? The DVD extras say he's from Howard Stern's show or something?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I LOVE the crab eating/after work drinking scenes. Such a great detail, no matter what my own opinions are of people who choose to socialize with their workmates.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001938/

I like the belz a lot more as munch than I do as comedian.

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

That's quite a career.

So how is the comedy, Horace?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

he says as he gently derails.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

None of the comedy people in town are calling me back, probably because one of them I was a bad boyfriend to TWICE, and the other is just sorta lazy.
But I've been writing a lot and have officially narrowed down my move to either Toronto or Montreal. Toronto has more opportunities, but Mtl has cheaper rent (and isn't Toronto). Move has been postponed till Thaw of '05. Which sucks, but somehow I forgot to make/save money over the last few months.

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

and you?

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm okay.

Dude, you should def. move to Mtl so then I can visit you and s1ocki at once! Either way, I'll hopefully be out that way sometime next year.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll buy you a beer and we'll solve a MURDER together. In a funny way.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Although as someone who moved from somewhere big and oppressive with many opportunities to somewhere smaller and more beautiful with few opportunities - I'd say you might want to chase those opportunities.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Mtl seems to have the most going for it. It has three significant open mic nights (4 if you include the french one, and don't think I'm not considering it) and it's also within reasonable distance of NYC, where my uncle and famous aunt live and could definitely hook me up.
One of my best friends lives in Toronto though, so that would be cool, and he's persuasive, but I have to keep reminding myself not to do shit just cuz other people want me to.

xxxpost.

We can be like Lewis and Kellerman!

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oppressive¿ xpost

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.savannahnow.com/diversions/images/110802/full_comedian.jpg

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

oppressive¿

maybe I'm overdoing that part, I don't know.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

yes¡ not being able to buy beer at the corner store /= oppressive¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

do you like Homicide, dyson¿

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

the show or the crime¿

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

$725 - Bachelor Apartment = oppressive

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/web%20images/OverboardCvr.jpg

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Spending more than 90 mins UNDERGROUND each day = oppressive

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

the show or the crime¿

both

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

this new image posting bs is oppressive

xpost - both are okay i guess

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer the Kurt Russell/Goldie Hawn version, thanks.

xxpost

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I should probably watch this show.
If you guys are going to solve a crime, I can be the mob snitch who acts all tough at first but quickly cracks under your abusive interrogation.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

You don't look like much of a mobster, St. Nicholas.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

cummon that cover is, like a million zillion times better¡
xxpost

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I reckon I'm going to look more like a convincing homicide detective with age. as long as I don't lose my hair.

Then i guess I could be like Mackey...

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

My name is Nick! That's kind of like a mobster name.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Shut up! I don't even want you to say anything. We dragged you downtown not because we wanted to hear what you have to say, but because we want to send a message to all the lowlife belly-crawlers out there who think they can get away with this. You're not even special, you're just a completely random smokehound who's about to find out what the bottom of my shoe looks like.

xxxpost~!

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

My brother's name is Nick. He is a skinny indie hipster kid from North London. I cannot shake this association.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

when i think of a typical "nick" i think of this goofy pothead friend i used to have who would do dumb-ass things like getting pulled over for smoking a bong behind the wheel and blowing an entire paycheck on k instead of rent¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Why so quiet, Huck?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

you frighten me.

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

REALLY?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

No. But when I saw this thread pop up again, I was thinking about you and the Shield and stuff. And how we don't seem to cross paths that often anymore. And then, hey now!
I was just noticing last night, while watching some of the Emmys, that I don't watch any dramas on TV anymore, although I caught the end of a recent Columbo TV movie earlier last night on A&E and was really excited by it and wanted to watch more Columbo. Peter Falk reminds me a lot of my grandfather.

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are you NEVER on AIM?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Tonight the post-series Homicide movie is on, on Hallmark in the UK. They have scheduled it opposite a brand new networked Sopranos episode, which seems very dumb, as surely that must be broadly the same audience (and the Sopranos is in the same time slot as Homicide's great days, on the same channel). I saw this movie only a few months back, so no contest for me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

How do we feel about the movie, with its sudden and abrupt introduction and acceptance of the supernatural into the previously strictly quotidian continuity?

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Personally, likewarm. And what a bummer about Bayliss.

― savetherobot, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't remember that. I remember being kind of disappointed in the whole thing in general, and the somewhat League of Justice Superfriends quality of gathering up Bayliss et all from wherever they were, and that there was no Ned Beatty (maybe there was, I don't remember), but I do remember being pleasantly surprised by Jason Priestly.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned Beatty was there. He had some really good moments. I thought, in a lot of ways, it was more of a tribute to the actors than to the characters.

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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