― 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
There are two or three really great individual episodes in Season Three (Pine Barrens is amazing, so is the first one--Mr Ruggiero's Neighborhood--with the FBI, also all the bits with Janice and the one legged lady are brilliant) but it's got a lot of the weakest subplots too (Charles S Dutton, Melfi's rape, I don't rate the Gloria subplot at all, and of course almost all of the Jackie Jr stuff.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 21 March 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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http://p076.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm34.showPrevMessage?topicID=1332.topic
From MTV news:http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/092704/
Meeting Idris Elba is a straight bug-out. He's been in videos by Fat Joe and most recently Angie Stone, but he's best known as kingpin Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's "The Wire." So imagine how ill it is to holla at him for the first time and discover that he has a thick British accent and he's a DJ. "I've been collecting records since I was like 10," said Elba, who grew up in London. The actor, whose DJ name is Big Dris, began spinning around the age of 14. "I started out with my uncle," he remembered. "He had a sound system called Sound International back in London. He basically did weddings. I was the speaker boy. ... By the time I was 15, me and my men from around the way started our own little sound that was called the Social Affair Sound [and] we started doing local parties." Dris, who began putting it down behind the turntables in clubs by the time he was 19, has been living part-time in NYC for the last six years and actually started earning his living by spinning in the East Village and Alphabet City before landing a guest appearance on "Law and Order" in 2001. His stint on "The Wire" began in 2002. Dris said things are going to get ugly this season for his character, but in real life, Elba is straight. He's already put out a series of street CDs called Foot Fetish, and he's linking up with other DJs to put out collaborations. "I consider myself a blend DJ more than anything," he said. "Like my mixtapes, the way I want to see them grow, I basically want to see if I can get my mixtapes to showcase new talent. I can't compete with the big boys on getting the freestyles and all that, because I don't have the connects yet. Eventually, I'd like to get the new freestyles, but at the same time, I want to see the new cats that's coming up."
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 21 March 2005 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Hey Cabbie! by Thaddeus Logan
http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=174
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 21 March 2005 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Frankenstein in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Austin, Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link
that is so cool.
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 8 July 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
omar is pretty SIC-WID-IT though.
― leonard (tk), Friday, 8 July 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess a lot of it happens in the pre credit sequence.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, I find the softcore pretty distracting and not (usually) revelatory of any character or plot stuff, so I have a theory it's all just part of HBO's attempt to keep a minimum tits per hour average on their original shows.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Any time sex on the Wire borders on gratuitous, it's always McNulty. And it's usually funny.
And yeah, there's a lot of wit in The Wire. Just not a lot of slapstick.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
And it's essential they find a way to add Omar to the storyline for next season.
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
mcnulty might be the most cliched thing to you, gypsy, but he's also one of the most reality-based characters on the show! he's ed burns.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 10 July 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Personally, I hope they find some way to keep Cutty in the mix - that guy is fascinating. I'd like to see Zig and Nick and Horseface and the Greek and other guys from the docks come back, too, but I guess they've been pretty well dropped.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 10 July 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
The cops, on the other hand, have never seemed too serious to me. They've never had a scene like that. Sure, there have been steely-eyed threats, hurled recriminations, long friendships put at risk, but the "game" is something the cops can dip out of -- to the extent that they turn off their cell phones -- any time they want. Even to the most "natural police," as the show puts it, their jobs, and the relationships in their jobs, matter, but only so much. Which probably reflects reality, to an extent. Bayliss and Pembleton cared so much they almost drove themselves off the deep end; these police seem a little more balanced. But less interesting.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link
You're giving pretty short shrift to a McNulty who recruits his own kids for subject surveillance!
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost haha yeah, but McNulty caught hell for it, cause he's an outrageous dick.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
and prez. poor poor prez.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link