"The Wire" on HBO

I got a letter last night saying mine had been mailed. TAKE THAT NOCKOES!

u guys all mad, mcnulty rules though i do wish they'd cut back on the too-frequent MCNUTTY BE DRUNK & FUCKIN AGIN sequences. def hope nutty isn't out completely in s4 (which i haven't seen yet!)

less McNulty than ever in S4, but there's at least some nice character development to his eternal fuckup archetype. i can see people liking him less than other characters or thinking he's too trad/cliche compared to the rest of the show, but fast-forwarding through all his scenes? what the fuck.

that's truly bizarre.

http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete-Fourth-Season/dp/B000QXDJLI

three short "prequel videos"

season 4 out on dvd...today?

FYI for those that don't want to mess with torrents, I've been using a site called Tape It Off the Internet. They archive links to where shit is available for streaming online. I'm slowly getting through all of S4 that way.

It's actually pretty cool. The gf has a Wii, and I have it connected to our wireless network, and there's a browser on the Wii. So I just pull up TIOTI on the Wii browser and full-screen it, and voila, it's like having a slightly grainy DVD of my favorite show.

I've only had time to watch like, one more episode of Season 3. I'm thinking of giving up and just starting w/ a DVD of season 1, maybe find it used or something, I don't belong to a vid store. Maybe somebody will lend to me.

start @ beginning 100x enjoyment video store memberships are free homie the world is yrs

three short "prequel videos"

I hated the Prop Joe one, and to a lesser degree the Omar one. I'm sure there are traces of Prop Joe's future in his childhood, but I don't buy him as a hard-bargaining 10-yo business man, and I don't buy Omar as an infant high-moralled bad-ass.

That's what I liked so much about S4 ... it didn't make each kid's trajectory seem so inevitable. Just a twist here and a twist there and maybe things turn out differently for each of them.

FYI for those that don't want to mess with torrents, I've been using a site called Tape It Off the Internet.

Totally.

Of the four, I might have predicted what happened to Michael and Randy...but probably not to any great degree of specificity.

I cannot WAIT for Season 5. This show just absolutely rules.

I kind of agree with Poly, but I thought the kid in the Prop Joe one was just fantastic.

Anyway, they're pretty inessential. It'd be nice if they show up on DVD, but not a big deal if they don't.

The kid was great, it's true. I especially love how he sweetly but forcefully pulls the teacher aside.

I mentioned some stuff about the soundtrack album on this thread earlier, but I decided to give that stuff its own thread over on ILM: 2 official soundtracks to HBO's The Wire out in January

Daniels spotted shilling for Cadillac.

Clay Davis was in Enchanted. Randy and...maybe Michael were in Cold Case.

McNutty was pretty bad in 300.

heavenandhere.wordpress.com is being updated again.

snoop on brian leher taling about her life and book

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/12/14

Daniels obv got his unaccounted for $$$ by hawking Caddies, duh.

Yeah whatever happened to the corruption in Daniels' past, did it ever come back and bite him in the ass? Was it all innuendo? Was I asleep during that part?

it kept getting mentioned, esp when he was trying to deal with higher ups, but it was like he always had something on them too, so everyone just kept hush hush, iirc. i could be completely wrong, though. it's been a while and it was not a huge plot point.

also: what about when rawls was in the gay bar???

the daniels innuendo (paging ludlum) was maybe a bit overplayed, as when mcnulty's federale friend tells him daniels is 'dirty'. he doesn't seem to be that dirty really. but i wouldn't be surprised if it came up in the fifth season, knowing how they do.

I liked the way Daniels' past always loomed over him really ambiguously, because he is kind of a sympathetic character that you're never totally sure you trust him. also kinda gives some additional resonance to his speech in Season 2 to Carver about why he picked him for the team despite his betrayal in the past, because having some dirt on him meant he probably wouldn't try anything like that again.

wait i dont' know if this has been spoken to before because i didn't watch until this fall, but the guy who plays lt. mello is named jay landsman???

hes the real one on whom the fat one is based!!

yeah, he's the real jay landsman (an actual cop) who the character jay landsman is a bit based on.

xp

Basically: Jay Landsman = actual Baltimore cop who Burns worked with and Simon wrote about in the Homicide book. Simon based Richard Belzer's Munch character in the "Homicide" series (later crossed over to L&O universe) on Landsman, as well as the Jay Landsman character in "The Wire." The actual Landsman auditioned to play himself but didn't get the part, and later ended up with a different, smaller role as Mello. (xpost)

wow that is kind of incredible. thank you for humoring my ignorance. lol @ landsman not getting landsman. i kinda like mello though, which is funny, because he is nothing like "himself."

Daniels brings up his dirty past kind of tangentially in S1, when he's confronting Carver about his narcing off to Burrell, and explains why it's important to keep your integrity, esp. when you're in a position of authority (in ref. also to Carver's just announced promotion to Sgt.)

He also tells Marla "They know about the money" in S1

Here's the official trailer for the new season:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7HoWd7mY8E

SO EXCITED

OH SHIT EXCITEMENT LEVEL OFF THE CHARTS NOW

tho what was with the shitty Duran Duran cover of "White Lines"?

It's a metaphor for how powerful white yacht owners control the fates of the working class and poor.

I HAS BONER

yeah are they trying to get the CSI audience with that music? YAAAOOOW

also LOL Clay Davis

SQUEEEEEEE !!!!!!

TS:: Clay Davis' "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit" vs. Carcetti's "FAAAHK"

dammit, not starting on HBO until January 2008 = not on DVD until like 2011 :( :( :(

I wonder if all the kids from s4 are going to be in it? I saw Michael only..

Cutty was in the trailer too. yay

why do you think that? S4 came out on DVD almost exactly a year after the episodes finished airing, and I'm betting S5 will come out quicker than that (maybe late '08 or early '09) since it won't be pegged to help promote any seasons after that. (xpost)

daria, i think the new yorker piece mentioned dukie.

dukie is in michael's crew

McNulty obsessed with catching Marlo even though major crimes is allegedly being shut down.. haven't we seen this one before

I think there are a few major spoilers in that if you watch very closely! not going to say more though.

HYPERBOLE

even though major crimes is allegedly being shut down

i'm only on ep. 10 of season 4 but it seems pretty obvious at this point that carcetti is interested in major crimes

Are they going to keep closer tabs on screeners so it doesn't leak ahead of time?