"The Wire" on HBO

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.

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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?

um, deej, watch the new trailer

I believe that a ton of screeners of every episode of S4 in full were sent out way early largely because they were campaigning hard to get enough press for HBO to renew the show for one more year. Now that they've accomplished that and this is the last season, there don't seem to be screeners of the whole season out early this time around, or at least they're not as rampant as last time, which I'm kinda glad for. Everyone can experience the new episodes together, one at a time.

I love that for a large portion of the LA crowd I know, this show represents the ENTIRETY of their understanding of the city of Baltimore.

SO skewed.

um, deej, watch the new trailer

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well yeah its also basically a dead unit where I am anyway so someone saying "they're shutting down major crimes!!!" or something in the middle of a trailer doesnt mean very much out of context

haha how many times has major crimes been setup/shutdown at this point?

Was that Avon in a couple of those quick cuts?

Was that Avon in a couple of those quick cuts?
yep

more info on who will be in season five
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_%28season_5%29#Cast

Going back to S4, what did Cutty say to the Latino landscape workers? I assume something about fornicating with someone's mother?

cutty looks a lot more, uh, CUT - i guess it's all that workin out at the gym

Bunny's back!

chingo tu madre

guessing i dont actually remember

so excited.. bus stops in DC have the wire ads again..

Dominic West as Jimmy McNulty with a larger storyline than the fourth season
well, ok not for this part

mcnulty is awesome

There was an awesome documentary about Melvin Williams, the preacher guy who used to be a drug kingpin in real life, on BET tonight. Check it out if you can, it's pretty cool.

hating on mcnulty is bullshit.

I just watched all of season 1 in the space of like 48 hours. Very good! Are the other seasons as good as the first?

Better, even.

There was an awesome documentary about Melvin Williams, the preacher guy who used to be a drug kingpin in real life, on BET tonight.

AMERICAN GANGSTER THE BET SHOW ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS

that show: soooo goooood!

I got my dad & stepmom the season 1 dvds. It was weird watching the first episode again. I was really conscious of there were a few "fucks" in every single line, couldn't tell if it was because I was watching with my folks or because it was a little gratuitous at first.

i had that experience with 'bad santa'.

Did anyone watch the S5 preview special? I dled it but havent checked it out yet.

hating on mcnulty is bullshit.

SO otm.

Yeah, I love McNutty.

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