― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 7 July 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ô¿Ô (eman), Friday, 8 July 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ô¿Ô (eman), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
I'd like to see a City Hall show written by someone who knows City Hall as well as Simon knows cops and robbers. But maybe I'd be the only one who watched it.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost to jamz -- yeah! The black councilman is running for mayor on an education platform, and the white councilman is running on crime, right? The white councilman is a great character, you never quite know where he's coming from. He seems like he's got real decency under there, but there are ominous signs... the moral triage of politics comes a little too naturally to him, and his vanity is well-documented. The revelation of Hamsterdam was a moment of moral choice for him and he wrestles with it -- use it to his campaign's advantage, or follow his conscience? He's told: "You've been dealt a winning hand and it's like you forgot how to play!" but he remembers how to play at the end, and I wonder if it's the first step down a long, venal road.
The other big indicator that 4 will be all about the money, or at least the politics, as that Clay Davis remains unconscionably un-comeuppanced.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Lance Reddick rules. He ruled on Oz too.
I saw him running at the dog park a few weeks back. Intimidating! But sporting the tall man's tell-tale knee braces.
And, in the hidden indicators department, he's done time in Rochester. Eastman School on his resume.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Secondly, last week thanks to the transit strike and me spending Christmas in New York, I rewatched the first season and am mid-way through the second. Just so so good. So many things I had forgotten, and some little tidbits in the early going that showed the uncertainty that it began with. Things like:
1) Omar curses in the first episode2) Stringer SMOKING in the first episode (no way would he ever smoke)3) McNulty's British accent is sooooo apparent in the earlygoing
Anyway, I'm just convinced more and more everyday how genius this show is/was.
Also, has anyone else seen Cutty in those Cheerios commercials? And last night I saw D'Angelo's mom in an episode of West Wing!
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
This sentence is true of me as well. Yancey, are you me?
― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
On the second viewing, I found myself more impressed by the skillful long-arc structuring, but slightly more annoyed by the couple of actors for whom I can't quite suspend disbelief. Frank Sobotka in particular makes me picture the script, and the camera, and the audition, and generally the actor trotting around the Upper West Side with a latte and a copy of Backstage.
― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link