"The Wire" on HBO

Burrell an unredeemable villain? wtf.

I mean you could say that more about Rawls and even that's a stretch at times.

The guy who plays the managing editor (I guess - not the old white dude w/ journalism dean buddy) is really good, actually. You can see where he's stuck in between the other two - trying to do a good job, but not an awards whore/lackey or willing to rock the boat too much.

Yeah Clark Johnson is awesome so far, every season has at least 1 really great addition to the cast and he's it this time.

i'm mostly concerned about finding out who rawls was talking to in that gay bar in season 3 o_O

argh see i think milo is talking about the MANAGING editor, not the old dude - we need to find out these guys' names

city editor: Clark J
managing editor: curly hair (Jewfro?)
editor-in-chief: old white dude

aha, hbo.com to the rescue

City Editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes
Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow
Executive Editor James C. Whiting III

nice of 'em to tack on 'the Third' for that guy

strangely, the hbo website says klebanow "has a weakness for attractive young female reporters with questionable writing skills" .. ?

can someone explain to me what exactly's going on with marlo, the greeks, prop joe's money, and the antilles? i thought marlo was going to the greeks to cut prop joe out of the action, but it's prop joe who's helping him come up with "clean" money? huh?

strangely, the hbo website says klebanow "has a weakness for attractive young female reporters with questionable writing skills" .. ?

-- Tracer Hand, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

This was alluded to in I think the very first scene at the Sun in episode 1, w/ the dudes outside bullshitting and having a smoke.

Does Prop Joe know why Marlo's asking for clean cash? The young'un could be sticking it to the fat man by getting him to tie his own noose.

i think this big emphasis on how "realistic" everything about this show is has always been sort of misplaced

-- Tracer Hand, Monday, January 21, 2008 9:31 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^
this needs to be said again and again

for the record, i don't give much of a shit about realism. what i admired in the wire was all the greyness, complexity and intelligence of its characters, even spread across their disparate personalities.

Like, Hamsterdam and McNutty drinking and Herc being a massive fuck-up and getting some kid almost killed - different seasons! Not all piled together fighting for time.

thats what i'm saying, i really think hbo's 10 episode cutback might be to blame for this

they talk about Klebanow's perv streak during one of the bull sessions on the smoking dock

has every episode had an exchange between Alma and S. Glass about the Sun being a good paper vs. nuh-uh I wanna for the Times dammit?

if not already posted, streaming episodes here

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/The_Wire.html

http://www.thefader.com/newsletters/wirebmore/thewire_bmore.jpg

i'm going to this tomorrow, hopefully will be able to afford to bring home some kind of cool memorabilia.

pretty sure i saw sonja sohn getting out of the elevator i was about to get into this weekend.

sean the wire is chock full of intelligent people doing dumb things! i agree that there's more of it this season so far, but that's fine by me

Fresh Air interview with Michael K Williams (Omar)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18299087

i'm mostly concerned about finding out who rawls was talking to in that gay bar in season 3 o_O

-- omar little, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:39 PM (Monday, January 21, 2008 12:39 PM) Bookmark Link

YESSSS this has been killing me!

some gay guy?

i was expecting his implied homosexuality to resurface at another point that season but it never did.

stop with all the innuendo, guys, Jess didn't even move to Baltimore until later.

kinda sad that the show has more exposure than ever, but the weakest start to a season. Hope new watchers aren't going "the fuck is with this serial killer bullshit?!" and not giving it a chance.

Well if new viewers come from a cops/robbers procedural, the serial killer plot is going to be pretty standard convention, i.e. they won't know any better.

lol Alex

seriously; what are they going to think - "well it's ok - but it's no Nash Bridges."

even if omar turns out to be marlo's long lost brother, separated at birth - and episode 8 is done entirely as a musical it will still be 1000000000x better than any of the other garbage time cop shown polluting the airwaves!

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meta: One of the cops (the dude with the earlier homeless case) was reading 'Generation Kill' when McNulty was talking to him. (My stepbrother wrote that book. HBO series comes out in September, produced & screenwritten by Burns/Simon..)

dudes im worried about this season. the serial killer thing do not like.

here's what i think they should do. marlo and omar run into each other down tropical way. it's super-tense but then who do they run into but the detectives of the western, who are ALSO down there on vacation!!! then they all team up and go after clay davis, who is running a smuggling operation down there. mcnulty and marlo have to team up! eventually they learn how to work together and even earn some grudging respect for each other. and at the end of the season they have a big party at prop joe's carribbean villa. with some lovely ladies ;) last shot, mcnulty drinking rum, looking at the bottle and saying, "i could get used to this stuff." (maybe him and bunk open a bar on the beach after it's all over)

._.

and bubbles sings a song with the band!

do not read the spoiler thread, slocki. u will b sad.

one of my friends put it really aptly (he, like me, has only seen to s05e03) -- so far this season feels like Wire fan-fic.

i don't necessarily disagree with you but i think i'm going to stop reading this thread for the rest of the season if you keep up this whining.

is that a threat?

THAT'S A PROMISE

haha yeah sorry that came out like a jaymc 'writing you off' thing but seriously

:(

you better get to liking this season more sean, or alex is gonna have NO CHOICE.

well i mean i avoided this thread during s4 because there wasn't a seperate thread then for people with screeners and torrents of unaired episodes, so no biggie.

what you're saying is, you've done it before and you'll have no problem doing it again. you're basically putting us on notice.

great conversation, guys

oh, you're going on the list now too, s1ocki.

now you know how some of us feel on M.I.A. threads ;(

well some parades were meant to be rained on

MIA threads are so full of spoilers.

Has anyone found a torrent of episode 4 where the audio matches the visuals? The one streaming on that website is the same one I downloaded the other day ... it's worthless.