"The Wire" on HBO

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.

"YOU MOTHERFUCKERS GAVE ME BAD ADVICE!"

Hey you guys are me wtf cut it out I'm me

Yeah, season 4 is debuting in the fall of 06.

HBO for 06:

March - May: The Sopranos / Big Love

July - September: Deadwood / Entourage

September - November: The Wire

My favorite is Bunk.

1. it woulda been cool if d'angelo's mom was introduced a little bit earlier, but oh well.
2. beginning of last episode - scene with lt. daniels and mcnulty in the hospital is, aside from daniels' closing lines, pretty terrible.

starting season 2 next week!

For all the seriousness, this show gets hilarious in a "jokes between friends" sort of a way. See Omar and McNutty clothes shopping. "Well...It's a look." "No it ain't."

I don't really have anything to add to what everyone else has said except OOOH. I had no idea Dominic West was English, but I knew Idris was. I've seen him on the telly. He was great in that show with Miles (Jack Davenport, I mean) that was about vampires except it wasn't.

Oh, inDEED. I am desperate to get season 3, having only watched the first two. I'm downloading it, but only at speeds I haven't witnessed since the 90s.

This show makes me want to drink. Always.

pretty much the same for me, i caught the first few eps and then missed one or two, which was enough for me to write it off until i could see the whole thing at once. which still hasn't happened.

also it really embarasses me whenever this thread is bumped :'(

I started watching this show about a month ago on DVD and picked up season 3 on bittorrent. Now I've watched all three seasons over the course of the month.

I really didn't like the first six episodes or so of season 1. The dialogue seemed like forced, hardboiled verite bullshit. But the last half of season 1 and then season 2 and 3 were so goddamned brilliant. I'm really glad I stuck through it because I personally believe this is one of the best shows in the history of television.

I mean, all you can really ask of art is that it change the way you think a bit and make you reconsider your perspective on the shape of the world, and it might sound corny but this show has been a big deal for me.

Nyagh.

I think this series has a lot to say about what's going on in Iraq, especially Season 3.

I'm going to leave my computer on for a month if I have to.

"I wiped them shits down" "I need to hear them shits" "nah, fuck those shits"

It's just so much funnier in plural.

I'm about 5 eps in, but I love the storyline involving that old dude that just got out of jail. I have no idea where this is heading, but fuckin' superb. Councilman Carcetti is also a great addition.

I had trouble with Carcetti, because I kept thinking he'd just slip back in to being the dude from Queer Is Folk, like it was a secret he was hiding. Ha.

Knowing the next series is about the school system, it's interesting to see (what I think might be) them setting up characters I imagine will be involved in that (Cutty and the boxing gym, very young kids in seemingly prominent positions on Marlos crew, the kid with Bubbs at the end?). I know there's been those sorts of characters throughout, but I kept thinking these were the main angles that would be taken for that next season. I wouldn't be surprised if I was completely wrong, though.

Is there ever going to be a season that doesn't end with a montage of pictures being removed from the pinboard?

I saw Peter Geraty (the judge) in "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" on Sunday night at the Atlantic Theater, playing a roaring bastard of an alcoholic father.

you done good zig.

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