"The Wire" on HBO

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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http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=11846

The other day I rode the bus that cuts up north on Gay St. and goes by that American Brewery Bldg and marveled at how insane that building is, it's really beautiful. Had no idea that was the sniper location in Homicide

(as a sidenote, the bus I was on had Blood and Crip graffiti, like "6 poppin 5 droppin" and "Crips 4 Life" and that was all x'd out with Blood stuff and B with an arrow up and C with an arrow down and "5 poppin 6 droppin." The strangest one was a five-pointed star with B-L-O-O-D at each point, and there was also a six-pointed star with a 6 in the middle. I guess Bloods are 5 and Crips are 6? Looked like weird occult stuff almost.)

-- Scott CE (sceldre...), April 21st, 2006 11:55 AM. (Scott CE)

^^^^^^^???!!!

I would like to reiterate this question, though I would like to add a "the fuck" after "when" and a "motherfucking" after "is."