"The Wire" on HBO

all in the game yo

FINALLY somebody mentions brianna (i.e. sarahel).. the nexus of her, avon and stringer in, what S3? was like nothing else

the actress who plays her is named michael hyatt and... she's british o_O

Although Hyatt is commonly considered an African-American, she has an international background and considers herself an African-British-Jamaican-American, and believes that to exclude any part of that reality would be an incorrect representation of who she truly is.[citation needed]

ah well sorry michael hyatt

i didnt realize i was being a dick. i would just like to know why al didnt like that line of dialogue. thank you

― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's mainly that he says "'tween" instead of "between" that makes it overly precious for me. also lol @ hoos having to lay down the law with you.

What is everyone' take on Chris? His sexuality is possibly the most ambigious in the show. Is he a bit W Smithers? He seems to just want to please Marlo and make sure Snoop is learning and seems to only care about his people. Everything that has to happen to keep them good (as opposed to making money or helping out the community or etc.) and he's chill? Murdering seems as normal as running to the store.

Anyway my five: Bunk, Chris, Slim Charles, Herc and Prez

its a fine line http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Imported/Editorial/T-Z/TweenStars/TweenStars-SelenaGomez15.jpg heaven and here

Didn't Chris have a wife and kids? Seem to remember them being taken care of (not like that) when he got picked up in s5.

he has people

chris is great. so is slim charles. I can't pick 5 for this show, I really can't.

lol yeah chris was married sam

really? did i miss an episode or something? i mean sure there was vague talk of 'taking care of my people' but thats it iirc

The actor who plays Rawls was in Blue Valentine, playing an embittered, oxygen-tube dependent variation on his asshole cop.

i never questioned Chris's sexuality. the impression i always got from him was that all the killing and gang related violence and horseshit was not a very big deal compared to some other shit he just wasn't going to mention.

xp I mentioned that here: Wire Actors in other things

boy that movie seemed like a real pick-me-up until you told us that

xp to alfred

yeah i don't get where Partlow's sexuality is at all ambiguous. having Omar AND Snoop openly gay already, him too would be kind of over the top imo.

if only tv had less homos

also is snoop actually a gay character? you just never hear about their lives iirc

or did you mean keema

also is snoop actually a gay character? you just never hear about their lives iirc

― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:37 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seeing as her character is based on the real person, i would say yeah?

it's mainly that he says "'tween" instead of "between" that makes it overly precious for me. also lol @ hoos having to lay down the law with you.

― some dude, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a thin line between anthony hamilton drums and wire quotes

isn't felicia pearson the actress gay too? i thought i remembered her sayin in an interview somewhere that she was proud to play a gay character or something like that

there was at least one line where Snoop referenced her sexuality pretty clearly (Bunk: "I'm thinking about pussy" Snoop: "Yeah, me too"), which is certainly more concrete than the speculation on Chris. anyway the number of gay characters on The Wire is great (and kinda funny considering how LOGO will run shows that had like one supporting character who had a same-sex relationship in 2 episodes), I just think having 2 of the most cold-blooded killers on the show be gay is enough, 3 would be verging on silly.

lesson: all gay people are cold blooded killers

I was just saying I liked how different he was, because he was an ambigious character but in a human way. Not saying he is gay. It is a nice offset to the evil robot Marlo whose only sexing looked like a case of ghetto NOTGAYS and you know, she ended up shot. So with Marlo it is because he is stone, Chris seems to keep so much from us to protect his crew and his own sanity and its quite charming how subtly it is pulled off.

lesson: all gay people are cold blooded killers

― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my bro did throw a knife at me one time

snoop explicitly says she's gay more than once on the show

chris has a legit family that he has to say bye to when he's on the run towards the end of season 5

watch yr dvds

So with Marlo it is because he is stone, Chris seems to keep so much from us to protect his crew and his own sanity and its quite charming how subtly it is pulled off.

Meh. I don't think the writers bothered with Chris much other than a useful cold blooded killer, it's just the dude who plays him is so normal looking that it makes the whole thing more sinister.

this thread is making me consider watching the whole series front to back for a third go; i bought the box set almost a year ago and it's still in the plastic. Woulda tried it already except gf says "she's not ready to commit" to that experience.

dealbreaker imo

she already went through it once! no judgments.

It’s been great observing my gf see this show for the first time. I could tell she was not too into for the first few eps, then I notice her coming around, Kima gets shot and she’s all “OMG this show is crazy put on the next disc damn it”

the first episode is not good imo but it improves really fast

Chris - wikipedia has something about a domestic sexual abuse backstory for him, hence him going to town on michael's dad

wikipedia has that huh

thasswhatIsaid, wiseguy

this thread the last few days is probablythe most i've even thought about The Wire since it went off the air, kind of been getting some space away from it after being so intensely into it for a few years. maybe that way i'll enjoy re-watching it all more at some point when i finally buy the DVDs or get them for Xmas or something.

rewatching it has been great (we're up through season 3). nice to not be constantly be playing catch up with who's who and how everything connects and kind of enjoy the overall structure.

been re-watching homicide this winter. man if u think wire's season 5 is bad...

haha i came to homicide after the wire and was like 'really? this is it?' - guess it must've been a lot more of a 'thing' in its time

i loved Homicide at the time and have been meaning to revisit it, but yeah i'm nervous about it having aged poorly

homicide is... okay? it's better than the corner.

i actually think the first 3 or 4 seasons are solid and have some gr8 writing/acting, for a network show at least. but then this fucker pops up and its all downhill from there

http://www.classictvhits.com/cast/1870.jpg

iirc homicide is entertaining but it really has the fontana touch - super-catholic, earnestly liberal in a somewhat dated feeling way - the acting's prob better than The Wire, all things told

it's more of a network show is all.

i only saw the first 3 seasons, come to think of it

Homicide's dialogue in the first few seasons is right on...or at least I remember it being that way. Haven't rewatched in a while.

yeah i was gonna say, it's pleasing to watch in the way that a really good cop show is

And yeah, I don't think I saw it all the way through, I stoppped after maybe S3?