"The Wire" on HBO

i always thought the initial core bunch of detectives was pretty awesome. melissa leo was always kinda underrated, i liked her character just because she was so awkward and strange and original.

― omar little, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

otm

"some model chick" = mcnulty's wife!

o yeah and the final season has giancarlo esposito (gus from breaking bad) as gee's jheri-curled son lol

wait, not that model chick. this model chick:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005230/

did not realize that was gus! gus rules I really despise the homicide character he plays.

'Getting the band back together' is usually good times in any movie/tv show. I'm surprised How I Met Your Mother hasn't used that for an episode yet.

o yeah and the final season has giancarlo esposito (gus from breaking bad) as gee's jheri-curled son lol

― am0n, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Whoa!! i knew id seen dude before

he's been around for years, he's pretty dope.

one more thing I hate about the last season of homicide: EVERYBODY IS DATING.

Nevertheless, in its attempt to improve Homicide's ratings, NBC often insisted on changes, both cosmetic and thematic. For example, by the beginning of the third season, talented but unphotogenic veteran actor Jon Polito had been ordered dropped from the cast.

he barely made it to the start of season three.

but the show was still good at that point.

start of season two, even.

never seen homicide

and i never put jon polito's name to his face!

brother seamus represent

wait, not that model chick. this model chick:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005230/

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:30 PM

damn forgot about her

'homicide' is great, yall are chumps. i like the cast replacements on 'homicide' just because they show the culture of the department and the relationships between the detectives changing as the job grinds people down. lewis is really interesting in that regard, as you see him go from not catching crosetti's suicide, to going in with kellerman on the mahoney shooting, to just sort of kicking around the department not really bonding with anyone, and even going through a quarrel with whatsername after her gun gets taken.

Homicide is awesome for like the 3 episodes and then divebombs rapidly when they start moving away from material in the book - e.g. I think episode 4 has this bizarre segment where Yaphet Kotto flips out over asbestos or something and it is just baffling.

― ears are wounds, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

nah, it's never that much like the book, it couldn't be, and there's good stuff in the show that isn't in the book. but there's some really nice bits from david simon that aren't narrative, just good writing. just the other day i was thinking about how he describes cops persuading people to talk when they really don't have to. you can make a scene out of that but in the end that passage does what prose does and drama doesn't. and that's ok.

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i gave up on homicide when they started having to pull out their guns in every episode, but the ensemble was still solid as hell.

yeah, kellerman is kind of interesting. my initial thought was that he was brought onto the show as a pretty face to boost ratings or whatever but then he becomes so unlikable as the series progresses...

the actor that plays him is good too. menacing at the right moments.

weird to me to hear giancarlo esposito described as gus from breaking bad, coz he seems such a staple of american indie films down the years - spike lee, jarmusch etc. - and u see him pop up a lot elsewhere.

this was dope btw http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109842/

damn forgot about her

― am0n, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, could be getting my timelines for character intros/exits mixed up too.

weird to me to hear giancarlo esposito described as gus from breaking bad, coz he seems such a staple of american indie films down the years - spike lee, jarmusch etc. - and u see him pop up a lot elsewhere.

Yeah, I think I prob. first saw him as Buggin' Out in Do the Right Thing.

Yeah he's been around forever, love that dude.

He's been in a lot of short-run tv cop shows, but there was one he was in that I loved...I looked through IMDB but I can't figure out what it was. Maybe New York Undercover?

I stopped watching Homicide after Season 1 -- there were some great scenes and plots, but there was also the network-y corny plots involving a guy dressed as Santa and a parentless baby. Was that Jake Gyllenhaal's first real acting role?

Yeah, I think I prob. first saw him as Buggin' Out in Do the Right Thing.

― Pink Friday XIII (jaymc), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:52 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i knew the connection w/ this dude & homicide but never gus for some reason

One of my favorite episodes was when Melissa Leo goes home to Maine ?)...Massachussets (?)...somewhere where there are crabs, anyway, sorry my geography gets hazy on that lol...and her Dad and brothers are all crab fishers...she was such a great character, I really enjoyed seeing a woman on screen not really 'made up' at all, just hanging out with guys and not trying to kiss them and all that...she was so real for TV at that time, I dug it.

Gee could I ramble any more? Make of that what you will.

she goes to the eastern shore of maryland

but there was also the network-y corny plots involving a guy dressed as Santa and a parentless baby. Was that Jake Gyllenhaal's first real acting role?

― sarahel, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

this episode is the only one that really strikes me as blrggroghru
but mostly bcuz of the role of the mother of the baby ... the acting is super-theatrical & script was worse

so some dude's issue with the line is because Bubs drops the first syllable of "between"?

thin line 'tween between and 'tween

the thing with Melissa Leo's character -- I dunno -- it definitely was a stage in TV trying to create strong female characters, though she struck me as a prettier, less realistic Christine Cagney

I'll buy that. Hard to get much realer than Cagney & Lacey, as far as women in cop shows go.

i wonder how they say "ambulance" in baltimore

i think it was largely because of her hair, which didn't seem to fit in w/her line of work -- kinda like Naymond's ponytail

I loved her look, the baggy pants, always standing with her hands on her hips.

hey gr80 - the word "douchebag is pronounced the same.

seriously dude - take your tropical bro crepe act to another thread

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/01/bealefeld_the_wire_a_smear_tha.html

wait what xp

so some dude's issue with the line is because Bubs drops the first syllable of "between"?

― sarahel, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:06 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

partly but not entire -- it's just what tips it over from tolerably pretentious to ugh

yeah http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/xgllya_2.gif

as if bealefeld doesn't have bigger problems than some tv show
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-friendly-fire-shooting-20110110,0,4108960.story

so some dude's issue with the line is because Bubs drops the first syllable of "between"?

― sarahel, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:06 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i totally dont get what his point was either but i figured we were ~letting it go~

we want this thread to be the other way is what we're saying

good job letting it go, deej

i just want this thread to be discussion of The Wire; felt like maybe we'd derailed a bit much on the subject of Homicide

thnx bro ^__^

i agree w/ sarahel

2 thread cops with clashing personalities, forced to be partners. what hijinks will ensue?

I'm getting too old for this shit.

wait who are the thread cops?