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last night i bro'd down with ziggy. as weird a guy as he seemed on the show.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

shit i'll try it again - xpost

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

good 2 go, tnx doods! way waaay better than season 2 so far

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm quite new to The Wire, having gone out on a limb and bought seasons one and two on dvd in April and completely pigging out on them. I'm now absolutely obsessed with it and find myself urging people to watch it and scoffing at their ignorance of what has to be the finest television series if not ever, at least this century so far. I'm a massive Sopranos fan too, but I have to say that this has it beat.

I'm currently watching the re-runs of season three on FX and I'm two episodes away from the end. Fuck knows what I'm going to do without it! I love the way that even the smallest, most peripheral characters (Butchie, Landsman, Clay Davis) are so well fleshed out and even though you know very little about them, their motivations are so clear and believable.

Each scene is a work of genius (maybe I'm piling on the hyperbole, but hey, fuck it), but if I had to pick a favourite, it's Omar in court in season two ("I shot the boy Mike-Mike in his hindparts") when he completely turns the cross-examination on Levy. Priceless. Also, in season three when Cutty is telling Avon that he's leaving the game brought a lump to my throat.

Just wanted to get that off my chest.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 11 June 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

> if I had to pick a favourite, it's Omar in court in season two

I also love the aftermath of that scene.

McNulty: "You really see Bird shoot that man?"

Omar: "You really asking?"

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 11 June 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Cutty is so awesome in a Jerome Bettis kinda way.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm starting to watch season 3 a second time, its my favorite so far. i like the guy marlow and the dudes under him, their characters are really understated and believable. how is season 4 gonna top this?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM about Marlo. That scene where the girl that Avon's sent is coming on to him is brilliant. The level of paranoia that's in his head really comes through in the guy's performance. Scary stuff.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Just noticed that the season 3 opening theme is by the Neville Brothers. the end credits music is dope, I never really get tired of hearing it.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Monday, 12 June 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"got that WMD right chea, right chea"

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Back in SEPTEMBER?!?!?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"this..is bullllllllshit."

http://www.nndb.com/people/191/000057020/lance_reddick_sized.jpg

― XD (eman), Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

If Prez is back, does that mean they're going to find a (logical) way to shoehorn McNulty in, as well? I certainly hope so.

I'm gonna go re-read Savage Inequalities and get myself pumped up for this season. I think it might just piss me off as much as it entertains me.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

just seeing this thread gets me amped.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Wouldn't McNulty being on the beat in the Western put him right in the middle of Marlo's operation?

I just want to be sure that Bodie is back. I see Herc is now on Entourage, so I guess he isn't.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Saturday, 24 June 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Why wouldn't he be?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 24 June 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck! I'm in the UK and I'm completely obsessed with The Wire. Anyone have any idea when we're going to get it over here. I'd venture to say it will probably be about January.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bittorrent.com

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I prefer Azureus, but yeah.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers, but my computer doesn't seem to like torrents. Gonna have to wait.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Season 4, Episode 1: Boys of Summer
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Season 4, Episode 2: Soft Eyes
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Season 4, Episode 3: Episode #4.3
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Season 4, Episode 4: Refugees
10 September 2006
Season 4, Episode 5: Alliances
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Season 4, Episode 6: Episode #4.6
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Season 4, Episode 7: Unto Others
November 2006
Season 4, Episode 8: Corner Boys
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Season 4, Episode 9: Know Your Place
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Season 4, Episode 10: Misgivings
2006
Season 4, Episode 11: A New Day
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Season 4, Episode 12: That's Got His Own
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Season 4, Episode 13: Final Grades
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― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The nice folks at HBO sent out the first six episodes of "The Wire" season four (back in September!),

is this true? someone should really leak those episodes right now.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the wire forum on hbo's site is kinda crazy

― XD (eman), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

there's threads with david simon from the end of each season - definitely worth reading.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I just want to be sure that Bodie is back. I see Herc is now on Entourage, so I guess he isn't.

I don't know about Bodie but Herc is supposedly seen in the Season 4 teaser

― XD (eman), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

13 episodes? That's really unlikely - HBO does 12 episode seasons now.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, there's no way those episodes could have been season 4 - it didn't start shooting until 2006.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I'm slightly wrong, but mainly right: it began shooting in late 05, but there's little chance that they had anything remotely completely in September 05.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he meant that it's back on tv in September, not that he received them in September '05. That's how I read it anyway.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

one thing i never get about this show--and i say this as a complete and total fan--is how people bend over backwards saying how "realisitic" it is. i mean, it is, comparatively, with almost everything else on tv. but plenty of the scenes and set-ups are totally contrived, the acting can be hammy, there's more speechifying than ever goes on in real life, and whoever upthread was way on the money when they said there was a certain "no chief, YOU'RE out of order" quality about mcnulty.

that said, best show on tv.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

and of course, it means much more to me now. "aw look, that junkie is leaning on a city paper box."

we were petitioning my boss for a while to buy the orange couch in a charity auction but he wouldnt go for it.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

Perpetua, are you referring to the episode list? I knicked it off IMDB, and it says 2006, when they're meant to be airing (the ones they have dates for).

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

From HBO: With the Barksdale investigation concluded, the fourth season of THE WIRE will expand its focus to include a look at the role of the educational system in an urban environment.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Perpetua is misreading like a mofo, just ignore him

but plenty of the scenes and set-ups are totally contrived, the acting can be hammy, there's more speechifying than ever goes on in real life, and whoever upthread was way on the money when they said there was a certain "no chief, YOU'RE out of order" quality about mcnulty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgiGVhhXLak

― XD (eman), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i also interviewed the music director for a story i'm working on and got MAD SEASON 4 SPOILERS but i was sworn to secrecy.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

omar gets pregnant?

― XD (eman), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

that youtube parody sucked. And what's up with the taunting by saying The Wire is a hit show?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 25 June 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

Music director? So who is doing "Way Down in the Hole" this year?

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Sunday, 25 June 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

It's got to be the Compulsive Gamblers version. That's the only other version I know of anyway.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, that youtube thing is awful. The only remotely funny thing in it is that wtf? Stipe gag.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I HAVE WNBA SEASON TICKETS

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

youtube parody is a hit on the wire / hbo forum

I have no speakers AND THAT WAS FUNNY!

???

― XD (eman), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it was maybe a notch or two below Mad TV in terms of quality. Which is about as damning a condemnation of "comedy" as I can come up with.

Except for the Omar part. That was hilarious. And so dead-on and perceptive. It was almost like they'd actually encountered one of those mythical "homosensuals" at one point or another.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

So who is doing "Way Down in the Hole" this year?

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Devo 2.0

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The Pogues?

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Lily Allen?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

DMX

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

spank rock lol

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

hbo site says dru hill feat. sisqo

― XD (eman), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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