"The Wire" on HBO

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― =[[ (eman), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

royal farms!! where one is curiously unable to buy beer??

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but will Omar buy crabcakes in his underwear?

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Sunday, 6 August 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Article about the Wire. It contains mild spoilers and a handy introduction to what's what in season 4.

http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/sepinwall/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1154887068280380.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

HBO boss Chris Albrecht suggested that renewal for a fifth and final season -- which Simon had in mind when he left certain season four story threads unresolved -- will depend largely on critical reaction to the new episodes

wait, season 4 might be the last, wtf?

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i thought season 4 was definitely the last one, already determined as such. the idea of a season 5 has me psyched tho!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I think every show on HBO should be considering itself on its last legs the way they're giving the chop over there. The good news for the Wire is that it wins awards (though not Emmys) and it's also quite cheap to make compared to most other HBO hour-longs.

It was originally conceived as a five season show, so I hope it works out.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

David Simon Interview (with minor spoilers)

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw this for the first time the other night. It was terrible!

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Start from the beginning. With this show, even more than most other serials it is the ONLY way.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Plot convolutions aside, it was just packed with bad acting. Sub-Efrem-Zimbalist-Jr. at best.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought the show was pretty bad for the first five or six episodes of Season 1, and then I changed my mind.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

> bad acting

We're just not going to agree on this.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Charlie Brooker did a nice segment on how amazing the Wire is on Screen Wipe this evening. Say what you will about that man, but he's always tried to spread the word on the show.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i walked 29 blocks to buy the season 3 dvd's tonight and they didn't have them >:-{

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i also know who does way down in teh hole this year but i think if i reveal it i get fired

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

royal farms!! where one is curiously unable to buy beer??

-- Euai Kapaui (tracerhan...) (webmail), August 6th, 2006 11:30 AM. (tracerhand)

i know of at least one that sells beer but locks it at midnight (and sundays of course)

xpost - simon reveals it in that interview i thought. local choir kids?

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

oh did he? haha we got scooped

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to take credit for that, btw. About a year ago - maybe longer - I was posting on television without pity's The Wire thread and suggested a children's chorus could do a great version of the theme song, plus it would fit in nicely with the education motif. I've heard they troll interforums for feedback, so...

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Q: What about "Way Down In The Hole" for season 4? Did you get someone to newly-record the song or did you pick a previously-recorded version? [Glen in Pennsylvania]
A: In keeping with the theme of the season, we sought out voices of middle-school-aged students from Baltimore. Rather than seek out a particular recording artist this year, we tried for the essential voice of our adolescent characters.
Beyond the musical choice, I think it works emotionally.
Specifically, our theme was arranged and produced by Doreen Vail, Maurette Brown-Clark and J.B. Wilkins. The young voices featured are those of Ivan Ashford, Markel Steele, Cameron Brown, Tariq Al-Sabir and Avery Bargasse. The musicians are Ronald Lindsey and Thomas Crosson. Mike Potter engineered the session.

All of the boys are from Baltimore and Tony Small, who directs a boys choir locally, found them for us.

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i missed season 3 first time around, have been catching the reruns before deadwood but last night impatience took me over so i watched the final two on-demand (where if i'm not mistaken you'll be able to watch the new episodes starting the monday before the premiere - is this right?): omg so awesome. what's everyone's take on carcetti? btw his consultant is incredibly hot, mcnulty was never served more poorly by his principles.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

scooped by a aol member in a wire beef!

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

(where if i'm not mistaken you'll be able to watch the new episodes starting the monday before the premiere - is this right?)

yup. now whats the deal with on-demand? specifically how much is it?

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought it was free with digi cable (provided you already gots hbo)

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

so its free w/ comcast?? oh shit! i dont have it but i know someone that does

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought it was! i havent had cable for a while

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah it's free w/ digital cable or whatever. i can get why they don't have every sopranos/sex&thecity/curb etc up there all the time but i wish they'd put/keep larry sanders on there since it's not really on dvd.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

wot no arli$$

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

haha my dad always bizarrely brings up arli$$ immediately whenever talk turns to 'great hbo shows' the same way he always brings up the doobie brothers whenever talk turns to the rnr hall of fame (dude has a very strong point here) or 'rock legends' or top 100 whatever of rock bs. doobies >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arli$$ obv.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

is DREAM ON on dvd yet?

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

5 dvd set of just rich hall's sniglets segments from not neccessarily the news due in october

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm tempted to see if fraggle rock is on dvd but i know that in five hours i'm gonna come home drunk and end up throwing that shit in my netflix queue.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

haha it is

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

sez the dude who has boy meets world lurking in his netflix queue

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

larry sanders is dope. i caught a late-night marathon of it last year on some network channel (wb? fox?). commercials were thrown in per usual but it was uncensored, wtf? i watched a couple hours of it. saw the one w/ chris elliott!

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i think bravo was showing reruns but i think it was 'formatted due to time considerations' or something.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ha this wasn't even basic cable though. like some disgruntled dude at the station got sick of putting in the same midnite-televangelist tape and decided to play larry sanders back to back for hours

― =[[ (eman), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, now that i've seen the whole thing, this show be straight fuckin with you

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 August 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

also there HAS TO be a season five or it's gonna be like chopping the last 200 pages out of a novel

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 August 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

man when is the new season premiering

― SLUTSPIRIA (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 27 August 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

As a Deadwood fan, let me assure you HBO won't take that into consideration.

― Chris L (Chris L), Sunday, 27 August 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i'm butchering this paraphrase but david simon from an interview we're running this week: "I don't care if it doesn't get renewed. I gotta finish it. I'll write a book or make a movie or go stand on Charles St. and perform it all myself if I have to."

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 August 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

> man when is the new season premiering

I believe it's two weeks from right this very minute!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 28 August 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it is on HBO On Demand a week or so earlier. I hope someone uploads it on some dastardly internet site, as I can't wait.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Monday, 28 August 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

it's killing me that the entire season is in the hands of the media yet unavalible to me.

LEAK IT U FUCKS

(please)

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got some catching up to do -- i've only seen the first three episodes of the first season.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

just watched first ep. of season 4 on demand ^__^

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

is it up on the ondemand menu? i looked earlier 2nite and didn't see it. it's ok, i think i need another week to make the transition from deadwood.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link

probably depends on the cable company but i would think it would be on there for everyone by now

one complaint: TOO MUCH SCREEN TIME GIVEN TO CARCETTI, FUCK THSAT GUY

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

b_tt_rr_nt?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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