"The Wire" on HBO

Complete DVD box set is on supersale @ Amazon again:

http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete/dp/B001FA1P1W/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232660451&sr=8-1

$81.99

ch-ching!

btw what is with those "wire prequel" videos on amazon? can't really investigate @ work.

Gah can I resist this? So hard. . .

If they are the ones I am thinking of they are 5 minute vids of young Omar, Prop Joe, and McNulty.

urgh i really don't need it but i want it

i found a torrent that had mp3s of all the DVD commentaries from the first four seasons but nothing for season five yet-- someone bump this thread if they see one plz

damn you merkins, I got that boxset a month ago for the equivalent of $125 :(

Are they called "The Wire Chronicles?" They should these really short, almost-amusing vignettes about, like, Omar and Prop Joe as kids, or when Bunk and McNulty met -- not much to them except mild chuckles about them being very "in character," but they're like a couple minutes each, so it's not a big investment.

Actually to be honest the only worthwhile thing in them is a kid doing a decent impression of Prop Joe's looking-over-one-shoulder mannerism

this deal better last until tomorrow -- just cashed in a gift card from work that takes until then to redeem ffffuck

i just bought this for my sister because her birthday's coming up but i have that sinking i-just-bought-someone-a-present-i-want-for-myself feeling

thats not a sinking feeling homie thats a good feeling--go buy her a flower or something and keep the wire for yourself

omg could i do that?

is that secretly what i did do?

yes you can do that--pretty sure there is a part of the bible about how thats ok

homemade cookies are always a nice present--way better than a boring old set of DVD's

yes you can do this but you have to tell her what you did

that's what happened in the bible anyway

what your sister really wants is for you to happy

she really wants the wire box set; she told me! i have to give it to her

i just ordered this.

xposts ha ha!

buy her a spool of DVD-Rs and invite her to come over and burn your new wire box set any time

make her some wire box set cookies

xerox the boxset artwork

buy her a spool of DVD-Rs and invite her to come over and burn your new wire box set any time

― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:02 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lols this would be awesome

tell her that her edition is actually a super-rare promo copy they sent out to members of SAG

tell her it got stolen

one time i bought her a degrassi dvd set that did get stolen. it was a tragedy.

Was it old Degrassi or new-school Degrassi?

new-school! she's a child; she's never seen old degrassi.

children shouldnt watch the wire

well by "child" i mean 25 on her birthday

shes older than me! you should give me the wire box set instead

Did this get posted somewhere already?

5 seasons in 5 mins

i admit i am kind of hoping she already bought herself one. then i will keep it and get you a nice new spool of DVD-R's!

xpost to max

I'm on two episodes a night. Can't stop. So many other things I should be doing, but all I want is more Wire.

A lot of complaints about the packaging on Amazon. Maybe I'll wait for them to re-package?

I finished all 5 seasons in a week. It was a weird week.

We're getting through very slowly due to our schedules. Just about to start Season 5.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/burgersub/dukie.gif

i received the complete series in the mail today and promptly mailed it to my sister. feeling sad + virtuous.

My copy came in yest. Horseshoe u r a saint

omg big hoos you're her sister??

shh

HOOSshoe

i dug out this thread only yesterday having only just finished watching first season. 7 years old? fuuuuccck...

it's probably been said in this thread, but the date thing is less pressing, in a way, coz the show is or could easily be set in the 80s. loads of stufff in it is taken from stuff in d.simon's book, which was written in the late 80s and refers to loads of pre-1988, even pre-crack wars stuff.

Shamefully, I'm only now finishing season 1 and the 80s thing occurred to me too - most obviously how it all seems so pre-internet: all that lengthy exposition and montages of legwork going round city offices getting the paper trail of businesses etc. Plus, you know, how they are always using lol typewriters and lol tippex.

(id actually argue that it 'is' set in the 80s, the first season. spoiler but the high-rises were 'in reality' demolished in the (i think) early '90s; in the show they are demolished at the start of series three.)