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Carcetti is a good character but I think that actor is one of the weakest they have had on the Wire. He plays up the HERE IS MY SLIMY, CONNIVING STARE thing way too much. You can see that the character is written with some subtelty, in that he DOES really care about the city and he wants to do the right thing, but I feel like the actor emphasizes the sleaziness and the egotism too much. Although this is partly the direction as well (CLOSEUP ON CARCETTI WHILE HE FLASHES HIS FUCK ME EYES).

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost:

yeah, o'malley showed up in nyc recently on a local npr panel about "what have we learned from sept. 11." the only reason i could figure for him being here was to raise his profile for future endeavors.

carcetti might be too pretty. otoh, here's the o'malley clan:

[img src="http://www.martinomalley.com/images/71.jpg"]

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, i mean...

http://www.martinomalley.com/images/71.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

carcetti's bare ass humping away last season kind scarred me - they could've left that out or filmed it from a different angle or something.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

haha another good thing about this season: MUCH LESS ONSCREEN SEXING

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i am not minding kima's lesbian philandering so much

where is that interview mentioned a little way upthread?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I am so glad that I have a friend with HBO now. Waiting years for Season 3 to make it to DVD was awful.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

too true Alex

my beef isn't with carcetti the character, but the actor playing him. the 4 kids are cast perfectly, so i can tell this season is gonna be good, if not great. chris from marlowe's gang is genuinely pretty scary to watch in his calm cold-bloodedness.

i love how former bmore mayor kurt schmoke made a cameo in season 3 during the legalization debating scene at the mayors office, as he actually did bring that up during his term in office and caught all kinds of hell for it.

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah the sex scenes have always been groanworthy but i ain't saying i mind them! definitely wouldn't mind some certain ones this season as that one carcetti advisor is the first white woman on this show i'd fuck like crazy. loved that the first episode this season really didn't provide much of a jump-on for people new to the show.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

it might be an optical illusion but that female carcetti advisor has plumped up nicely this season. (no nude scenes.)

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

DISAPPOINTING

She's actually the worst actor of the bunch actually. Carcetti is just poorly directed IMO.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

BELIEVE

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

a night out with bubbles

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i just finished season 3!! amazing. what a spectacular slow burn... best show on tv.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Goodman's recent paean to 'The Wire'

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=12201

― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

aw hell these kids are gonna make my heart hurt, i can just tell.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

― señor citizen (eman), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched episode one a 2nd time and carcetti has grown on me some

― señor citizen (eman), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Obv Carcetti's supposed to be annoying to a degree but i don't have a problem w/ his character's role in the series (at least as of season 3) and find him less abrasive than ziggy (who was also fine).

I wish I had HBO. I can tell waiting for this to come out on dvd is just going to be murder.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

dude the internet srsly

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i like carcetti pitching a fit and getting laughed at by his staff and leaving his shoe on his lawn then having a terse sarcastic exchange w/his wife while heading for the car the next morning stopping turning you think he's gonna go back and give her a kiss instead he just throws her the shoe and she catches it and she's not mad - they're both tough.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

chris actually scares me, but i'm in love w/his little bad girl sidekick - the exchange in the home depot was a brilliant microcosm (although the cgi hardware barn sign was ass.)

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

avon and stringer look like complete dufus amateurs compared to marlo and chris.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

favorite scene in season 3: kids playing w/ the computer face program
"make his ears stick out"
"why?"
"cuz i fucking told you so"

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

also, anyone else notice lt. rawls in the background of the gay bar when brother muzone's dude is leaving? some sort of weird in-joke or wtf

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i should take a screenshot of it, its fucking hilarious

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i noticed that, i caught up on season 3 this past week.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I WANT MCNULTY ON HIS KNEES DOWN BY THE DOCKS AT... SAY, 10ISH 2NITE!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched the new episode last night and I am pumped for the new season.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I am Lovable and Capable!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahah nice rawls shot.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

haa beat me to it

http://static.flickr.com/92/241674397_a69b4d22de_o.jpg

"You're just having a laugh, aren't you, Bunny? You got the real stats and projections somewhere else. Someone's just outside the door with them, right? A stripper, maybe? That would be nice. He comes in, flashes a little nut, gives us a whiff of that ass and delivers my fucking stat sheets with a reduction that matches just what we promised the Mayor. That would be beautiful. That would be creme fucking brulee."

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, I forgot about that motivational presentation! I love that shit, it's always so baffling that people in life persist with it.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

W00T!

xpost

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

hows pres gonna handle the kids? just roll w/it cause he's seen worse? or maybe snap and kill one of em? stay up all night examining their permanent records?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The Wire has been renewed for its fifth and final season. Awesome.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link

HELL MOTHERFUCKING YEAH!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

BIG UPS TO HBO!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

ok look it's a new wire blog, it has one post! http://heavenandhere.wordpress.com

linked to from freedarko, likely the same people more or less - which sounds kinda... i'm not sure.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

:D kinda figured they would as they have ads everywhere for season 4. they finally stepped up their promotion of it

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah and it's getting lotsa this is the best thing ever on tv love from teh media

first weeks numbers must've been good too

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

it probably helps that it's probably not that expensive a show to produce (only cheaper fiction ones i can think of on hbo are lucky louie and maybe curb yr enthusiasm though i suspect larry david's earning a hefty enough penny on that to maybe push it past the wire) and with sopranos/deadwood/rome ending the schedule's pretty light.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

actual sunday night ratings were only 1.5 mil, which is only slightly better than the 1.3 mil averaged by season 3.

that doesn't take into account the weekly repeats on various hbo channels, or more importantly, On Demand. I'm surprised they renewed it so early.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i was really hoping homorawls would figure into season four but alas

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

with sopranos/deadwood/rome ending the schedule's pretty light.

they've still got Big Love, and David Milch's surf detective thing, something about vampires, and one more drama in the works for next year. i can't imagine any of those being breakout hits, though.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i was really hoping homorawls would figure into season four but alas

In episode 4, he moves up to a small town in New Hampshire and meets a charming coffee shop owner who is also a volunteer fireman.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i do hope it's actually called "something about vampires"

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

d'oh. my poor use of conjunctions rears its ugly head again.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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