"The Wire" on HBO

that seems like extremely high praise. it's good tv but from what little i've seen here and there it felt more like the shield maybe. it was created by olivier marchal, who's directed a few movies in the same vein, think cops and the bleak lives they live or something to that effect (if you've seen mr-73 or 36, quai des orfèvres for example).

<3 The Shield <3

Yeah the shield is great. Braquo is similar in that its cops crossing a line and going too far and of course it doesn't end too well for them.

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Lol, first comment

This is a pretty cool behind the scenes article about how the actors got familiar with Baltimore:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/david_simon_s_the_wire_a_behind_the_scenes_look_at_mcnulty_kima_bunk_and.html

Still, Bubbles may have been more than a cliché, but it was a difficult character to play day after day. “My character’s head space was not a pleasant one,” Royo said. “I’d look at Idris? Nothing but bitches outside his trailer. Dom West? Nothing but bitches. Sonja? Dudes and bitches. Me? I’d have junkies out there. They fell in love with Bubbles. I’d go into my trailer and clean my shit off and come out and they’d look at me like, ‘You’re not one of us. Fuck you.’ And then when I had the Bubbles garb back on, it’d be, ‘Hey! What’s up? Welcome back!’ That’s a head trip, man. That shit eats at you.”

By the third season, he said, “I was drinking. I was depressed. I’d look at scripts like, ‘What am I doing today? Getting high or pushing that fucking cart?’”

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-01-27/lifestyle/35438800_1_probation-officers-adults-sonja-sohn

on sohn's post-show community outreach

that bubbles quote, lol.

still feel like season 5 taints my memory of the show as not being as great it actually was.

i never got around to affording season 5 dvds so that has been working out ok for me so far

started rewatching for the first time in ages, I forgot how much of a shock it is when Kima, ostensibly the honorable, good cop out of all of them starts beating the shit out of one of the low-rise boys (Bodie?) when he punches a cop.

yeah, the one cop who WON'T hit anyone is mcnulty; in many ways, he's the model police officer!

S5 really isn't as bad as its rep suggests.

Yeah, it’s not as good and is perhaps a bit OTT, but still has so many great moments, and good to see the the decline of local newspapers, which I experienced at first-hand over 15ish years in UK local media, covered in such a great TV show.

I rented and watched all 5 seasons as they came out and later got them all on DVD. Even though I've had the DVD sets for a long time, I still haven't yet re-watched seasons 4 or 5, while I've watched the first 3 seasons multiple times. Gotta make some time for them.

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Ruff ruff!

XL

who is that??

the cartoon dog?

Lisa Frank?

Shopped :(
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:(

aw

there are a lot of sick people out there

Can’t believe they shopped it out. :.(

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire

In retrospect I hate The Wire and wish I had never watched it.

hummmmm - why is that?

It ruined him for every other TV show including the new girl

I just finished this. I will miss Lester the most.

then you should watch Treme

2 eps away from the end of S2.

Was thinking about it. I caught a couple of eps on a free HBO weekend and seemed worth a look.

My wife got pulled in after I watched S1 which forced an immediate rewatch. By the time we got done with S4 she was ready to bail because she was so heartbroken.

Treme is slower and more melodramatic than The Wire, but Clarke Peters plays one of the more lovable characters, so that might fill the Lester-sized hole in your heart.

thanks for the tip. I just don't know what to do without him peering over his granny-specs.

Currently on s2e7 of my 3rd go round. They killed D again :(

I think on balance s4 was the best and most fully realized season.

lol @ cutty declining a flyer on election day: "nah man i can't vote" "conviction?" "yeah" "felony?" "MOVE ON, man!"

Oh man, this is going to be streaming on Amazon Prime soon. Think I'll finally get around to Season 5.

Season 5 is underrated imo

I need to revisit 4 and 5. I have both on DVD, but haven't gotten around to watching them again since the first time.

I read this thread along with watching the wire recently and managed to buffer my expectations for the 5th season to the degree that I enjoyed it quite a bit. There is much that is good about it, serial killer stuff aside... and even that didn't bug me because it illustrated such prime McNulty assholism.

just started rewatching and had forgotten how inept and dumb prez starts out as

Prez was a superb example of the way this show creates characters. To think of him at the beginning of the show, as you describe, to the end, his last appearance ("I think I won't see you again... for a while") is one of the highlights of the series.

yeah prez has such a great redemption; he goes from such a punchable turd to almost my favorite dude on the show

yup. by the time he's telling the kids not to cooperate with the police - totally different person.

Prez was a superb example of the way this show creates characters.

yea definitely. characters like poot or bodie that i didn't give a shit about in the beginning (or was even mildly annoyed by) i ended up really loving and caring about, seeing the characters develop and grow over a few seasons

lol waht even Poot? Boadie is an obvious turnaround, but I never really got a sense of character development from Poot, probably because he ended up becoming a tertiary character.