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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

i was thinking of something about the vampires actually.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"interview or something with a vampire"

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought they renewed Rome. Not that it's any great shakes.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

rome blows

deadwood was supposed to be about rome but hbo was all we already got one of those so the deadwood guy goes well i could put it in the old west or something

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Rome. But I'm a nerd.

It was renewed, but only for one more season. The second season will be its last.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:47 (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 (lokar2...) (webmail), September 13th, 2006 12:49 PM. (lokar)

season 5 crossover w/ Six Feet Under

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

season 6 he becomes hank kingsley's new assistant

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

anwan "big g" glover (slim charles) with backyard band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_Y4AKSP20

― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Good article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2149566

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit episode 2 was amazing

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:37 (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.

so OTM, a lot of the dialogue is well written but not really realistic at all, the "thin line 'tween heaven and here" type highfalutin Shakespeare lines and chess metaphors always make me roll my eyes. and I already ranted on my blog last week about how scarcely Baltimore accents are represented on the show. other than that though super psyched about season 4 so far and the news of renewal. also OTM about D'Agostino's hotness and her unexplained plumpness this season, her first scene in episode 1 i kept waiting for some reference to her being pregnant or something.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 17 September 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

how scarcely Baltimore accents are represented on the show

mcnulty's is laughable but since having recently heard him interviewed in his heavy brit accent i give him credit for whatever american accent he's managed thus far.

― señor citizen (eman), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

wire:snoop::deadwood:richardson

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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