"The Wire" on HBO

been up since thurs - dude claims he's gonna post 4.3 today.

is there some sort of registration required for this site for later use? e-mail me if so.

I plead combination of Deadwood hangover, start of football season, and 6-day workweeks.

Thank the lord for HBO on demand...

- cool Lester Smooth
- Prez still using Ring of Fire as his "getting shit done song".
- Cutty! Positive and popular (as he deserves)
- Platinum club! Ha. Good one Avon.
- Wee Bay's spoilt son!

I know there was more.

yeah, this is a funny riff that also gets at, you know, "deeper underlying issues" (the dearth of eligible black men of a certain age in inner-city neighborhoods). that's when the show's at its best i think, wrapping social observations in offhanded moments.

I'm especially fond of the Cutty thing, because he plays it so well too. He seems so innocent and almost unaware, and you can totally see why all the ladies love him. And it's a nice turnaround from last season where I always felt he was getting hard done by. So it's all going to go wrong, right?

I always think I really like Bodie, then I'm all "But you killed Wallace in a really mean way! Poor Wallace." but then Bodie has a funny scene with Carver and I'm all "awww, you guys!".

yeah they're totally fucking w/us.

Yeah, I def have the feeling bad things are going to happen. sad

- MAYORAL BONER (WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)
- TARGET PRACTICE
- MICHAEL

- clay davis' twice uttered shhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiit (especially the 1st time).

OTM

- what's up w/marlo losing his composure at a little kid?

That was odd at first but i thought it became apparent that he was just trying to get a rise out of Michael. When he makes that face, Marlo kinda laughs and lets him go on his way.

i don't think ignoring the situation would've made marlo look weak - everyone knows he's deadly already. if anything it was lame to show that he cared at all - seems like he has a lot to learn about wearing the crown.

michael - john
namond - paul
dukie - george
randy - paul

LINK MOTHERFUCKER LINK!

I did kinda feel like they leaned a little hard on the 'mirror' thing this week - Clay and Randy both saying "I don't care where the money is from as long as it's free" and Bubs and Cutty's boss both talking about doubling territory.

-- PARTYMAN (wt...) (webmail), August 6th, 2006 8:05 AM. (dubplatestyle)

and I thought this was a joke

It's so nice to see all the characters I missed in 4.1, finally weaving their way back into the plot.

The look between Pryz and Bubbles slayed me.

"I was a police, in the city."

"And why did you quit that."

"I was fired for killing a co-worker. Oh, and one time I beat a kid's eye out cause I was drunk and he sassed me."

Yeah, this isn't going to end well...

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/466936/4651332/
-- 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (austin.swinbur...), September 20th, 2006.

see you did it all by yr self!

A club girl who took up years earlier with Wee-Bey, fathering his son and taking his name, Delonda soon found herself one of many in Wee-Bey's stable of molls. And it had been years since Bey had lived with anyone save for his tropical fish. But in the wake of his life imprisonment, she has shown her loyalty, visiting on weekends and bringing Namond to the visiting room to be schooled by his father. In return, Delonda's loyalty is rewarded with financial security that accrues from Wee-Beys standing in what is left of the Barksdale organization.

hbo.com has info not provided on the show (at least not yet). i was wondering if that basement aquarium that weebay took d'angelo to was in delonda house.

and

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9360/harblyp6.jpg

and also possib;y that I'm about to be banned from imageshack

girl getting cut was maybe the most painful scene yet, although it did allow an opening for dukie to show himself a bodhisattva roaming the animal realms. wonder if we'll discover the origins of the beef. the antagonism starts ordinarily enough then almost immediately escalates to assault w/a deadly weapon - they're telling us something here.

omar in it for the sport roffle

gotta think the other shoe's gonna drop with the suponas and give carcietti the election.

rawls acknowleging lester's brilliance was kinda tender.

marlo eyeing michael - creepy.

this is best season so far by a long shot says me (altho/and the actual "wire" part of the show feels vestigial/outgrown/underloved whereas it was the whole game before; i guess i'm saying it would be nice to see a little more policework but that may come - and i also may be stubbornly clinging to a mode the show's moved on from)

The Slate reviewer (Weisberg?) has a bizarro article on the show talking about difficult the slang is to penetrate - he apparently took three or four episodes to come to terms with "yo" and "feel me."

where is ep. 4444?$$??$??$#

marlo eyeing michael - creepy.

heh there's a couple shots of cutty grinning and staring at michael throwing punches that were kinda creepy, esp. when a chick is trying to talk to him

I want my AVI!

milo hm OK, i guess i wasn't paying attention