I just finished this. I will miss Lester the most.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
then you should watch Treme
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
2 eps away from the end of S2.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Was thinking about it. I caught a couple of eps on a free HBO weekend and seemed worth a look.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
thanks for the tip. I just don't know what to do without him peering over his granny-specs.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Currently on s2e7 of my 3rd go round. They killed D again :(
― make flowers on me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
I think on balance s4 was the best and most fully realized season.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
lol @ cutty declining a flyer on election day: "nah man i can't vote" "conviction?" "yeah" "felony?" "MOVE ON, man!"
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, this is going to be streaming on Amazon Prime soon. Think I'll finally get around to Season 5.
― how's life, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Season 5 is underrated imo
― Kadeem Hardson (rip van wanko), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
just started rewatching and had forgotten how inept and dumb prez starts out as
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah prez has such a great redemption; he goes from such a punchable turd to almost my favorite dude on the show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
yup. by the time he's telling the kids not to cooperate with the police - totally different person.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
yea i think b/c poot was able to get out of the game? working a job at foot locker while all this other shit was going down kind of endeared me to him, made me feel relieved for him
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
been a long time since i've watched the show, so maybe in my head that development was more significant than i thought. but seeing characters get deeper and deeper into some shit and then seeing others escape it, even if it wasn't a heroic escape, seemed significant
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
"so maybe in my head that development was more less significant than i thought."
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
That job should've been Duquan's. >=(
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
right!
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Carv looms larger every time I watch, with Seth Gilliam's portrayal being on of the best 2 or 3 acting jobs on the show.
― Kadeem Hardson (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Carver's development is an amazing personal transformation, in a show full of them.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
yes, he's easily my fave
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Interesting the bait and switch they had with Carver and Herc -- Herc apologizing to Boadie's grandma for storming their apartment, then the season 1 finale where he's telling the recruits about not busting heads but building strong cases.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
even herc is done busting heads by s5 though isnt he? iirc
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
well, yeah, he becomes a P.I. for Levy
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
ohhh shit thats right
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I guess it wasn't a brutality case, but he did stop and then arrest that one pastor(?) in the fourth season.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Herc is one of the all-time great stupid characters
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
he wasn't as stupid as the young thugs that shot Omar's grandma's hat on Sunday morning
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
No but Herc's was a deeper, more nuanced kind of Stupid.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
there was no deeper stupid than the 40 degree day guy
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
who was that again?
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
the one in season 3, after Stringer's rant about his crew's non-existent accomplishments, comparing them to a "40 degree day" (that no one gives a shit about), repeats the phrase with a sincere smile, totally not getting it. He was also one of the hat shooters.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Forgot how funny that washttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttbQTz8tAE
― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
marcos otm, poot's invulnerability is funny and a lil bit exhilarating. only ever cares about getting laid and comes through in one piece.
on current rewatch guy who plays herc started to feel like one of the best actors in the show. it's not that easy to play such a range of dumb without ever ceasing to be dumb. his facial expressions alone.
favorite still probably bunk tho. a shot in s4 where he+lester are partnered in homicide and lester is scouring the city for marlo's theoretical murders: lester emerges wearily from a sewer manhole as the sun goes down to find bunk in the street with suit and cigar, dancing w painstaking grace to the o'jays on the car radio. he just shines, which is why he's the only one who ever gets to convincingly tell off everybody's favorite predatory motherfucker. (this show has great, great fat guys in general actually: bunk, prop joe, landsman.)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
always impressed by the way my feelings towards landsman change without his having a "redemption arc" or even a particularly important speech. the closest is his "but carry the water i will" speech to kima, while scarfing chicken doohickeys, but by this time you already understand where he's coming from, the evolutionary imperative that has created his ironic-but-total selfishness, in a way you didn't in s1, just by dint of knowing more about his job. he doesn't change but you do a little.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Trying to remember what Prez looks like and all I can think of is Doogie Howser
― 龜, Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
otm
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
he looks like the bellhop in hudsucker proxy
― balls, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Or the random thug in Crime Story.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 22 May 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
the amazon prime hookup is out now!
so the spring HBO binge is ON
― j., Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
he is the bellhop in hudsucker proxy!
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
holy shit.
― how's life, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
never realized how crucial to moving the story Herc was until my most recent rewatching. the things he sets in motion without even having a clue what he's really doing. and in the end he winds up doing better than all his old colleagues (but not exactly intentionally)!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link