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
I just started a rewatch and one thin that strikes me is how tightly written the departmental politics are - the whole chain of events that sets the case in motion. I think I just kind of glossed over that in the past. It feels so real and at the same time has a perfect tragic inevitability to it.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Sunday, 25 May 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
beautifully backwards too - mcnulty acts out, he tells landsman he doesn't want to go on the boat, he is detailed to the unit, …, lester speaks up, mcnulty takes him out for a drink to the story of how he was put on the shelf, THEN he gives him the advice, 'when they ask you where you wanna go, keep your mouth shut'
1 yr later, mcnulty on boat
― j., Sunday, 25 May 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Well yeah there's that but tbh that's kind of a big punchline that I caught the first time through. I'm thinking of more banal stuff, e.g. when they're asked to write reports on Barksdale and the fact that Homicide's is long (thanks mainly to McNulty) while Narcotics' report is short puts extra pressure on Daniels and Narcotics, who has suction with who, etc. Also I felt more sympathetic to the department's desire to keep the witness killing under raps, being genuinely concerned about their ability to get future witnesses to testify and not having the money to protect them.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
Lots of little details, e.g. the legal exhaustion issue wrt cloning a pager. It just feels like Simon and co knew the workings of a police dept so well and had the guts to actually put a lot of that stuff in there that would get left out of most cop shows for dramatic purposes.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
burns certainly did
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
Well yeah there's that but tbh that's kind of a big punchline that I caught the first time through
well aren't you just the tits, tell me more about details that were the basis for entire episodes that your keen eye discerned by careful wireology
― j., Tuesday, 27 May 2014 10:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah I guess that came off douchey. Anyway just saying the attention to detail is amazing.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
tbf i'm pretty dim (had to watch some parts on subtitles, not even b/c of the baltimore slang - i'm talking the police procedural stuff) and the mcnulty on the boat thing was apparent to me the first time around, too
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
god damn don't yall motherfuckers never just appreciate
― j., Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
yes he ends up on the boat after explaining in an earlier episode that he didn't want to end up on the boat it's not an easter egg
― conrad, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
lol otm
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
THEN he gives him the advice
yall are choads
― j., Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
It's a great bit for sure. I'm just saying, it's like ep 1 he says he doesn't want to go to the boat, then a couple eps later Freamon gives him the advice about where not to go. One additional thing I actually noticed this time around is that Landsman pleads McNulty's case in front of Rawls, and yet it's Landsman who also ultimately (presumably) reveals to Rawls that McNulty doesn't want to go to the boat. Landsman helps McNulty out to the extent he can, sticking his neck out as far as it will extend without getting under the blade, but at some point there's nothing more he can do and he has to give McNulty up.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
tbf I think it was my wife who, the second Freamon started talking about that, was like "The boat. He said he didn't want to go to the boat."
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
whew as long as we properly credit first discovery, that's the important thing
― j., Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's revealed in season two that it was Landsman who told Rawls about the boat-stuff, iirc.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Also Landsman is the one who asks him where he doesn't want to go. And he presumably knows exactly what he's doing when he asks, even while simultaneously wanting to stick up for McNulty to an extent -- good police but trouble, and it's all about which way the cost/benefit scale tips.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Does that happen in #1? I was looking for it actually cause yeah it was one of my favorite callback jokes but I don't remember catching it on last view.
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it's in the first ep, when McNulty first stirs up the shitstorm.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
just re-watched most of season 3. theresa d'agostino has to be the least likeable character in the entire series, apart from maybe that white journalist (templeton?) in s5. she's so awful, i cringe every time she's on the screen
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
always ziggy
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I like D'Agostino.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
it's funny, it's been several years since i watched this show and many of the plot lines and even the characters are blurring for me, but one thing i will always remember is how much i fucking hated ziggy
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
i'm 2 eps into s3 (2nd time through)
had completely forgotten how terrible ziggy was
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
i forgot about ziggy
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
s2 is kind of a blur to me, i don't remember as well as the others
also i feel bored whenever carcetti is on the screen. can't remember if that changed in s4 when he becomes mayor
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
De'Londa Brice (Namond's mom) gotta be the worst
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
i put this on the "your terrible ideas" thread already but:
i want to photoshop frank sobotka on the cover of the new swans album:
http://i.imgur.com/Ildk6Gg.png http://i.imgur.com/eAuwKwn.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
ziggy and that fuckin duck.and burning money.frank and ziggy got the son/father they deserved imo
― pandemic, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
At least Nicky got out and grew a mustache.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
also rewatching s3 i forgot how funny it is when snoop's bragging about shooting stringer, "pullin money out of his pockets and shit cryin like a lil baby"
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
dont forget ziggy's penis
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
never forget
I know it's the odd duck (har har) of the bunch, but I have a real soft spot for S2. The dock workers were a lovable group of characters, even that fuck up Ziggy. Kind of wished they figured more into the plot later on, but maybe it's for the best they didn't.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
I mean, there's kind of an air in S3 of bringing back all the characters and plots people loved in S1 and burying any reference to the dock workers as if the whole season were a horrible mistake. A shame, really.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah i like S2 a lot but its prob my least fave
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
We see the dock workers later, though. Nicky heckling Carcetti, and Johnny Fifty in the homeless encampment in season 5.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I thought for sure Nicky was going to figure back into the story sometime later but it never really happened
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
we do see them, but they don't really figure into the plot in a significant way
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
I saw season 2 first so it's kinda my favourite.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
this x1000000
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
how abt the cop who goes on a triple date w/ herc and carver then gets shot doing a hand-to-hand the next day
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
D'Angelo's mom was pretty bad
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link