"The Wire" on HBO

https://theringer.com/wire-hbo-characters-where-are-they-now-b9ee61c34aa8

Bill Simmons still doing his best to ruin The Wire

jfc

Cool fanfic but it could've used more vampires imo.

i'd rather read wire-themed slashfic than that stupid fucking article again tbh

it was vaguely worth it as an endorsement of the show's unparalleled handling of a huge cast, though - scrolling through those names i could easily remember their faces, voices, actions and relationships to each other and it's been at least five years since i watched any of it. that's a real testament to how good the show is

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/nyregion/manhattan-man-jump-housing-complex.html

Finally got Mr Veg to watch The Wire, we are almost done with S1 and he's onboard :D

This is my third rewatch and even now when I try to watch it with an eye for acting choices or writing or whatever, I still get 100% sucked into the story

Also I think I need to poll worst TV dads. McNulty has to be fighting for top of the list with that front & follow stint in the marketplace

His kids were taught well, though!

true. but he's such a bum

kinda want to skip the next ep (s1 ep 12) bcz I don't wanna see Wallace get got :(

It's amazing that Bodie gets your sympathy back over the next few seasons, after what happens to Wallace - that guy (JD Williams) doesn't seem to have done as well as other members of the cast, but great performance

yeah otm

Oh he does not

Halfway through season three and enjoying this, with the exception of maverick cop who plays by his own rules McNulty. If one more woman throws herself at him no matter how drunk or annoying he's being (at this point it'll probably be Kima, gay or they're working together and she has a vagina) or he does anything as flatout stupid as his "English" accent that got him into the brothel, I'll take a break.

*not. Sorry to rant but so many aspects of this show're just as great as I've heard, so this cartoonish cliché of a copy show character really sticks out and spoils things.

Yeah McNulty is a very tedious + one note character, and the actor who plays him is shite imo as well. Probably one of the main reasons I dislike this show, aside from all the other irritating Simonisms.

I think it was a combo of Brooker and my older brother's endless Wire proselytising that convinced me it must be dud. I think at the time my brother often used to pass off Brooker opinions as his own, and was smoking too much weed and in not in full possession of his own mind.

it's a great show. there are huge flaws. david simon screaming his messages at you constantly being one of them. and yes, mcnulty, virtually the protagonist is in many ways a tired tv trope of a character. but i think there's too much good in there to allow the flaws to dissuade anyone from watching

there is lots of good in it as well, of course, but I just can't get past the bad stuff!

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/mcnulty-uniform.gif

McNulty is p much dropped as 'central' character by season 3 and is widely reviled as a dick whose womanising is an impediment to his functioning as a grown adult

But let's be real even drunk dickish Dominic West is not going home alone most nights so let's all keep our grip here ok

With vivalbertine on McNutty but his ikea scene makes up for a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRRHb2WphWs

I can see how the McNulty plot could spoil season 2 for people. Yeah, there's some major bad bullshit in there, and it doesn't much have to do with anything. I love the scene where he re-checks the current maps out of spite. But it's really not a coincidence that the best season is the one with the least McNulty.

I know the feeling. I'm halfway through season 5 and getting a bit tired of the whole fake serial killer thing already. It's like some kind of comedy caper.

no one defends that bit in fairness

*cop show character, not copy. Glad I'm not the only one who finds him tedious.

I didn't mind the serial killer thing tbh. the scene with the profiler is a riot.

While I'm at it, "self-destructive alcolholic" shouldn't really equal dude who has sex all the time and occasionally turns up to work with a mild hangover. There was the time he crashed his car, which seemed promising, but it just resulted in a cafe waitress adding herself to the menu cos barely conscious bleeding McNulty was just too damn tasty.

I'm cool with mcnulty as a character up til his S5 storyline (despite some of its highlights cf the profiler scene), he's probably the most likable of the premium cable fuckups bc he's just a dude with a chip on his shoulder about the system pushing people around as opposed to a charismatic and amoral antihero. His comedy bits are pretty good imo and on the flip side a scene like his confrontation with d'angelo's mom was pretty powerful. Always liked the progression of his relationship w/bodie too.

imo we're seeing the world through McNulty's eyes in the beginning and as the show returns to him in the final season, you realize he's this fuck-up who almost made life work and then completely goes back off the rails in stupendous fashion

the waitress scene in season one is kind of eye-rollingly bad, but I like to think we saw it through his drunk vision. the waitress, if anyone else had seen her, wouldn't vaguely resemble the actress they cast

That's a good way to look at it. Especially considering in the ensuing sex scene he apparently has no problem keeping it up, which is a little unrealistic.

smdh

hmm i think the whole scene where McNulty crashes his car a couple times/gets a bite to eat/has sex was sort of a very effective (and funny!) nutshell encapsulation of his character: a total fuckup, thanks to his own efforts and despite knowing better, and yet he somehow manages to get lucky anyway.

Thinking Season 2 must be through the eyes of Nick Sobotka then.

Favorite bit in Season 5 is Gus watching Carcetti fire Burrell on TV and ad-libbing his internal monologue - "He feared and hated me and I merely wanted him dead."

smdh

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, September 23, 2017 7:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

effective defense against ED tbh

not sure why drunk fuck ups having a lot of sex is so vexing....or am i

Especially considering in the ensuing sex scene he apparently has no problem keeping it up, which is a little unrealistic.

yeah, totally shitfaced people never fuck irl

I wasn't really moaning about the behaviour of an amoral character, because they can be entertaining in the context of a tv series. Just a lazily + badly written one, played by a 3rd rate actor is what doesn't work for me.

https://media.tenor.com/images/361f76ab7e8c3e64872a0621758a733e/tenor.gif

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/reg-cathey-%E2%80%98house-of-cards%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98the-wire%E2%80%99-actor-dies-at-59/ar-BBIWauj

: O

He came close to getting the Lester role before Peters got it.

heard this is a good show, started watching it, halfway through S1 and it's really great!

ten years old this week, decent article in guardian

im up to s3 taking my time and its the best tv show of all time into

decent article is by an ilx0r

ten years dead, not ten years old

rip

tbfttm i read it on irishtimes which didnt credit

I am curious if this show will impress more than Oz, but I doubt it

there is much less male nudity in The Wire

Oz is more emotionally brutal and has way more male nudity and gay sex. I love both shows.

Okay I haven’t seen Oz, and now I’m scared to.