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One more season.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to see the little kid that was going OFF on the 'chz faced bitch' when colvin walked back into the room get a storyline.

hahahah

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

have you just come to it, cozen?

― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 8 January 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That is good news indeed. This is easily my favorite show on television.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

yup; watched first series through, up to the finale, over the past weekend

am... not flabbergasted as to its quality, but certainly taken back... uncompromising is often an ill-judged way to describe a tv show but wd stake tht it fits here... the attention to, observance of, the formalities of policing and the legal requirements is stunning

a lot of the acting is stunning (w.poss exception of mcnulty who sometimes sounds a bit cereal-box american)

it is VERY good when for some reason I wasn't sure it would be

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

(w.poss exception of mcnulty who sometimes sounds a bit cereal-box american)

he is from sheffield!

i just got into it in the autumn, am up to end of s02. i sort of remember some noise when it came out but at that point i was dubious too, not sure why, probabyl similar reasons to tracey hand. david simon on the commentary is very... uh, high-minded, and i feel easier with, say, 'the shield'.

but mind is now blown and i join the chorus saying it's the best thing ever. i think watching one a week would be a difficult memory test -- seeing it on dvd quite quickly probably makes it 'easier'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It's arriving in the UK in January, finally, on FX, which I don't think I have ever watched.
-- Martin Skidmore (lonewolf.cu...), December 21st, 2004.

goddammn i didn't know it was so recent that it came o'er here.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

tomorrow is the start of rerun on BET here in the states. all the DC city buses have The Wire ads on them right now

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

stringer is english??!!!!!????!!!!????

his mindboggling first role:

"2point4 Children" .... Parachute Instructor (1 episode, 1994)
- Fortuosity (1994) TV Episode .... Parachute Instructor

damn.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, he is. I had no idea when I first started watching (early in s1 I could totally hear dominic west's accent).

oh, here, i knew i read this somewhere - from the new york times..
"Wherever I go the real hard-core dudes come up to me and confide in me," said Mr. Elba, who over the years has been approached by dozens of drug dealers identifying with Stringer. "I almost feel guilty turning around and saying: 'Hello, mate. My name's Idris and I'm from London.'" Mr. Elba burst into an exaggerated version of his cockney accent. "I don't want to break the illusion."

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Davey D's article on Elba (who's from Hackney, London, and is a DJ):
http://p076.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm34.showPrevMessage?topicID=1332.topic
From MTV news:
http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/092704/
Meeting Idris Elba is a straight bug-out. He's been in videos by Fat Joe and most recently Angie Stone, but he's best known as kingpin Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's "The Wire." So imagine how ill it is to holla at him for the first time and discover that he has a thick British accent and he's a DJ. "I've been collecting records since I was like 10," said Elba, who grew up in London. The actor, whose DJ name is Big Dris, began spinning around the age of 14. "I started out with my uncle," he remembered. "He had a sound system called Sound International back in London. He basically did weddings. I was the speaker boy. ... By the time I was 15, me and my men from around the way started our own little sound that was called the Social Affair Sound [and] we started doing local parties." Dris, who began putting it down behind the turntables in clubs by the time he was 19, has been living part-time in NYC for the last six years and actually started earning his living by spinning in the East Village and Alphabet City before landing a guest appearance on "Law and Order" in 2001. His stint on "The Wire" began in 2002. Dris said things are going to get ugly this season for his character, but in real life, Elba is straight. He's already put out a series of street CDs called Foot Fetish, and he's linking up with other DJs to put out collaborations. "I consider myself a blend DJ more than anything," he said. "Like my mixtapes, the way I want to see them grow, I basically want to see if I can get my mixtapes to showcase new talent. I can't compete with the big boys on getting the freestyles and all that, because I don't have the connects yet. Eventually, I'd like to get the new freestyles, but at the same time, I want to see the new cats that's coming up."

-- Pete Scholtes (pscholte...), March 21st, 2005.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.frydland/ultraviolet/images/title.jpg

SEE Stringer kill Vampyrs, BBC style!

http://www.warnerbros.it/movies/rockstar/img/dominic.jpg

DONT see McNulty rawk his new 'do with Marky Mark!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/52516825/544703

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

More wire gifs please.
Also, no mention of Omar in Trapped in the Closet on this thread? Say it ain't so.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf @ mcnulty w/stryper hair

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd totally forgotten his stint in steel dragon

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Season Four to be the Dr Strangelove of Police Procedurals

Meanwhile Simon Burns and the rest are doing Generation Kill, an Iraq War miniseries for HBO

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

'Man Blames Burrito For Paralysis'?

― fies, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, sorry. That first link should be

Season Four to be the Dr Strangelove of police procedurals

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The as yet unannounced Season Six is where they will focus on the hopeless quagmire of burrito paralysis that plagues the American Urban Environment.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

lol at paralysis burrito

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

between re-reading Tim O'Brien's Vietnam memoir this week and watching Full Metal Jacket, I was just thinking how much I'd like to see a Wire-esque take on war movies/tv. This is close enough for me.

― milo z, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I am watching season 1 rerun on BET. it's nice when all these characters are still alive.

― daria-g, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sayin', y'all. Between Generation Kill and John From Cincinatti, it looks like HBO has their hooks in me for the near future.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a good Chuck Stephens piece on the show in this month's Cinema-Scope.

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 3 March 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never read this thread because i don't want to accidentally spoil anything, but...

http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/leandersydnor.jpg

this guy came in my restaurant today! i talked to him for like 15 minutes. dude was really nice, awesome guy! :D

― modestmickey, Sunday, 4 March 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

He is very good at the fresh-faced recruit thing. The one time he really stepped out of that was great, too - when he came in to tell the mayor he was being indicted, knowing he was possibly committing career suicide by doing do - I love the the sheer oh-what-the-hell look on his face, the acceptance of what side he was, and the joy in that acceptance, all having to get conveyed through and around about three very understated lines.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 March 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The Mayor? Nah. Clay Davis.

But yeah, hilarious scene.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 4 March 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah Clay! Sometimes I wonder if I even saw these shows at all.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 March 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't read this thread, because I've only just got to season one episode five, but love it this far, esp the scene where they're in the kitchen trying to work out the murder scene, and the only dialogue is "fuck".

― .stet., Sunday, 4 March 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't there a handyman or super or somebody hanging around in that scene, watching them piece everything together? It would have been great if it were him who got in the last word.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 March 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

stet otm, I just finished season 2 so I'm skimming very very cautiously.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 March 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www3.tivo.com/images/zap2it/20060913/marlosnoop_thewire.jpg

maybe season 5 torrents will leak as they're being filmed

― am0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

here's a still from upcoming season

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/300/dominic_west/300b.jpg

― am0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I knew he was going to be back in plainclothes, but...

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i just finished season 2 so i can't read this thread like at all

― gbx, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

You are going to shit yourself at Brother Mouzone's sex change.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I just watched the first disc of season 3 last night. If you haven't gotten to this point I am about to do some

*SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS*

I kinda sensed the body language b/w Daniels & Pearlman was getting more intimate, but the sudden seduction was a total WTF. I guess Daniels left his wife between seasons? WHAT IS GOING ON

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Det. McNulty follows the money trail all the way to a seedy after-hours "toga party" at Power Plant Live. There he learns that the nearby Discovery Zone is literally the "kid-powered museum", operating as a facade for a child-slavery ring.

― am0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(many xposts)

― am0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

daniels and his wife were in separate bedrooms at least as early as s02.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

from what the actor i met told me, season 5 should be filming right now. but when the hell does season 4 come out on dvd? i can't find that info online anywhere

― modestmickey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, season 5 supposedly starts filming this month, although I haven't heard anything concrete like those signs pointing to the set or cast member sightings yet. if it wasn't so rare that the show needed any white extras I'd look into casting calls (my dad got to be an extra on Homicide a couple times, though. Pembleton's house on the show was almost his house!).

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't meet an actor but it was in the newspaper that s05 was going to start lensing this month or next.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"LENSING" ..!!!

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i write for variety don't you know.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

it also says in article linked above filming won't finish until end of summer, post-prod. in october. they are doing generation kill simultaneously. s04 dvd will come out, like s03 did, right before the premiere.

― am0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

uh that last sentence is my own assumption :/

― am0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, plz to hurry it along hbo!

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been watching the wire at least once or twice a week for the past couple months. i'm dying now while waiting for s04 on dvd! what's up with boy marlow!

― modestmickey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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