"The Wire" on HBO

I'm in for the NIN "Head Down In A Hole" version.

i had to document that moment at prop joe's house. close your eyes...

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finished watching season 5. that part where the newspaper guy asks which story to run and they don't run a story on omar dying is so sad for some reason. and then michael and dukie turning into omar and bubbles...that last episode is a good example of how to do a last episode.

I just read that Wire oral history book. Apparently HBO didn't give Simon the full 13-episode run for Season 5, so he had to condense the storyline, which is probably why some people find it unsatisfying. Some minor characters (the female reporter, for instance, who happens to be married to Deangelo Barksdale in real life) were going to be fleshed out more, but no time. Also, the dude reporter who was angling for a Pulitzer was going to have a crisis of conscience, but that storyline had to be chopped.

The actor kid who iced Omar was pretty traumatized by that scene.

yeah the whole media world was so underdeveloped compared to every other setting of the show

the Sun stuff was worth it just for clark johnson because he is the best.

just the day-to-day work stuff with him. i could watch that forever.

agree 100%

god, rewatching season two and I’m exasperated at the idea that a motivated, smart person like Beadie ended up hooking up with shitbird McNulty

agree

honestly even watching S1 it’s like HOW is he getting any play at all

all vaginas should be permanently closed for any and all McNulty business imo

David Simon & his dumb wish-fulfillment

SLOPPY DRUNK FUCKUPS ARE A NO BONE-ZONE

nah bad boys are way fuckable

he is not a bad boy

he is a tool

he is absolutely a tool but

ok maybe i’m being too obstinate

he is v handsome.

ugh he’s just such a terrible human it pains me

it’s hard

personally i would prob fuck mcnutty and regret it

oh yeah, he has charisma and is an intriguing dumbass

the final season of him being completely jaded and off the wagon was a good denouement

he’s the kind of intriguing but terminally cursed guy that acquaintances would reminisce together and laugh about dating

mcnutty, to me, is forever the squirrel who would perch outside my window in the apartment I had when I first watched the wire

he was also a sassy misguided fool

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— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) August 11, 2017

If you think he's a tool in this, you should see him in The Affair

i would prob fuck a lot of ppl on the wire and regret it but mcnulty is DEF not one of them

herc, carver, clay davis, frank sobotka, cutty/dennis, hell maybe even rawls if i was really drunk and he was kinda bossy but mcnulty turns me off in every way possible

is their wire slash? there must be. mcnulty/stringer handcuff scenarios would practically write themselves.

rawls in the gay bar was so brilliant. it's like 5 seconds long!

You need to keep your eyes open w/Rawls is all I'm gonna say.

― omar little, Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, yeah, was just about to say: Stevie, you have a jaw-droppingly fantastic, blink and you miss it Rawls moment coming up 'round the corner.

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wait i finished S2 and still don't know what this is abt, can someone tell me?

It's towards the end of Season 3 - you won't miss it, I'd say.

It's in a social situation. Watch closely.

people in the smart phone era miss a LOT when watching t.v. and movies. that's all i'll say. drives me up a wall at home.

^^^ hands down #1 source of agonizing oh god i am my dad feelings

yeah i dont know of any model-looking 8% body fat aggressive go-getter zingy dudes who are successful with the opposite sex nope sirree bob those guys strike out every time

tho vg is correct in that there should be a season or two of everyones actual comportment in viewable rentable format before you have to decide whether or not to bone them

mcnulty is totally hot to me in a caveman way but i'm not a woman. when he's really really drunk though i don't have any idea why anyone would go near him and women totally do in the show and they never seem anywhere near as drunk as him.

clay davis

sheeeeit

i totally had a crush on mcnulty's ex-wife on the wire and when watching i completely forgot that she had been on homicide and that i had a crush on her back then too. my love is true.

i haven't watched homicide since it was on. i never missed an episode.

she looks a bit like annabella sciorra imo
i like her

Just finished S3 and daaaaaamn R.I.P. Hampsterdam

"she looks a bit like annabella sciorra imo"

the love of my life, so, it makes sense...

wait, don't tell my wife i said that. wait, she is well aware of all my fictional crushes.

there aren't that many really. annabella. rosario. you know, the usual.

i'm like 1/4 of the way thru season 4

lol @ the students calling Prez "Prezbo"
i LOVE Snoop
Marlo isn't doing anything crazy yet but tensions are mounting and its making me nervous
still hate Landsman

Season 4 is a heartbreaker, for reasons you can probably sense.

season four will turn your face into a heart
(and stomp on it)

yeah the second Marlo started handing out hundreds of dollars to dumb kid I was like "NOT GOOD NOT GOOD RED FLAG THIS WILL NOT END WELL"

And then Season 5 is like Johnny Rotten sneering "did you ever have the feeling...you'd been cheated?" or whatever he said

no one tell me anything about season 5!!!!

you wouldn't believe us if we did

Season 4 is my fav theme song so far, followed by 1, 3, and 2 very far in the distance

respect

I like the original Tom Waits original but understand people not appreciating him because he’s way into his shtick

season four’s version is unjustly maligned but really fits the direction in an honest way

it’s maligned???

also yeah as someone who’s never listened to Tom Waits it sounds like a really absurd parody of what I imagine Tom Waits to be like

it makes more sense in the context of frank's wild years