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heh heh yeah, sorry mickey. it's good you can have that perspective on it. if there's one thing i learned from the homicide book it is if you are in trouble, DO NOT SAY A WORD TO THE COPS, EVER. it is very very hard to prove cases with no cooperation from the defendant.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

sigh, no kidding.

but point is, stuff in the movie seems really believable. lines from the probation office (forgot where this came in the series, but i noticed when it happened) are the same lines i had p.o. read to me, the stuff feds say, way they act, etc, is same as what i've seen, all the little hoppers act just like the hoppers i grew up around, etc. i think it's rare to find a tv show so believable.

― modestmickey, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

this girl told me they were filming tonight at dougherty's pub so i went to see what was what but they already had the place closed off so i couldn't be an extra {Ò_Ó}. i took some crappy far away cellphone pics of some guy that might have been ed burns

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

thereis a lot of great stuff in series two and it's got to be one of the more audacious moves in serial cop shows ever, to reorient so drastically. i wish they ccould have found a way of keeping some of the dock people in, but maybe they will return. don't forget that season brought in method man and the east side in general. prop joe is in s02 more than s03.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 23 March 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The other day when I was leaving work I saw a couple big trailer type things next to my parking garage and thought nothing of it. Supposedly it was a hair and make-up trailer for The Wire, though, so I guess they're shooting in Mount Vernon right now. I dunno if Jess is on this thread but he works on the same block, maybe he can verify. I'm definitely gonna loiter a little if I see any more trailers, though.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

this girl told me they were filming tonight at dougherty's pub

Is this the pub they always go to for a funeral?

*POSSIBLE SPOILER*

Season 2 is great, especially on repeat viewings. I'm not sure there is anybody left from the port story, aside from Beattie and Stavros/the Greek that can come back. The Sobotka storyline seemed more of an isolated incident, at least as far as the extent to which he was involved in a major crime racket. At any rate, it did an excellent job of expanding the city itself, at least for those of us who have never been to Baltimore (which sounds really glamorous at the moment, with all this talk of spotting the film crew).

― Gukbe, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i was totally coming here this morning to say that i wandered into a wire shoot last night! i was leaving work around 12:30, noticed a ton of tractor trailers along reed street, rounded the corner to park ave. and there they were. (i wasn't 100% sure until i spotted david simon, that lovable leprechaun.) perhaps season five will feature a subplot with drug money being run through the deli where i get my lunch every day.

― strongohulkington, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Piccadeli's? it's like Chris Rock's bit about Krispy Kremes, if you told me their Italian coldcut had crack in it, I would be like "I knew something was up."

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

their french fries will be the death of me yet

― strongohulkington, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this the pub they always go to for a funeral?

no i think that might actually be the sidebar made up to look "irish", judging from the outside shots of them puking in the street

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ scene of marlo in brewer's art in season 3

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to buy a lollipop at the drug store where marlo met the security guard

― cutty, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

haha was that brewer's?? jesus h.

and yeah i always thought it was the sidebar too.

― strongohulkington, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

that's funny, it never occurred to me that it might be the Sidebar in disguise, I'll have to watch that scene again. my girlfriend asked me if I knew where that bar was and I was like, I have no idea.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

major rawls in gay bar = awesome

― sean gramophone, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

uh spoiler alert ???!! ^^^^^

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah they made brewer's look like some vip dance club. should've just filmed at choices

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I avoided this thread (or browsed it very carefully) when I was waiting for HBO to air all the S4 episodes and a buncha folks here had downloaded them already. People who still have half the series on their netflix queue should know to read with caution. (xpost)

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it's just - that one's a doozy!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry! it's the opposite of a major plot point if that's any consolation.

― sean gramophone, Saturday, 24 March 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

that's true!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 March 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it's just 3 seconds where rawls pops his head out, strictly a wtf moment

― cutty, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

less than 3 seconds even. totally saw it coming.

― modestmickey, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

haha suuuuuuuuuure

― strongohulkington, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

gaydar

― jeff, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

how does one see that coming? you can't even remember the name of "the black guy" on the show

― cutty, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHA

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey if you sit around calling EVERYONE a fag well then you get to say you called it at least once in a while.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

He does have quite a penchant for anal metaphors in his speech.

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

if anything bunk says and does more gay shit than rawls!

― cutty, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

[bunk line about making lester bowlegged goes here]

― am0n, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Even so, Bunk talks more about pussy (or pussae, if you prefer) than he does gay stuff.

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

PUSSAEEEEEE

― cutty, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

wait a minute modestmickey was talking about bunk???

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

re spoilers -- the rawls in gay bar bit was in s03, so it's not really fair to call it a spoiler -- it happened two years ago! it's just that not many anglos here have got up to s04 yet.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"You know why I respect you? Because when it came time for you to fuck me... you were gentle."
"That's 'cause I wanted your first time to be special."

― milo z, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

was that rawls vs burrell?

― cutty, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

McNulty & Bunk

don't remember which detectives had a similar exchange in the Homicide book

― milo z, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't think rawls had anything gay about him? ok dude

― modestmickey, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

tracer, no dude, i was talking about rawls, not bunk. here's one reason rawls was predictable. compare and contrast:
bunk: constant and repeated romantic trysts with various women. married. to a woman.
rawls: oddly absent any sort of mention of romantic life.

― modestmickey, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

> oddly absent any sort of mention of romantic life.

To be fair, this describes me, too, and I'm not gay. I'm just beneath the notice of the entire female sex, and based on Rawls' personality, the same isn't too much of a stretch to apply to him.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, not trying to say that gaydarology is an exact science or anything, dude. just had a feeling and i was right.

― modestmickey, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Bunk has about ten times as much screen time as Rawls over the course of the series. We see him outside of work, hanging with the boys, etc.. Rawls exists (aside from the aforementioned shot) entirely as his job.

― milo z, Sunday, 25 March 2007 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Just got through second-to-last ep of S3.

FUK U WIRE AHHHH

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 April 2007 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The balcony scene is THE SHIT.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, balcony scene has some great shit going on. real nice character background, and amazingly fucked up psychological under-the-facade stuff, all awesomely acted out.

― modestmickey, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Did that episode have Avon's best line about how all the people at the warehouse shouldn't be "fuckin' around with all these guns and shit"?

― milo z, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Just got through second-to-last ep of S3.

oh hey mr. hoosteen. tell you what: watch the LAST ep of s3 before you think about posting. omg stfu etc

― kenan, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link

milo with the spoiler

― am0n, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Like hell he is. As pointed out upthread, that scene aired over two years ago.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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