"The Wire" on HBO

Homina homina homina December 9!!!

Product Details
Actors: Wire
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English, Greek

I'm betting that with the economic situation I'll be able to find used copies under $100 post-Christmas.

Season 1 = about the drug trade
Season 2 = about the port
Season 3 = about how Daniels looks with his shirt off

Season 4 = about how this all becomes WAY more vexed and depressing when you factor in loads of children

Loads of children + Daniel with his shirt off = recipe for disaster

season 4 was my favorite season. Those kids were amazing.

keep seeing this maryland lottery commercial with the bodie actor

:/

Actor getting paid = good

Brits are obsessed with this show.

Much of Lance Reddick's young life was spent with instruments, not acting; he studied piano as a kid, and majored in classical composition at the Eastman School of Music. He switched to pop upon graduation, then turned to stage acting to further his music career, eventually attending Yale's drama school.

wow!

i didn't know any composition majors who found time to get to gym that much

Xpost: get a load of this click on musician, obviously

"i didn't know any composition majors who found time to get to gym that much"

I don't know anyone who hasn't spent time in prison who has found the time to go to the gym that much.

Honestly. There is an intimidating amount of certifiable Greek-God statues on that show.

I mostly remember Reddick. Who is else is similarly ridiculously built? I guess McNulty is in better shape than you could reasonably expect a guy who drinks that much and of that age to be.

he talks a good song

Nice Anwan Glover (Slim Charles) interview:

http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=1172

Otherwise, Stringer, which I guess is no surprise, and also Avon, more so than you'd imagine (not to mention he enormous hands). And I think Bodie Not to the level of Daniels, though. These things stand out when you spend months in your basement watching it, stagnant and eating unnecessary amounts of chocolate.

Xxpost, that is.

I used to go to the same gym as Herc, I never saw him close up but I bet he's a lot more built than he seems on TV.

slim charles was my favorite guy but i don't really know why, he wasn't that important! i guess because he is huge and quiet.

like a bear, almost

he's definitely a kind of innately likable guy.

it's the voice, I think. he's on the radio sometimes here in DC. also, he might be the only character, pretty much everything he says & all the advice he gives in the series is OTM. i watched all these episodes a year ago but pay attention to slim charles, whenever a guy doesn't follow his advice bad stuff happens.

he's the one who killed cheese, right?

love that guy

Yeah, he killed Cheese. I dug him because he was pragmatic about most things.

he told joe to keep an eye on marlo, noticed that marlo was trying to get cheese to turn on joe, tells marlo he wasn't cut out to be a ceo (which IMHO was a lie & a very smart one @ that moment), and i wish i knew the exact dialogue, but somehow convinces omar that joe had nothing to do with what happened to butchie, and that marlo did, without explicitly saying marlo did it, gets the connect from marlo without actually crossing him, and somehow picks the exact moment to shoot cheese b/c for sure cheese would have fucked everything up w/the greeks.

OTM
I was really glad that it was him (and I think Ricardo Hendrix) that assumedly are in charge of things in the end (as they're the ones meeting with the Greeks). In a sort of unending quasi-monarchy, where you can only hope for more benevolent leaders 'wearing the crown', it's definitely a lot better to see someone like Slim Charles in charge. Maybe it's because he came up under Stringer, but he still has retained something more of straight-business-ness thats lost with the Marlo generation.

drug dealers back in MY day...

I don't know anyone who hasn't spent time in prison who has found the time to go to the gym that much.

shit lance and i are alumni budz omg!!!!!

i was just saying last night to a friend how much i miss the wire.

xxpost. Yeah, yeah. I think you can't deny that that generational aspect is present throughout the show, though (hence the Prop Joe speeches about how it used to be buy for a dollar sell for two, or Cutty's initial reaction to dealing drugs). I think part of the really interesting thing is to see how things evolve over the 8 or so years, given say, the rise of technology (of cell phones, the internet, etc.) and how the drug trade follows its own course of incredibly rapid transformation. Of course the irony is that the more things change the more they stay the same, queue up Cheese talking about how there is "no back in the day," subsequently getting his, of course. That being said, I think Slim Charles is a kind of last of his breed. The late 00's just seems like a bad time to come up as a drug dealer, I guess.

no country for old men.

still can't believe this show got away with having a character named cheese wagstaff. there's your dickensian aspect.

I had $35 in Amazon GC, so I'm getting the complete series boxset for $125. Early Xmas for me!

it's definitely a lot better to see someone like Slim Charles in charge

yeah if I was going to have somebody help continue to supply the disgusting underbelly of baltimore with all the things it needs to stay disgusting I would definitely pick a guy who appears to have some principles

jesus christ why do all wire fans seem to think dealers are the point of the show

let's have a series about the fucking inquisition and maybe we can all learn how fucking awesome it is to be a bad-ass like Ferdinand II

sorry I know it's teevee and it's supposed to just be a reflection but wtf marlo/dealer fantronics sometimes

Everybody loves a villain.

http://media.tumblr.com/IT8sENreNfv0xqhrn46Z8CD0o1_400.jpg

'hackers' was on tv yesterday and bunk is in it. i love it when wire actors turn up in other stuff

yeah if I was going to have somebody help continue to supply the disgusting underbelly of baltimore with all the things it needs to stay disgusting I would definitely pick a guy who appears to have some principles

jesus christ why do all wire fans seem to think dealers are the point of the show

― TOMBOT, Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:46 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You're totally misreading what I said. The whole point is that you can never get rid of that disgusting underbelly, you can only hope the person in charge it will be a more benevolent leader. It's the difference between Stringer and Marlo, and that someone with any principles is still better than someone without any. It's a lesser of evils things, but an omnipresent, somewhat eternal evil, nonetheless. It's far to simplistic to think that can just implode an entire structure like that from the outside.

I've just finished watching seasons 1-5 in one two-month binge. I'm presuming that going back and starting straight from season 1 again is a common reaction? It took me most of season 1 to get a handle on who was who.

jesus christ why do all wire fans seem to think dealers are the point of the show

― TOMBOT, Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:46 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the wire talks and indeed delivers a good game abt the institutional tragedy that is the drug game but it blatantly purposely stimulates the vicarious transgressive aspect too - the show is crazy entertaining AND deep - so there

i love it when wire actors turn up in other stuff

I fixate on this too now, though it usually involves noticing them in older stuff (Reg E. Cathey in Airheads, dude who played D'Angelo in Cecil B. Demented).

The trippiest possibility is to go back and watch old episodes of Homicide, where I'll occasionally have trouble wrapping my head around things like McNulty's wife and his favorite judge being homicide detective partners.

I saw Senator Davis in "Enchanted," it's very disconcerting...

the wire talks and indeed delivers a good game abt the institutional tragedy that is the drug game but it blatantly purposely stimulates the vicarious transgressive aspect too - the show is crazy entertaining AND deep - so there

― :) wealth destruction! (ice cr?m), Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I think the show consciously wants its audience to feel the pull of drug dealing in communities where there are few other options -- it's the only employer, it's sexy, it offers a system of authority and meaning that is stronger than that of the "official" institutions (the schools). This is really hammered in Season 4 with the alternative classroom program.

Oh, it goes out of its way to make the viewer totally complicit in that, with the brief period where Michael, Dukie, and Bug are all living happily together on drug money. In the short term, that's the kind of happy ending you're tempted to cheer -- all three get lifted above the problems you've been rooting for them to get past, they form something resembling the functional family unit neither of them ever had, and with Dukie in particular, it stands out as most likely the happiest free-from-hardship moment he'll ever get in his entire life ... all made possible by drug gangs. Which is a nicely complicated thing to do to your viewer. I appreciate that the show's "explanations" for how people wind up in the drug trade aren't just built around the usual TV/film stuff about power or unusual greed or whatever -- it's pretty clear about how this holds out some (very short-term, and partly illusory) path to escaping your own circumstances. (And then it gives us characters who we really, really want to see escape their own circumstances.)

been rewatching season 2; james ransone as ziggy is so amazing. don't think i properly appreciated the performance the first time around.

do NOT watch that larry clark movie where he does personal time srsly