"The Wire" on HBO

well maybe mcnulty doesn't like being called mcnutty either

I named a squirrel that kept looking for food on my patio mcnutty.

also there was a real bubbles

I am so excited for Season 5. Season 4 was my favorite season (next to 2, actually) and I hope they don't shift focus totally away from the kids.

It seemed like they were setting up Michael to be a major character in future eps, which is too bad, cause I thought he was the least interesting of any of the kids. It's Randy that I really want to see more of.

Still watching s4, almost done, but I have to say, Chris killing Michael's stepdad was maybe the most balls-out BRUTAL killing I've ever seen, certainly on television, possibly anywhere. The way Chris gets INTO it. Gives me a shiver.

isn't there a judy blume book where one of the characters decides they want to be called "bubbles"? (but no one does)

other "bubbles" of note:

http://www.hula-la.com/girl_images/bubblesmug.jpg

http://slantmouth.com/articles/smoothCriminal/images/bubbles.jpg

anyways - i'm a little over half way through the 4th season and am enjoying it but not even close to how much i enjoyed the 1st and 3rd seasons.

dear season 5: less children, more wires!

the fourth is really great

brutal but great

the kids are what make season 4 the best!

I really missed watching The Wire when I was in Japan. Now that I'm back, I'll probably go'n' rent season 3 tomorrow.

srsly (xp re kids being awesome)

Agreed. They're all such impressive actors, too.

And, as I kinda said earlier, Snoop and Chris are just soooo frightening. I loved the way that the beating Chris delivers calls back to all the times he was all reassuring before killing someone -- "Don't worry, I got you, I'll make it quick" etc. Now we see what happens when he does not got you. Goddamn.

All muscle needs to be crazy, I guess, but Chris is lung-eating crazy.

Can't wait until season 4 is on dvd, I have to stop reading this thread now.

s4 haters: u mad

perhaps. but for me season three felt like the natural conclusion to the whole thing.

not... really. Seeing as how s2 was a digression in its entirety from the Barksdale plot, why would you think the show was just about that one story?

ok not in its entirety, but in its mostliness.

i saw brother mouzone on saturday.

I felt like s3 came to a pretty decent conclusion for the series, not so much because of the Barksdale gang getting pretty definitively busted up, but more the combination of McNulty's decision to return to community policing and Bell's death. They were sort of the Holmes and Moriarty of the show, and each of them had reached a satisfying conclusion to their arc.

That said, I think the angle they put out for S4 worked out great and am really looking forward to the angle they've got for s5. I'd even like to see that slightly hinted-at s6 about migrant labor communities.

was he reading harper's? get me my harper's

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season five is the last season, pal

I remember getting told S3 was the end of the line, too.

that was obviously not the case considering the rise of marlo stanfield in season 3

thanks for puttin that better than i could oilyrags!

with season two it felt like filler - there to just consume space between the 1st and 3rd season (that's not to say i didn't like it or anything).

woah xpostin'

xpost or carcetti

The rise of Marlo wasn't neccesarily setting up anything but the futility of taking down any particular crime org instead of fighting root causes. If you think the point of the Wire is 'winning' the case, you need to watch closer.

what would make an appropiate end of the line then, if not Bell getting got and McNutty siting back? The end of all drug dealing in baltimore forever and everyone making major?

they could just keep going with side stories forever (which would be fine believe me) but the end of season 3 just felt like a really good end.

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One and three I liked, especially for every second I could have with Omar or Stringer but there was way too much fucking McNulty, and personally I don't really care that much about the technical stuff of having a wire. Seasons 2 and 4 had the best personal dramas, I thought. You couldn't have ended with Season 3, because it was Season 4 that really got into the heart of what's so tragic about the drug trade.

Another interesting aspect of season 4 was how everything early in the season was getting us to believe Namond would get in to the game and Michael was the one with the head on his shoulders, which didn't turn out to be the case at all. I like that the show never relies on easy psychology, and how different characters are able to radically surprise you without ever seeming unbelievable.

Carcetti also had a complete arc in S3. It was extended nicely, but I could certainly have lived with it stopping where it did. Ditto Bunny, since someone will bring him up next, I'm sure.

The rise of Marlo wasn't neccesarily setting up anything but the futility of taking down any particular crime org instead of fighting root causes. If you think the point of the Wire is 'winning' the case, you need to watch closer.

yes, but season 4 reveals just how carefully and for how long that had been planning and setting up another season. When s3 was rumored to be the last, Simon wasn't done yet.

he wasn't reading a harper's, unfortunately. did you know that his ass't who was told to get the harper's was the kid from "the corner?" as in, the actual kid the book is about, not an actor?

If you think the point of the Wire is 'winning' the case, you need to watch closer.

don't you fucking tell me how to watch the wire

haha

i'll fix your clock like prop joe

eat a lollipop like mar-lo

Actually, the end of Deadwood at S3 is a pretty good reflection of The Wire at the end of S3. Sure, there's plenty more you CAN do. But important conclusions have been reached, and on the whole, its quite satisfying as it stands.

That said, sure, I'd LOVE to have some more Deadwood.

"don't you fucking tell me how to watch the wire"

I recommend using both eyes, and the organ behind them.

wtf organ is behind the eyes?

freak!

http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/research/toescu/Resources/Homepage/HumBrainProfile%202.gif

my brain is a muscle

i was under the impression the brian was not an organ. but i have now been wikiducated and will now go get one.
morans.

Sometimes I think my brain is a clavinet, actually.

there's a few of the wire kids in that decent movie "half nelson".

It's got the "Fresh" kid in it too, right? Man, that was a good movie. He was good on "The Corner" too, to take it back to David Simon.

Bodie was on Oz but that show is ballz

did you know that his ass't who was told to get the harper's was the kid from "the corner?" as in, the actual kid the book is about, not an actor?

-- hstencil, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:29 PM (8 hours ago)

thats awesome, totally didn't recognize him. what's that mouzone line? "your homophobia.. is so visceral"