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dimejinky99 wrote:‪TFW you realise Donald Glover is a thieving Shit. The Wire did it first.

‘Got to. This America man’ ‬

Definitely the first piece of entertainment to say this phrase.
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Your posting is improving vastly or my sarcasm meter is completely broken. (It is very broken)
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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dimejinky99 wrote:Your posting is improving vastly or my sarcasm meter is completely broken. (It is very broken)
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RIP Snot Boogie
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cutuphalfdead wrote:RIP Snot Boogie
*Omar Isaiah Betts
McParadigm wrote:lol
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Finished season 4 of my current rewatch last night. Not sure if I'm gonna move on to season 5 this time through.
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I’m finally watching this. 3 episodes to go in season one. Can my inaugural viewing of this show save 2020? The answer might surprise you!
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McParadigm wrote:lol
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Just started season 4 of a rewatch in HD with my wife, who is seeing it for the first time. She loves it.

Also, I had forgotten how frequently funny this show could be.
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Ensign9 wrote: Also, I had forgotten how frequently funny this show could be.
very much so
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Ensign9 wrote:Just started season 4 of a rewatch in HD with my wife, who is seeing it for the first time. She loves it.

Also, I had forgotten how frequently funny this show could be.

David Simon appears to be a dick, but he's a pretty good twitter follow.
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Have 7 eps left in season 5. This fake serial killer shit is real dumb. This has been a very enjoyable series to watch, but I don’t understand why so many lists have it at the top all time. That said, there are half a dozen characters at least - Omar, Bunk, Lester, Bubbs, Bodie, Dangelo - who are all-timers.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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daft twat wrote:Have 7 eps left in season 5. This fake serial killer shit is real dumb. This has been a very enjoyable series to watch, but I don’t understand why so many lists have it at the top all time. That said, there are half a dozen characters at least - Omar, Bunk, Lester, Bubbs, Bodie, Dangelo - who are all-timers.
It's #1 on my list. Beyond the pure enjoyment factor that comes from the storylines, the writing, and the acting, I think it's highly regarded because of its commentary on social issues across multiple dimensions. I think it has less of an impact now than it did in the early aughts because we're currently living in a clusterfuck apocalypse that makes the issues of 2000-era Baltimore seem trivial in comparison.
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FWIW it's one of the first TV shows to actively interrogate contemporary history rather than use it as window dressing/treat it as outside the world of the narrative.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:FWIW it's one of the first TV shows to actively interrogate contemporary history rather than use it as window dressing/treat it as outside the world of the narrative.
What?
Anyway, done.
Seeing Dukie shooting up in the alley during the final montage was fucked. Glad I watched this show. I rank the seasons 4, 2, 1, 3, 5.
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most overrated show ever
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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4
3
1
2
5
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daft twat wrote:
Mickey wrote:FWIW it's one of the first TV shows to actively interrogate contemporary history rather than use it as window dressing/treat it as outside the world of the narrative.
What?
Anyway, done.
Seeing Dukie shooting up in the alley during the final montage was fucked. Glad I watched this show. I rank the seasons 4, 2, 1, 3, 5.
The absent cause, motherfucker!
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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