The Wire

[verb_to_trust]

So that's how the Omar thing ends huh?

[Norah]

So that's how the Omar thing ends huh?

It's how it had to end.

[Simple Torture]

I like how Munch has a cameo in 5

I hate that Munch has that cameo. He is playing John Munch in a bar, while one his former partners is playing a different character (clark johnson) who enters the bar with the guy that the Munch character is originally loosely based on.

too many colliding worlds.

Yea, that was weird. Also:

Spoiler: show

We never find out more about the captain's closeted life, after his brief scene in the gay bar. WTF?!

Im totally okay with that. A brief moment of humanization. It doesn't need further explaining.

Same.

It's not like I wanted dirt, just more humanization. He's such a hardass every day, you get the one scene, then...nothing. Wish they had humanized him further.

I think the effect it has is if you rewatch the series. He goes from "hardass" to "closeted" pretty quickly; all of the baudy talk and what have you in the unit comes across as gross overcompensation. You'll ask yourself: "Shit, why didn't I figure this out before?"

[numbers]

I don't need to actually see gay sex to understand that someone is a closeted gay man.

[EJ]

another Frank Sobotka sighting...

I just started watching the People vs. OJ thing and he's playing the mustachioed Detective Tom Lange.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i knew prez looked familiar

[Simple Torture]

Aimee's tits.

I just watched this episode

[Biff Pocoroba]

I've seen the first two seasons. Now that most shows are wrapping for the summer my goal is to watch 3 & 4 by Labor Day.

[Simple Torture]

David Simon did an AMA on reddit today, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ ... _wire_the/

But I wanted to just bring this question/answer to the board's attention, in case you don't make it down this far:

What was the point of that topless scene in season 2 of the wire? You know, the one where Nicky's girlfriend has some ultimately meaningless dialogue for thirty seconds while her gorgeous set is exposed for all to see?
Almost everything in The Wire, no matter how subtle, seemed to have a deeper meaning.
Was that just because she had great bewbs?

She did. But how could we know they were that remarkable when we hired her from one fully dressed audition? The point was to show Nick Sobotka having an adult relationship but marginalized within his parent's rowhouse basement. The nudity suggests intimacy and familiarity between the two, and the surrounding suggests that their life together is not yet viable. Next in the sequence was a visit to a rowhouse in the neighborhood that they couldn't afford, if you'll remember.

[Norah]

Those are some amazing boobs.

[Simple Torture]

Those are some amazing boobs.

If I was going to truncate those quotes to try and get at the core of what The Wire was about, I'd highlight:

Was that just because she had great bewbs?

She did.

[Norah]

Doing another rewatch. Halfway through season 1 and god damn it's easy to forget just how good this show was.

[dimejinky99]

Doing another rewatch. Halfway through season 1 and god damn it's easy to forget just how good this show was.

Indeed

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Norah]

Doing another rewatch. Halfway through season 1 and god damn it's easy to forget just how good this show was.

Indeed

[darth_vedder]

[Higgs]

2016 was a great year for TV for me. I watched for the first time the complete runs of both The Sopranos and The Wire.

So good.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[@SkitchP]

Can't remember if I actually posted this thought or just meant to post it, but LV was decrying episodic television a couple weeks back -- something along the lines of "the film format works best for stories."

Anyway, the thought I had was that The Wire made great use of the episodic format. Watching all the work that goes into their wiretapping and decoding of the language used by the dealers imbues the police (or po-leece) with a dignity that I don't think would translate if we just got a two minute scene of them wiretapping. The countless hours spent listening to phone calls adds a depth and realism to the characters that would have to be conveyed differently in film.

I also think that even though it was binge watched for me, it felt like it gained from the empty space, and the time to breathe. Almost like there were parts of the investigation going on the whole time, from week to week that we DONT get to see.

[dimejinky99]

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

‘Got to. This America man’ ‬

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