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Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747
The Wire is the best TV you can ever find and if you disagree a starwar betamax or franco will probate you


:siren: :siren: go to page 6 to see pictures from when someone ITT meet cool lester smooth at a bar on 12th of November in the year of our lord 2014 :siren: :siren:

Dongattack fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Nov 12, 2014

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Digi_Kraken
Sep 4, 2011
this is what liberals actually believe

uG
Apr 23, 2003

by Ralp
on a scale of bone to ghost, how white are you?

boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine
I believe the show you are thinking of is actually Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta

POWERBALL
Feb 16, 2012

by zen death robot

ThisGuy
Aug 16, 2014

This Fuckin' Guy
Yeah Marlo is pretty badass as a character

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

I like how classy British gentleman Idris Elba was only able to break through into US Media by playing into black stereotypes of drug running.

Dave Concepcion
Mar 19, 2012
nah it's actually deadwood but w/e

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
Idris Elba didn't play the stereotype at all even if he did in fact deal drugs.

a creepy colon
Oct 28, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Its a really good show and so is Treme but not so much

ThisGuy
Aug 16, 2014

This Fuckin' Guy

mind the walrus posted:

I like how classy British gentleman Idris Elba was only able to break through into US Media by playing into black stereotypes of drug running.

One of my favorite actors. Wish he got more roles. He'd be a good Egyptian God or something. As the protagonist, as opposed to the scary feriner. Luther is really cool as well. Best Sherlock Holmes, imo.

Hahahahahhahahaha loving Christian bale is Moses.

In the post racial dystopian future, It'd be cool to have everyone play anything they wanted.

I thought robert downy was funny in tropic thunder

ThisGuy fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Nov 10, 2014

Absalom Baird
Jul 13, 2010

Dave Concepcion posted:

nah it's actually deadwood but w/e

this

op wants it to be one way...but its the other way

PS dukie fight like a bitch yo

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



lol if you don't watch the wire on endless repeat

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

ethanol posted:

lol if you don't watch the wire on endless repeat

seriously

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
i like The Shield

Absalom Baird
Jul 13, 2010
I'm sayin, joe, that nigga Omar had like one of them commando squads...this one rat bitch was pullin guns out of her pussy! That poo poo was unseemly, unc!

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747

ethanol posted:

lol if you don't watch the wire on endless repeat

this but unironically

Fetus Tree posted:

i like The Shield

get the gently caress out of here

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

Fetus Tree posted:

i like The Shield

the shield owned but more in a "goofy but hardcore poo poo happens in every episode" sort of way than a "cohesive story told through television" way like the wire

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Idris Elba didn't play the stereotype at all even if he did in fact deal drugs.

Point being that there wasn't room on US TV for a tall, handsome, classy British Black Alpha Male unless we were introduced to him as a somewhat antagonistic drug dealer first.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

the shield owned but more in a "goofy but hardcore poo poo happens in every episode" sort of way than a "cohesive story told through television" way like the wire

but it does have a cohesive story?


mind the walrus posted:

Point being that there wasn't room on US TV for a tall, handsome, classy British Black Alpha Male unless we were introduced to him as a somewhat antagonistic drug dealer first.


tbf what % of the UKs population is even a black male

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
^^^ Yeah but it's not like, the main appeal of the show, at least not to me. It still feels like someone writing tv show episodes and not like someone putting a novel on tv. When I think of the wire I think of like, the tragic arcs of various characters, when I think of the shield i think "hot drat he put that dude's face on a stove!".

mind the walrus posted:

Point being that there wasn't room on US TV for a tall, handsome, classy British Black Alpha Male unless we were introduced to him as a somewhat antagonistic drug dealer first.

there wasn't much room for him in british tv either and the wire pretty much made his career

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747

Fetus Tree posted:

but it does have a cohesive story?

"ops we might get caught" "ops we got caught"

Incredulous Dylan
Oct 22, 2004

Fun Shoe

Race Hate Kramer posted:

this is what liberals actually believe

Absalom Baird
Jul 13, 2010
whos everyones fave omar boyf

i like reynaldo, they had good chemistry together

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
the wire has pretty awesome characters tho

bay is probs my fave

a creepy colon
Oct 28, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i live the wire every day i dont need to watch the show but its still a good show

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

:omarcomin:

ThisGuy
Aug 16, 2014

This Fuckin' Guy
I'm telling you, Marlo was the best player. He won.

That scene at the bar with him and that girl. drat. It sucks because he was right about her too. She did end up loving him over

TheReverend
Jun 21, 2005

is the last season good?

that's the one i haven't seen.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

TheReverend posted:

is the last season good?

that's the one i haven't seen.

It's the worst one and still better than all the other tv shows.

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747

TheReverend posted:

is the last season good?

that's the one i haven't seen.

eeeeeeeeeh, its the worst one i think, but its still good.

its about journalism, which is the most boring part of "the corruption" and its basically all jimmy mcnulty and lester doing their thing on the down low

bubbles kinda steals the show when he has screentime tho

I Pledge The Legence
Sep 18, 2009

Gleaming the Cube
it's carnivale because clancy brown pumps his ugly sister

Jean Eric Burn
Nov 10, 2007

Omar actually isn't a very good character, please forgive me for saying internet.

ThisGuy
Aug 16, 2014

This Fuckin' Guy
This scene is worth season 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kWBB7k11Q

loving emasculating malcom x

ThisGuy fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Nov 10, 2014

Reset Button
Jan 25, 2011

the wire is the only answer to the q of "what's the best tv show?" and there is no other answer that will ever make sense to me

i will fight anyone who says the wire is not the best tv show ever. email me ur address for a free rear end whooping and i'll see ur bitch rear end outside right before i send ur aforementioned bitch rear end to the ER

Reset Button
Jan 25, 2011

like, deadwood? bitch rear end...

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

mind the walrus posted:

Point being that there wasn't room on US TV for a tall, handsome, classy British Black Alpha Male unless we were introduced to him as a somewhat antagonistic drug dealer first.

like 2/3rds of the cast of the wire are black including the police department, i think maybe they just cast a good actor to play a primary antagonist on their show

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Absalom Baird posted:

I'm sayin, joe, that nigga Omar had like one of them commando squads...this one rat bitch was pullin guns out of her pussy! That poo poo was unseemly, unc!

method man got mad bc when cheese got killed ppl were happy about it

ThisGuy
Aug 16, 2014

This Fuckin' Guy
Seriously, I don't know how you could accuse the wire of being racist.

"At least with a racist, I know where I stand"

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Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747
the loving bosses are the antagonists

poor stringer bell is just sitting there trying to duck wiretaps while he asks himself when rawls and jimmy are gonna initiate a full blown homorelationship

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