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Jewmanji posted:Imagine how much more expensive it would’ve been before containerization/shipping automation. 
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Cheaper option. Who knows about the quality though. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...id=fTJU3eC8hPK5
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Who the gently caress is Frunk Sbtoka?
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Never realised that spiros says "my name is not my name" compared to marlo yelling in a holding that his name is his name. Two players playing different games
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ilmucche posted:Never realised that spiros says "my name is not my name" compared to marlo yelling in a holding that his name is his name. Huh. I'd not linked those two lines before.
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Angryhead posted:Has anyone checked out this book? I want. Bad time to find out about this during a rewatch of the show. drat expensive though. ilmucche posted:Never realised that spiros says "my name is not my name" compared to marlo yelling in a holding that his name is his name. Ah, I finally understand the part where Marlo said "I am 100% ethnically Greek"
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I did a rewatch of this in January and it's still my favorite show of all time. Right around the time I was finishing it, they released a 20th anniversary podcast on Spotify and i've been learning a lot of things I had no idea about. There are moments where i'm listening and I just say "no poo poo". One of the biggest ones was that McNulty was originally written as an over-the-hill, fat, alcoholic and not a younger, handsome alcoholic. They originally wanted to go after John C. Reilly for the part. Also, Templeton (Tom McCarthy) is actually a very successful writer, director and producer, not just a piece of poo poo hack in season 5. Maybe other people knew that, but I had no idea and I've watched the entire series 10+ times, easily. But I won't say anything else from the podcast in case anyone wants to listen to it themselves. It's pretty good. Lots of behind the scenes stuff.
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Feb 3, 2023 00:57
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These are for you, Dewy Cox.
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i do kind of like the idea of ugly mcnulty, but him being handsome puts it more on the viewer to notice how big of a piece of poo poo he is on the inside, so i think it works
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Feb 3, 2023 01:12
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If he were ugly maybe he wouldn't be so outnumbered.
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teen phone cutie posted:thank god for dominic west, some of his facial expressions absolutely hit it out of the park Things like this being posted always call for this clip to be posted in response: https://youtu.be/vn0ylNZhOJI
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i mean yeah that scene was top of mind when i posted that lol
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Feb 3, 2023 02:34
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Dominic West is a treasure but I would kill to peep into the alternate universe where we got John C. McNulty (presumably West stars in Chicago).
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"can't believe they're sending me back to the broat. best way to get ready to go on a broat is eat a looooooot of shrimp from the drumpster out back"
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Calling the FBI a bunch of hunks
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How many of you have watched Homicide: Life on the Street? Based off David Simon's first book while he was 'embedded' with the Baltimore homicide police throughout 1988, I was kind of shocked when I started watching it recently, how incredible it is and wondering why I had not seen it yet or seen more discussion about it. It isn't available for streaming even though it should be on Peacock as former primetime NBC show so that is likely why it hasn't been seen and had some sort of Columbo-like resurgence like some other series have had. But the show's amazing cast of actors, SVU Det. John Munch origin story (large part of what piqued my interest to watch/find it- I remember vaguely learning at some point he has played a Det. Munch previously, was reminded about it while watching SVU so I looked into the show), amazing team with Simon first approaching Barry Levinson who brought it to Paul Attanasio/Tom Fontana (Oz). Learning the Oz creator worked on it made the vibe of the show make a lot more sense; it's incredibly intense in certain scenes, with this improvisational sort of thing going on. I'm only into early S2 (out of 7) and I guess it has double the episodes of The Wire. Not saying Homicide is better, a lot of why I love The Wire is the authenticity of the street crime aspect which isn't in Homicide, but the fact this show isn't getting more love based on how beloved The Wire is and it's David Simon's first involvement with TV, it really should be streaming on NBC so it can be 're-discovered' by the masses.
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I’ve wanted to watch that for years and have never been able to find it. That ‘88 David Simon book is *awesome*
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It was an amazing show until NBC actually noticed that it existed, and promptly went to work excising the less attractive cast members and bringing in younger actors as well as dumbing down the writing. It was still pretty good the last couple of seasons but definitely wasn't what it had been before. To be fair, one of the new actors was Giancarlo Esposito, who was probably the best of the new crew by far.
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And yes, it's a crime that it's never been made available for streaming. A veritable murderers row of a cast, too. Andre Braugher! Melissa Leo! Ned Beatty! Jon Polito! Richard Belzer! Yaphet Kotto! Michelle Forbes (briefly)! Hell, even Daniel Baldwin had his moments. Kyle Secor and Clark Johnson were great in their respective roles but unfortunately haven't really shined in other things I've seen them in. Reed Diamond is generally good at playing a smarmy bastard.
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MrMojok posted:I’ve wanted to watch that for years and have never been able to find it. It really is an amazing read, and seeing those elements that went into The Wire (though of course The Corner was the biggest source of inspiration) is pretty interesting too.
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I recommend reading Clockers by Richard Price if anyone hasn’t. He has such an amazing ear for dialogue, it’s clear that he played a massive role in writing the wire.
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Oh yeah, Clockers is great too! I can't see or hear "Yoo-Hoo" without immediately thinking of it (probably the company wouldn't be happy to hear that!).
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knox posted:But the show's amazing cast of actors, SVU Det. John Munch origin story (large part of what piqued my interest to watch/find it- I remember vaguely learning at some point he has played a Det. Munch previously, was reminded about it while watching SVU so I looked into the show), He's even in arrested development!  It's a good show, it's just held back now and then by the constraints of the network (thinking about the tense scene where a detective calls his captain a "butthead"); I'm glad Simon was able to graduate to HBO to make the stuff he really wanted to do. And yeah, nthing the recommendation for the book, it's excellent and you can see where a lot of the DNA for the Wire's cop scenes came from.
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Cacator posted:Ah, I finally understand the part where Marlo said "I am 100% ethnically Greek" Lmao
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ShowTime posted:I did a rewatch of this in January and it's still my favorite show of all time. Right around the time I was finishing it, they released a 20th anniversary podcast on Spotify and i've been learning a lot of things I had no idea about. There are moments where i'm listening and I just say "no poo poo". One of the biggest ones was that McNulty was originally written as an over-the-hill, fat, alcoholic and not a younger, handsome alcoholic. They originally wanted to go after John C. Reilly for the part. Also, Templeton (Tom McCarthy) is actually a very successful writer, director and producer, not just a piece of poo poo hack in season 5. Maybe other people knew that, but I had no idea and I've watched the entire series 10+ times, easily. Ray Winstone was also seriously considered for the part but he bowed out after 9/11 because he didn't want to fly to and from the US so many times.
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Ainsley McTree posted:(thinking about the tense scene where a detective calls his captain a "butthead") That whole thing made it really hard to take Homicide seriously.
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Rewatched s5e1 yesterday, when they're using the photocopier as a lie detector (which originates in Homicide, the book and was on that show too) and Bunk says to Landsman completely straight faced "Are you ready, professor?" I burst out laughing. Also I feel split on who's the biggest villain of the series, Scott Templeton or Namond's mom?
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How is it not Marlo?
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Marlo doesn't trigger instant hatred and revulsion whenever he's onscreen.
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Cacator posted:Rewatched s5e1 yesterday, when they're using the photocopier as a lie detector (which originates in Homicide, the book and was on that show too) and Bunk says to Landsman completely straight faced "Are you ready, professor?" I burst out laughing. The snitch, Wallace.
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By that metric it has to be Officer Walker
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Colicchio is up there too. And that dude who keeps robbing Bubbles in S4.
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How is it not Clay Davis? I think you gotta think about what they are trying to show case, which is how absolutely corrupt each system is, how almost everyone is out for themselves and how they do a disservice to the community they are either trying to represent or assist. In that case, Clay Davis is an absolutely corrupt mother fucker, with absolutely 0 redeemable qualities or actions.
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ShowTime posted:How is it not Clay Davis? Counterpoint: Sheeeee-ittt
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Dango Bango posted:Counterpoint: Sheeeee-ittt yeah his dialog is too funny to be the ultra villain of the series
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The Greek then. He runs the entire drug trade, making money off everyone, barely takes care of anyone. Even "Boris" has to rely on Barksdale in prison. He transports and trades women, weapon, drugs, whatever. When one of his main boys dies, all he does is take out whatever info and witnesses were involved. As soon as Prop Joe dies, Marlo is in. When Marlo sells out, the co-op is in.
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Cacator posted:Marlo doesn't trigger instant hatred and revulsion whenever he's onscreen. Not even after Devonne? ShowTime posted:The Greek then. He runs the entire drug trade, making money off everyone, barely takes care of anyone. Even "Boris" has to rely on Barksdale in prison. He transports and trades women, weapon, drugs, whatever. When one of his main boys dies, all he does is take out whatever info and witnesses were involved.
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