The Wire: The Rewatch... and all the pieces matter.

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ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Lemon posted:

Just finished a rewatch and goddamn McNulty is a pathetic piece of poo poo

I did have a response along the lines of "well in season 4 he was less of a dick because he was a beat cop and was happy" then I remembered that he basically got Bodie killed and I'm now in agreement with you

# ¿ Jul 14, 2018 21:44

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# ¿ Jun 7, 2023 13:34

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Lemon posted:

I'm trying to put my finger on exactly why I hate McNulty more than the street guys, even though the vast majority of them are inarguably worse people.

I guess maybe it's because they are essentially more honest, especially with themselves. Also they don't act like spoiled children for the majority of their screentime.

"Marlo's an rear end in a top hat. He does not get to win. WE get to win!"

# ¿ Jul 14, 2018 22:28

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Ainsley McTree posted:

Homicide the TV show isn't on the level of the wire, no; it suffers from being on a network, so they had to tone it down a little. There's a dramatic scene in which one of the detectives has the audacity to call his captain a butthead!

The first series is great because it's basically the book but without the swearing, and also has the episode 'Three Men And Adena' which is easily up there with the best episodes of The Wire

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 18:47

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

It's a fine line between heaven and here

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 02:07

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

I did a bit of Google Street mapping of some of the locations brought up in both the Homicide and Corner books and man, some of those places are as depressing as hell to look at

# ¿ Mar 27, 2019 23:38

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1124059882204934163

# ¿ May 2, 2019 22:18

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/dn_nation_world/status/1153398056131465216

# ¿ Jul 22, 2019 21:17

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Here's how British police describe ethnicity of suspects via the radio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_codes

And here's The Bunk talking about Death Of A Salesman, being The Bunk, acting, and also maybe putting the fear of god in a journalist

https://twitter.com/WendellPierce/status/1185266682387927043

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 19:58

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Basebf555 posted:

Yea I'm a Wire fan who's watched the show at least three times but at no point did I ever feel like David Simon would be a fun dude to just hang out and drink a beer with.

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1232403670890942469

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 21:37

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/barbhaynes/status/1240347751373668352?s=19

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 13:41

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

kaworu posted:

edit: Another thing! I read Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which is... well, you guys probably know drat well all about this book and I don't need to waste time with a summary, right?

It was a really fun, engaging, rewarding read. I can't imagine any fan of David Simon's TV work not voraciously tearing through it. I've never seen the TV show Homicide, and really didn't know much about the real-life Baltimore detectives who served as inspiration for both shows. It was just fascinating to read. And stuff definitely does come up - at one point one of the more interesting detectives tells the "Snot Boogie" story, and it is very cool to read that (written in 1991) and remember watching the scene it inspired on The Wire for the first time over *15* years ago. And it still rings just as true as ever.

Most of the first season of Homicide is based off the main cases in the book and you owe it to yourself to check it out, especially the episode "Three Men And Adena"

# ¿ Apr 5, 2020 21:06

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1259474233974980609

# ¿ May 12, 2020 11:07

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

This isn't the first time that Morgan's had a pop at Simon, and it ended the same way though Piers resorting to "I have more twitter followers than you" so soon showed that he basically had nothing left after the initial exchanges. Naturally, Simon is picking off the stragglers still coming to Morgan's defence because they just keep coming and don't learn the lesson - though the blue tick whose name currently escapes me who said that The Wire's phone-hacking storyline must have hit Morgan close to home and earned a block from Piers was *chef's kiss*

# ¿ Apr 8, 2021 10:13

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Syrian Lannister posted:

It is in the book.

iirc, the anecdote from the book was Baltimore PD in the book didn't do it, but (I think) the Detroit Homicide department got caught using it once

# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 14:32

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1449047650821677064

If memory serves, Ella Thompson ran the youth centre in The Corner and I believe her daughter was one of the cases investigated in the Homicide book

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 20:04

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Read Homicide? Remember Donald Kincaid, who kind of floats around the narrative? He's front in center in this story, and god lord it is disgusting

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1453986909215240195

# ¿ Oct 30, 2021 23:59

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

I think the only detectives that come out of Homicide looking remotely good are Worden and Pellegrini if I remember right. All the others, while being vaguely capable at their jobs, are shown up as varying degrees of raging dickhead. I mean, one of them is in that story I linked above about the wrongly jailed kid from the school shooting

# ¿ Dec 30, 2021 18:41

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Poot movin up in the world

https://twitter.com/traychaney/status/1476963359933321218

# ¿ Dec 31, 2021 18:10

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/HBO/status/1493663903762558980

# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 14:43

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

BiggerBoat posted:

~~Public Defender~~ Judge Snoop

"I do believe you is leading this motherfucker *BANG* case dismissed y'all"

# ¿ May 7, 2022 22:44

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1523984841506795527

# ¿ May 10, 2022 12:17

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

algebra testes posted:

Characters reading books in the Wire is probably a thread all of its own.

https://twitter.com/Ziggys_Duck/status/1548722837397045249

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 15:47

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Count Roland posted:

In the wire it goes without saying that they are. Minor characters from seasons past constantly show up. That's one I'd never noticed myself.

wasn't there an old woman living in the house were Nick sold drugs on the stoop in season two, and in the last scene she's put her house up for sale?

# ¿ Sep 6, 2022 09:24

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

'Three Men And Adena' is one of the best hours of TV ever filmed

# ¿ Feb 3, 2023 10:13

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

I think the fish eye Nick sequence is the last shot of the final montage? Where it's raining? And the greek music bit is where Frank goes to meet The Greek at the docks. Also, 'I Feel Alright' by Steve Earle is a great choice for the final montage

# ¿ Mar 9, 2023 10:45

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

I was sure he want down to the docks last time by the fence to look at all the old buildings? I think this calls for a rewatch

# ¿ Mar 9, 2023 18:46

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Robert F Chew (RIP) did a hell of a job coaching them

# ¿ Apr 6, 2023 11:35

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

I am convinced I heard Clarke Peters doing the voiceover for (I think) a car rental business on ITV during the coverage of the Grand National on Saturday

# ¿ Apr 18, 2023 08:56

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Ithle01 posted:

I feel like Stringer's death really did change Avon. If only because we know that one of the real life inspirations for Avon did his time and then came out of jail a more or less changed man. Avon is basically done with the game when he meets Marlo in prison.

He not only came out a changed man, he got a role on the show

# ¿ May 8, 2023 09:57

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Gaz-L posted:

On a related note, it always amused me that the real Landsman is on the show, but has a fraction of the charisma of the actor playing him. Not a shock, being an actor isn't easy, but found it funny.

I can't remember if The Wire's Jay Landsman was in the same scene, but in one episode the real Jay Lansman is in a bar talking to I think Gus while Richard Belzer is in the same bar playing Munch, who was based on the real Jay Lansman. I think that having three Lansmans in the same scene may have broken the space time continuum or something

# ¿ May 9, 2023 11:59

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# ¿ Jun 7, 2023 13:34

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

One of the things they toned down about Omar was the height of the window he jumped out of iirc. Also, one of the guys that helps Omar get padded up in prison is, again iirc, Donnie Andrews who was the primary inspiration for Omar

ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jun 5, 2023

# ¿ Jun 5, 2023 16:16

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