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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
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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. "Marlo's an rear end in a top hat. He does not get to win. WE get to win!"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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? 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"
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Poot movin up in the world https://twitter.com/traychaney/status/1476963359933321218
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BiggerBoat posted:
"I do believe you is leading this motherfucker *BANG* case dismissed y'all"
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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?
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'Three Men And Adena' is one of the best hours of TV ever filmed
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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
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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
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Robert F Chew (RIP) did a hell of a job coaching them
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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
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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
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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
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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
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https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1684320411821940737 also, the dealer who supplied Michael K. Williams with the fatal dose got 30 months in prison despite David's letter
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Obviously the show uses 'Body Of An American' for the police wakes, but iirc they use 'Transmetropolitan' for the scene where McNulty tries to smash his car up. I'm sure there's another song they use in the background of another scene, but I may be getting that confused with McNulty singing 'Star Of The County Down' badly
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The Pogues definitely recorded a version of 'Star Of The County Down' with Andrew on vocals while Daryl did the drums, or at least that's the set up they used when I saw them live on their reunion tours, but I think I'm just getting muddled
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Rawls always seemed to be the sort of boss who would protect his detectives right up until the moment it starts to be politically inconvenient for him to do so
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lovely thread from David about meeting Shane backstage https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1730222176924491854 ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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So I was wondering around Wikipedia as you do, trying to find the origin of the "don't go pulling every body you find, we'll be here all day" anecdote because in looking for one suspect who may have jumped in the River Thames the Met Police have found two other bodies. Went straight to the Homicide book page, didn't find the anecdote but did see that some of the detectives have their own pages including Oscar Requer who was the inspiration for Bunk Moreland and the man 100% looks like you would expect the real life Bunk to look like
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