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Slightly off topic but when reading through this thread (great job to everyone btw) someone posted an essay by Simon talking about how everyone imagines they'd be the one that got away if they were poor but argues that's a complete fantasy; but now I can't find it. Does anyone have that link?
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not to take away from Cathey's acting, but Carcetti's reaction is loving priceless
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Feb 10, 2018 03:07
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quote:Just one chapter contains stories about Wendell Pierce and Dominic West taking a young Michael B. Jordan to a strip club for “character research” and the actors judging a “pretty pussy competition,” are we sure those two were actually playing characters and not just getting filmed
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Feb 12, 2018 20:32
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The story I heard was that Burns had Simon to edit him but Burns was mostly working on Generation Kill during S5 so Simon didn't have a cowriter do bounce stuff off.
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Feb 28, 2018 17:24
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The Wire creator David Simon plans series based on Spanish civil war
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Apr 10, 2018 19:35
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Honestly Ziggy was never going to be a wunderkind or anything but that doesn't mean he deserved the life he got
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Apr 17, 2018 16:55
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Lol I did the same thing in season 5 where I skipped an episode and the opening line of the next was was Spiros saying "Joe will be missed"
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Apr 28, 2018 00:19
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yeah, id like to think he turns out alright in the end but he's just left a trail of broken lives and dead bodies behind him and never even notices
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Jun 26, 2018 22:00
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted: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 idk mcnulty indirectly causes a ton of awful poo poo but i don't really think bodie was his fault- dude honestly wanted out but through no real fault of anyone's got caught
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Jul 14, 2018 21:32
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Addamere posted:Avon Barksdale was in 2049 Also in Dredd
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Dec 27, 2018 17:25
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also i was just watching the patrick stewart christmas carol and dominic west is scrooge's nephew lmao. he's also supposed to valjean in a bbc adaptation of les mis (the book not the musical)
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Dec 27, 2018 19:21
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Escobarbarian posted:I mean by the end of season 3 you’ve already seen more than enough to know the show doesn’t see him as a good character, right? I mean the mirror sex scene alone i love that they had to say that carcetti's affairs were something they made up for the show and not based on actual rumors about o'malley. "yeah you didn't actually cheat on your wife, you just seem like the kind of guy who'd bang a random woman at a fundraiser while staring at yourself in a mirror"
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Feb 18, 2019 18:55
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On the subject of wire actors showing up in weird places I rewatched starship troopers and totally forgot Carver's actor is in that
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Feb 27, 2019 19:32
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Ginette Reno posted:
Which, of course, he is
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Jul 1, 2019 20:40
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Even if she's definitely not aspirational she was fun to watch, while Cheese is just a dumbass
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Jul 4, 2019 18:20
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on my current rewatch and all the bits with prez teaching in the beginning of season 4 are hard to watch with sympathetic embarrassment
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Oct 2, 2019 22:19
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Theres plenty of terrible poo poo that happens in the show where no one, or practically no one, comments on it and its left to the viewer. Like McNulty trying to interview the women in immigration detention is a horrifically hosed up situation- they were smuggled across the sea, perhaps on false pretenses, to work in terrible conditions and the government just throws them in a cage and ships them back to whatever impoverished country they came from. But everyone just accepts this as normal and no one explicitly says anyrhing about it
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Oct 24, 2019 21:59
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God Hole posted:excellent example of a pimp roll (or gangster glide) in this clip. i know it's been said a million times but the attention to detail on this show is pretty incredible. Apparently in some parts of Europe red laces denote lefty skinheads so that scene didn't work lol
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May 4, 2020 01:21
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Yeah but when Omar dies nothing really happens- he slips into legend but no one wants revenge, the kid appears to be arrested for it but the police almost gently caress up the name of the victim. if Marlo had killed Clay Davis, even assuming he'd found someone stupid enough to do it, I'd think the cops would come down on him like a ton of bricks
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Sep 10, 2020 18:57
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Kima isn't powerful herself but the institution of the police is
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Sep 10, 2020 20:29
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The most unbelievable thing about the serial killer plot was that it wasn't just a ploy to get more overtime from the get-go
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Feb 23, 2021 21:29
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Also should be acknowledged that "this is effective at getting across a message which I'm not in an emotional state to hear" can be true and good and also not a criticism of the work
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Feb 23, 2021 21:35
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christmas boots posted:Really everything you need to fundamentally understand Carcetti is contained in that Season 3 scene where he cheats on his wife while staring at himself in the mirror the whole time. It ruled when O'Malley briefly ran for president and the writers had to say that wasn't based on a real incident, they just kinda felt like he was that kinda guy
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Mar 19, 2021 01:15
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the most unrealistic thing is that it wasnt just 100% graft from the start
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Aug 11, 2021 21:44
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Plus Rudy is playing himself and there's a few minor characters played by guys who were in the unit (though not playing themselves iirc) so there's some overlap. I did see an interview with the people the main characters are based on and its funny that all of them look a lot like their actors except Ray, who I assume Burns read the book and just got Ziggy in his head
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Sep 15, 2021 02:13
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Yeah part of it is also the Marines built up a lot of political power and prestige in the island campaigns of the Pacific War and they've kinda been coasting on that ever since
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Sep 15, 2021 22:01
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zenguitarman posted:Snot Boogie got me thinking about the best cold opens of the wire and they're all pretty much Omar (Omar in jail is incredible, but Omar goes out for Cheerios and Omar vs mouzone are really good too). Drunk Jimmy is up there, though. He plays a drunk so good. Yeah McNulty crashing the car is great
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Jun 27, 2022 18:16
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Yeah the most unrealistic thing about the serial killer plot is that it wasn't entirely designed to get them more OT pay from the start
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Aug 10, 2022 13:58
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Ainsley McTree posted:My low key favorite Valchek scene is early in season 2 where he's in his office and he has a computer in the background on a desk with no chair in front of it, stuck on the password screen (or some kind of similar tableau, i forget the specifics), and it's clear he's never touched the thing in his life. An absolute rat hump of a man, what a performance yeah its stuck on the same error message the entire season lol
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Jan 28, 2023 16:56
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We Own This City isn't nearly as good as The Wire but the story it tells is interesting and there's some good performances (Hector, Jon Bernthal, the guy who played Landsman)
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Count Roland posted:I felt this way about season 5 The most unrealistic thing about the serial killer plot is McNulty intended it to be a cover for police work instead of being pure grift
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