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The Wire

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 03 2012 10:35 PM

Continuing my tradition of being a few years late to most cultural phenomena, we've been doing this series weekends for months now, just finished season 3 tonight. Allow me to be the 5 millionth to say, good show. NO POST SEASON 3 SPOILERS WITHOUT WARNING!!!!!!111

Centerfield Feb 03 2012 10:52 PM Re: The Wire

Awesome, awesome show. All in the game.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 03 2012 11:09 PM Re: The Wire

Like Bunny's brown-paper-bag speech? The Omar-Bunk "how far we done fell" moment? That Stringer-Avon scene on the balcony before... well... y'know? I'll say nothing more about what's coming up than, well... Season 4 will rip your heart from your chest in slow-motion. (Hell, I was in minor mourning for a week after I finished it, and I saw it before YoungerPooper was an eye-glimmer.)

Benjamin Grimm Feb 04 2012 05:04 AM Re: The Wire

At the end of the final season, it's revealed that it was all something that Bob Newhart dreamed. The Wire was a terrific show. There was almost nobody on that show that I had ever seen anywhere before, but since then I've been seeing many of the actors in other things, especially Idris Elba (Stringer). And how could you not have a crush on "Snoop"?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 04 2012 06:15 AM Re: The Wire

The other night I dreamed that I was friends with Avon Barksdale. He came over with a boombox and was playing his favorite Clash songs for me. They weren't actual Clash songs I could identify, but generic 1980ish tunes with a reggae beat. He was really nice.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 04 2012 08:22 AM Re: The Wire

I've had dreams about Snoop and Chris and me going to the movies together. Omar's popped up in a couple of dreams, too, I think. Got a favorite name for junk? I have a soft spot for "Sheed"/"Sheed Wallace" and "Paaaaaaaandemic."

DocTee Feb 04 2012 09:46 AM Re: The Wire

I spent 30 days last summer teaching aboard a training ship that had no internet, TV or other amenities. I watched every episode of the franchise in 21 days.

metirish Feb 04 2012 05:14 PM Re: The Wire

DocTee wrote: I spent 30 days last summer teaching aboard a training ship that had no internet, TV or other amenities. I watched every episode of the franchise in 21 days. wow, aren't you full of surprises..... like a lot of people I never watched it until it was all over, have been watching it on HBO Go on the Roku......great show, love the use of Body of an American .

attgig Feb 05 2012 01:01 PM Re: The Wire

I watched the first couple seasons in about 2 days while I was living in Baltimore. it really messed with reality vs tv driving through the city. so real. such good tv. wish they had a few more seasons.

Edgy MD Feb 05 2012 01:47 PM Re: The Wire

Now you folks are really taunting me. The craziest thing is walking those six blocks from Camden Yards to work every morning and seeing the living zombies already out on the street. The meth faces --- on whites and blacks --- kill you. I'll see someone a half a block in front of me with the cheeks all concave and four teeth left in the mouth and think "poor old soul," and then when I reach and pass him or her, I realize the person is probably younger than I am.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 06 2012 12:03 AM Re: The Wire

Speaking of those... one of The Wire's cast stuck around to help... or try. Sohn started wondering: What if they took “The Wire” into schools, dissected how characters negotiated their environment and got kids to talk about how they did the same in their lives? Could that help them step outside themselves and see how they were making decisions, how there could be other possibilities? She shared the idea with Simon, saying she wanted to start an organization called ReWired for Change (ReWired for Life is its pilot program). “I was surprised,” he says. Most TV and movie people who adopt a cause, he adds, “say a few words, they’ll go to a dinner, they’ll give some money, but this is time. Time is the ultimate expenditure.” He gave his blessing but worried about how Sohn would raise money and whether she could succeed where even the best-intentioned Baltimoreans had not. “There was a part of me who wanted to put my arm around her and say” — he takes on an almost pitying tone — “you are about to go on a journey.”

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 05 2012 11:38 AM Re: The Wire

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'll say nothing more about what's coming up than, well... Season 4 will rip your heart from your chest in slow-motion. (Hell, I was in minor mourning for a week after I finished it, and I saw it before YoungerPooper was an eye-glimmer.) Goddamn, ain't that true. We're finally onto Season 5 now.

soupcan Mar 05 2012 01:51 PM Re: The Wire

So before I went to Israel for 10 days two weeks ago I downloaded the first seasons of 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Wire'. I've been so engrossed in 'BB' (midway through Season 2) that I haven't yet started 'The Wire'. When 'The Wire' first aired on HBO I tried to watch it but could not for the life of me understand the dialogue so I gave up on it. Same thing happened to me with 'Deadwood'. I liked the idea of 'Deadwood' so much though, that as soon as it was available I downloaded it and gave it another shot. With a bit more focus I was finally able to 'get' it and enjoy it and that's what I'm hoping will happen with 'The Wire'. Anyone else have this issue with the show or am I the only guy with early onset Alzheimer's on the board?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 05 2012 02:06 PM Re: The Wire

No, same here. I feel like I got better at understanding it as we went along even though we miss some still. Also the case with these big ensemble shows, it took some time for me to figure out who was who by name. It's rewarding when it all comes together though.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 05 2012 02:07 PM Re: The Wire

I had similar trouble with The Wire, but after enough episodes the dialog starting making a bit more sense. I have even more trouble sometimes with British shows. There's one character on Luther that speaks with such an unintelligible accent that I only pick up less than half of what he says.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 20 2012 01:14 PM Re: The Wire

You guys finish this up? I just killed the last ep yesterday. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER How crushing was it to see Dukwon using at the end? Beautiful montage to end it. All new players, same old game. Wonderful show.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 20 2012 01:30 PM Re: The Wire

You guys finish this up? I just killed the last ep yesterday. Crazy, man, we finished it up Sunday nite. Vague Spoilers Below: Agree, absolutely devastating seeing what happened to Duquan, who looked to me a lot like a young Dwight Gooden. It was the same kind of heartbreak they heaped on Randy in season 4, about brought me to tears. The whole newspaper political bullshit they introduced in Season 5 is exactly how it is. My only complaints about the whole damn thing was I didn't much get into the whole Ziggy arc in season 2, and felt like Jimmy's season 5 stunt was so liable to fuck itself up that I didn't really buy he and Freamon taking it on. Wouldn't news of a Baltimore homeless serial killer and a photograph of his hostage have reached Richmond (particularly a shelter), and wouldn't McNulty then have been the easiest guy in the world to finger?

A Boy Named Seo Mar 20 2012 01:53 PM Re: The Wire

Yeah, I felt that a little, too. More surprised Freamon would go along with it than McNulty. I could see him trying some shit like that, off the wagon again & pissed off at all the bureaucracy keeping them from doing 'real po-lice work'. Think they just hoped that the themes of ineptitude and worker apathy in all of these agencies would make it seem totally plausible that the scheme actually gets pulled off. I think they did, too.