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- DallasCowboys94, on 10/31/2009, -0/+88Didn't hand in your assignment from last week?
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeittttt. - johnnyfivealive, on 10/31/2009, -1/+39Well, it was an amazing show.
- brandonAll, on 10/31/2009, -1/+28I cant wait to see a 10 page thesis on robbing the stash house.
- inactive, on 10/31/2009, -0/+26I find it ironic how the Wire was supposed to display the plight of the black community and yet BET snatched up the syndication rights and practically glorified the crack dealers and gangsters instead of pushing it as social commentary.
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 10/31/2009, -2/+26Hands-down the best television show I have ever watched.
I recommend The Wire to anyone that will listen. Sadly, they don't listen very often. :( - Homest4r, on 10/31/2009, -1/+20I wish more colleges would do this. Not only is 'The Wire' one of the best television series ever, but the amount of depth: the variety of incredible characters, sociopolitical themes, commentary, among other things you take out of the show is simply unparalleled to any other television show, let alone any other form of art.
- clyentnine, on 10/31/2009, -0/+19MS Word dictionary does not recognize "re-up"
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 10/31/2009, -0/+15It look good, girl.
- Oinkie, on 10/31/2009, -1/+16How My Hair Look, Mike?
- fingerrockets4, on 10/31/2009, -0/+13and i hear they never show season 2 because it focused more on the white townies
- palanthos, on 10/31/2009, -2/+13This is easily my favorite scene from The Wire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM
*****. - reddevil3, on 10/31/2009, -1/+12Well get on with it *****-!
- mr1saturn, on 10/31/2009, -1/+12This show is based directly off of the actual drug problem. Fictitious names and faces do not make the content any less relevant.
- rocknog, on 10/31/2009, -0/+11Is it really so surprising? Fiction allows the author flexibility in coming up with the most effective way to deliver a message. It can touch into that emotional dimension that scientific research can't, and use it to far more effectively convey the message. I mean, just take a look at some of the greatest works of literature - so often, they're great because not only do they tell a fantastic story, but they give us an insight into our own humanity.
Granted, the Daily Show is a bit different - it's not strictly fiction, but not being a news show allows Jon Stewart to use satire to both convey a message as well as hook his audience with humor, allowing him to go more in-depth with issues without fear of viewers getting bored and changing the channel. - Makaras, on 10/31/2009, -2/+12I took a class at Ball State University in December of 08' the professor was Bart Peterson (former mayor of Indianapolis). It was a 400/500 Political science class about Urban Politics. Peterson had just wrapped up a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics, and spoke of The Wire a lot in his lectures, and often referenced the panel that Harvard had with the Wire's creator. It was amazing to me how the materials we were reading in class (books, hand-outs, studies, what ever) would flow so naturally into the clips introduced from The Wire. If you are a political science geek (I suppose I am) then the content of The Wire is completely relevant to the observation of a macro political system (a major city), and the level to level interactions of various political entities, departments, levels of power as they collide with different subsections of the social strata. I am not surprised at all Harvard is doing this, as the show was so well written that it incorporates all of the conflicting levels of government as it meets society and when it meets society it does so from so many different perspectives. That anyone watching the show for anything more than entertainment (though it is very entertaining) is going to get a great lesson and example about sociology, political science, and the way in which the two interact.
- diggdong, on 10/31/2009, -1/+11Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss. - Omar
- inactive, on 10/31/2009, -0/+9You're correct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
"Much of the waterfront storyline from the second season is edited out from the BET broadcasts."
One could take the argument the reason for their editing was that it was an odd season and didn't jive with the series but I digress, I think the point of the Wire was to show all of Baltimore and some viewers didn't like when it strayed from it's inner-city roots, much like Temple of Doom was the bastard child and fans demanded more Nazis again because it was so successful in the first one. - baliagra, on 10/31/2009, -0/+8They are going to teach them how to play the game
Indeed - MrJohnSmith, on 10/31/2009, -2/+10I'll have to say that this is sad. Not the fact that they are offering a class on 'The Wire,' which is in my opinion the greatest show ever made (which does an impeccable job of depicting life on the streets). But the fact that a television program created (mostly) for entertainment can be considered as having done more to enhance our understanding of "systemic urban equality" than any published study is pretty shocking. I mean, why the ***** is a TV show better at making people reflect than professional studies?!
This is comparable to 'The Daily Show' being considered a far more reliable and better source of news than actual news channels.
It's not supposed to be this way, but it still is. What a ***** up world we live in. - fingerrockets4, on 10/31/2009, -2/+10I'm still mad about what Bodie and Poot did to Wallace...
- inactive, on 10/31/2009, -2/+10The Wire is THE most realistic show I've ever seen. I believe that it is a good basis for an entire course - there are a ton of different social issues that can be analyzed in each episode. I don't find it embarrassing at all that this is being offered as a course. The Wire is more of a serious social commentary than a piece of entertainment and for that reason I think it's suitable for social studies...
- MrJohnSmith, on 10/31/2009, -0/+7The king stay the king.
- jusjus, on 10/31/2009, -2/+9Best. Show. Ever.
- NOZZLeS, on 10/31/2009, -0/+7*BANG*
- Trigonometron, on 10/31/2009, -0/+7Oh indeeed.
- NCSD, on 10/31/2009, -2/+8"I'm from harvard and at harvard we can't afford to risk our lives in the lower class neighborhoods" (While wearing a monocle)
- mkriss5681, on 10/31/2009, -3/+9...or these pussy rich white kids from New England could just live in a Baltimore high rise for 3 months.
- ChrisLondon, on 10/31/2009, -0/+5No way. It's good, but not as good as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_eH0Kt4DNA - MrJohnSmith, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4"Pussaaay, Jimmehh, pussayy!"
- clyentnine, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4I was there with you till the last bit; I think the show owes a lot to a Dickensian model of character relationships and development, etc.
- frieddonuts, on 10/31/2009, -4/+8As a white person, I'll tell you one thing I don't like.
Falsely superior, snarky internet blogs, claiming to be worldly and somehow more enlightened than the rest of us when they are really regurgitating the same old racial stereotypes that have existed for centuries. - SevenTwo, on 10/31/2009, -1/+4"The King stays the King." - D'Angelo
- keysersozejr, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3Bunk: I'm just a humble ***** with a big-ass dick.
Freamon: You give yourself too much credit.
Bunk: Okay then. I ain't that humble.
It was simply perfect, a stunning achievement that won't ever be duplicated and man do I miss it. - MonoDede, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3That's stupid, 2nd season was great. It showcased what goes on behind the scenes before the drugs reach the street and it added to the storyline that was referenced to in future seasons.
- paulmer2003, on 10/31/2009, -1/+3Omar like it simple.
- kidendless, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2"Excuse me, sir? A C? I think this paper deserves a mu-"
"Deserve got nothin' to do with it." - WickedAngelR6, on 10/31/2009, -4/+6You don't have to bathe in a sewer to learn how one works.
- jonnyboy88, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrfCixsd2N8
- non00b, on 10/31/2009, -1/+3frieddonuts: it's a humour site
- amirman, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2i see what you're saying but the guy who wrote The Wire was a journalist who had done years of extensive qualitative analysis and he didn't write the show just to make a buck or just to entertain but mainly to show the reality of the situation in baltimore. though it is fiction i think it's still just as valuable as any other qualitative research. it just uses a different method of communication.
- NotAChickenHawk, on 11/01/2009, -1/+3I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase....
- stuwanker, on 10/31/2009, -2/+4The first question on the final is, "What is the plural of 'pussy'?"
- MrJohnSmith, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2Exactly, whenever I try to recommend this to any friends one of the following happens: they automatically assume it's another police show before they even watch it, or fail to recognize the show's intelligence because of the "lack of action."
- identifiedlogo, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2It made the entire story though, After that Dangelo was in bad terms with stringer.
Its not like Bodie and Poot can have the nerve to say no to stringer, They followed an order, all of them ruthless f*****s.
But Wallace should have never returned. - mysteryberto, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2You were in the Sphinx Club?
- McNerd, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1"I don't know how college works in the states, but in Europe, we study ISSUES, not depictions of issues."
And that's why Europe does not have literature classes!
Dumbass. - mr1saturn, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1I believe this course would use the show as a way to explore the actual issues it depicts so well. I don't think they will be critiquing the show itself. I'm just speculating though, as a Canadian I'm not certain how colleges in the states work either.
- keysersozejr, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1Actually you wouldn't have said that if you actually got The Wire, but you don't cause you're a casual viewer and as David Simon says '***** the casual viewer' so head back to Lost and the Smokey Polar Bears where anything is possible because the writers just make that ***** up as they go. Oh by the way, Its Harvard not an East Compton JuCo.
- keysersozejr, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1That website is racist and demeaning to all humanity and just reinforces negative stereotypes. Most white people don't like The Wire because they are too busy watching American Idol while wearing Eli Manning Jersey's.
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