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- Jabrams2, on 07/16/2009, -2/+47One of the best shows ever created. Period.
- alamedaman, on 07/16/2009, -0/+32Omar coming, RUN!!!
- TomK88, on 07/16/2009, -0/+24The Wire is the best expose of modern urban life I've seen. You'll learn more about what is going in urban areas by watching this show than you will in a lifetime watching network news.
- libertao, on 07/16/2009, -0/+19? They missed the craziest one:
"Instead of attending school, Felicia Pearson worked as a drug dealer. At the age of 14, she was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a girl named Okia Toomer and sentenced to eight years at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, MD" - KevenM, on 07/17/2009, -0/+14Was I the only one who watched several episodes before realizing that Snoop was a girl?
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -1/+14I find it hard to believe the actor who played the deacon was a powerful drug kingpin. He seemed so frail and soft-spoken on the show.
- directedition, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10Omar was easily my favorite character. He didn't quite fit anyone's mold. A sort of wild-card in the mix. His appearance in court is such an awesome scene.
- freeridstylee, on 07/16/2009, -0/+10Season 4 was some of the most though provoking television I've ever seen.
- KevinMalone, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9I wish they did one more season. I still think they could have devoted a season to the Churches
The church played a crucial role in the whole series. The church got the longshoremen in trouble in season 2. Carcetti had to appeal to the black preachers and churches to win the election. The church used to money launder. Could have done one more season.....Oh well, had to get that off my chest - sClubDevin, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9I love this show. A lot of people don't realize that there are worse places than the Bronx and South Central. Baltimore has managed to stay the most dangerous city in the country, while being inside the richest state in the union.... but i still love it.
- jboitnott, on 07/16/2009, -0/+8Couldn't agree more. And the creators of the show did a great job showing the continuing destruction of journalism at the hands of the corporate jackals.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -1/+8WU-TANG!
- Peko, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7<whistling>
- mrogi, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7If that Kenard kid aint a criminal in real life he must be one Hell of an actor. I'm convinced he is a born thug.
- JdillaRIP, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7My favorite quote, "I'm just a humble ***** with a big dick, and I'm not that humble"
- KevenM, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7It's funny - now that you mention it, Levy was probably the MOST immoral on the show. Granted, he didn't go around shooting people himself, but even then, I don't think that's due to his morality necessarily.
If you look at both the good guys and the bad guys - they ALL had a moral code that they lived by, whether you agreed with that code or not.
Levy? No moral code. - KevenM, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6Personally, I feel that this is one of the few shows where the actors are so talented, they could easily run a few special episodes where everyone takes on the role of a character who is on the opposite side of the law. Ie., The actor who plays Stringer Bell, playing Cedric Daniels and vice versa.
I would pay a lot of money to see something like that. - brook011, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6Got that big yellow bird!
- timothy53, on 07/16/2009, -2/+8Best series finale to any show ever.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -1/+7The Wire is also one of the only shows that has portrayed a noticeably Jewish character as profoundly immoral. Drug lawyer Maurice Levy's dialogue was even peppered with Yiddish slang.
David Simon has said he made the Levy character Jewish because "when I was covering the drug trade for 13 years for the Sun, most of the major drug lawyers were Jewish" and that "Anyone who is anyone in law enforcement in Baltimore knows the three or four guys Maury Levy is patterned on."
In one episode, Levy was referred to as "that Jew lawyer." In another episode, Omar Little referred to Levy as a parasite with a briefcase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Levy_%28The_W ... - eloestea, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6Suprised they didnt list one of the guys Omar was based off of, he was the one who played Omars buddy that died when they ran up in Monks apartment.
And the actual police commissioner, Ed Norris, who played Det. Norris. His run as commish was just as shady as Deputy of Ops Burrel. - inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5The scene where Michael pummeled Kenard in the face was really funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5yZfJSUG50
"Package up my ass, gump." ... Whack. - donkeyshow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5WMD...got that WMD.
- pheezus, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Five-Oh!
- SDM187, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5saved the best for last, i'm flippin thru goin, oh come on, u know method man has gotta be in here somewhere!
- WiretapStudios, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4PANNNNDEMIC
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -2/+6The Wire showed there is a glass ceiling for white males in urban America.
The white Deputy Police Commissioner Bill Rawls provided Carcetti with information which helped him win the mayoral election, but Carcetti turned around and denied Rawls the promotion to Commissioner that he deserved. Instead, Carcetti temporarily retained the incompetent black Commissioner Burrell, while grooming the young black Major Daniels as an eventual replacement.
On several occasions, Carcetti and his staff candidly cited Rawl's whiteness as the reason why he couldn't be appointed Commissioner. One of the other white officers within the department tells a crushed Rawls, "Jesus, Bill, it's Baltimore. You ain't one of the natives, are ya?" - KevenM, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Your recollection is correct, but I wouldn't take it as far as saying it's representative of "Urban America"
"Black Urban Cities in America" maybe, but that's only as far as I'd go. I'd be more comfortable with saying "In Baltimore", but that's just me. - manguino, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4anything Wire related deserves a digg
- jcaino, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4How awesome would it be to get a talk about drugs from Method Man?
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -0/+4
It's annoying how many of these are for possession of small amounts of marijuana or were because the officer "smelled marijuana." - fakeplasticsnow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4He was actually the basis for the Avon Barkesdale character.
- fakeplasticsnow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Got them WMDs bro, WMDs.
- fakeplasticsnow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4"You ain't go no honey nut?"
- imikedaman, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Nope. Check the end of the Live TV section:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerG ... - inactive, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4You're right. My wording was too strong. I think the show did accurately portray the way the racial impact of every important decision is analyzed.
A black mayor can fire a black police commissioner, but a white mayor can't... But what if the white mayor promoted a black man to Deputy Commissioner?... No, that won't be good enough for the black ministers... Well what if we...
The mayoral race between the black incumbent Royce and the white challenger Carcetti highlighted the racial politics and racial favoritism of elections in a multiracial city.
The white officers in the police department clearly favored the white candidate. A white patrolman let Carcetti off instead of writing him up for a drunk-and-disorderly. Landsman and Valchek leaked information to Carcetti about the death of a witness, which Carcetti used to embarrass Royce during a debate. And when he learned a powerful black politician was unsatisfied with Royce, Rawls tracked down Carcetti, who was electioneering, to deliver the news.
The Royce campaign, meanwhile, shamelessly pandered to the black community. They put up posters in African nationalist colors with the slogan "makes US proud." - donkeyshow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3I'll go a step further and say it was the most well done, and most important show i've ever seen.
- directedition, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3I didn't realize it till shortly before she died.
- WiretapStudios, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3“A good church man is always up in everybody's *****. It's how we do.”
- Stieffers, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Bodymore, Murdaland.
- Peko, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4AYER
- WiretapStudios, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3A man got to have a code!
- fakeplasticsnow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3"I got the shotgun and you got the briefcase."
- TomK88, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYj7q_by_2E
- WiretapStudios, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Where you guys get those caps with the bill in the back? I went to the store but they only had the ones with the bill in the front...
- Herc - manguino, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Hey, check out The Corner written by Ed Burns/David Simon. MANY of the character's roles are reversed including Cedric Daniels (whom plays a drug addict). Very bizarre, but such a powerful show as well!
- Quartzblade, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Look! His hat is tilted but his head is tilted so his HAT IS PERFECT
- MonoDede, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2YERRRRR
- tamman2000, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Right up there with The Shield...
- WiretapStudios, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2My girlfriend and I just watched all 5 seasons in a row, and the finale last night. This is my fifth time watching the whole series. It has been my all time favorite show for years, even over the Sopranos (which is phenomenal). The writing has to be bar-none the best I've ever seen on tv or in the movies. This is one show where I find it hard to believe that all those people aren't real people that live there. I wanted to adopt Dookie at the end of the finale, I was so touched by his and everyone else's performances. How this show didn't win any awards is a travesty and proves the whole main recurring theme / point of the show.
I hit Baltimore a few times a year and do the Wire tour (you can find it on HBO's site). *****'s intense man, those weren't movie sets, those were real locations in real hoods, none of that studio soundstage *****. If you haven't seen the show and are a big crime or drama buff, I 100% recommend you check it out. I'd give you 3-4 episodes before you would be hooked and have to watch the whole thing.
On a side note, the director also did a HBO miniseries about a troop in Iraq called Generation Kill, the writing and dynamics are just as good on that one as well. It also has Ziggy from the longshoremen season in a great role. -
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