The Wire

[ice grillin you]

that vampire show

[MDS]

i know what it is but what on gods green earth are you doing watching it

[ice grillin you]

my companion watches it...outside of reality tv and that kind of stuff which i dont count...its really one of the worst shows ive ever seen...

i happened to be in bed last night putting in some fantasy football draft prep and the trailer caught my eye...cant wait

[MDS]

you really are an old white man. bed at 9pm on a sunday. awful.

also FANTASY FOOTBALL PREP IN BED what

[ice grillin you]

study time baby

and my bad for having to get up at 430 for work....we all cant work part time at a local gazette

[MDS]

ill see your part time gazette and raise you health benefits and a take home computer

stillupfront's mom stillupfront's mom what

[Diomedes]

listen to this fanboys


http://everydaybeats.net/mixtapes/may_12_djianhead.mp3

[Sgt PSN]

So....I think I started watching this show about a week ago and I just wrapped up season 5.  Yeah.....all 5 seasons in 1 week.  Needless to say, I didn't get much done as far as packing up my house goes.  Or sleep.  Or general hygiene.  This is going to take a while....... 

I'm really glad that I managed to avoid reading this thread over the last few years.  In fact, I pretty much avoided anything and everything about the show altogether (online, tv, etc) other than knowing that Omar was pretty much the world's favorite character.  And I'm glad that I didn't know shtein about this show when I started watching because I had no idea what to expect from scene to scene or episode to episode other than my own guesses.  But yeah, when it's all said and done, the hype was justified.  I'm glad I didn't get in on it while it was still airing though.  Remember when you were a kid going into a convenience store with some friends and you all have a few $$ in your pocket and you buy as much candy as you could....then you're outside the store and you gobble up your favorite candy first. Then while you're munching on lesser candies one of your boys also bought a pack of your favorite candy and while he's eating that, you wish that you saved your favorite candy for later because you know your friend isn't enjoying it as much as you would.  Right now, I feel like I saved that candy for later.

Hated seeing Wallace get got.  D'Angelo going off on Stringer about Wallace was amazing.  Valchek launching an investigation on Sobatka because he didn't get the best church window was annoying as hell, but I guess cops have investigated people for less.  Ziggy could have been killed 50 times over and it wouldn't have been enough.  I assume he's a prison bitch.  D'Angelo getting murderdeathkilled sucked a fat one.  I knew it was coming but I still hated it.  Stringer and Avon were a perfect match.  Stringer was brains, Avon was like the braun and both of their strengths ended up being their downfall.  Stringer thought he was too smart for the game and Avon thought he was too tough.  The scene with the 2 of them on the balcony before Stringer got smoked might be the most powerful scene from the entire series.  Only thing I didn't get is that Stringer knew Avon was coming after him (or at least suspected something was up) when Avon asked him what time he was meeting the contractor.  Stringer was smart as hell so why did he give Avon the actual time instead of telling him a different time so he could be ready?  And even though the writing was on the wall for Stringer to get killed, it still kind of sucked when it finally happened. 

The Hamsterdam experiment was pretty cool and I think it highlighted the lack of progressive thought in our govt's approach to drugs.  Streets were clean, users and dealers were out of the neighborhoods, people were happy and violent crimes were dramatically reduced.  But 30 years ago Nancy Reagan said drugs are bad and the gov't waged a war on them so once the mayor got wind of it, shtein hit the fan.  The only unrealistic part of that imo was the fact that a lot more heads would role if something like that actually happened today.   

It was kind of funny for a minute seeing McNulty clean up his act and use department binders for school supplies for his girl's kids, but his brief appearances in season 4 was a bitter pill to swallow.  And they definitely shifted the focus from the crime that takes place on the streets to the crime that takes place in gov't and the sad state of inner-city schools.  But I thought the best thing about season 4 was how it re-introduced Spiros and made season 2 a lot more relevant to the overall story. Because as I was watching season 3, I was constantly wondering what the dock workers/The Greek story had to do with anything.

I thought season 5 felt a little rushed.  Why did they only do 10 episodes?  And I also thought that the fake serial killer story kind of got away from the show's formula.  I didn't like Bodie's character at first...mostly because I was pissed that he killed Wallace, but I grew to really like him over the course of the show and hated seeing him killed.  And I knew Omar was getting popped inside that store but I was farging pissed when they showed that the little kid did it.  I get the irony of it, but that still pissed me off.  But it's shtein like that that really made the show great.  Never really understood why Kima ratted out McNulty and Lester though either.  But the montage scene at the end with McNulty was farging outstanding and put the finishing touches on it as well as you could hope for.  Basically just showed that all of the work they did in the previous 4 seasons didn't really change a thing.  Bubbles got clean, Dookie took his place.  Omar got popped, Mike turned into a ripper.  Politicians covered their asses and moved up the gov't ladder, Marlo stayed clean for about 3 minutes and went right back to the streets.  Basically just shows the never ending cycle that is destroying American cities.  At least Lester gets to spend the rest of his days making doll house furniture and banging a stripper half his age. 

Only thing I would have liked to see was some closure on Avon and Cutty.  I'm guessing Avon just serves his time and Cutty keeps mowing lawns and running his gym.

I don't buy dvd's anymore but I will be picking up the box set for this.  This definitely has a high re-watch factor to it.   

[ice grillin you]

best show eva

[Sgt PSN]

One other thing.....out of all the characters on that show, I don't think anyone did a better acting job than Andre Royos who played Bubbles.  The biggest knock on the show is that the acting wasn't always top notch and sometimes it seemed like the actors were just reading their lines off cue cards or something, especially when it came to smaller roles.  But I thought Royos did the most convincing job out of anyone and he probably had the toughest role to play.  Farging outstanding.   

[ice grillin you]

this could be the movie thread or the hip hop thread but i picked the wire thread because it needed to be bumped

As the deadly stick-up man Omar Little on The Wire and the fearsome bootlegger Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, actor Michael K. Williams has played his share of tough SOBs. Now he's going to take on a bastich.

An Ol' Dirty one.

EW has learned exclusively that Williams, 45, will star in an upcoming film about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper and all-around troubled soul Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty bastich, whose impressive mic skills and outrageous showmanship were eclipsed by his erratic offstage behavior, assorted arrests, and an early death.

Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night, Roger Dodger and Jay-Z's video for 99 Problems, is also joining the project, making his feature directorial debut.

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Filter fail

[Diomedes]

Is ODB the one who OD'd on crack, and there's video of him smoking that very night?  I seem to remember seeing that video and feeling sick to my stomach, like I was watching a snuff film.  Sad farging story.

[Feva]

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The Redemption of Michael K. Williams

http://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/index.ssf/personalities/the_redemption_of_michael_k_williams.html