The Wire

[MDS]

i thought you didnt make jokes about dead people, mr. self-righteous hypocrite

[ice grillin you]

i didnt and i still dont....i state facts...i dont make fun of people cept for the jews...

[MDS]

well you have good reason, jews are awful

[ice grillin you]

 lchaim

[MDS]

so under the code of mr. havas, it is safe to snitch about episode 1?

[ice grillin you]

absolutely.....its sunday after 10 right?

however i dont wanna talk about any episode until my boy sun watches ep 1 season 1

[MDS]

white dudes from souderton watching a show about black people? ummmmmm

[ice grillin you]

white dudes from souderton watching a show about black people? ummmmmm

lolol

pretty much

[SunMo]

i watched season 5 ep1 ...terrible

[MDS]

die. now.

[MDS]

David Simon truthin'

"We have more working black actors in key roles than pretty much all the other shows on the air. And yet you still hear people claim they can't find good African-American actors. That's why race-neutral shows and movies turn out lily-white."

"I don't give a f--- if we ever win one of their little trinkets [emmy's]," the creator of the acclaimed HBO drama tells Newsweek. "I don't care if they ever figure out we're here in Baltimore. Secretly, we all know we get more ink for being shut out. So at this point, we wanna be shut out. We wanna go down in flames together, holding hands all the way. It's fun. And it's a good way to go out—throwing them the finger from 3,000 miles away.

Good read: http://www.newsweek.com/id/84555

Also:
Wee Bay: http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/13366
Dookie: http://allhiphop.com/stories/lifestylefilm/archive/2008/01/06/19092151.aspx#TheWireHBO

[SD_Eagle5]

episode 2 is really good. ending is sick, and there is something else that happens that i wont give away but its awesome.

I didn't really like the ending except for Bunk's reaction, McNulty comes off like too much of a lunatic, clearly he's boozing too much and losing it, but doing what he did seemed out of character to me, best part of the episode is when Marlo visits Avon and when Michael has a reality check when they're going to knock off June bug.

[ice grillin you]

simon = honorary brother gawd

[ice grillin you]

*****MINIMAL SPOILER WARNING******



entertainment weeklys season review....


The Wire (The Wire (Season 5))
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BALTIMORE CRAVEN The less-than-honorable Mayor Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen) in the fifth and final season of HBO's masterpiece The Wire

By Gillian Flynn

About the only good news in Baltimore is that test scores for third graders are up 15 points. This being The Wire, even that good news is tainted — last season's brutal foray into the city's school system made clear that those numbers are mere props for politicians. Everywhere else it's worse, especially among the underfunded police force: Overtime pay has vanished, cops take buses to crime scenes, the investigation into those 22 bodies sealed up in West Side houses last season has been suspended. Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen) is dangerously close to being branded as ''just a weak-ass mayor of a broke-ass city.''

The fifth and final season of David Simon's peerlessly acted, stunningly scripted, revolutionary drama of 1,000 moving parts kicks off Jan. 6, and Baltimore is undergoing a changing of the guard — with the new generation even more unworthy than the last. Carcetti makes decisions not as a dutiful mayor, but as a gubernatorial hopeful. Drug dealer Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector) — the guy responsible for those 22 bodies — is consolidating power ruthlessly and without discipline. ''Marlo's an a--hole,'' snarls Det. Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West). ''He does not get to win, we get to win.'' McNulty's worthy adversary, semi-legit gangster Stringer Bell, has been killed, and here's the detective — back in Homicide, back on the sauce, trying to scrape up pocket change to nail punks like Marlo. He reeks of anger and disdain. And Jameson.

Bubs, Bunk, Omar — they all resurface too. If there's one problem with The Wire, it's that, five seasons in, too many beautifully realized characters fight for too little room — a gem of a complaint to have. Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, has chosen to (dis)favor the media this round, and he's replicated a newsroom as desperately faulty as any of The Wire's other institutions. The Sun is also suffering from entitled upstarts: A budget crisis has management winnowing those with decent salaries — smarter, veteran reporters. Old-school city editor Gus (Homicide's Clark Johnson) finds himself saddled with the paper's callow new golden boy Scott Templeton (Year of the Dog's Tom McCarthy), a flimsy reporter as hollowly ambitious and shortsighted as Marlo.

From the police station to city hall to the newspapers to the street, it's clear nobody will get a ''New Day in Baltimore.'' Everyone seems only more stuck in his or her own intertwined, culpable role. Episode 7 ends with cop Kima (Sonja Sohn) holding her son at a windowsill, as they say goodnight to the moon — and the ''po-po...hoppers...hustlers...scammers'' of Baltimore. The triumph of The Wire is that, as Kima whispers these words, they don't sound cynical. They sound like a benediction for this yelping creation of David Simon, and a good wish for the hard struggle of cities. A



that one highlited line is so true....every character and theres been a ton that has shown up on this show has been perfect in every way...whether its mcnulty...or orlando...frank or ziggy sobotka...brother mouzone or the kids in season four...everyone nails their part to a tee every time..

[Seabiscuit36]

finally caught up with the first episode.  Love the start with the lie detector.  Great ep.