Television The Wire

[Wednesday at Stoke]

I loved Bunk! Wire wouldnt be the same without him.
Remember the episode when he picked up a lady in a bar and ended up crying in her bathroom, McNulty needed to get him out.

Bunk and McNulty working at the crime scene of Avon's girlfriend's apartment is one of the precious few scenes in the whole show that they show the professionalism and competence of the cops. Their partnership is ridiculously good in every scene they appear together.

 

[Massive Spanner]

I'd agree with the top 3 but the rest of the list is rubbish. Bodie only #18?

 

[acnumber9]

The 25 Greatest Characters of The Wire, Ranked
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35609/wire-best-characters-ranking/

Cutty should struggle to get into top fifty much less in at 14.

 

[Grinner]

Cutty was shit. I really liked the fat sergeant of detectives. He usually had few lines in his scenes but they were always fantastic and perfectly delivered.

 

[Irrational.]

One of my favourite scenes:



Always makes me so hungry!

And the 'Mmyeah... Gant" at 1:22 makes me LOL.

 

[Mali_Zeus]

Kima calling mr. Lion

 

[Wowi]

Cutty was shit. I really liked the fat sergeant of detectives. He usually had few lines in his scenes but they were always fantastic and perfectly delivered.

Yeah, Landsman is great.

 

[Kazi]

One of my favourite scenes:



Always makes me so hungry!

And the 'Mmyeah... Gant" at 1:22 makes me LOL.

Love that scene. I too always want a burger and fries after watching it. Hard to put my finger on it, but I think it's how the microphones are placed. Or something.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

That list also missing Brother Mouzone and probably the most opportunistic asshole, Cheese.

 

[stu_1992]

That list also missing Brother Mouzone.

I don't think they'd consider him a recurring character, but yes he's great!

 

[2cents]

Yeah that list is pretty bad. Wasn't a huge fan of Brother Mouzone though, something about him felt out of place in a show like that I thought.

 

[Grinner]

That Carcetti campaign manager had the best tits but the weirdest face.

 

[Mystry]

That Carcetti campaign manager had the best tits but the weirdest face.

I can't really remember hers. Nick Sobotka's girlfriend had an amazing pair.

 

[Massive Spanner]

Mouzone was the worst character in the entire show.

 

[George Owen]

Frank Sobotka would have made it to my top 25, easy. Good and brave man.

 

[Rado_N]

I'd probably write a Top 25 list different every time but yea, disagree with a lot of that one.

 

[Grinner]

I can't really remember hers. Nick Sobotka's girlfriend had an amazing pair.

feck yeah...that one scene where he just grabs them...I reckon he improvised that just to have a feel.

 

[Joemo]

Mouzone was the worst character in the entire show.

I agree. Such a nonsense character.

 

[Rado_N]

 

[Joemo]

My favourite Bunk moment is in season 2 when he drinks with McNulty by the railway bridge and pretends to shoot the bottles lined up on the bonnet of the car before raising his arms, laughing to himself and shouting "Yeaaaah, yeeeaaahhhh"

Shame there's no clip of it.

 

[Mystry]

My favourite Bunk moment is in season 2 when he drinks with McNulty by the railway bridge and pretends to shoot the bottles lined up on the bonnet of the car before raising his arms, laughing to himself and shouting "Yeaaaah, yeeeaaahhhh"

Shame there's no clip of it.

He had a couple of great scenes with Omar including this one.

 

[Joemo]

I thought I'd seen every Wire video on Youtube. @Mystry I love you

 

[Grinner]

The House we Live in is very good. Not really a documentary on The Wire but more on America's drug problem. The director of the wire, David Simon talks in it. Well worth a watch.

Yes, I enjoyed that. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Rado_N]

I reckon Neymond's mother could fit a large SUV up her nose.

 

[Organic Potatoes]

I can't really remember hers. Nick Sobotka's girlfriend had an amazing pair.

Maybe the greatest TV tits of all time. Right up there with D'addario(sp) from True Dectective.

 

[villain]

I just finished watching the entirety of this masterpiece.

I honestly don't know what to do now, I feel so attached to the characters I can't let them go

 

[Badunk]

Every 2-3 years you can rematch the entire series again. That's what I do.

 

[Rado_N]

feck waiting that long.

Annual.

 

[Mystry]

Every 2-3 years you can rematch the entire series again. That's what I do.

2-3 years? I watch it at least once a year.

 

[langster]

I just finished watching the entirety of this masterpiece.

I honestly don't know what to do now, I feel so attached to the characters I can't let them go

After some nagging and promising @Rado_N that I would watch it, I finally finished it all about 3 weeks ago. I felt exactly the same as you. I still do in a small way, and I must think about the show two or three times a day, and equate things to the show constantly.

I have to thank Rado and the others who kept on at me to watch it. There simply aren't enough words to describe its brilliance. It is the best TV show I have ever watched and I really do not say that lightly.

A true masterpiece in every sense of the word.

 

[Rado_N]

After some nagging and promising @Rado_N that I would watch it, I finally finished it all about 3 weeks ago. I felt exactly the same as you. I still do in a small way, and I must think about the show two or three times a day, and equate things to the show constantly.

I have to thank Rado and the others who kept on at me to watch it. There simply aren't enough words to describe its brilliance. It is the best TV show I have ever watched and I really do not say that lightly.

A true masterpiece in every sense of the word.

It's all downhill afterwards, it's the only downside.

You watch Sopranos yet?

 

[langster]

It's all downhill afterwards, it's the only downside.

You watch Sopranos yet?

No mate, i'm saving that until September, after the holidays, its just too busy now, plus I have the new series' of Hannibal and True Detective to watch at the moment. Although i'm finding both a bit of a let-down so far.

 

[Rado_N]

No mate, i'm saving that until September, after the holidays, its just too busy now, plus I have the new series' of Hannibal and True Detective to watch at the moment. Although i'm finding both a bit of a let-down so far.

You'll enjoy it, it's the closest anything comes to quality of The Wire.

 

[langster]

You'll enjoy it, it's the closest anything comes to quality of The Wire.

Yeah, i'm looking forward to it for sure. That's why I want to save it until it's a bit quieter here so I can enjoy it properly.

 

[harshad]

feck waiting that long.

Annual.

This.

Been doing it for three years now and still think there's new things in there to discover on every repeat viewing.

 

[Name Changed]

Once every two years for me. I want to forget a couple of things so it'll keep me glued to it.

 

[Red-Man-Walking]

Yeah watch it as soon as you start forgetting things, what I love is that every time you go through it you'll pick up on points in early seasons which shape later events that you totally missed the relevance of at the time. Not to mention Season 2 is far far better on a rewatch.

 

[soap]

Gonna have to rewatch this. Caught a bit of it because my mate was rewatching recently. Kenard was such a little fecker! Laughed by arse off when Michael lays into him and you hear some old guy in the background "Ha! That lil nigga dun gettin' his ass beat!"

 

[jem]

Almost finished doing an entire rewatch of the series (halfway through season 5.) This is my 3rd or 4th time through, and it just gets better and better, although the 5th season is a massive letdown. The news room angle is awful, chock-full of David Simon score-settling (and grizzled veterans continually schooling the younger journalists - all a bit too 'Good Will Hunting' for me.) And the serial killer angle wasn't the best of approaches.

Still, from seasons 1 through 4, you'd be hard pressed to find a work of art, in any medium, that approaches this level of story-telling. Absolute genius.

 

[jem]

I'd agree with the top 3 but the rest of the list is rubbish. Bodie only #18?

Yeah that's ridiculous. Bodie would be in my top 5. In no particular order, I'd have Bodie, Marlo, Stringer, Wee-Bey and Chris as my top 5.

In general, I find the 'street' characters far more convincing than the police, media and political characters (although Carcetti's aide Norman is pretty awesome.)

I find Simon and Burns treatment of the police and media in particular to be just a bit too all-knowing, preachy and wink-wink-nudge-nudge (most evident in the character of Ed Norris, who despite the admirable notion of casting real-life Baltimore characters, is an awful actor, and in the cartoon-villain nature of the Sun higher-ups and Scott Templeton, and, by contrast, the saintly Gus and grizzled vet Twigg.)

p.s. I also just realized that Frank Sobotka wasn't on that list. A major omission in my opinion.