Thanks. Some jewels in there but still I don't get how some of you don't rate The Sopranos. It's a masterpiece.
Television The Wire
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That faculty meeting in Season 4 ain’t far from how they really are sometimes 
That faculty meeting in Season 4 ain’t far from how they really are sometimes
«Wherever you go... there you are»
Also, if I worked for him, I’d end up kicking Carcetti’s ass
That faculty meeting in Season 4 ain’t far from how they really are sometimes
I'm so jealous you're enjoying this for the first time.
I'd love to see Snoop buying a nail gun for the first time again.
Now the school stuff is hitting me in the feels.
I’ve coached and taught these kids man. Different names, different places, same kids.
You're Prezbo!
You earned that buck that a motherfecker man, keep that shit!
Don’t think he’s that bad with guns though.
Good show but pretty boring if you watch it in this day and age. Was huge for its time though.
It's still every bit as excellent now, as evidenced by CR watching it for the first time now and loving it.
I don't know... I watched it for the first time recently and I thought it was good. If I think about when it was released then yes it was amazing but nowadays a lot of shows have the similar style of character development and what not.
Some of the scenes/episodes just seem filler to me for no reason.
Such an amazing character. I feel like a dick for saying it, but did anyone else think Snoop was a young guy when they first saw her?
I could quote it off the top of my head
Man said this here is the Cadillac of nail gun, he mean Lexus but he didn't know!
The wire's version of steamed hams.
Why feel like a dick? I'm sure plenty thought the same, including me. She looked like a little dude.
GOAT show. Had the pleasure of re-watching it with my partner who had never seen it before. She loved it of course, but the best part was seeing her reactions and being able to discuss everything after each episode.
It is just such an amazingly well done show with brilliantly written characters. Omar has to be the best character of any show, ever, IMO.
It is just such an amazingly well done show with brilliantly written characters. Omar has to be the best character of any show, ever, IMO.
It's between him and Bubbles for me. And then you've amazing characters like Stringer, Marlo, Bunk, Kima, Lester.
I think the only character I really didn't like was Brother Mouzone who felt like a caricature.
Also some may not be aware but they included some real people in the show that the characters were based on. E.g. the reverend that helps Cutty is actually the guy that Barksdale is loosely based on, he was a drug lord that did time.
And for anyone interested, here's a podcast of a guy that usually talks Basketball but loves the Wire. He managed to get an author of a behind the scenes book about the wire on for an interview. The author interviewed the cast and writers, so has some great anecdotes and insight.
E.g. oneday on set some criminal that was on the run ran into the set and saw the actors and thinking they were police he handed himself in.
And for anyone interested, here's a podcast of a guy that usually talks Basketball but loves the Wire. He managed to get an author of a behind the scenes book about the wire on for an interview. The author interviewed the cast and writers, so has some great anecdotes and insight.
E.g. oneday on set some criminal that was on the run ran into the set and saw the actors and thinking they were police he handed himself in.
Yeah true, Bubbles the other favourite for different reasons (obviously). There are so many great characters, all unique, that it's an impossible task to make a top 5 list.
One of my favourite anecdotes I heard from filming was that an actual dope addict gave Andre Royo (Bubbles) a vile of heroin, telling him he looked like he needed it more. Royo calls it his "street Oscar"
One of my favourite anecdotes I heard from filming was that an actual dope addict gave Andre Royo (Bubbles) a vile of heroin, telling him he looked like he needed it more. Royo calls it his "street Oscar"
'street Oscar,' that's just amazing.Nah, it's ageless and immortal
Have you got through the whole show as yet? Thoughts?
I love talking to people who are watching it for the first time. I get all them feels back
one of the very best scenes of the show. The guys face is priceless.I love the court scene with Omar (and his tie) in season one, when he's being a fake witness against Bird. 'Whaddup burrrd.'
Or when Bubbles is telling Syndor everything that was wrong with his undercover getup.
Or when essentially all the scenes with Omar doing some gangsta shit.
Not yet. I’m 2/3 through season 4.
Back to the coaching grind after a week off, so it’s cutting into my Wire time.
All good, I'll be very careful with spoilers and we can all debrief after! As you've probably noticed we are living vicariously through you ATM.
Its in my top 3 all time which changes depending on what mood im in.
I have always wanted to re watch it and sopranos but have never found the time.
Somehow managed 3 SoA viewings though!
I have always wanted to re watch it and sopranos but have never found the time.
Somehow managed 3 SoA viewings though!
I love the court scene with Omar (and his tie) in season one, when he's being a fake witness against Bird. 'Whaddup burrrd.'
Or when Bubbles is telling Syndor everything that was wrong with his undercover getup.
Or when essentially all the scenes with Omar doing some gangsta shit.
«Bird always covet them shiny little pistols, and the boy too triflin’ to throw it off, even after a daytime murda!»
Any character that was written carefully enough in 2005 to be requesting a copy of The Atlantic magazine when the magazine was in a crisis questioning if it would survive the initial internet age is not a caricature for me. The abolitionist journal that provided the intellectual foundation to abolish slavery that was founded by people including Ralph Waldo Emerson, ******* Beacher Stowe and Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' father was not as ubiquitous in 2005 as it is today. Mouzone combined several different archetypes and I believe it was only his tangential supporting role that might have made him seem less deep. They sadly didn't have time to develop everybody as deeply as I would have loved but several clues about the character did accurate represent certain types of real people in the 1980s even if in general the "NYC people" were a little one-dimensional. Then again, that reflected how people saw others from other rival cities in the late 1990s.
I read this in Snoop voice.
Yes I have. I’ll have finished season 4 tomorrow afternoon and will probably knock out Season 5 next week. Gonna get it done before August football camp gets going.I just realized that I am more likely to watch and enjoy a new show if it has Wire alum in it.
I enjoyed Bosch recently and it had Marlo Stanfield. I was randomly watching a comedy show House of Lies that had Mayor Royce in it.
And today I just started watching Luther with Stringer Bell after being unable to get into Sharp Objects and some other new HBO show I can't even remember.
I enjoyed Bosch recently and it had Marlo Stanfield. I was randomly watching a comedy show House of Lies that had Mayor Royce in it.
And today I just started watching Luther with Stringer Bell after being unable to get into Sharp Objects and some other new HBO show I can't even remember.
the one with James Franco?
No that was The Deuce. I liked that one actually. I'll look it up in a minute, it was about some mountain town and some artists