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For those of us watching The Wire Series 5 on FX

I’ve had a lot of trouble with this season/series – thinking it might have ‘jumped the skark’, or they lost interest or it’s hurried - but I’m slowly coming around to the idea it’s . . . . genius. Seriously. It might be the best.

Going back to the copier machine in E1: ‘The bigger the lie, the more they believe’ – it’s early and I need to see how it all unfolds and let the ideas settle, but I do wonder if the McNulty story is the Iraq lie as played out to the American people.


In terms of a SPOLIER . . .

Very much enjoying Omar – the wholesale coke dealer – as he is and without his mentor and moral compass now. He’s totally lost, his broken leg a metaphor for his fucked mind.


AlexB: Blog - Fo shur
 
London_Calling said:
Going back to the copier machine in E1: ‘The bigger the lie, the more they believe’ – it’s early and I need to see how it all unfolds and let the ideas settle, but I do wonder if the McNulty story is the Iraq lie as played out to the American people.
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The photocopier scene is used in series 1 of Homicide, almost word-for-word. Must be based on a real trick that David Simon saw or heard about.
 
Alex B said:
The photocopier scene is used in series 1 of Homicide, almost word-for-word. Must be based on a real trick that David Simon saw or heard about.
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Sure, most of this stuff is.

I do want to go back to Homidice as I only watched it piecemeal and wasted. Bit like life itself really.
 
London_Calling said:
Sure, most of this stuff is.

I do want to go back to Homidice as I only watched it piecemeal and wasted. Bit like life itself really.
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We're filling the gaps between Wire episodes with S1 of Homicide at the moment. Just watched a brilliant episode with Robin Williams guest-starring: it must be some of his best work, playing very much against type but not lapsing into maudlin bollocks either.
 
I was just about to ask what series FX were on as I got Sky installed yesterday (thanks missfran!) and wanted to know where it was.

Am only halfway through the Series 1 box set though on DVD. Do series like this and Lost etc get repeated at all?
 
Unfortunately FX showed the whole shebang leading up to series 5, so I doubt they'll show it all again for a fair while.

Save your pennies and buy all of it :)

It's worth it just to hear Omar say "you'll get a smack bottom" in a posh English accent on one of the commentaries :D
 
Alex B said:
We're filling the gaps between Wire episodes with S1 of Homicide at the moment. Just watched a brilliant episode with Robin Williams guest-starring: it must be some of his best work, playing very much against type but not lapsing into maudlin bollocks either.
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I will buy Homicide.

What you think of the Iraq metaphor, it's working on so many levels at the moment . . . really enjoying how the various institutions buy into the new reality (because that's what they're paid to do) . . .
 
Vintage Paw said:
Incidentally, one of my fave moments from Season 2 is when Herc and Carver are sat outside in the car for ages, and ages, and ages, and no one tells them they don't need to anymore.

:D
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Mine to. :D

(As well as the final ep's montage with Steve Earle's I Feel Alright - Man, that got me :cool::o)
 
Alex B said:
The photocopier scene is used in series 1 of Homicide, almost word-for-word. Must be based on a real trick that David Simon saw or heard about.
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God, it worked better in Homicide I think, but I was grinning ear-to-ear when I saw it in The Wire :D

You up to the Munch cameo in S5 yet? It's fucking sweet :cool: Blink and you'll miss it.

Alex B said:
We're filling the gaps between Wire episodes with S1 of Homicide at the moment. Just watched a brilliant episode with Robin Williams guest-starring: it must be some of his best work, playing very much against type but not lapsing into maudlin bollocks either.
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Excellent episode that one. Fucking heart-breaking too. I really must get back to watching them all. I've got the entire boxed set (in a snazzy police filing cabinet :D) but we stopped somewhere in s2 when the wire came along.
 
pootle said:
I was just about to ask what series FX were on as I got Sky installed yesterday (thanks missfran!) and wanted to know where it was.

Am only halfway through the Series 1 box set though on DVD. Do series like this and Lost etc get repeated at all?
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I can't tell you whether The Wire will be repeated (although I do know it's not one of their highest-rated shows, Dexter getting 10 x the amount of viewers). Contact FX to find out.

Lost does get repeated, you're best off searching through the A - Z on Sky + as it's sometimes randomly repeated in the small hours. However, Sky only hold the rights from S3 onwards so for S1 & 2 that's up to C4.
 
Vintage Paw said:
You up to the Munch cameo in S5 yet? It's fucking sweet :cool: Blink and you'll miss it.
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Yep, I twigged it was a cameo immediately but, before placing the guy in Homicide (haven't seen so much of Homicide), I thought it was Bruce Springsteen’s drummer and actually slo-mo’ed the credits trying to confirm it. I have no idea why . . . his build/shape maybe. The eyewear possibly . . .
 
I agree.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

On past evidence there is a Category 5 crap-tornado heading into Baltimore as these storylines begin their final collision...

but still:
:eek:

Apart from the profiling scene, which was pure comedy gold. McNutty's FACE! Priceless.
 
Belushi - Yep, I read that. He's always instructive and it fleshes out still further the canvess we now know well.

Won't be watching Homicide on ITV but cheers anyway.


People aren't picking up on my serieal killer/WMD theme . . . c'mon, it defines the sodding whole of S5 :(
 
At first I really didn't buy the serial killer angle at all. I just found it a little too far fetched. But then I re-watched the whole series online and it makes sense. First of all the templeton thing makes total sense as guys like him have cropped up in several newspapers and magazines over the last decade (Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, Judy Miller etc). Mcnulty's bullshit actually starts to make sense when you consider that none of the commanders in any of the series ever really bother to look what's going on in the city. In season 1 they've no idea who the number one drug players are, season 3 Colvin gets away with Hamsterdam for so long because the bosses never leave their down town office there are countless other examples of the commanders simply neither knowing or caring what the troops are up to. The more i see of season 5 the more i'm convinved it might actually be the second best after season 4.
 
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