Someone mentioned the “fuck” scene and I’m in the camp of it being great but out of place. So I was thinking of how they tried some things during season one before figuring it out

The surveillance cam angle. They tried it a few times early on but never used it again until I think season 5. Could be wrong

One of bubbles first scene in their new “headquarters”. This scene always irked me. It just looked like a soap opera or a sitcom the way it was shot. It takes me out of the scene every time. Maybe it’s just me

After the hit on Brandon, the slow mo of Avon, Stringer and company coming around the corner in the pit with that music. Wildly out of place in my opinion. Almost comical?

The show is perfect as a whole. I actually enjoy seeing something find its stride and come into its own as something amazing. I’m sure there are other oddities in season but just those off the top of my head

There is a scene in the seventh episode of season 3 ("Backburners") where McNulty, Kima and Sydnor finds out about Hamsterdam and confronts Major Colvin about it. There is a song bumping in the background which I cant for the love of god find anywhere on the internet.

Any help is appreciated.

https://youtu.be/FpUFph-1zy4?t=204 link to the episode with timestamp at 03:24

Wow. What can I say? This is greatest piece of entertainment I’ve ever watched.

Complete wrecked out of my emotions. I feel sad and happy at the same time. Felt like the last 5 minutes I’ve been constantly crying like a bitch bc I knew it would end soon.

I’ve looked forward to finishing the show only to understand it’s the Journey not the destination. I am usually not a rewatcher but it feels inevitable for The Wire.

I’m 23 years old from Germany and so glad I found The Wire. None of friends know about this show :( I keep telling them to watch it but they won’t anyway also their English isn’t good enough for it I think.

They fuxxed with Herc when he said he'll fuxx a guy to sleep with a hot broad, in season 2 his colleague ironed out the whole basis of the teasing with the title.

Going through rewatch #9. I love and hate this scene. I love it because it's brilliant. I hate it because had it been in The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, it would've won Emmys for everyone involved, so it kinda pisses me off. It's not even just that they get through the whole thing saying "fuck" in different contexts, it's how they break down a murder scene highlighting not just the incompetence of the previous detective, but the fact that he hadn't given too much of a fuck to look into it properly. So many themes are addressed there in a hilarious, poignant way. It's IMO a top 10 scene in TV history and, of course, just like everything else having to do with this show, doesn't get the recognition it truly deserves. Motherfucker.

Wallace. A youngin’ tryin to come up in the Game, then seen some shit (Brandon and his gauged out eyes) that done fucked with his head. D’Angelo advised to maybe think about walking away. Kid leaves for his grandma down the shore, but ain’t no country ass nigga.

“This is me yo, right here” Comes back to the projects, ends up getting aced by Bodie and Poot

Cutty. Done them years, but still a soldier. Comes back to the Game, nearly aces Peanut but can’t pull the trigger. “The Game ain’t in me no more, none of it” Gets to landscaping for a bit…..(and the boxing gym, eventually…)

The landscaper boss tells him, “This is it, yo, right here….”

One gets into the Game, tries to get out, can’t, gets killed (“He ain’t built for this yo, heart pump Kool-Aid”) The other gets locked up, goes back in, then walks away (“He a man today”) and rebuilds his life

Have more thoughts, but discuss…

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Gotham City is still a shithole and we're on something like the fifteenth iteration of the comic book or film. Think about it.

End the drug war, restore targeted policing of repeat violent offenders, re-establish meaningful UDAG and community block grants, fully fund the Kirwan plan for public education and, oh yeah, fund modern public transportation in the Baltimore region as if it was a string of six-lane highways in the outer D.C. suburbs. Also, if anyone is making a list, the Orioles need just one more solid healthy starter next year. Do even half of that and Baltimore will be fine. Gotham is fucked for every sequel they make.

Hahahaha Dominic’s accent came out for a split second when his character is talking to Lance Reddick’s character at the bar. It’s hilarious. S3:ep4 Amsterdam

Maybe after he was fired I’d really like him to just give it to Rawls on how bad of a cop he was and roast him

on my second binge of the show, and i think it was either e4 or e5 when Stringer confronted D'Angelo bout a snitch in the crew. they was suspicious that someone was tippin off "the cocksucker" bout where the stash house was. maybe i didn't catch it, but did we ever find out who or how Omar knew when and where to attack?

Mine is probably when Wallace dies, that's when I realised no character was above dying.

I thought the scene was great don't get me wrong, and it makes sense that the hardware salesman might get flustered with Snoop's manner, as well as the extra couple hundred dollars she gave him and forget himself. But I guess I was just curious as to how it normally works. Maybe it depends on what state you're in? Or maybe even county or municipality? Some places might treat those things almost like deadly weapons, and the East Coast might be a bit stricter than other places. Like I said just curious.

Or did he just hear about it in that ECON 101 class

At the beginning of the episode while investigating the crime scene, the “dead body” is clearly breathing, heavily 😂 it doesn’t even look like they attempted to hold their breath lmfao. Also when stringer got shot he moves his hand when Omar and Brother Mouzone are walking away, well after he was shot dead. Just two stupid flaws that I wouldn’t expect from such a well made show otherwise.

I'm watching a prime documentary about how the toxic chaos within the Nazi administration helped Germany lose the war. Goebbels called it a crisis of leadership. Given how much emphasis the show puts on this quote, I wonder if it was an intentional parallel.

Omar Little!

I believe the show executed everything perfectly every step of the way until Omar’s death.

Omar was arguably the most loved character throughout the show. He was the anti hero we all rooted for.

I’d be totally fine with him dying. But giving him such a cheap death was not how I was him going. I think that character deserved a better ending.

What are everyone’s thoughts on this?

Say what you will about Season 5 being the weakest season (I fully agree), but the last episode/series finale is one of the best of any show ever. It does such a great job of wrapping up series long stories, planting seeds for the next generation inheriting key character roles, and paying homage to season one filming styles (for example: closed caption filming in the elevator with McNulty and Daniels).

What is the track name to the opening scene of "chess, not checkers," when D'angelo is walking down the hill to collect the money from the 2 youngsters.

It was a HOUSE TRACK in the background

The first 4 seconds of the opening

https://youtu.be/cfvtP0qlUt0?si=ZPDFdru7S2K5a7uR

Rewatching and it just hit me how good he is.

When he uses a man’s dead body as a prop for a prank on Greggs in S4E4. Like I get they’re supposed to be totally desensitized to murders but for someone who acts all high and mighty when McNulty starts tampering with bodies to catch the biggest murderer drug kingpin in Baltimore, he really doesn’t show much respect to his victims bodies as all. Rewatching, it honestly makes sense that McNulty would think Bunk would be chill with his tampering, especially with all the weird shit they do in crime scenes together, but Bunk always respected the chain of command more and It was more about that I suppose. Its definitely probably pretty realistic for how cops actually are in cities with a high murder rate but damn sometimes it’s just disrespectful and hypocritical how they treat these victims of a system that they keep in place, and the MCU members like to act like they’re better than the rest of the cops…

I just got done watching it for the first time. I can’t believe it took me so long to watch it. What a series.

I’m probably going to give it a rewatch pretty soon because a series with such depth isn’t meant to be binged.

I read that people didn’t like season 2 on their first watch but I loved it.

Only negative I can think of is how towards the end of seasons they picked up the pace of the writing or things happening so to say compared to earlier in the seasons. For example in Season 2 episode 9, when Bodie and Shamrock get rid of their weapons and it falls on a barge and it gets to the right police so soon after. How likely is that to happen in the dysfunctional Baltimore police department?

All in all it was such a brilliant series, I’m glad I got to experience it for the first time”first” time and looking forward to rewatching it again.

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Have been informed that the two Russian streaming services offering The Wire in that country have systematically removed scenes and dialogue indicating that Omar Little is homosexual.

Be advised, you backward fucks, that Omar Little of Baltimore, Maryland is unapologetically gay, and, though fictional, infinitely more badass and tactically effective than all of the conscripts and paroled thugs you've sent into the meat-grinder in Ukraine. Not that they'd do much better invading West Baltimore.

But thanks for watching, I guess.

Couldn’t post an image but I noticed watching Season 4 today that Omar has a very specific type of coat that has what’s called a cowl shoulder.

The cowl shoulder is most commonly associated with Dick Turpin, the notorious highway man and thief. Just a nice little detail I thought.

I'm probably going to regret this, because it's Reddit, but I'm proposing a thread Best Minor Characters -- i.e. not McNulty, Bunk, Kima, Daniels, Rawls, Sobatka, etc. but more minor characters, and I don't know where the threshold is between major and minor. You have to say why, and something better than "I like the cut of his jib."

First minor character -- Slim Charles. He was a wardog when he needed to be, as hard as anyone on the show except maybe Chris Partlow, but he was way smarter than people gave him credit for. He also had principles and actually believed in the code -- his soliloquy about shooting up the church lady is a good example. He didn't just yell at the shooters, he told them why and put it in social and historical context. He could have played Stringer's role if Stringer had been killed off earlier - he was picking up what Stringer was putting down, but was harder than Stringer at his core. Also great lines -- the thing about the old days, they the old days. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. Finally, he killed Cheese without remorse, and Cheese was one of the most arrogant, unlikable, and operating beyond his level of competence pieces of garbage on the show.

First off, I know art is subjective and everyone has their own opinion, but I’m curious - am I missing something?

Personally, I think season 3 is far superior, especially the last 3 episodes - probably the best 3 episodes ever in history of TV. The storylines are way more engaging than season 4’s focus on political campaigns, kids in school, and the lack of our "special unit" or key characters like McNulty, Avon, etc.

Sure, there are great moments in season 4 but how does it top the intensity and drama of season 3? The dynamic between Avon and Stringer, the cops pulling out all the stops to catch them - season 3 just feels like peak storytelling to me. Honestly, even season 2 ranks higher in my book.

This was my first watch, so maybe I missed something.

Rewatching the series again and on Season 4 E2. Hilarious how Namond and Clay repeat the same line “I’ll take any mfers money if he givin it away.” Never caught that before. What a great show.

I remember reading during my last Wire rewatch a decade ago, about how Homicide is a kind of a spiritual and thematic prequel to the wire, but I couldn’t find it streaming anywhere and promptly, forgot about it. Recently did my 2nd rewatch, went down the same old research rabbit holes, and found that it’s streaming on Peacock now, probably because of the passing of Andre Braugher. I’m on the first season, it’s fun seeing so many of the same actors playing different roles. Brooklyn 99 also makes more sense now, somehow. Anybody have a favorite episode or any trivia bits to keep a look out for? I know there’s a Robin Williams and Jake Gyllenhal episode directed by Gyllenhalls dad maybe? And a famous episode with Vincent D’onofrio trapped or pinned by a subway. Is it worth watching the whole series or just hitting the highlight episodes?

Prez going on about this or that and then the principal says "SO YEAH DON'T BE TEACHIN EM MATHS BEYOND THE NUMBER 2 CAUSE ITLL MAKEM VIOLENT AND KEEP THEM WINDAHS OPEN TOO"

Great show

Season 5s is the best for me because it so beautifully encapsulates, concludes and nails the story and narrative all along. Was a truly fitting end so have to discount that, but more interested in the others.

They all have some incredible needle drops, imagery and all of them show the underlying theme of this show, and why we love it so much: so much happens, yet such little changes.

Curious to get your thoughts!

55 YEAR OLD ANTOINE ARTIS WAS ARRESTED .....

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/assault-with-pellet-gun-leads-to-five-arrests-drug-seizure-in-glen-burnie