The Wire - does it ever get going?
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k' kitchen scene.
Couple of decent videos on the BFI YouTube channel for the 20th Anniversary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQAQYnu4k50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNGQc6hDNvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQAQYnu4k50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNGQc6hDNvE
In my opinion, The Sopranos is the finest thing to have ever appeared on a TV screen. Below that is The Wire. Below that is everything else.
I've watched through The Wire a few times over the years and manage to pick up and notice little things that pass me by in previous viewings, like the Bal'more police commissioner Bill Rawls quietly sitting in the corner of a gay bar in one series 3 scene.
Does anybody else anybody else have any unanswered questions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRs3g2AnxA
I've watched through The Wire a few times over the years and manage to pick up and notice little things that pass me by in previous viewings, like the Bal'more police commissioner Bill Rawls quietly sitting in the corner of a gay bar in one series 3 scene.
Does anybody else anybody else have any unanswered questions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRs3g2AnxA
Koyaanisqatsi said:
…I've watched through The Wire a few times over the years and manage to pick up and notice little things that pass me by in previous viewings, like the Bal'more police commissioner Bill Rawls quietly sitting in the corner of a gay bar in one series 3 scene.
One of the great example of how they didn’t pander to the lowest common denominator with The Wire, that was literally a throwaway/blink and you’ll miss it scene.
I just finished rewatching this for the 5th or 6th time - it still holds up as a great piece of TV. It's a little dated as it's back in the early days of mobile phones, and there are so many CRT monitors in use, but still great writing, characters you care about and some great intertwined stories. For me, the saddest storylines were Bodie, Omar and Dookie.
Great TV, the pacing was just fine. Only watched it last year for the first time and it was bob on.
Yes, the whole burner phone thing was new for the time and surveillance would have been different now to an extent but it was so well done. Really enjoyed how the sub-story was young team, the dock workers, politicians, the kids at school, the press etc and how it all tied back into the main story of drugs, money and corruption.
Was sad seeing how it went full circle with Dukie becoming the new Bubbles and Michael becoming the new Bodie.
Yes, the whole burner phone thing was new for the time and surveillance would have been different now to an extent but it was so well done. Really enjoyed how the sub-story was young team, the dock workers, politicians, the kids at school, the press etc and how it all tied back into the main story of drugs, money and corruption.
Was sad seeing how it went full circle with Dukie becoming the new Bubbles and Michael becoming the new Bodie.
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