kima runs around on her wife like it's no big deal. cutty has murdered who knows how many people. walon is onscreen for like 2 minutes total. the other three do seem okay
phelan showing off for pearlman by making fun of mcnulty for not knowing basic grammar is one of my favorite scenes
I wasn't critical of yours but in that case....Carver used excessive force tons of times and also got promoted because he was passing internal departmental information up the chain to Burrell. Colvin fucking legalized all drugs.
Kima also at the end of the day is about protecting the shield. The point is the machine grinds all of these people down and it's nigh impossible to "stay pure" or whatever.
Lester’s a great example of this too. Gets sent to the pawn shop unit for charging a case despite the higher ups saying no, but by the end he’s helping fake the serial killer with McNulty to keep the money flowing for his real investigation. There’s no black and white in terms of good and evil with The Wire. Everyone is flawed, and you have to choose.
Which I think is kind of the theme of the show. I think the only groupings are “objectively terrible” vs “everyone else”.
New guy at work was being shown around. We were in a storage room and there was a spare computer monitor. Someone said "Oh new guy, here's a computer monitor for you, do you want it?" New guy: "Sheeeit, I'll take any motherfucker's money if he giving it away." Me: I like this guy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ0URtJ8QBw8f_zvm_dcI8w The channel has been uploading clips from The Wire that mostly aren't on youtube, gone down too many rabbit holes the last few weeks.
Doing a rewatch for the umpteenth time. Small nitpick in season 1. If Carver grew up Eastside and came up in the Western and then narcotics, how does he not know anything about the basketball game and what its about?
Colvin legalizing drugs inside a controlled area of the city doesn't in any way shape or form make him a bad person. Everything about Hamsterdam was for the right "good" reason and had a positive effect on everyone
If you’re referring to him trying to tell that story to Bodie about him coming up in the hood and being from the east side, and then Bodie told him to sick his dick, that was a lie and Bodie could smell it a mile away.
Not exactly the way I would word it. She didn't go full McNulty or Bunk. Might have been the only person on the show that cheated and showed remorse and tried to repair the relationship after
That's not a lie though. We know Carver went to Dunbar on the east side, and when Poot tells Carver at the basketball game that the Eastside has won the last two years he says "my boys" in response. The bullshit Bodie smells coming is the good cop/bad cop routine, which is why Bodie yells "you're supposed to be the good cop, dumb motherfucker" at Carver as he's hitting him in the interview room.
He grew up on the Eastside but he didn’t run with a crew and wasn’t in the game is my guess. None of the other cops, narcos or otherwise, had any clue about the game. I think only the dudes in the (drug) game knew about the (basketball) game
Yeah that’s fair. I guess I just figured that Carver being young, black and being from Eastside and working in the Western would’ve picked up on it. If it’s an annual game, no one noticed the year or two prior when the corners were empty for a day?
"We didn't know shit, goddamnit! You want us to dance with a grand jury, we will! What do you say, Johnny? What do you say to any question?" "I take the fifth commandment."
“Man, you got to narrow that shit down. Find some way to work with all them Peanuts.” “Motherfucker, do I look like George Washington Carver?”
"Man fuck a charge, this here’s a gun powder activated, 27 caliber, full auto, no kickback, nail-throwing mayhem man. Shit right here is right.”
Just saw the news. This sucks! Some of my favorite characters between The Wire and Boardwalk, among others.
want to find the full episode to watch. I know you can purchase single episodes on amazon if anybody sees which season/episode it is.
thanks, didn't realize it was right before Bourdain switched to CNN for Parts Unknown. purchased, 2.99 well worth it.
David Simon wrote an essay on Michael K Williams for the NYT. The ending broke my heart. “Once, in the years following, I found myself running another drama in New Orleans and came up with the notion of sponsoring a battle-of-the-bands for charity in which New Orleans and Baltimore musicians — brass bands, funk outfits, go-go ensembles — would try to cut each other on the stage at Tipitina’s. Wendell Pierce, an actor native to New Orleans, would hype the local acts in the guise of his “Treme” character. I asked Mike to fly down, on almost no notice, and intro the Baltimore acts in the persona of Omar Little. He was there at the asking. For a few hours, I watched him inhabit that character one last time. When it was over, we stood outside the club, and I watched a weight descend as he slipped back into Michael from Flatbush, the gentle, self-effacing and utterly committed professional who never gave a camera the wrong moment, but who somehow never took enough comfort from that great skill, who was always, I came to understand, looking for it to mean more. “Was that what you wanted?” he asked. “Did that go OK?” I felt ashamed for having asked for one last, selfless favor from my friend. But he had my back. Always. Along with the talent, charm and honesty, I’ll miss that part, too.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ny...hael-k-williams-david-simon-the-wire.amp.html