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[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by Scorge

Good thread.

Just away to get started on the season 4 box set this evening. Great show.

Series 4 is fantastic, but also quite depressing at times.

Originally Posted by qzdiablo

i think i posted this before, if you like the wire it's worth another look though - "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTM6BiUoqo"

great show, like half the cast are from britain or ireland though!

that video's bizarre!


I was suprised to hear that the guy who plays Stringer is from brixton, he gets his accent perfect. Dominic West who plays McNulty has such an annoying accent in real life that he should just speak as McNulty all the time.


I think a lot of people who appear in the show in more minor roles are local baltimore people.

The man who plays the deacon in series 3 and 4 is a man called Melvin Williams who is known as 'the man who introduced heroin to Baltimore' and pretty much ruled the city's west side from the sixties through to the eighties. He was arrested by co-creator Ed Burns and spent 26 years in prison.

And Snoop went to prison when she was 14 for shooting and killing someone (in self defence). Up until then her life was apparently just like the young kids on the corners shown in the wire.

[ca_gere]

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the wire is brilliant. I'm gutted there's no more episodes planned. Since finishing the fifth series I've been getting my baltimore fix with these gems from the same writers.

Amazon.com: The Corner (HBO Miniseries): T.K. Carter, Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, Clarke Peters, Larry Hull, Antonio D. Charity, Tyra Ferrell, Toy Connor, Tasha Smith, Glenn Plummer, Corey Parker Robinson, Neko Parham, Delon Browne, John Epps, Dua
'the corner' is a a bit more bleak than the wire and slightly over acted at times but just about every wire character pops up at some point in different guises. It definitely has its moments and is worth a watch.

Amazon.com: Homicide Life on the Street - The Complete Seasons 1 & 2: Homicide-Life on the Street, n/a: Movies & TV
remembered this being on when i was a kid around about bed time. It's basically the wire lite. its a cop soap opera set in early nineties baltimore. The characters and dialogue are endearing and funny and it beats any of that ncscisicsi bruckheimer bollocks any day.

these are my suggestions for those who have finished the wire. there are also a few little wire prequels knocking about on yootoob which are pointless yet quite good with the exception of the prop joe one which is just a huge slice of fromage.

[qzdiablo]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

I was suprised to hear that the guy who plays Stringer is from brixton, he gets his accent perfect.

i was surprised to hear that the guy who played "tim" in family affairs had gone on to be in a tv show lauded by many as one of the "greatest of all time".

also, i never realised snoop was a girl til i'd watched most of season 5.

[fugitive]

Originally Posted by qzdiablo

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also, i never realised snoop was a girl til i'd watched most of season 5.

Lol - me too, and only then coz they referred to her as 'she'.

Can't understand a word she says but still one of the best characters.

Season 5 was ace.

(The new season of the Shield starts soon too )

[Andy Mulhern]

David Simon and The Wire (Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow) | The List

this looks mighty interesting

[Paranoid Android]

I would love to go to that, but as it is before the release of Season 5 on DVD I will probably be too fearful of spoilers to go. I've already heard one big spoiler and I'm desperate to avoid any more.

I'm re-watching the first 4 series at the moment, amazingly this show is even better on the second viewing.

[Diesel]

Surprised no-one's mentioned Omar Little yet - what an intriguing character!

Bubbles is great as well - a decent guy who just caught a load of bad breaks.

[Paranoid Android]

Yeah Omar is fantastic, the part in series 2 where he is in court as a witness is brilliant.

Omar, Bubbs & Stringer are probably my top 3 characters. Lester, Bunk, McNulty and Prez I really like too. Virtually all the characters are fantastic though.

[Paranoid Android]

I got the season 5 dvd's last week, a great ending to a wonderful show. As a conclusion to the show as a whole season 5 was perfect, although in itself it probably wasn't as strong as the show at it's best (which at the moment I believe to be season 4). Any other show I can think of that was really great either got cancelled early or went on too long and suffered dramatic falls in quality levels (the simpsons being the most obvious example of this). The Wire managed to always be of the highest quality right from the very start to the end.

[Jan]

I've bought the first series on DVD. If it is shite, I'm hunting down the lot of you!