I stumbled across a link to this recent Slate piece on GK by Peter Maass. I’m posting about it here not just because it’s so favorable, but because part of it speaks exactly to a chain of thought I’ve been wrestling with as I’ve watched (and read) GK, which is the connection between these characters [...]
Preliminary thoughts/open thread on “Screwby”
I’ll put up a longer post later, but instead of waiting so long this week, I thought I’d just do some thinking aloud about Episode Three, hoping others will jump in with their own thoughts. Lurkers, don’t be quiet.
This was episode was tough going. That feeling after the RCT troops, aided and abetted by Encino [...]
Sir, why did you shoot the car?
The entire battalion, along with hundreds of other troops, is rolling through the wide open desert under a clear sky as Episode Two opens. It’s an impressive display of organized power on the move, a six-lane convoy of all manner of military vehicles moving purposefully onward. The scene recalls a passage from the book:
If you [...]
The bridge
More thoughts on Episode 1, and the story as a whole, to span the distance between what we’ve seen already and Episode 2, The Cradle of Civilization, airing tonight.
Lynette mentions upstairs that GK “is no Wire,” and true that. And on the whole, I think that’s good. Things end, things change. There are lots of [...]
Sit-rep: Oscar Mike
This is not the most elegant of first posts, because I still have this big long thing I keep shuffling around and it will likely not get finished, much less posted, until late tonight.
This is the drive-by placeholder, also an invitation for everyone else to jump in at their own level of confusion or clarity. [...]
David Simon’s ‘Treme’ pilot set to be filmed!
From NOLA.com:
“Treme,” named after the iconic New Orleans neighborhood where many musicians live, will marry one of television’s most prestigious networks with creator David Simon, one of television’s hottest series masterminds.
Simon created HBO’s the “The Wire,” which just completed a five-year run. While not a huge ratings success for the network, “The Wire” was one [...]
A good man, and thorough
TWOP is going to be recapping Generation Kill, which I find surprising — given the mini-series-ness of the production.
Athenae hooked me up with this news a week or so ago. So why has it taken me so long to post it? Is it because some folks have grown kind of “meh, TWOP sux” lately, especially [...]
Not Quite Fiction: Headlines Ripped from The Wire
In New Orleans, and in urban areas all over the country, there’s a creepy conflation of the Wireverse and reality. There is surely some local version of Avon Barksdale or Marlo running the Iberville project, or a Bodie holding down the tower on Simon Bolivar Ave. Ray Nagin is just as craven and disconnected [...]
Let’s shake out the dust, folks
A week few days out from the show premiere, time to start moving, I guess.
Starting up this blog last winter about the final season of a show that was a known entity and a shared obsession was a very different prospect than now. Partly because it’s summer, partly because I can’t fix this fucking italics [...]
