Didn’t write much last week, I know. I watch my Wire On Demand, spend the week thinking about it, then post something after you proles without superpremium cable get caught up. And as you know, the new episode goes up a mere two hours after the last one airs for the first time.
And after watching [...]
I need to lie down.
Me and my lonesome
” A lie ain’t a side of a story. It’s just a lie.”
-Terry Hanning
Epigraph for Episode 58, Clarifications.
Discuss first impressions, speculation, etc. Spoilers must go here.
Loose lips.
You people are ignoring the 900-pound gorilla: Who leaked the grand jury documents? This is key, I think. Grand jury secrecy is serious stuff, and while it’s breached all the time, it’s usually by an involved lawyer to a journalist or some other party with a vested interest in making the secret public. (Hello, BALCO.) [...]
Newton’s Third Law?
Epigraph for Episode 55, React Quotes:
“Just because they’re in the street doesn’t mean they lack opinions.”
Discuss if you wish.
[WARNING: Possible spoilers appear in some comments]
The head shot.
Here’s what I’ll miss most about Proposition Joe: His glasses. “The Wire” runs on a shoestring budget — compared to “Deadwood,” anyway — but you have to take off your hat to a propmaster who pays attention to how a fat man wears his reading glasses, how he bends them at such a sharp angle [...]
Rigorous honesty
In Season 1, Bubbles and Johnny go to an NA meeting (court-ordered, for Johnny), and Bubbles picks up a 24-hour “desire” keychain, an outward symbol of an addict’s desire to try to stay clean for one day. Of course, Bubbles had fixed that morning and he would again that night, but you could see [...]
We just hit the accelerator
No spoilers, FWIW.
Episode one a little slow for you? They usually are — Simon and Burns ease you into the season that way. Episode two? Well, that was full of all the setups.
The more they believe.
The bigger the lie, the more they believe. — Bunk.
Are the writers slipping, or am I getting smarter? Somehow, when Bunk dropped that line just ahead of the opening credits, I knew it would be the epigraph for episode one, and probably for the whole season, as well. Because this has always been a show [...]
How It Works
I’ve been working my way through Season 1 on DVD the past couple of days (thanks for the loaner Ashley) and I’ve been realizing something: when The Wire first debuted, I was still a raging alcoholic. Some of this stuff I feel like I’m seeing for the first time. Some random things [...]
