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Rewatching The Wire for the 1000th time and I’m finishing up season 3. Watching the season finale after hearing this episode of the podcast and how they were “canceled” gives me a totally different perspective. It seems like the writers were giving us events that could send the show off for good. Stringer getting killed, Avon going back to jail and Marlo taking over, McNulty going back to the western district, Omar throwing his gun into the water, and so on. Everything seems so final if you’re watching it in real time and not knowing that there would be a season 4, just for everything to transition so smoothly into the next season. Greatest show ever.

@Zooby19

Жыл бұрын

I guess you like shows where people sit in a car and talk for 7 hours

Just finished rewatching the Wire again I can’t believe there’s not more to watch 😞 what a masterpiece

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

You can watch We Own This City

@needlepark212

2 жыл бұрын

Watch the Corner

@frankmholla

2 жыл бұрын

it be like that.... its happen to me 4 times already

@joshflynn2173

2 жыл бұрын

@@olubukonla7352 its average

Just finished we own this city and currently rewatching The Wire appreciate what you're doing METHOD many Thanks

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, between WE Own This City, and this podcast, I had to do my annual re-watch. Skipping over 2 and 5 though. Then I'll re-watch We Own This City, as my S 6.

@DoubleRDubPlays

2 жыл бұрын

@@olubukonla7352 Why are you skipping seasons 2 and 5?

@entertainme7523

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoubleRDubPlays 1 is the best

@DoubleRDubPlays

2 жыл бұрын

@@entertainme7523 I like all the seasons, and I'm sure people will have their favorites, but a fan can't skip seasons though. All the pieces matter.

@jamesritchie992

2 жыл бұрын

@@olubukonla7352 skipping the docks and the school season smh 🤦

The Colesberry production credit references in the ray cole wake scene are so cool!! That’s the sort of stuff I live for. Brilliant show

season 2 is one of my favorite seasons. the themes are very applicable to all us port cities, like brooklyn (where i'm from).

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

S2 was the weakest season

@bananaempijama

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. It's when we meet the big boys, the "Greeks"

@sleepyzcurse

2 жыл бұрын

@@olubukonla7352 Season 5 by far ruined the whole series

@mwenvlay

2 жыл бұрын

@@olubukonla7352 to you.

@MassaMario

2 жыл бұрын

Season 2 is my favorite as well.

In working in corporate america Bunks line: There you go giving a ef before it's your turn to give a ef! Has helped me alot

@crazyhayn

2 жыл бұрын

That line needs to be one of those motivational posters...

@entertainme7523

2 жыл бұрын

ef?

That opening section on McNulty is amazing - between the struggle to cast him, his own reluctance to do the job, it's just weird with how synonymous he is with the show now compared to that! I wonder if that Wendell Pierce ride along stuff influenced the writing when Carchetti did his version in season 4? It was a very similar experience for that character. It may just be something that Simon and Burns had experienced, but it did feel really similar.

Can we ever can an interview with the HBO exec "Chris" that David Simon had to convince to get all 5 seasons of The Wire? It really is incredible that we got all 5 seasons...IMAGINE people if we got stuck with only 2 or 3 seasons.

@mwenvlay

2 жыл бұрын

chris albrecht. he resigned/was fired as head of hbo after he was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend.

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

@@mwenvlay wow

@davehan241

2 жыл бұрын

@@mwenvlay Ahhh, ok scratch that idea then. Thanks for the update though.

Wow so many hidden gems. I’m feinin for more like bubbs, YERP!

Some of the cast are no longer with us. 😞

@indranildutta4252

2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P Omar...

@wyattetzel926

2 жыл бұрын

@@indranildutta4252 RIP Prop Joe

@CaptLoquaLacon

2 жыл бұрын

Seems a theme of my favourite shows. I love Babylon 5 which was around about 5-10 years before the Wire and so many of those people have died. It's something like 60% of the people in the main credits have died IIRC

@lasttime716

2 жыл бұрын

@@wyattetzel926 RIP Norman Wilson

@KtotheG

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Ray Cole

i think season 2 was jarring to every first time watcher of the wire. on repeat viewings it's one of the best.

@SubZeroJill

Жыл бұрын

that was exactly how I experienced season 2, tbh... my first few rounds of all 5 felt like the 2nd one was just a few episodes I had to somehow tolerate, but when I found myself paying more attention to Frank's story & the other elements connecting his plotline to the rest of the series... it just really hit different. I didn't even realize how heartbreaking his death was too... LOL.., so yeah... season 2 is fantastic but it has been unfairly taken for granted ,by most fans imo 😔

@captgeech

Жыл бұрын

i honestly loved it immediately. I guess early on it's a bit slow but the sobotkas are just fantastically written characters and so engaging to watch. it's probably my second favorite season under 4

@billybutcher8698

10 ай бұрын

Facts.. it may seem slow at first but it all comes full circle come season 5 and definitely better second time around

It's hard to believe HBO was going to stop after Hamsterdam, when the best season had not been made yet. 😣😣😣

@KtotheG

2 жыл бұрын

They were going to stop every season. I think the fans wrote HBO to bring The Wire back after Season 1. But they wrote every season as its own stand-alone volume, thinking it wouldn't be picked up again.

John C Reilly as McNulty would have been...different.

@TxxT33

2 жыл бұрын

yeah...or downright pitiful.

@entertainme7523

2 жыл бұрын

SHAKE AND BAKE, BUNK

I wish this had video

I really want to see Lance Reddick playing Bubbles. - You know No-Heart-Anthony? - No-Heart-Anthony? Who's that? * Bubbles gives that "I'm personally ashamed to be your snitch" look, fixes his suit and leaves *

@davehan241

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm...was there something Lance Reddick was in where he plays a homeless guy...maybe some scene in Fringe? I feel like I've seen it, but I'm not sure if it's just my imagination.

@sonofvenus1621

2 жыл бұрын

@@davehan241 you may be referring to The Corner/ The Wire: The chronicles, both are prequels to the Wire series

@KtotheG

2 жыл бұрын

I think both actors were appropriately cast. I wouldn't trade them or change a thing. The weakest link was probably Detective Greggs or Sonya Sohn. She was just okay.

@davehan241

2 жыл бұрын

​@@sonofvenus1621 Ahh, that must be it!

@sonofvenus1621

2 жыл бұрын

@@davehan241 Lester Freamon played a bum will some kind of swollen arms things, Jay Lansdsman was a construction worker or painter, I forget but yea it sounds like the above stated series your talking about the "prequel" to the wire

The Wire will be part of cultural studies in educational institutions.

@SDsailor7

Жыл бұрын

It has already been for a while

When I introduce my friends to this series, some of them are like "Oh this is a black series, with black drug dealers ecc." And I'm like, that's not the case, you get that second 'underappriciated' season and than you know, it is for everyone, now you can see a lot of black faces and know this is your story too. The second season killed the prejudice that's why I think it is very very important part of The Wire. It really made this show for everybody, it made it something different, better, universal.

@entertainme7523

2 жыл бұрын

don't bother

I am truly enjoying this podcast. Thanks!

The M-E-T-H-O-D

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

MAN!

If I get bored 🥱 I'm watching The Wire 4sho💯💪🏿

Love method man x Wire.....best combination

25:49 makes my heart sing

im glad they didnt get john c reiley step brothers no

@sonofvenus1621

2 жыл бұрын

Yea when I heard “John c Reiley for Mcnulty Said no…

@entertainme7523

2 жыл бұрын

Surely that's a joke

I see where Davis Mclary got his sales pitch in treme from

Is the Wire back??

You should compare this to CSI

RIP Old King Cole.

The whole cigar on scene was foolish. After the O.J. case most departments forbid smoking on crime scenes because the DNA contaminates the scene

rad

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

While I'm really enjoying these podcasts, can we please stop with the over-the-top production on some of it? We really don't need police sirens when Wendell Pierce is talking about riding along on police calls. Really took me out

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

I did not even notice a siren...

Honestly just finished the whole series, season 5 was terrible, the ending was so bad....makes me hate the whole series Honestly, there really was no point to this show at all. So disappointed what a waste of time....

@Eyegetdeep

2 жыл бұрын

Watch it again. That's how The Wire works.

@skylarblaze636

2 жыл бұрын

smh.

@olubukonla7352

2 жыл бұрын

The ending was good, but it would have been better, and more realistic, if McNulty committed suicide after being forced off the force.

@davehan241

2 жыл бұрын

So lemme get this straight, UP UNTIL season 5, you were totally on board with the show...and then after finishing season 5 you decide that the entire show was worthless? OR you were neutral or hating the show the entire time and season 5 only re-affirmed your judgment? So then did watching Godfather Part III ruin the trilogy for you? And if you are saying that The Wire was a colossal waste of time, then please educate us on what you think is a GOOD TV? Of course you are entitled to your own opinion, but your opinion is so childish in its over-reaction that it's the definition of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."

@KtotheG

2 жыл бұрын

Season 5 was cool. I dug it.