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The Wire

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Interesting that someone posted a thread about the quality of TV shows and movies earlier this week. The Wire, like the Sopranos, is as good as it gets. The writing is excellent, the acting superb, but its the care that they take to get things right, the editing, music, stage business, backgrounds that make these shows exemplary.
 
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cincibuck;1060739; said:
Interesting that someone posted a thread about the quality of TV shows and movies earlier this week. The Wire, like the Sopranos, is as good as it gets. The writing is excellent, the acting superb, but its the care that they take to get things right, the editing, music, stage business, backgrounds that make these shows exemplary.
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As The Wire unveiled its fourth season in 2006, Jacob Weisberg of Slate, in a much-cited column, called it "the best TV show ever broadcast in America." The New York Times, in an editorial (not a review, mind you) called the show Dickensian.
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Real shame more people aren't into this show because it's the best thing in the history of tv or movies.
 
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Not sure if everyone has seen the third episode yet, but it has been on demand since Thursday. They are finally tying in the newspaper/media angle into everything else that is going on. In my opinion, this was one of the finer episodes in the history of the series.
 
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txbuckeye1983;1070711; said:
Not sure if everyone has seen the third episode yet, but it has been on demand since Thursday. They are finally tying in the newspaper/media angle into everything else that is going on. In my opinion, this was one of the finer episodes in the history of the series.
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shizz is about to go down now. Omar is gonna lay waste
 
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Just ran across this information about the guy who plays the deacon on the show. I knew the guy was a former kingpin, but I didn't know about his ties to the writer and creater of the show. I guess he actually used the "jump the 5" code back when he was running things.

In his youth Melvin Williams, the actor who plays the Deacon, was a real-life drug kingpin who was arrested by series writer Ed Burns in 1984 when he was a Baltimore city police officer.[1] Creator David Simon was responsible for covering the arrest for The Baltimore Sun at the time.[2] Williams received a 34 year sentence for his crimes and much of the evidence against him came from a wiretap investigation like the one featured in the first season of the show.[2]
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txbuckeye1983;1077179; said:
I also think Omar might be keeping his promise to Bunk to not kill, because he could have wasted Slim Charles.
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I think that Omar didn't kill Slim Charles because of his personal code, not because of the promise made to Bunk. If Omar thought that Slim was in any way connected to what happened to Butchie, Omar would have shot Slim in the back of the head.

Think about when Omar wounded Brother Mouzone, but didn't kill him after interrogating him and finding out that he had nothing to do with his boyfriend being tortured to death. It's a similar scenario.
 
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JohnnyCockfight;1077519; said:
I think that Omar didn't kill Slim Charles because of his personal code, not because of the promise made to Bunk. If Omar thought that Slim was in any way connected to what happened to Butchie, Omar would have shot Slim in the back of the head.

Think about when Omar wounded Brother Mouzone, but didn't kill him after interrogating him and finding out that he had nothing to do with his boyfriend being tortured to death. It's a similar scenario.
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agree

Marlo's ambition is going to be the end of him if Omar's shotgun doesn't do it. Loved the line at the end when Beadie said the serial killer wasn't the only thing McNulty was chasing.
 
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