It was equal parts awesome and disgusting to see McNulty back to his man-whorish ways. And Beadie in her pj's? WOW.

As much as I love this show it has such a fucking depressing and demoralizing world view.

I swear when the Chiefs were talking to Carcetti about suspending the major crimes investigation I became completely frustrated and started thinking just like McNulty......."shit never changes".

where's my boy cutty?

great episode.

I was just talking with a co-worker about this and our consensus is that at least he's good police.

The biggest fuck up is Herc. Absolute schmo who is not only stupid but has the constant need to feel important. He'll end up getting used by the attorney (can't remember his name) and burn the last bridges he has with Carver, etc.

I watched again last night--the main difference is that they don't show the previews on On Demand so I was fucking excited when they showed motherfuckin' Avon on the next one.

"Mahlo?"

Spoiler alert, I guess.

The fact that Chris and Marlo are tracking down Sergei is freaking awesome to me.

Someone who can get close enough to Prop Joe (but is still an outsider) and ace him?

In one clip I saw somewhere Marlo is sitting on a bench with The Greek's No. 2 who says "I'll only deal with you or your No. 2. Nobody else."

Fuck, I love this show.

Yeah he just screws up his personal life.


Are they showing these on Comcast a week before all season or was that just a one time deal for the first episode?

Nope, all season.

awesome. i'm watching tonight.

I watched episode 2 this morning, before work, because I can't fucking wait. Shockingly, it was awesome.

BTW, one of the great moments of the first episode was the re-emergence of Bob Brown!

In that retrospective thing they showed beforehand, I kept waiting for someone to bring this scene up when they talk about "The little stuff that makes the show perfect."

I don't really think the show is depressing or demoralizing. Shit is real.

Just watched episode 2, but I'll hold out discussion.

I will say though that Avon is a funny dude.

I just finished as well, and I agree.

Also, not sure is y'all saw THIS article on ESPN Page 2 today.

There's a good article in Time magazine too.


Just finished episode 2. Oh, Jimmy.

Is this the worst written article in journalism history?

He never even approaches exploring how The Wire has ANYTHING to do, make, say or think about Sean Taylor's death.

So, it's a show about the inner city, and when athletes get got, the reasoning is somehow shown on the show?

I'd say Ricky getting shot at the end of Boyz in the Hood says a lot more than anything on The Wire.

Just. Not. Seeing. His. Point.

Honestly, I think I ignored all the Sean Taylor stuff and all I got out of it was the Marlo stuff. My internal BS radar must have edited the rest out.

I guess my first mistake was trying to read it as an actual piece of journalism?

I clicked the link in there, and if you cobble to the two articles together, you could get 1 good one...and a lot of evidence that ol LZ has some sugar in his tank.

Where can I discuss episode two?? I don't know if I understand why Jimmy did that.

Yeah, that was some tossed-together-in-10-minutes bullshit right there. And emblematic of a condition going around these days, where us Wire fan journo hacks feel required to spill some ink and try to find a dozen new, prosaic, elegant ways to say, basically, "Best. Show. Evar."

Hell, I even did it. But I had the good sense to do it on my MySpace blog so as to spare the general public the monotony.

Saw this posted somewhere:






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As if we "Wire" geeks needed yet another thing to get riled up about this winter. Two different soundtrack albums to accompany "The Wire"-- one of the finest things to touch TV since rabbit ears-- are due January 8 from Nonesuch.

The first, "...and all the pieces matter" - Five Years of Music From The Wire, contains a sampling of the music the show has employed over its four seasons. It includes several takes on the show's theme-- the Tom Waits-penned "Down in the Hole"-- by the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Neville Brothers, and DoMaJe, as well as tunes from Steve Earle, Paul Weller, Solomon Burke, the Pogues, and others, all interspersed with dialogue culled from the show.

The second, Beyond Hamsterdam: Baltimore Club Tracks From The Wire, is just as heavy on the club rap native to the show's Baltimore locales as its title would suggest. The disc features such underground cuts as Rod Lee's "Dance My Pain Away", Tyree Colion's "Projects", Diablo's "Jail Flick", Mullyman's "The Life, the Hood, the Streetz", and "What You Know About Baltimore?" by Ogun featuring Phathead.

The booklet for Five Years includes essays from series writer George Pelecanos and hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang, and an interview between the show's creator David Simon and novelist Nick Hornby that originally appeared in The Believer.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/n ... oundtracks

1. Way Down in the Hole - Dimaje
2. Projects
3. Dance My Pain Away - Rod Lee
4. My Life Extra - DJ Technics
5. What You Know About Baltimore? - Ogun,
6. Jail Flick
7. When You See Us
8. That's da Sound - Dirty Hartz, Verb
9. Ayo - Bossman
10. Life, The Hood, The Streetz - Mullyman
11. Assume the Position - Lafayette Gilchrist

I'd like to have the closing credits music following me around as a shadowy theme song.

I would humbly make a request that we don't talk about a show's plot until the "normal" Sunday night air time. I've got Dish network, so I can't download in advance.