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Opinion: The Shield in Perspective (No Spoilers)
First, though, let me offer the ever-relevant apples and oranges proviso - television series, like all works of fiction, are never completely comparable. The Wire is in a superb now classic class of its own, not as police drama, but in its vivid, scalding, anthropologically rich presentation of life in the drug drenched hood. The Shield, in contrast, is more about police. And neither show has much in common with Lost, which inhabits a unique position in story telling that transcends even the ...
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• 10 hours ago
By stevenhartwriter Considering that Roger Corman launched the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Peter Bogdanovich, John Sayles, and Martin Scorsese, I’d say that Oscar was waaaay overdue. This video collection of the 100 best lines from The Wire is so NSFW it...
[Television] Generation Kill
Original at somewhereacrossforever (WordPress)
• Thu, Nov 19
By somewhereacrossforever Firstly, this is the first television show I’ve watched week in, week out for the first time in I can’t remember when. Whilst this anecdote from my far from exciting life is hardly revolutionary it does say something significant about how differently we consume our television these days....
what is genre???Original at lanne09 (WordPress)
• Tue, Nov 17
By lanne09 The genre I have decided to analyse is American TV drama such as The Wire and The Sopranos. Most of the drama that is created is loosely based on real life experiences or situations and for me that is the element that makes me interested in watching it. Of course after the basic concept is formed...
The Wire - 100 Greatest Quotes (but not really)Original at crystalwolves (WordPress)
• Mon, Nov 16
By Andrew A solid little montage here. A little heavy on the early season Barksdale stuff and way, way too light on season four–the greatest achievement in television history. After that, all that’s left is to change the name from “The Wire – 100 Greatest Quotes” to “The Best Thing That’s Ever Happen...
E1 to Release "The Avon Barksdale Story" on DVD!
Original at thehiphopcosign (WordPress)
• Sat, Nov 14
By bigced Barksdale says he consulted David Simon, the creator of The Wire, during the early filming of the highly successful mini-series. He says, “The Wire was one long commercial for this!” E1 Music is excited to announce the release of The Avon Barksdale Story- Legends Of The Unwired – in
The Wire Troll: Do the Math: NO – CP3 = DC
Original at RotoRob
• Sat, Nov 14
By Buck Davidson Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons: No, this isn’t the NBA Seniors Division Report — Wallace has awakened the echoes of bygone days this season, averaging 9.5 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals through eight games. He looks like the Big Ben of old (minus the hair), but just like Old School Ben, New S...
Opinion: Makers of The Wire have appitite for self destruction
Original at hbo «
• Wed, Nov 11
By neighbourhoodcat Over here is a review of the book that I like because of its quotes. I don’t have much time for the still rich and obsolete members of the “music industry”, but there’s a lot to learn from Steve Knopper’s book and yea, I’ll probably watch whatever HBO do with it – I mean, The Wire was pretty good ri...
The Wire Troll: Block Party. Roy’s House. You’re Invited.
Original at RotoRob
• Sun, Nov 8
By Buck Davidson Larry Hughes, New York Knicks: Hughes will remain in the Knicks’ starting lineup for the immediate future, at least according to head coach Mike D’Antoni. Hughes has stepped into the void created by the absence of Robinson, who’s expected to miss up to two weeks with a sprained ankle, but t...
The Wire Troll: Latch onto Blatche
Original at RotoRob
• Sat, Oct 31
By Buck Davidson Shelden Williams, Boston Celtics: Those same deep league owners should keep an eye on Williams; the Celts figure to be on the good end of a lot of blowouts this season, and Williams looks to be in line to rack up plenty of garbage time minutes. It may not be quality time, but Fantasy owners won’...
Opinion: Trenton, The Wire, and Jasper Howard
Original at jefflail.com
• Mon, Oct 19
By jeffnearlife Sadly, Jasper Howard will never get that chance but maybe this tragedy, no matter what the circumstances, will help us all to pause and remember that while shows like The Wire are not real, there are literally millions of kids trying to make the best of themselves and their families. The re...
Notes on Brick City: Part 1 and 2.Original at postbourgie (WordPress)
• Thu, Sep 24
By Guest Contributor The spirit of Newark is rough but Brick City wins because it doesn’t romanticize or demonize Newark and its people. Comparisons to The Wire are inevitable but I think Brick City will appeal to the people who thought The Wire was too raw. The irony of that is laughable since The Wire was a drama a...
Opinion: Guardian Fail: Big-upping their Re-upping of the Wire
Original at iainmhepburn.com
• Mon, Sep 21
By Iain Steve If you’re that desperate to write about Burns and Simon, why not start previewing Generation Kill – equally as good as The Wire, arguably as relevant and, crucially, due to be aired in the UK soon. Now, let’s get one thing straight before we start. I don’t actually hate The Wire, despi
Opinion: Alluring CommunityOriginal at exigencies (WordPress)
• Sun, Sep 20
By Lincoln In one of the best scenes in The Wire, from the middle of season three, Bunk confronts Omar, reminding him that they grew up together: “Rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Wasn’t nobody, no victim, who didn’t matter.” It hits home to Omar, too: just watch the last shot an...
The Wire re-up: season three, episode three – drug use and dead ...
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Mon, Aug 31
Tosha's death, catching a stray one smack in the head from Dante after Omar orders his crew to "bang out" yet another Barksdale stash-house, is the second ...
The Wire, Season 2, Episode 10: "Storm Warnings" (Veterans edition) - The Star-Ledger
Original at NJ.com
• Fri, Aug 14
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com The Wire, Season 2, Episode 10: "Storm Warnings" (Veterans edition) The Star-Ledger - NJ.com But as with most seasons of the show, you get the sense that David Simon and Ed Burns are more interested in setting up the plot than in actually showing ... and more »
Opinion: The Wire Troll: Masterson of his Domain
Original at RotoRob
• Sun, Aug 2
By Tim McLeod Chris Getz, 2B, Chicago White Sox: Four thefts in the past week. What Chris wants, Chris Getz. Michael Saunders, OF, Seattle Mariners: The 22-year-old with five-tool potential was not called up to sit, and being blocked by only Ryan Langerhans should make playing time opportunities a rat...
Opinion: The Wire, Season 2, Episode 8: "Duck and Cover" (Newbies edition)
Original at sepinwall (Blogspot)
• Tue, Jul 21
By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) I've been accused in past "Wire" reviews of being too hard on McNulty, so I should say upfront that I don't dislike the guy. As impeccably played by Dominic West -- one of those actors with a gift for becoming more appealing, not less, the worse his behavior gets -- how could you not find Jimmy l...
Book Review: Clockers
Original at timm84 (WordPress)
• Mon, Jun 15
By Tim Weaver Nay, this is about the book that served as the inspiration for The Wire; which affords it an immediate hollowed status in contemporary literature. Clockers by Richard Price is quite frankly one of the best books I have ever read in my life.
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Opinion: The Shield in Perspective (No Spoilers)
Original at Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress
• Mon, Jun 15
By Paul Levinson(levinson.paul@gmail.com) First, though, let me offer the ever-relevant apples and oranges proviso - television series, like all works of fiction, are never completely comparable. The Wire is in a superb now classic class of its own, not as police drama, but in its vivid, scalding, anthropologically rich presentation of life in the drug drenched hood. The Shield, in contrast, is more about police. And neither show has much in common with Lost, which inhabits a unique position in story telling that transcends even the science fiction of which it partakes. But television series can nonetheless be compared on some levels. See also ... The Sopranos Anti-Ending and The Sopranos Conference at Fordham University May 2008 [read the full post]
Summer reading list
Original at Kansas.com
• Sat, Jun 13
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KS Labeling Pelecanos a crime novelist is as much an understatement as describing "The Wire" -- for which he was a writer and producer -- as a TV show set in Baltimore. Just as that critically acclaimed HBO series encompassed the ills of our ravaged ...
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Opinion: The Wire, Season 2, Episode 2: "Collateral Damage" (Veterans edition)
Original at sepinwall (Blogspot)
• Fri, Jun 5
By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) Or is Avon, like The Greek, and like Frank Sobotka, just about getting his, no matter the cost or consequences to others? • Also making her season two debut: Ronnie Pearlman, getting the worst of all possible Jimmmy McNulty booty call worlds.
The Wire, Season 2, Episode 1: "Ebb Tide" (Newbies edition)
Original at sepinwall (Blogspot)
• Fri, May 29
By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) • "The Wire" is nothing if not patient, as is Jimmy McNulty, and the show is willing to take the time to show Jimmy taking the time to screw over Bill Rawls and Jay Landsman (who, we find out, was the one who gave away Jimmy's fear of the marine unit, rather than Jimmy himself doing it out of self-...
"The Wire" - A DVD Experience
Original at BlogHer
• Mon, Jan 5
By astrosandy This tough show, created by David Simon and mostly written by him and former policeman Ed Burns, first aired in June 2002. I depended on Netflix for my "Wire fix". It took 15 months or so for a season to get to DVD, so I was always behind. Now its 5 seasons available - 23 disks.
The Wire: Season 4
Original at The Wertzone
• Sun, Dec 28
By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) The fourth and penultimate season of The Wire sees the show moving into new territory. At the end of Season 3 the Barksdale organisation was finally destroyed for good, McNulty found himself some happiness and Daniels got a promotion. The goals set out in Season 1 had been achieved. So, where...
Tube News: Chances of Actor's Strike (Mostly) Unlikely
Original at Watch with Intelligence
• Tue, Nov 25
By Aleks Chan Now for some good news: Amy Ryan, her of the Academy Award-nominee and all-around awesomenes fame, has signed on to reprise the role she played in the fourth season finale of NBC's The Office. She'll continue being Dunder Mifflin's human resources rep for at least five episodes -- or at lea...
Richard Vine: Catching up with the cast of The Wire
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Fri, Oct 31
By Richard Vine If you're jonesing for more post-Wire sightings, this week's Heroes (BBC2, 9pm) is a good place to start, with Marlo (Jamie Hector) feeding off fear and Bubbles (Andre Royo) summoning up black holes. Both skills you feel they could have put to good use in B-more. Dominic West is next, rompin...
Opinion: The Wire, Season 1, Episode 6, "The Wire" (Veterans edition)
Original at sepinwall (Blogspot)
• Sun, Jul 6
By noreply@blogger.com (Alan Sepinwall) There's an episode coming up called "The Cost," but in some ways, that title applies better to this one, as the murder of Brandon illustrates the emotional cost of living in this police/drug world. The episode opens and closes with the image of Brandon, no longer beautiful after being tort...
Opinion: The Wire, season 1, episode 1: "The Target" (Veterans edition)
Original at sepinwall (Blogspot)
• Fri, May 30
By Alan Sepinwall(noreply@blogger.com) David Simon likes to say that the first scene of each season of "The Wire" encapsulates the themes of that season. In the case of Detective Jimmy McNulty investigating the murder of one Omar Isiah Betts, known to friends and family as Snot Boogie, Simon gets to explain what the entire series...
3/20/08 The Wire Podcasts: Nina K. Noble
Original at marcsteinerblog (WordPress)
• Thu, Mar 20
By marcsteinerblog External Links David Simon: The Wire Exit Interview from Baltimore City Paper Bittersweet Work of Wrapping 'Wire' from The New York Times What Does a Producer Do?by Marshall Persinger Nina Noble from Internet Movie Database Nina Noble and friends accepting the Emmy for Outstanding Mi...
Opinion: ● The end of The Wire
Original at kottke.org
• Tue, Mar 11
By jason@kottke.org Yanksfan vs. Soxfan views The Wire through the lens of Baltimore sports. Assorted other articles that I'll leave unexcerpted: AV Club interview with Simon, final episode recap from Thoughts on Stuff, and a letter on HBO's site from David Simon to the fans of the show.
"Someone Has To Start Wondering What the F Is Going On."
Original at Reason Online
• Fri, Mar 7
By rbalko@reason.com (Radley Balko) reason: This season of The Wire focuses pretty heavily on the media. What do you think the media does well when it comes to covering criminal justice issues, and what do you think it does poorly? reason: Slate’s media critic Jack Shafer has said that the media is at its absolute worst when cov...
3/6/08 The Wire podcasts: Viva House
Original at marcsteinerblog (WordPress)
• Wed, Mar 5
By marcsteinerblog This is a selection of images taken at Viva House in West Baltimore. Move your cursor over the pictures for captions. Baltimore's Viva House from America, The National Catholic Weekly Mildred and Me , from Laura Lippman.com-Laura writes about her experience volunteering at Viva House. Di...
3/5/08 The Wire Podcasts: Robert Chew, aka Proposition Joe
Original at marcsteinerblog (WordPress)
• Tue, Mar 4
By marcsteinerblog We're back again today with another fantastic interview for you. Last week Marc sat down with Robert Chew, the Baltimore native who has portrayed the east Baltimore drug lord Proposition Joe for the past several years on the hit HBO series The Wire. Prop Joe, as he came to be known, was an ic...
3/4/08 The Wire podcasts: David Simon
Original at marcsteinerblog (WordPress)
• Mon, Mar 3
By marcsteinerblog Here are just a few of the thousands of interviews with and articles about David Simon. Stealing Life: The Crusader behind The Wire in the New Yorker, October 22nd, 2008.Interview: Talking With the Creator of One of T.V.'s Best and Smartest Shows in Rolling Stone, September 25th, 2005.Under t...
3/3/08 The Wire podcasts: Ed Burns
Original at marcsteinerblog (WordPress)
• Sun, Mar 2
By marcsteinerblog HBO: The Wire: Interview: Ed Burns Ed Burns on Fresh Air in November 2006 The Ethical Scumbag (blog) interviews Ed Burns Edutopia: Edward Burns: Bringing Education Reality to TV The Wire Links (blog) Links to articles and info on THE WIRE Ed Burns on the set of The Wire As we promised last w...
The Wire Episode 58 Review: Omar Bagged Up
Original at Dork Nation
• Sun, Feb 24
By Mark Freamon and Leander crack Marlo's code. Marlo is going down, and so is Chris, thanks to Bunk. Now, we know Micheal didn't sell out Chris but he's sure to be blamed - probably not by Chris, though. Marlo may go down due to the cell phone number that Herc stole from Levy's office. Levy is sure to figur...
The Wire Season 5 Episode 7 ReviewOriginal at mcnulty (WordPress)
• Thu, Feb 21
By mcnulty Bunk seem to be about to crack soon, don’t think he’ll rat on McNulty or Freamon, but he’s pretty pissed off. Also liked the scene when he’s interrogating Michael. Hope he gets to Chris and Snoop soon. btw, did you notice that Dominic West (playing McNulty) directed this episode? How cool is th...
Why David Simon Should Shut Down The Wire [Backlash]Original at gawker.com
• Wed, Feb 20
By Nick Denton Devotees of The Wire, myself among them, should be delighted by this hint given by one of the HBO drama's actors. Dominic West, who plays the increasingly manic police detective, Jimmy McNulty, tells the Los Angeles Times some of his colleagues are lobbying David Simon for a movie spinoff...
● Some thoughts on The Wire, season 5
Original at kottke.org
• Thu, Feb 7
By jason@kottke.org How are they going to wrap this up? I don't care what happens to Carcetti or McNulty or Freamon or Daniels and we're obviously going to get some sort of closure on either Omar or Marlo, but if they leave the Dukie, Bubs, and Michael threads significantly hanging, I'm gonna be pissed. (Predict...
The Wire Final Season - Slate
Original at Slate
• Mon, Feb 4
The Wire Final Season Slate - This was the promise of the fifth season of The Wire, that David Simon would take apart journalism the way he took apart public education and the decaying ... Week 5: Omar Goes Too Far Slate all 2 news articles
Omar For President
Original at OpEdNews
• Thu, Jan 31
By Rick Monaco In a mildly radical departure from traditional political values, I've decided to endorse Omar Little from "The Wire" as my choice for presidential candidate. Let me be clear about this: I'm not endorsing Michael Kenneth Williams, the actor who portrays Omar on the show, but rather the ch...
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Opinion: The Wire Season 5 Episode 3: McNulty and MarloOriginal at Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress
• Sat, Jan 19
By Paul Levinson McNulty has picked up the pro-active make-things-happen and damn-the-consequences approach he played so well in the very first season of The Wire. It's good to see McNulty really on top of his game again. This time, he's trying to make his colleagues and bosses think there's a serial killer loose in Baltimore - the only way McNulty can think of to keep the cops focused on Marlo and the drug business. The only person wise to what McNulty is doing - because he was there when McNulty started hatching this plan - is Bunk, who is none too happy about it. See also The Wire's Back! Review of Season 5 Episode 1 and Episode 2: The Great, Dangling Conversation challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly a Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News [read the full post]
Barack Obama on his favorite TV show
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Mon, Jan 14
By Tempo Sen. Barack Obama has previously said that HBO’s "The Wire" is his favorite show. But now Obama's revealed another tidbit. In a story from Monday's Las Vegas Sun, the presidential candidate said that the bold thief Omar is his favorite character on "The Wire."
David Simon talks about his career in journalism and the final chapter of 'The Wire'Original at Chicago Tribune
• Thu, Jan 10
By Tempo Here is a feature/review of Season 5 of "The Wire," as well an interview with the HBO show's creator and executive producer, David Simon. The full interview, which is below the story, does not contain Season 5 spoilers.There's also a transcript of my talk with John Carroll, Simon's former e...
Arts, Briefly - New York Times
Original at nytimes.com
• Tue, Jan 1
Arts, Briefly New York Times, United States - “The Wire,” HBO’s urban drama, has won critical acclaim and honors including the prestigious Peabody Award. But one of its stars, Wendell Pierce, said, ...
With strike, it comes down to 'The Wire' - San Jose Mercury News
Original at mercurynews.com
• Sun, Dec 30
With strike, it comes down to 'The Wire' By Chuck Barney "The Wire," one of television's best shows -- if not the very best -- returns to HBO for its fifth and final season on Jan. ... The Wire' loses spark in newsroom storyline Baltimore Sun Inside 'The Wire' Wall Street Journal
‘The Wire’ Season-Five Trailer: Will This Be the Most Palatable ...
Original at New York Magazine
• Wed, Nov 7
comments from the cast and creator David Simon, but it ought to be enough to get the small but passionate Wire cult pumped for the premiere of the Greatest Show in the History of Television's final season in January. ...
Friday links: 'The Wire,' '24,' 'The Sopranos,' etc.
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Thu, Oct 18
By Tempo The innovative, addictive, Emmy Award-winning television series 24 resets the clock for “Day 7” with a special two-night premiere event beginning Sunday, Jan. 13 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and continuing in the series’ regular time period Monday, Jan. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The sea...
Podcast: Writing for Television, with David Simon, Creator of "The Wire," Featuring Host Bob Andelman
Original at The Writing Show
• Sun, Oct 14
By paula@writingshow.com With David Simon, creator of "The Wire," featuring host Bob Andelman