The Wire

The Wire re-up: season two, episode three

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

 UK Freamon's xenophobic outburst after the montage of clueless, non-Anglophonic ship workers chief among them. "English, motherfuckers!" Also loved Landsman's description of Freamon as displaying "tweedy impertinence". Definitely missed that one first ...

Published Mon, Jun 8

The Wire star goes from Baltimore streets to British bedpan

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

American actor Clarke Peters mesmerised many a box set addict with his cool-as-a-cucumber-cop Lester Freamon in the HBO drama The Wire. You may have seen the show mentioned in passing on this website. Now Peters is swapping the mean streets of ...

Published Wed, May 13

Life on Mars #5 Meets the Wire in New York

source: Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress

When you walk through the garden, you better watch your back ..." Hey, they could almost have played that superb Tom Waits "Way Down in the Hole" theme song from The Wire in last night's episode #5 of Life on Mars, which had two* Wire veterans on hand, Clarke Peters (Lt. Freamon on The Wire) and Chad Coleman ("Cutty" on The Wire). Even Whoopee Goldberg had a cameo. *(And an anonymous commentator just mentioned that Chris Bauer, Frank Sobotka from The Wire, played the priest in this episode of Life on Mars - so that makes three Wire people.) challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly a Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Published Tue, Oct 21

The Wire Episode 58 Review: Omar Bagged Up

source: Dork Nation

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...

Published Sun, Feb 24

The Wire Season 5 Episode 7 Review

source: mcnulty (WordPress)

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...

Published Thu, Feb 21

The Wire: The Dickensian Aspect

source: TV Squad

Filed under: OpEd, The Wire, Episode Reviews S05E06) "If you have a problem with this, I understand completely." - Freamon Gallery: The Wire: Season 5 Premiere Party and Episode Photos Continue reading The Wire: The Dickensian Aspect Read | Permalink | Email this | | Comments

Published Sun, Feb 10

● Some thoughts on The Wire, season 5

source: 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...

Published Thu, Feb 7

‘The Wire’: Omar Is Superman

source: New York Magazine

Speaking of myths, McNulty has a whole city buying into his serial killer. And when Freamon gets Marlo's new cell number, he and McNulty launch a plan to set up a fake wiretap — a plan that gets pushed helpfully along by budding fraud ...

Published Mon, Feb 4