The Wire

the wire: season five

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I’m currently in the middle of season five which focuses on the Baltimore Sun and the cannibalizing of that once venerable newspaper. Bought by a large Chicago media corporation, the paper’s staff is slashed and its role as the fourth estate severely compromised. Veterans with long-nurt...

Published Mon, Oct 26

MDM 10-26-09: Maryland by the Numbers II

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Estimated economic impact on Maryland of the filming of The Wire: $196 million From Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts and the Maryland Film Office Number of seasons The Wire actually had: 5 http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/

Published Mon, Oct 26

Who Says TV Can't Make A Difference?

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This is just cool. Actress Sonya Sohn of The Wire has started a non-profit that uses episodes of The Wire to help “…some of [Baltimore]’s most troubled teenagers to turn their own lives around and away from drugs and crime.” This is just cool. Actress Sonya Sohn of The Wire has started a non-pro...

Published Sun, Oct 25

Effective 'Endgame' depicts the last days of apartheid

source: The Watcher

The most famous character in the film is Nelson Mandela, but “Endgame’s” deft depiction of the political maneuvering regarding his eventual release proves interesting. And it’s a pleasure to watch actor Clarke Peters (“The Wire”) play the former political prisoner (who became presid...

Published Wed, Oct 21

Ouvindo

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Bodie, The Wire, S03E01 Jimmy McNulty, The Wire, S03E01 O primeiro episódio da terceira temporada de The Wire é uma reflexão sobre errar e como (não) aprender com os erros. Estranho é perceber como Baltimore se parece tanto com minha vida.

Published Sun, Oct 18

The Wire, Season 1, Episode 6, "The Wire"

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If Rawls could just stop being so jealous of McNulty, because that’s what it is, pure jealousy, then maybe the citizens of Baltimore can get their justice. Rawls knows he’ll ruin the case for McNulty if he gets his way. That’s why Daniels better step in. Good, Daniels is stepping in. It’s so diff...

Published Tue, Oct 13

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An unskilled and poorly educated underclass is trapped between the drug economy and the war on drugs. The Wire compresses decades of the Baltimore drug trade into its five seasons. In a sense, the way the series depicts the many facets of that trade functions to give us a master class in the hi...

Published Tue, Oct 13

The Wire, Great Show.

source: corwin (WordPress)

Many peers I met in my class often throw the same question;Do you like Baltimore? And, I answered like this;I watched “the wire”. then, they said like this; oh my god. I imagined that they perhaps thought that I don’t like Baltimore because of the filthy and violence image of the city shown in t...

Published Mon, Sep 21