The Wire

Detail and Symbolism on The Wire.

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The first episode of the fourth season of The Wire exhibits a very precise attention to detail in portraying different sides of Baltimore. First, it explores the dark side with the town’s pervasive drug use, gang wars, and murders. Second, within this dangerous community, the show explor...

Published 18 hours ago

An Astronaut?

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Please visit the darkmatter special issue on The Wire … please note Georgia Christgau’s essay on Season Four, which includes this “caveat” about the memorable scene that concludes Episode 40: Please visit the darkmatter special issue on The Wire … please note Georgia Christgau’s

Published 20 hours ago

Thoughts on the Wire

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The segments I liked best were the ones with the kids. As the researcher guy should’ve known, indoctrination into street life starts early in the inner city. It’s self-preservation. Carcetti’s journey on his campaign was also quite interesting. I disliked him in the first episode – he seeme...

Published Mon, Nov 30

My 50 Favorite Television Shows of the 00s

source: blog.melanism.com

1. The Wire: Confession time. I didn’t start watching The Wire until season three because that’s when I finally had a DVR and could record it while watching other shows.  But the second season three ended, I went on a 48 hour bender watching every episode of seasons one and two. I love The Wire so m...

Published Mon, Nov 30

HonkWatch #114: The Wire (S1E3)

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One of D’Angelo’s crew, Poot (Tray Chaney), has a little belly flip after Omar takes down the stash house in this early episode of The Wire. One of D’Angelo’s crew, Poot (Tray Chaney), has a little belly flip after Omar takes dow

Published Mon, Nov 30

Wire Troll: Goin’ Back to Philly…Think So?

source: RotoRob

Without Louis Williams to direct traffic, the 76ers have a big hole in their backcourt. Welcome to the Week Six edition of The Wire Troll. We hope our American readers had a peaceful Thanksgiving, and we’re thinking that your last bite of turkey tetrazzini probably exhausted your poultry f...

Published Sat, Nov 28

Sons of Anarchy – “Culling”

source: Cultural Learnings

One of the things that makes an episode like this work, though, is that Deputy Hale has not been painted with the same brush. In the first season, he was there as the Charming P.D. equivalent of Stahl, someone who wasn’t as enlightened as Unser about the Sons’ role in the community and who in his l...

Published Wed, Nov 25

[Television] Generation Kill

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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....

Published Thu, Nov 19