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05-12-06, 07:31 PM
I have completely missed the 4th season, but this show has amazed me in how well the writers know the streets. They don't paint everything black and white and show the root causes behind a lot of things in the neighborhood.
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05-12-06, 08:06 PM
This season is really good.
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06-12-06, 12:17 AM
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It was indeed; perhaps the best since season 1. I just converted the whole season to DVD and re-watch ocassionally, and catch more realistic subtleties. Ironically the viewership is low well below such meaningless fluff like Desperate House Wives. Perhaps its too realistic and on point?
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06-12-06, 03:37 PM
I LOVE this show.
"Niggas are Scared of Revolution"-The Last Poets
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06-12-06, 07:15 PM
Too bad the season ends Sunday December 10th.
For our UK friends.
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/index.shtml
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06-12-06, 07:24 PM
torrenting it right now.
Only the best is good enough....
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06-12-06, 08:26 PM
I think that it it too real as most people want to point to Boyz in the Hood as a representation of inner city life but the wire does the best job.
The murders are real. No 50 minute choreographed shootouts. The stickup men like Omar are shown. People disappear. People go to jail. Hitters like Weybey are shown. People see the difference in wise muscle like Cutty and those other cats that mimick real muscle and you have the cat and mouse games with the cops and dealers and that line of respect that lies there too. Don't even get me started on the snitching and dry snitching LOL
Don't even get started on the politics in the city...
Yeah I think for most people this show hits home too much. They like a happy ending where the bad guys are rounded up and it is a happy ending..... Not Avon's crew getting locked up and Marlo's crew taking over in the ever present battles in the streets.....
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07-12-06, 12:28 AM
Real life girl gangster Snoop Pearson added a new dimension, along with Chris, and the new guy Mike not to mention Webey's reluctant heir apparent.
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07-12-06, 12:32 AM
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I have already viewed episodes 12-13, they are though provoking and make you wish the show was popular enough for for at least 20 a year.
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08-12-06, 04:53 PM
Nightline did a report called "Real Life vs. The Wire"...It shows youhow chillingly real The Wire is...
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2607274
"Watch it, sucka."
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08-12-06, 05:02 PM
I haven't watched all the episodes unfortunately, but what I have seen is brilliant and totally realistic. People always big up the Sopranos but this is way better.
One episode I remember is when they were investigating ahomocide and the detectives were in the house of the murder victim and startedusing every single variation of the word 'f*ck'. LOL!
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08-12-06, 06:54 PM
well people wonder what it is like over here and this pretty much lays it down for every major american city that has an inner city dominated by AAs or hispanics......
Season 4 is showing how between 13-16 your life is almost pretty much decided in the way you are going.....
The sad part is I knew a dude like little Kenard who caught a murder charge at 12 and they gave him adult time 30 if I can remember because the crackhead he killed was a Navy 1st Lt. that was trying to take his grip, so he got a felony murder charge..... No chance of ever doing anything in life all because of a mistake at 12......
Makes you wonder if all of this would go on if people had a seriously equal chance at succeeding life......
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10-12-06, 04:48 PM
Has my stamp of approval. What I like is the show starts round table discussions between me and everyone I watch it with automatically. A show that makes you think and the realsim doesn't hurt either. Im in DC so a lot of B-more stuff makes its way down here.
You\'re very clever young man, very clever" said the old lady, "but it turtles all the way down." -Anonymous, to Sir Arthur Eddington
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12-12-06, 06:13 AM
Bmore making its way down there? LOL Y'all are tit for tat. My bad CRAZIER.... when you sell your dope NEAR the white house and I mean NEAR the white house as your folks did in the past.... you have every dope boy in the country beat.
Nobody but your dope boys can tell the president of the "most powerful country in the world" that I sell dope a few blocks down from you, so how the hell are you going to stop anything in another country when you cain't stop me? LOL
I am not glamorizing them, but the first time I came there, I laughed my butt off to see them slangin yay near the white house LOL
How are we going to claim we can do anything when the Prez cannot stop dopeboys down the street? The Prez was almost staying in the hood....
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