Here at H&H, we’ve more or less realized that interest in reading a Sunday-night-show-themed blog will decline as the week progresses. The big guns should be wheeled out on M-W, and Th-F reserved for ephemera and other great diversions. There within me stirs, however, something so central to this season, something so integral to the [...]
CC reported to us all from Simon and Price’s recent Makor Screening Room appearance. Now, courtesy of Andrew at the 92nd Street Y, here’s one of the night’s most memorable moments in moving picture form:
A little while ago one of our readers posted this comment:
I would love it if you would spend some time on the female characters on the wire. It just dawned on me recently just how male the show really is and how black women are portrayed. Aside from Shakima, her girlfriend and Daniels’ wife every [...]
So much to say. I am so woozy from the ride so far this season it’s hard to know where to begin or end in commentary. I suppose the best place to begin is with a disagreement with Shoals on the awesomeness exhibited by that boy Marlo. I am starting to think that he is [...]
Found a way to fit #41 into my busy day off, and am now faced with the realization that we’ve been speaking on a narrative that’s barely off the ground. As heady as the first three episodes were, I can safely say that I’m now certifiably dizzy and stunned by where this is all headed. [...]
Even if you read my post on the dwindling addict presence when I first wrote it, I highly recommend taking a look at the more recent comments. Not because it makes me feel good about myself, but because it’s a positively invaluable contribution to the thread.
I want to make a contentious point, and one that I don’t make for the sake of gladiatorial insinuations, or allusions of grandeur. The Wire is not only a better show, but more specifically a better show about criminality and race in the United States than The Sopranos could ever hope to be. This is [...]
I might be out of Wire-related thoughts for this week, but it doesn’t exactly help that I can’t read anyone else’s. At Salon, James Hynes’s piece in the “Life” section warns me straight-out that it’s chock full of spoilers. Had I not stumbled upon a warning somewhere else on the interwebs, I would’ve probably had [...]
CC and I had some incredibly productive words last week on the subject of gettin’ high and its relevance to The Wire. What we both seem to agree on is that, while The Corner was draped in junk, rot, and renewal, over its four seasons the show of our dreams has taken some drastic steps [...]
I’m building on Shoals’s last post here, and the comments that introduced D’Angelo. So consult that to get a sense of where this is coming from…
The topic here is, broadly speaking, pathos. I’m a little farther in the season (I watched 41 last night) but I’m not giving anything away when I say that The [...]
