THIS SPOILS NOTHING
CC touched on this in her last post, but I’ll say it in my own halting fashion: looking back at this blog, I kind of wonder why we ever said anything. As useful as it might be to draw comparisons and craft systems, The Wire is a program that lives to shatter convenience. [...]
Photos of the cast’s big night in Denver/Carmelo Anthony’s shoe launch are up on YBF, among other places, and you can see the whole set here. Check out the cast with Carmelo’s mom, LaLa’s Missoni maternity wear, the bashful J.R. Smith, etc.
Real, thoughtful posts from shoals and myself forthcoming.
OBLIQUE 49 SPOILERS AWAIT YE.
As the season crescendoes in 48, 49 and 50, it’s harder to know what to post about. So much of this blog has been anticipatory: Will Naymond do X, or when will Herc’s trail of destruction finally catch up to his lumpy ass? Now we’re pretty much in the rush of [...]
Hello all and welcome back after HH’s loooong Thanksgiving holiday. Although jetset, shoals, pizzawhale and myself are scattered about, we were all together this weekend and blew our Wire load on watching #49 and, because it was too hard to resist, 50. (Thanks, HBO, for sending me those DVDs — I never wrote the review [...]
Stuck on #47, head down here. Now, come go with me for my ideas about #48.
When I finished watching #48 at 1AM, my first reaction was one of speechlessness. Not as in “totally fucking floored,” but more along the lines of “I ain’t got nothing.” This more resembled the old Wire, the caper-laden mischief of [...]
Hey broadcast machines, here is our run-through of #47. Thoughts on #48 to follow somewhat later in the day.
Shoals on Marlo’s hypothetical past
JSJ and police problematics
CC on a relevant documentary
Shoals with some sports-related links
As some of you may know, I don’t belong here. The only thing I can actually write about with any authority is the National Basketball Association, which is why a little entity called FreeDarko exists as it does. Thus, I am both heartened by these two sports/Wire items and somewhat wistfully admitting that soon, very soon, I [...]
I’m going to make a detour from The Wire in order to talk about The Wire, so I hope you guys can stick with me. For those looking for some good conversations about #47, go here or here. For 46, here’s the archive.
I imagine that more than a few readers of this blog have seen [...]
For an overview of our witticisms on#46 go to the mini-directory. Otherwise, continue on for some thoughts on #47.
Something I have brought up before, and which I think bears re-examination now is the “bad cop,” concept. Best embodied in Officer Walker, but also relevant to Herc and some other more minor players, this is something [...]
Not quite my usual prolix self today, but still glad I can get in this point before the week falls cold. If you’re new to the land of #46, kindly consult our great mini-directory. Otherwise, stroll forward.
One of the central questions this season has been “is Marlo human?” As has been discussed at great length [...]
