This week has proved very nearly impossible for me to collect my thoughts into a sensible post. Part of it is that it feels like there’s little left to guess at, even if a zillion things have been set up for next season. Part of it is that so much has been said here that [...]
We kind of crapped out—I mean, deferred to the show’s almighty narrative sweep—last week, but here’s the rundown of what random posts did go up:
I cry, or not, for Bodie. Vast discussion in comments section
Pizzawhale on another messed-up city captured on film
Endgame, Christy $ style
WDR brings links
PW did that, too
See you on the other side!!!!!!!
This week has been exceptional one for HH, with a lot of great conversation about the season, what it means, and how it played out. And I’d like to post here about Bubbles, and the game, and policing, and what people who are aware of injustice are supposed to do about it — this is [...]
Recommended: the on the set archive on the HBO site. By far the best installment yet is the conversation with the kid players- if you’re pining for the show you can try acting out the interview with your family, roommates or pets.
“Me, Julito, Tristan and Rashad Orange are playing Andre and his squad. The older [...]
It’s not rash to say that dimensions of crime, race, class, cops and municipal governance, as depicted on the show’s fictional Baltimore, are far from representative of America as a whole. As Mr. Simon offered in our comments and on Slate , Baltimore’s populations are at this point, fairly black and white- the [...]
I know that further topical posts are coming about the season finale, but I wanted to note two David Simon sightings:
1. Slate’s interview with Simon is worth the time. Simon mostly repeats points he has elsewhere, but his arguments are, as usual, erudite and thoughtful. The interview is longer than I expected, which is a good thing.
2. Additionally, [...]
If you haven’t finished out this season, please go here.
Obviously, there’s a lot to be said about this semi-bombastic finale. I’ve got plenty of thoughts on where the kids ended up, most of them having to do with how Nay was actually the most complete human being of them all. But there’s some business to [...]
Regarding #49:
CC with some guttural thoughts on the episode
PW with NBA-related Wire madness
Shoals reconsidering Omar, again
Some related reading
