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How's it all going to end . . .

JeanPowers — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:58:46 GMT

back to square one or . . .

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THE WIRE FINALE

pulsating_brandon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:17:54 GMT

Alright, I'll say it.

Whatever.

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REST IN PEACE: "Better tell nobody but God."

JeanPowers — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:11:35 GMT

IN MEMORY of The Wire

When you walk through the garden
you gotta watch your back
well I beg your pardon
walk the straight and narrow track
if you walk with Jesus
he's gonna save your soul
you gotta keep the devil
way down in the hole
he's got the fire and the fury
at his command
well you don't have to worry
if you hold on to Jesus hand
we'll all be safe from Satan
when the thunder rolls
just gotta help me keep the devil
way down in the hole
All the angels sing about Jesus' mighty sword
and they'll shield you with their wings
and keep you close to the lord
don't pay heed to temptation
for his hands are so cold
you gotta help me keep the devil
way down in the hole

" . . . it wasn't pretty but some of it gots done right as rightly burning."

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no activity outside of the On Demand customers

dq — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:20:56 GMT

The only new messages I ever see in this tribe are the folks that are a week ahead via the On Demand service.

That's not really a question, just bitching.

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Season Five SPOILERS

gangsterboyscout — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:27:58 GMT

BE FOREWARNED!! tHIS THREAD IS FOR THOSE OF US WITH ON DEMAND WHO ARE WATCHING NEXT WEEK'S EPISODES A WEEK EARLY AND DISCUSSING PLOT DETAILS!!!

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The Prequels

gangsterboyscout — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:20:53 GMT

Damn... what if the clips HBO is showing on Prop Joe, McNaulty and Omar's origins are actually odes in memorial.

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Episode 1 of Season 5 is on On Demand

pulsating_brandon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:05:01 GMT

Not sure when it showed up, but it's there now, if you have Comcast and the desire to see it early. I am still in mid season 4.

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Bittersweet Symphony

Zinj97 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:35:01 GMT

I'm just wondering if anybody else is excited to see the final season of the Wire and if they have any predictions of what might occur. I know it is about the media and how it manipulates information for stories but from there it is anyones guess.

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from time magazine's 100 best tv shows ever

kÍ¶ød — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:01:39 GMT

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659202_1652752,00.html

Through a sprawling, Balzac-ian network of cops, their targets, and the politicians and bureaucrats around them, The Wire tells the story of a declining industrial city—Baltimore, but it could be many others—and the people struggling amid, or profiting off of, its downfall. In The Wire's view, the world is not divided cop-vs.-robber or black-vs.-white so much as machine-vs.-individual; officer, teacher, drug soldier or pol, people are screwed by institutions that discard them when they're used up and reward inertia over innovation. (The best chance, The Wire suggests, is for free agents like its unlikely hero, the street bandit Omar, who robs drug dealers and answers to no one.) Yet the series—which, by the way, is also a fantastically realistic cop show—is also funny and the opposite of nihilist, giving everyone from detectives to junkies dignity. Occasionally, it even offers a glimpse of something like hope, which is all the sweeter for being harder earned.

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omar joined the police force

kÍ¶ød — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:42:41 GMT

oh...my...there is no god

http://ifc.com/static/sections/kelly/trapped.html

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The Fuck Crime Scene

Sasch — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:54:06 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM&mode=related&search=

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emmy nominations

kÍ¶ød — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:38:05 GMT

zero. zilch. for the season that critics consistantly hailed as one of the most important things to ever be on television. proof positive that it's really all political. ah well. as david said, "we didn't design this show to win awards".

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wire memorabilia on ebay

kÍ¶ød — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:01:41 GMT

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQsassZparksandpeopleQQsbrsrtZl

postcards, signage/props, t-shirts...all proceeds to benefit the baltimore city parks department/ella thompson fund.

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silent auction

kÍ¶ød — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:25:11 GMT

there is a charity event in baltimore every year for the ella thompson fund (the community rec director from the center in "the corner"). david simon gets the cast and crew of "the wire" to auction things off for the charity...dinner with dominic west, a non-speaking role on an episode...this year they put a day at the mix for an episode and someone actually paid $3000! i'm surprised, flattered, and a little scared of who is going to be sharing the mix stage with me and my mixer on the most stressful day of each episode...it's not any of you, is it?

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Wiki Wire

Sasch — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:18:24 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_(TV_series)

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Wire News

Sasch — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:00:14 GMT

http://members.aol.com/TheWireHBO/

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The Wire on BET

Sasch — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:17:36 GMT

Reruns. I think it's on Thursday nights.

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Season One Quotes

Sasch — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:56:11 GMT

William Rawls: Listen to me, McNulty. You took a lot of risks. You played a lot of wild cards. And, you made a lot of f***ing people do a lot of things they didn't want to do. You, McNulty are a gaping a******. I know it, and I'll be f***ed if everybody in CID didn't know it. But, I'll be also f***ed if I let you sit here and think you did a single f***ing thing to get a f***ing police shot. Believe it or not, not everything is about you. Get it into your head McNulty it's not your fault. And the m*********** telling you this, he f***ing hates your guts. So, you know, that if it was your fault, I'd be the first son of a bitch to tell you. S*** went bad, she took two for the company. That's the only lesson here.

Omar: I'll do what I can to help y'all. But, the game's out there, and it's play or get played. That simple.

Det. Ellis Carver: You know, this is why I think we can't win this.
Det. Thomas Hauk: How come?
Det. Ellis Carver: They screw up, they get beaten. We screw up, we get a pension.

Det. Thomas Hauk: What the f***? You're supposed to be good cop!

Det. William Moreland: You seem awfully happy today.
Detective: I got laid last night.
Det. William Moreland: Oh yeah? Your a****** still hurt?

Avon Barksdale: This here's your grandfather. Does it scare you, to see him like this?
[before D'Angelo can answer]
Avon Barksdale: It sure as hell scares me. The old man always said "Live by the sword, die by the sword". All this time, he was the biggest player in Baltimore. Survived all this s***. Now, he's lying here in this bed. F***ing natural causes. Scares the s*** out of me.

Troy Wiggins: He told me his name was Wendell O. "O" as in "Oh, s*** I tried to sell s*** to an undercover officer".

Troy Wiggins: Shakima's just p*****, 'cause I had her when she was still into men.
Shakima Greggs: Yeah, well, you the ugly-ass m*********** that turned me around.

Proposition Joe: I heard your end would be covering my fee.
Stringer Bell: Your fee?
Proposition Joe: Yeah, I'm like a marriage counselor. Tell the man he oughta bring the bitch some flowers every once in a while. Tell the bitch she gotta suck some cock every once in a while. That sort of s***.
[Omar arrives]
Proposition Joe: Speaking of c**********...
[to Omar]
Proposition Joe: I'm Proposition Joe. You f*** with me, I'll kill your whole family.

Freamon: Ain't none of you ever been in the military? Don't you know how to make a 30-inch quick tie?
[Nobody speaks]
Freamon: Draft dodging peace freaks, huh?

Moreland: I'm just a humble m*********** with a big-ass dick.
Freamon: You give yourself too much credit.
Moreland: Okay then. I ain't that humble.

DA Pearlman: What's the worst thing on a woman? A drunken Irishman.

Dennis 'Cutty' Wise: The game done changed...
Slim Charles: Game's the same, just got more fierce.

Avon Barksdale: I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you... you know I'm just a gangsta I suppose...

Det. William Moreland: Them Greeks sure have some weird-ass names.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Hey, don't knock the Greeks. They invented civilization.
Det. William Moreland: Yeah, and ass-f***ing, too.

Brother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.
Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'.

Omar: All in the game yo, all in the game.

Omar: Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: All those mopes in bracelets and not one of them named Osama.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I got to ask you. If every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game?
Witness: What?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Witness: You got to, this is America, man.

Bubbles: Thin line between heaven and here.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: For you I would suggest some pantsuits, perhaps muted in color, something to offset Detective Moreland's pinstripe lawyerly affectations and the brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon. Rawls is watching on this one, let's at least pretend like we got a f***ing clue.
Freamon: Tweedy impertinence? I like that.

Avon Barksdale: F***ed up, man. Ay... y'all ask me y'all ugly ass n***** shouldn't be in here f***in' around with all these guns and s***...

Brother Mouzone: You're the perfect bait. They will view you as conflicted, you're homophobia is so visceral.
Lamar: See that. I haven't even walked in the place yet and you're already calling me a c*********.

Dep. Comm.: What's this Sobotka to you?
Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: He's an a******.

Freamon: A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the s*** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.

[during interrogation] Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: All right, we'll call you Boris...
[sighs] Sergei 'Serge' Malatov: Boris...... why always Boris?

[repeated line to McNulty] Det. William Moreland: Happy now, bitch?

[repeated line]
State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: SHIIIIIT

[Repeated line] Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What the f*** did I do?

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Clark Johnson, from 'Homicide' will be in the next season!

Sasch — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:45:49 GMT

http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2007/02/just-to-tease-you-fans-of-wire.html#hlotslinks

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Finale '06

gangsterboyscout — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:53:56 GMT

Just fucking intense. I'll keep my mouth shut for a couple of days but fuckin' Bodie...

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"That's Got His Own" (spoilers)

dq — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:10:31 GMT

DAMN that's a dark episode. Trauma, injury, or even death for so many characters:

Michael slipping further away
Namond falling apart
Kenard getting beat
Sherrod (who didn't see THAT coming, though)
Duquan forced out of school AND evicted on the same day.
Cutty bleeding in the street
Randy and Miss Anna

I know this show isn't exactly on Nickelodeon, but holy CRAP

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Current Season Thoughts

jamesgonly — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:57:36 GMT

I'm liking the New Mayor, love seeing the top brass squirm, and the hopper angles are totally insightful and thought out. While I'll agree the action is not what we've seen from previous seasons, I appreciate all the transitional stories from the characters. Especially McNulty, who has turned over a more positive leaf and aspires to be a monk in foot patrol's clothing. The latest episode has me thinking the old gang from Major Crimes Unit is about to re-unite, (as long as Daniels can get them all back). My hope is that Daniels will make Lester the head of that group, get Kima and McNulty back and start getting a "good police" effort going on Stanfield. And how about Omar? Man! He is damn near invincible! I mean so many fools gunnin' for him and he manages to still get right under their collar before they even know it. Got to respect his gangsta!

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the reviews are in: NY POST

kÍ¶ød — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:29:18 GMT

RE-'WIRED'

STREET LIFE IN BALTIMORE GOES TO SCHOOL

Season four of "The Wire" tackles the school system.

August 25, 2006 -- THIRTEEN hours ago, I was a different person.
That was before I sat down to watch all 13-plus hours of the upcoming fourth season of "The Wire," which gets under way Sunday, Sept. 10, on HBO.

I wasn't crazy enough to watch them all in one sitting, but for the better part of the past week, I have been immersed in this show, thanks to HBO taking the unusual step of providing the entire season's 13 episodes all at once.

The shows are so powerful - so well-written, acted, filmed and edited - that the experience of watching them has left me a complete wreck.

I am so blown away by this show that I will go out on a limb here to declare that these 13 episodes just might comprise the single finest piece of work ever produced for American TV.

With the exception of "Band of Brothers" in 2001 - also on HBO - I don't remember ever connecting quite this emotionally with a group of fictional characters on a TV show.

It's not just the show's familiar cast of cynical Baltimore police either, although fans of "The Wire" will delight in the return (after a 19-month absence) of Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), Kima Greggs (Sonja Sohn), Bunk Moreland (Wendell Pierce), Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters), Lt. Daniels (Lance Reddick) and Sgt. Carver (Seth Gilliam).

This season, creator/executive producer David Simon and his writers have come up with something new. To their depiction of cops, criminals and the Baltimore city government, they have added a storyline about the public school system and the difficulties associated with teaching inner-city kids who often choose the corner drug trade over education.

To tell this story, the show's producers have cast a group of child actors whose performances are jaw-dropping - principally the actors who play four neighborhood friends who all attend the same middle school.

They are (for they deserve special recognition): Jermaine Crawford, age unavailable, as DuQuan; Tristan Wild, age unavailable, as Michael; Julito McCullum, 15, as Namond; and Maestro Harrell, 15, as Randy.

Where these four characters are concerned, a warning: If your heart breaks easily, then you might want to avoid watching "The Wire" altogether.

But if your heart can stand it, following the story of these four boys for 13 Sundays this fall will be one of the most rewarding experiences you've ever had watching TV.

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is it me?

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:37:29 GMT

i love this show! but i have to say that these days what constitutes a "season" of a show is weird to me. in the old days a show comes on in Sept or early Oct....till summer the next year. now....a shows on 2-3 weeks and the season is done!! WTF!! then they repeat the last episode and the third one then the eighth :) i am exaggerating, but you know what i mean. it's just weird.

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the wire episode outro soundtrack

Traj — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:36:51 GMT

hey do u know where to download the episode outro soundtrack of the wire??? cuz i really loved that music...

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Favorite Wire lines

Sasch — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:28:58 GMT

I like the one where Levy has Omar on the stand, and calls him a parasite, and Omar says 'Just like you man.. I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase.'

funny stuff..

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Another great scene from Season 1

Sasch — Thu, 26 May 2005 18:18:28 GMT

When Bird is in the box, and Keema, Jay and Daniels 'tune him up'. Outside, Omar says to Bunk 'Bird really brings it out in people, don't he?' ---classic Omar!

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Hamsterdamn in Florida

Sasch — Thu, 19 May 2005 16:23:13 GMT

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pdrugs09may11,0,515438.story#hlotslinks

Maybe this works..?

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First season is on Demand

Sasch — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:06:51 GMT

My fav ep is when Bunk and McNulty are figuring out D's murder of Avon's snitch girl, and all they say when they're figuring it out is 'fuck', in different variations. They gotta say fuck at least 40 times!

The first season is mos def the best..

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season four

kÍ¶ød — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:10:17 GMT

yes there will be! start shooting in the summer, broadcasting in the winter. :)

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does it bother anyone else

kÍ¶ød — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 02:46:16 GMT

...that the box art for season one dvd is the season two poster and the box art for the season two dvd is the season one poster?

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Good Wire news site

Sasch — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:07:32 GMT

http://members.aol.com/hlotslinks/

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Stringer/Avon real?

Sasch — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:08:36 GMT

I've been reading on the HBO groups, and they say that pretty much everyone on the show is based on someone real. I think it's because David Simon was a reporter and the other writers were a former cops and reporter in Baltimore.

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Anyone see last night's ep?

Sasch — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:54:25 GMT

I won't spoil it, but it was heavy..

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Anyone see the finale?

Sasch — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:57:43 GMT

Seemed to wrap things up pretty neat.. Almost too neat..

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Missed em

JeanPowers — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:34:11 GMT

I am missing more now because of the holidays- when will they recap past episodes

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Colvin comes clean

Sasch — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:01:33 GMT

Do you think the mayor is going to try to take credit?

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Rome may make the Wire go away

Sasch — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:05:12 GMT

There's some scuttle about it. Rome is way over-budget, and may cause HBO to drop some other shows.

It would be a shame if this happened to the Wire. Really no shows like it around.

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The Wire's topics - tribe.net

How's it all going to end . . .

THE WIRE FINALE

REST IN PEACE: "Better tell nobody but God."

no activity outside of the On Demand customers

Season Five ****SPOILERS****

The Prequels

Episode 1 of Season 5 is on On Demand

Bittersweet Symphony

from time magazine's 100 best tv shows ever

omar joined the police force

The Fuck Crime Scene

emmy nominations

wire memorabilia on ebay

silent auction

Wiki Wire

Wire News

The Wire on BET

Season One Quotes

Clark Johnson, from 'Homicide' will be in the next season!

Finale '06

"That's Got His Own" (spoilers)

Current Season Thoughts

the reviews are in: NY POST

is it me?

the wire episode outro soundtrack

Favorite Wire lines

Another great scene from Season 1

Hamsterdamn in Florida

First season is on Demand

season four

does it bother anyone else

Good Wire news site

Stringer/Avon real?

Anyone see last night's ep?

Anyone see the finale?

Missed em

Colvin comes clean

Rome may make the Wire go away

Season Five SPOILERS