THE WIRE is the greatest show ever.

[DDRGuido]

yooooooo ddr, how the fuck was snoop your 2nd fav character lol... i hated that bitch lol

and it took me about 5 episodes to realize she was a girl... i do love the scene of her buying the nailgun though

she's a bad ass bitch, ever since she merked those fools on the motorbike

 

[NAHSTE]

Good call NAHSTE. Freamon is my favorite of the law enforcement as well.

I really dislike Prop Joe though, West Side!

Davis' character hasn't really took off to much from where I'm at and haven't got to Slim Charles or Michael.

You'll get to like Prop Joe a lot more in seasons 3-5. He becomes somewhat of a unifying force in the Baltimore drug game. And Slim Charles comes through huge in season 3.

I really think season 3 is the pinnacle, though season 4 has the most emotional finale.

Police:

Jimmy McNulty · Kima Greggs · Bunk Moreland · Lester Freamon · Ellis Carver · Leander Sydnor · Beadie Russell · Herc Hauk · Roland Pryzbylewski
Command

Command

Ervin Burrell · Bill Rawls · Cedric Daniels · Stanislaus Valchek · Raymond Foerster · Bunny Colvin · Jay Landsman

School

Roland Pryzbylewski · Bunny Colvin · Namond Brice · Michael Lee · Randy Wagstaff · Dukie Weems · Donut

Street

Omar Little · Bubbles · Dennis Wise · Chris Partlow · Snoop · Wee-Bey Brice · Slim Charles

Kingpins

Avon Barksdale · Stringer Bell · Marlo Stanfield · Proposition Joe · Spiros Vondas · The Greek

Dealers

Bodie Broadus · D'Angelo Barksdale · Poot Carr · Wallace · Cheese

Politics

Tommy Carcetti · Clarence Royce · Clay Davis · Norman Wilson · Tony Gray · Michael Steintorf · Nerese Campbell · Odell Watkins

Courthouse

Rhonda Pearlman · Maurice Levy · Herc HaukLOL · Daniel Phelan · Rupert Bond · Ilene Nathan

Docks

Frank Sobotka · Nick Sobotka · Ziggy Sobotka · Sergei Malatov · Horseface

Journalists

Augustus Haynes · Scott Templeton · Alma Gutierrez · Thomas Klebanow · James Whiting · Mike Fletcher FUCK THE PAPER

LMAO at Landsman. I hated that fat bastard, but he was hilarious. As for Bunk Moreland, I gotta hand it to you. That's actually the best law enforcement character on the show.

 

[NAHSTE]

Good call NAHSTE. Freamon is my favorite of the law enforcement as well.

I really dislike Prop Joe though, West Side!

Davis' character hasn't really took off to much from where I'm at and haven't got to Slim Charles or Michael.

You'll get to like Prop Joe a lot more in seasons 3-5. He becomes somewhat of a unifying force in the Baltimore drug game. And Slim Charles comes through huge in season 3.

I really think season 3 is the pinnacle, though season 4 has the most emotional finale.

Police:

Jimmy McNulty · Kima Greggs · Bunk Moreland · Lester Freamon · Ellis Carver · Leander Sydnor · Beadie Russell · Herc Hauk · Roland Pryzbylewski
Command

Command

Ervin Burrell · Bill Rawls · Cedric Daniels · Stanislaus Valchek · Raymond Foerster · Bunny Colvin · Jay Landsman

School

Roland Pryzbylewski · Bunny Colvin · Namond Brice · Michael Lee · Randy Wagstaff · Dukie Weems · Donut

Street

Omar Little · Bubbles · Dennis Wise · Chris Partlow · Snoop · Wee-Bey Brice · Slim Charles

Kingpins

Avon Barksdale · Stringer Bell · Marlo Stanfield · Proposition Joe · Spiros Vondas · The Greek

Dealers

Bodie Broadus · D'Angelo Barksdale · Poot Carr · Wallace · Cheese

Politics

Tommy Carcetti · Clarence Royce · Clay Davis · Norman Wilson · Tony Gray · Michael Steintorf · Nerese Campbell · Odell Watkins

Courthouse

Rhonda Pearlman · Maurice Levy · Herc HaukLOL · Daniel Phelan · Rupert Bond · Ilene Nathan

Docks

Frank Sobotka · Nick Sobotka · Ziggy Sobotka · Sergei Malatov · Horseface

Journalists

Augustus Haynes · Scott Templeton · Alma Gutierrez · Thomas Klebanow · James Whiting · Mike Fletcher FUCK THE PAPER

LMAO at Landsman. I hated that fat bastard, but he was hilarious. As for Bunk Moreland, I gotta hand it to you. That's actually the best law enforcement character on the show, gotta edit my post now.

 

[Coked Up Elmo]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zavPW3Bus&feature=PlayList&p=33C277AED21B0A17&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7"]YouTube - The Wire (Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson Store)[/ame]
dvd extra of prop joe as a youngster, soo funny
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eVsUgKczE"]YouTube - Prop Joe In His Younger Days[/ame]

 

[strahanfan92]

What a great fuckin scene. Tell me that's not a dude, plus she aint got no titties.

 

[DDRGuido]

Season 2 theme song was the best to out of all the seasons, fit so perfectly

 

[Sharkweather]

Well "Middle Ground" was definitely the best episode of the series so far, but it sucks seeing your favorite character going out like that. Goddamn that Omar.

EDIT: Just finished season 3, can definitely see why so many people said it was one of the best seasons. I cant wait to get started on 4, since they are both the general consensus best seasons.

And I see what you mean NAHSTE about Slim Charles. Looks like he is definitely going to have a bigger role in season 4, since he didn't get arrested with pretty much the rest of the entire Barksdale group. I also liked how both Avon and Stringer found out about each other giving them up before they died/arrested.

 

[Sharkweather]

I really think season 3 is the pinnacle, though season 4 has the most emotional finale.

I just finished season 4 and I only started watching this show on Friday... sheesh.

But what do you mean by season 4 finale the most emotional? Besides Bodie getting shot I didn't really find it that emotional. I think season 2 finale is the most emotional, I really liked Frank.

Here is how I would rate the seasons so far..

Three
One
Four
Two

I'm Barksdale through and through so I have to put one above four. Unfortunately no one from that group is left except Poot, and I guess if you want to count Slim even if he did kinda jump ship.

 

[strahanfan92]

holy shit four seasons finished in less than a week, impressive my friend....


I was a big Barksdale fan and pretty much hated Marlo until the season 5 finale, great scene there.

 

[Coked Up Elmo]

I just finished season 4 and I only started watching this show on Friday... sheesh.

But what do you mean by season 4 finale the most emotional? Besides Bodie getting shot I didn't really find it that emotional. I think season 2 finale is the most emotional, I really liked Frank.

Here is how I would rate the seasons so far..

Three
One
Four
Two

I'm Barksdale through and through so I have to put one above four. Unfortunately no one from that group is left except Poot, and I guess if you want to count Slim even if he did kinda jump ship.

the scene at the hospital where carver is walking away and randy yells to him is heavy

 

[NAHSTE]

the scene at the hospital where carver is walking away and randy yells to him is heavy

That mainly. Also just seeing how different the kids are at the end. Unless it's the season 5 one I'm thinking of, there's a shot of the wall with all the kids' names graffiti'd on. Just showing you how much they changed in a year's time when they all used to be so close is what did it for me.

But I don't know, might be combining my seasons here, LOL.

 

[Sharkweather]

And I have the series down.

You all were right, definitely the best TV series I've ever seen.

 

[strahanfan92]

SPOILER:


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Final montage is sick, I loved seeing Bubbles eating dinner with his sister and fam, chris meeting wee-bey in jail was ill.

And the scene with marlo taking back his corner in his suit, basically took all the hatred I had for him away. He chose the game over the made life.

 

[Sharkweather]

I was waiting for McNulty to say "what the fuck did I do" at the end...

 

[strahanfan92]

NEW SHOW BY DAVID SIMON

HBO sets drama series in Treme with focus on city's musicians
Posted by Dave Walker, Television writer, The Times-Picayune July 10, 2008 2:00AM
Categories: Breaking News



HOLLYWOOD -- In a move that could boost the city's psyche and pump millions into its economy, cable giant HBO is developing a new TV drama to be set in the New Orleans music community.
Gail Burton / AP PhotoTreme will be the backdrop of the latest HBO series set to be directed by television mastermind David Simon.

"Treme," named after the iconic New Orleans neighborhood where many musicians live, will marry one of television's most prestigious networks with creator David Simon, one of television's hottest series masterminds.

Simon created HBO's the "The Wire," which just completed a five-year run. While not a huge ratings success for the network, "The Wire" was one of the most critically acclaimed shows in television history.

Simon confirmed that HBO will film the first episode of "Treme," possibly sometime later this year. If HBO gives the green light for more episodes, production would resume in 2009.

Simon, a frequent visitor to the city and a longtime New Orleans music fan, said this week that the stories told in "Treme" would reach beyond the music scene to explore political corruption, the public housing controversy, the crippled criminal-justice system, clashes between police and Mardi Gras Indians, and the struggle to regain the tourism industry after the storm.

"It's basically a post-Katrina history of the city. It will be rooted in events that everybody knows," Simon said. "What it's not going to be is a happy stroll through David Simon's record collection. It should not be a tourism slide show. If we do it right, it (will be) about why New Orleans matters."

Simon is also co-writer and co-executive producer of "Generation Kill," an HBO miniseries adapted from an account by a magazine reporter embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, due to debut Sunday at 8 p.m. The seven-part miniseries is generating positive critical buzz.

Approval of the pilot episode of "Treme" does not guarantee that it will launch as a series. But HBO doesn't create pilots of as many scripts as broadcast networks traditionally do. That, combined with Simon's pedigree, makes the chances of "Treme" going to full series status comparatively high. The show, like the pilot, would be filmed in New Orleans.

Simon also filmed "The Wire" on location in his hometown of Baltimore. "The Wire" was an unflinching fictional portrayal of crime, urban decay and civic dysfunction, informed in part by Simon's former life as a newspaper crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

The "Treme" pilot is expected to be announced publicly today in Hollywood during the Television Critics Association summer TV tour, where Simon today also will promote Sunday's "Generation Kill" premiere.

Hosting a TV series is considered a bonanza for the local film-and-TV production community. Though a critical and ratings dud, "K-Ville," the Fox cop drama that shot 11 episodes in the city in 2007, pumped an estimated $1 million per episode in cast and crew salaries and production expenditures into the local economy.

Local production recently wrapped on the first season of the upcoming Disney Channel series "Imagination Movers," said Jennifer Day, director of the city's office of film and video, so news of a possible new series to be filmed locally would further boost the area's film-and-TV production scene.

Day has read the "Treme" pilot script and said it's less "sensationalized" than "K-Ville."

"It's a lot more realistic," she said, adding that New Orleanians "will see themselves more in the characters than they did in 'K-Ville.'

"I loved it. It's a very emotional, character-driven storyline."

"Treme" is not the first time HBO has backed a post-storm project in New Orleans. The network backed filmmaker Spike Lee in the development of Lee's award-winning Katrina documentary, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts."

 

[NAHSTE]

NEW SHOW BY DAVID SIMON

^ That shit looks very solid. New Orleans is bursting with culture and David Simon knows exactly how to bring a city's identity to life.

Plus there's the outside chance I can get on that crew since I live down here. To work under David Simon would be an honor.

 

[strahanfan92]

dexter, my ass

 

[Bear Pand]

http://fansided.com/2009/09/02/the-50-greatest-characters-from-the-wire/

50 greatest characters on the wire

 

[J Live]

Watching Stringer Bell right now in this movie Obsessed.

 

[Sharkweather]

Nice, good find.

Stringer was my absolute favorite though.