The Wire

[Jah Lush]

Snitch.

[mockney piers]

Officer MacGabhannty or Uncle Seany?

Or of course...

 

[SeanMacGabhann]

makes me chuckle. every time

[david_carnell]

Councillor Carnellti?

[SeanMacGabhann]

LibraCarrcetti

[Keef]

Zooming through series 5. Enjoying it A LOT, but for the first time, I'm finding part of it to hollywood and unbelievable (the McNulty thing). Still great though, except another of my all time favourites has been killed off! Doubt he'll be the last. Episodes 8 and 9 tonight I think. Oh, and I want a cool name too :-(

[mockney piers]

Easy with the spoilers there Keefa Greggs, I now know it's not McNulty who dies...see, it's so easily done!!

[Keef]

So I'm a mixed race lesbian snitch :-S

[SeanMacGabhann]

[possible spoiler ref deleted]

I have to tell you eps 8 and 9 are just THE BEST - I'm dead jealous

As for names... sorry, but surely it's Keefa

[SeanMacGabhann]

Piers beat me to the name!!! gaaahhhh

[mockney piers]

Snitch? Are you spoiling again Keefa?

[Keef]

No, was talking about me for previous spoil. That said, maybe she is, who's to say... Besides prop piers, you dropped a HUGE spoiler on me RE Bubbles! You were quite drunk though ;-)

[Moos]

I shall wear an invisible black arm band for life after the last few episodes of Series 1. Is that a spoiler? Surely not. And I've only had a lemon curd yoghurt, though it was intoxicatingly good.

[Keef]

Well That's The Wire finished for me. Last series good as ever, but far from my favourite (3 and 4 get that prize). To be honest I thought it could have done with at least another hour to tie it all up, it just felt a bit rushed at the end. That said, it's still the absolute nuts, and a couple of really good bonus featurettes too.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Have you seen these

mini-prequels

yet? Not available on any of the DVDs, I think they are being held back for complete 1-5 boxset

I haven't had time to watch them properly yet but I don't think they contain any spoilers

[mixulee]

urgh. That's it. One more feature length 90 minute final episode to go and it's all over. Now what do we do for an evening's DVD box set viewing. It was bad enough watching countless episodes of Friends as we waited for Season 5 DVD to be released but now what. And before you ask, yes we done the Sopranos. Whatchu gonna do ?

I have to say it's quite the oddest thing, watching a character with your name (Michael Lee). It's even odder bearing in mind most of the characters don't have full names ie Bug, Dukie, Cheese, Namond etc. And of course not forgetting the fact that I have little to no resemblance to Bodymore's Michael Lee in either physique or career choice.

And my final thought for the night - from Episode 1, Season 1, we've had the subtitles on. Otherwise you gotta spend all your goddam bitch-ass motherfuckin time rewinding and rewinding. How about you ?

[Keef]

Watching channel 4 news last night Ken Livingst was on talking about Ian Blair / Boris Johnson, and in talking about politics getting involved with police work he mentioned the Wire!

[mockney piers]

Current events are uncanny aren't they.

[SeanMacGabhann]

If only the Evening Standard WAS bought and run down by a paper somewhere else...

[mixulee]

a friend of mine's husband is basically following the trajectory of ****** in the Poh-lice force. He's just disciplined an untouchable and become very unpopular for it, but it's shaken up the department and now they fear him.

[mockney piers]

Shhh....no spoilers. Some are still on 1

[Horsebox]

mixulee Wrote:

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bearing in mind most of the

> characters don't have full names ie Bug, Dukie,

> Cheese, Namond etc.

>

> And my final thought for the night - from Episode

> 1, Season 1, we've had the subtitles on. Otherwise

> you gotta spend all your goddam bitch-ass

> motherfuckin time rewinding and rewinding. How

> about you ?

The character Cheese is actually called Cheese Wagstaff, father of.... No spoilers for those still on S1...apparantly this was going to be explored further down the line but it was never gotten around to.

I watched S1-3 with my lady, who is French, and who therefore needed the subs or it was game over. It did help me massively to understand what was being said.

I then watched S4 + 5 alone for whatever reason, sans subs, and found that I had to work a little harder to get everything, but I enjoyed it more as I was focusing more on what was going on and not on the script at the bottom of the screen.

*Bloody French keyboard*(6)

E2A: Ive still not seen the last 2 episodes of S5

[Moos]

I'm on S2 and have been loving it, without subtitles. Once our ears tuned in, we found we didn't have to rewind very often...

[david_carnell]

season 2 is sooo different to the others but is possibly my favourite. The story it tells is one even less explored than the normal urban decay. Without giving stuff away my only gripe is that very few of the characters re-appear in later series.

But a dockers breakfast! Has to be seen to be believed!!

[giggirl]

The Wire Season 2 has been right at the top of my "must have NOW" list with lovefilm.com forever and I finally received disc 1 on Saturday morning. I was giddy with excitement. Unfortunately I had to hurry off to the West End to the Saturday afternoon matinee of Hairspray with my Brighton friends (how very gay my Saturday was). Anyway, Good Morning Baltimore y'all

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=egLhkmA8Z50

Many hours later I was tucked up in bed (slightly pissed) watching disc 1 on my laptop. A whole different take on Baltimore, I think you'll agree. Gosh I'd almost forgotten how hot McNulty is. So long since I saw Season 1 that I'm sort of finding my feet a little. It's all good.