The brilliance of the character writing in this show is perfectly encapsulated by the fact that we felt upset when Wallace was killed but over three seasons they humanized his killer so much that we had an equal if not greater amount of sadness when Bodie met his untimely demise.
Can you refresh my mind on exactly why he did that to that poor lady? Was it simply a case of wrong place wrong time or another one of Marlos "just because I say so's" cuz damn if it were just about her timing he could've waited until she left. That shit was fkd up. Unbeknownst to her that Lady was nothin but friendly to the man that was about to kill her for nothin. The wire boy I'll tell ya
I've never seen The Wire, even though Baltimore being only just up the road from my primary hometown of Washington (#HTTR "always & forever!") is my 3rd favorite place, reading So Long Ago that it was about hypes, not a subject of any interest to me; but having now seen this compilation, I realize that it's more deep than just that, but that's what DVDs are for. It don't say if these are chronological or not but my prediction about Omar certainly was validated - though I was thinking he'd be The Big Finish thereto. (& so "graceless" a presentation!) So I will now be working my way "backwards" in Michael Kenneth Williams's filmography from Hap & Leonard whence 1st I saw him, but even just the little dollops of him in this assemblage show his acting wasn't - & it'll be a trip both revelatory & saddening that he is now lost to us far too soon. Mad black love always - & 2 swift deep middle digits to C. Jackson, K. Hart (less) & D. Washington for their ignorance & disrespect; it just shows clearly who had the bigger stones in that mix.
That was wack!! COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT!! KNEW THE SHOW WAS SPECIAL FROM THERE. A CHOKE OUT LESSON I THOUGHT...BUT HADNT THEY GONE A BIT OTT....OOOOOH NO!! D'ANG GOOOONE!! WOOOOOW!!!
ON GOD 💀💀. That makes me think how police detectives are sometimes, they just want to solve cases without taking into consideration logical stuff like that, the fucking statistics... that’s what the Wire shows us. Mccnulty was the opposition.
@Matt Voyer Bodie was tired is all. He was meant to portray the pawn that tries to cross the board despite knowing where they usually end up. DS was too pro-dem, pro-cop and blue collar among other things but even if unintentional he ends up exposing how these entities end up doing as much if not more harm than the opposite side of the spectrum. He managed to be as neitral as one can be. The Wire > The Sopranos. Between pretending the mafia dislikes the drug business and a mafiosi going to a shrink its very much a hollywood bit, though admittedly griping.
@Matt Voyer Simon showed the reality and didn't push a propaganda. The Wire showed things as they were. Only if woke kids like you were sensible enough to see that instead of being dragged by stupid agendas and hashtags.
For me, the most painful and most messed up was TT, the little guy that died from the shooting of Bodie's crew. Really heartbreaking, kid didn't have nothing to do and his moma's scream haunts me
that show was INCREDIBLE. Half the characters serve as an origin story for another character. Marlo is Avon's backstory. Michael is Omar's. Carver is Daniels. Pearlman is Phalen's. Dookie is Bubbles.... and so on... talented writing
@@bernardsoul5186 you don’t know that. The show ends with Marlo going back to the street and getting a taste of the blood again. Not a chance he stayed out the streets for good
Correction they killed him but he's spirit flew out his body and he's a fresh start but doesn't remember hes pass lyfe now one greatest boxers in the world
Yes bro cause I stg she did probably the most accurate and moving portrayal of a sweet innocent loving lady going about life, I felt so much for her despite not even knowing her name and her showing up for like 15 seconds of the show... she was probably a mom and everything man
The thing that pisses me off the most is that Marlo keeps talking to him as he's dying. Shut the fuck up and stop condescending him in his last moments! What a dick.
Don't get me wrong, Bodie's death was sad...but what about Sherrod?? What about Omar? What about the little kid that caught the stray? What about Wallace??
@Something Something he was fighting his dog lol. Can't be more his fault. He thought someone drugged his dog and started a war over that. Not because of the dog life, because of the money. If he cared about the dog like you're implying, he wouldn't be fighting it.
@Something Something 😂😂😂. Yea..he said " y'all some cold mother fuckers ". you act like we saw method man break down crying in that scene? We didnt. You dont fight a dog you care about. Believe what you want. " He had much love for me even then " and a couple other lines like that dont overshadow the fact that you're fighting a dog. Like I said believe what you want, but Cheese is written to be cold. He might have cared about the dog, but the dog wasnt the reason for war. It was because he thought someone punked him. He killed Joe, his family member and mentor for money. He probably cared about him too but again he was written to be cold. All he cares about is money. Its why his name is cheese.
It's more like the only way out he saw was to offer money which it clearly wasn't about. Only once he realizes they don't want his money he accepts his fate
He was a business man in a gangsters world and he committed wrong actions that he thought that were beneficial for the gang, that costed his life. Avon told him but he never listen.
live by the sword die by the sword, a truth told in the wire, not glorifying it no Hollywood happy endings just a raw social commentary. love this show.
It should be prepare to die by the sword if you live by the sword. Plenty of people who live by the sword get off without any punishment whatsoever but I guess the og saying sound cooler 😅
This is the masterpiece that Power and BMF are trying to remake but nothing will ever be as real as The Wire. Even the casting they took people from Baltimore who weren't even actors and made them characters in the show acting for the first time just to get realism. Actually creating jobs in the city.... beautiful show and I miss it so much. Might be time for another re-watch
Omar's death really caught me by surprise. Literally had me lost for words. It was expected that his death was inevitable but we all didn't see it coming. My favorite character in the series fsho
I remember when this child looked at Omar a few scenes earlier, i said to myself : "ok, i'm sure that kid's gonna kill him !" Nevertheless it was brutal !!
@@marSLaZZ66 just finished thee series, and when the kid was the only one that didnt run away from omar, i knew.. and in the scene he was buying cigars i saw his death begire it hapend.. RIP Omar
@@FAIRYGIRL911 He was clearly looking for a way out of the game, going away in the country for a while. They were afraid he might end up going to the police
Gtfo by listening to another man I would have turned that gun right back on him once he got done saying I had to do that oh really yea you right a this gun loaded you gave me right pow...the end
I took it as he was trying to convince himself that Wallace somehow had it coming. He didn't want to kill his friend but he needed to believe that he had to. That Wallace brought it on himself.
@@dixztubehe did it to set up Omar. Old face Dre was told to say that Omar hit her. Marlo wanted Omar off the streets so they framed the delivery lady on him
He needed a victim to blame Omar for the murder so he would go to jail therefore it was easier to get him killed in jail vs trying to hunt him down in the streets @dixztube
They never say it but I always had the feeling that Chris was abused in a very similar way to Michael when he was younger. The way he takes out his frustrations against Devar told me that he certainly had some past trauma that he never fully dealt with.
It's heavily implied that he was abused as a young kid. That's literally the entire reason he lashes out so heavily against Michael's step-dad. It's also what ultimately ends up getting him convicted, since every time before he would just shoot his victims instead of beating them and leaving DNA
That part for me is the weak link of the Wire, nonetheless a masterpiece. Marlo, Chris and Snoop are psycopaths but we barely see no human side from them, we don't know where they come from. Little character building, way too cold.
@@TheTricktracktruck what do you mean? They have a lot of sense! Marlo and his friends came to power quickly because of the vacuum that Avon and Stringer left. I personally find Marlo an interesting character, he ain't an addict to drugs but to power. He loves the game, being powerful. He's desperate to being recognized, respected. That's why he killed that market cop, because his ego was hurt after he lost in the poker game. You can see that in the last episode, when he finally gets to be a "clean" businessman but at the end he simbolically returns to the corners because he doesn't care about the money but the power.
This made me want to go back and watch it all over again. I still can't get over Snoop checking herself out one last time and even getting confirmation that she was fly before she got killed. Props to Mike for letting her know she looked good.
If I had to do it all over again, and had to take bids all over again, I would still do it all over again, I would do it all over again I would do it fifteen times over again, if I bought fifteen houses that had foundation problems every time I would still do it all over again
@@smd544 🤣🤣 I feel you. I guess in that moment she knew her life was over so classic Snoop wasn't about to go out begging and pleading for him to spare her. She wanted to go out like the true gangster she was so she held her head high and took what she knew she had coming to her.
In Bodie's death, when he looks at Poot and shakes his head, it destroys me. It's a tired face, of someone who realized he's gone from zero to nowhere, as if he wanted to die to get it over with.
Exactly jp.. Bodies death hit me the hardest.. He was my favorite character. And ya.. Damn kernard.. They should have shown someone smoking that lil bastard. Anyways..RIP bodie.. A soldier to the end.. This is my corner I ain't running.
High Definition DERO What are u talking about? This show was the best thing he was involved in...well, black panther was good but he wasn’t in the first 1 so I still stand behind my opinion.
seeing bodie wipe his tears off walking away and seeing poot tear tf up when he was putting down wallace and wallace’s expressions of pure fear and sadness, man that scene was probably the most heartbreaking death in the series
The older I get, the harder it is for just one particular death: Sherrod. Bubbles changed his life behind it, but it’s a tearjerker, on the real. Hope everyone is doing their best to remain safe.
Sorry that snoop kill bothered me. Not the fact that I thought she was a good person. It's the fact you dont fire a weapon in a vehicle that shit will make you dead literally. I mean I know it's a show. Lol other than that great scene!
I like a good, violent drama. I generally like those long and meaningful death scenes that often try to rationalize death to us viewers and give us closure, because that's about as much as we can deal with our own immortality. The Wire doesn't do that, though. You can be a major character, have an appearance in every episode, make an impact in the storyline and arc of other characters, but you still just get shot and that's it, no musical elegy, no closeups of teary eyes making their last twitches. You get shot and it's off to the next scene. Like I said, I enjoy drama but it's just genius how realistically the Wire deals with characters dying.
Those moments are very sobering and some I will never forget. I haven't watched The Wire since it aired, but I still remember some of these scenes exactly as they were filmed, and think about them from time to time because of the impact of the realism behind them. I also have certain scenes from films by Martin Scorsese repeating in my head quite often. It feels to me like The Wire took cues from Goodfellas, while Scorsese took cues from The Wire in return with The Departed.
There was nothing to "solve", CO's had a ready-made suicide explanation and didn't spend a single second looking any deeper. Why would they? A Black con's life is worth less than a dog's to them. They simply didn't care.
i think the implication was he set it up as a suicide and apparently they bought it. Whats fucked is it looked like he might've set it up to look like auto-erotic self asphyxiation too. D'Angelo really deserved better.
The wire and the corner made me keep my head in the books and get the hell out the ghetto. Black ppl in poverty should not have to live like this... it’s heartbreaking
The opening scene conversation was just the first of excellent dialogue throughout thd entire shows....this is why The Wire I'd still one of the best shows on TV.
This show helped remind me of how blessed I am that I had parents who had good jobs and worked hard so that me and my siblings could live well. I mean this is just brutal. Its hard to watch.
It's crazy because I lived in the middle of all of this ,grew up in east Baltimore and literally seen most of this right in front of me ,I never understood until I was a adult about TT death,how hurtful it had to been as a parent to deal with that smh
34:55 Chris was a cold blooded killer with seemingly no compassion or emotions, but even that soulless creep drew the line at pedophiles (Could he have been a victim too? Might explain how emotionally withdrawn he is). Anyway, that was the craziest beating on the entire show. The rage that spewed out of him shocking because of how unexpected it was, usually he was always calm and soft-spoken, even while killing. Chris was an evil bastard, but he did care about Michael.
It was obvious that Mike was molested by his stepfather and therefore got Chris to take him out....however Chris was also molested as a child,thus the reason why he lost it in that moment
@@kacey5324 exactly. For how "professional" Chris always is, he threw all that shit out of the window when it came to killing Mike's (step?)dad - he *spit on his corpse* afterwards!! DNA BRUH!! He was acting out of pure emotion. Personal hatred & loathing.
T.T.'s death ALWAYS stuck with me and the direction in that scene is A1. No one knows what they're doing, just shooting indiscriminately with hopes of hitting their target but the ones who always suffer the most are those who didn't have anything to do with it in the first place. That shit still happens every single day and it's always over bullshit.
That scene is crazy first she look out the window then he gets shot staring out the window started off normal day in hood she grab one child told him to get down on the floor asap smh shit sad
Sobotka got me, he made a deal with the devils for the survival of the whole docks and the cliff hanger before made it look like he had a good fighting chance.
Bro he even included a clip of the goose dying from the liquor. I had to go back to be like what the hell was that clip for and then I seen the goose dead on the table
I love the Gant reveal being the one and only flashback in the show. It feels like a warning, basically the show being like "we'll spell it out for u just this once, but from now on u gotta pay attention to all the pieces cuz they matter"
@@themagpie_1 not at all lol the dude above you got it right, they forced them to put it in because they thought viewers would be confused, and they were pissed because it basically insults the viewers intelligence, which I agree with
Yeah, that first episode is so strange compared to every other episode. It's the only one with any kind of voiceover, and any kind of effects, like the flashback, the stylized zoom in the flashback, and the blue color tint.
If ever a TV series nailed the truth about a city this show was it. Those of us who live in or near Baltimore know Charm City lost its charm years ago. I feel sorry for the people who live there and don’t have the resources to leave
@@groundshakersociety6637 I’m happy for you my friend but also sad you lost friends. Most of the murders are just young kids living a dangerous lifestyle
They where just more cold and practical they how ever crossed the line by killing prop Joe. They damn well knew joe when he said he would would. They just killed him cause they enjoyed killing
The first scene in the show is not only the aftermath of a murder but a pretty deep take into where the show was headed. That conversation between McNulty and Snot's friend has so many themes that apply to the entire series, its brilliant.
Poot’s expression throughout the process of killing Wallace is so sad. While Bodie comes out of the episode with very little credit, even when Poot fired the final bullets it’s effectively to put poor Wallace out of his painful misery, but his tears tell the real story.
Poots face before they go up the stairs. That was the face of the last shred of innocence dying in that boy. He knew what was up those stairs would charge everything. I felt the worst for the kids Wallace was watching. Dude was pretty much the only person that really gave a shit about them.
Thinking of making a game of thrones one of these, it’ll take a long ass time but would you all want to see that? 😂 Edit: Season 4 has been completed, season 5 is in production
They really went from the innocent child caught in gang warfare crossfire in his own bedroom to the duck that Ziggy Sobotka forced to drink whiskey… Just brilliant.
Looking at this bring back a lot of memories and make me grateful I didn't get into the drug game. I grew up with boxsdale and all the players. watching my child hood friends kill each other was very sad.
I grew up in the Bronx when AIDS and the crack game came along. So many friends lost, one way or another. What's weird is that now that I'm older, I'm losing friends from various medical things - bad hearts and kidneys or whatever from the damage these cats inflicted on themselves when they was younger. I show up for a wake or two every month. Outta all the dudes I went to high school with, not a lot are left alive now.
@@JohnSmith-mk1rj today kids are more wilder they out here smoking fentynal,self snitching rather shoot each other than fighting.its only going get worst the ogs failed them and only thing they good at is making money thanks to the internet they easily making 5k off a $250 pack of pills easily sell that in 1 day but since most dont have ogs.they out here strung out buying stupid sht instead of saving, buying property and most don't even try to be low-key ,they plan to trap forever Wich is stupid asf if they doing fenty pills they going to die real fast .if omar was person today robbing dealers he be billionaire in a year lmao
@@lionelsanches8699 bro I've got a friend that managed to get hisself hooked up with that Obamacare. He already don't work cuz he claimed he got hurt working his security job dealing with an angry dude. Messed up his back. What really happened was he was cutting outta work to go drink - he worked at Madison Square Garden and he was crossing the street to go to the Blarney Stone and pow. A car ran the light and smacked him. He was already wrecked that night. The ambulance dudes let him pass his cocaine to someone else. He managed to win the disability case after a bunch of years, so as far as the law goes, he was hurt 'on the job.' So he already don't work and he just collects a check every month. Once he got Obama care, he looked up the symptoms for all the drugs he wanted, found hisself a corrupt Russian doctor (he went thru like 5 primary care doctors until he found a shady dude), and he got scrips for Oxy and Xanax and half a dozen other things. He sells those. Oxies are like 20 a pill and he gets like 100 a month. Xanax are like 10 a pop and he gets 70 or so. Plus he gets Valium and some other stuff. So he don't work, and he makes a ton of money every month selling his meds. Meanwhile I'm out here going to work on construction sites every day (I'm an electrician) and killing myself. This dude sleeps all day, wakes up at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and starts drinking. As soon as the sun goes down and he sold his pills for the day he'll start sniffing some blow. He crashes when the sun comes up. Takes some of his meds and just knocks out and does it again the next day. That's my boy and all but that shit ain't fair yo. This dude got over, yo. He gamed the system and won. Shit is fucked up. Bro the kids here in NYC are a bunch of little social justice whiny bitches. I mean, sure - we got some savages (there was a shootout on the highway just the other day), but since guns are hard to come by here in NYC (legally, anyway, so you gotta know someone to get a pistol. Shotguns are easier to get and a lot of NY'ers have one in their house, but pistols or SMG's or any other gangster like weapon are not that common. Plus I think you do a year in the feds mandatory if you get popped with one. So it ain't like we got crews of dudes on opposing corners gunning cats down every week. When shit got crazy in Washington Heights back in the day and someone shot a cop in the face at random, Giuliani literally shut that shit down and went in there with Tactical Narcotics Team dudes (TNT) and those dudes are no joke. They deaded that hood as far as drug dealers are concerned. It ain't like Chicago here. These kids roll with those Antifa and BLM crowds and riot and loot downtown every night. They claim they're oppressed and they're fighting for their rights as they roll into the North Face store and steal jackets. Shit is sad. These kids seem like a waste of sperm if ya ask me.
God bless you for making this video. Here’s my little gift to everyone watching this. Time stamps for anyone looking for a particular death scene: Snot Boogie/Omar Isaiah Betts 0:00 William Gant 2:41 Brandon Wright 4:16 Anton “Stinkum” Artis 4:23 Wendell “Orlando” Blocker 5:50 Nakeesha Lyles 7:38 Wallace 7:54 14 Immigrant Women 10:17 Sam, The Atlantic Light Crewman 11:15 5 Inmates in Jessup Correctional Facility 12:16 D’Angelo Barksdale 13:04 T.T. 15:31 Steven L. Miles 17:50 George “Double G” Glekas 18:19 Frank Sobotka 18:52 Cheese’s Dog 19:56 Jelly 21:16 Tosha Mitchell, Tank 21:41 Chipper, Country 23:29 Boo 24:31 Rico 24:55 Tatar 25:22 Officer Derrick Waggoner 25:50 LaTroy 27:17 Devonne 27:43 Russell “Stringer” Bell and his Bodyguard 28:12 Johnny Weeks 31:03 Unnamed Dealer 31:27 Fruit 32:25 Curtis “Lex” Anderson 32:56 Delivery Woman 33:16 2 New York Boys 33:54 New York Dealer 34:29 Devar Manigault 34:55 Sherrod 36:30 Preston “Bodie” Broadus 37:23 Drug Dealer 39:02 Corner Boy 39:25 Junebug and his Family 39:50 Butchie and his Bodyguard 40:13 Nathaniel “Hungry Man” Manns 42:11 Joseph “Proposition Joe” Stewart 42:51 Donnie 43:36 Manny 44:09 Savino Bratton 44:39 Omar Little 45:54 Felicia “Snoop” Pearson 46:28 Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff 47:49
There are a lot of British actors period. They're taking over Hollywood. A lot of American drama fans don't like it, but I tell them that the American actors need to step their game up and compete better.
@@kennethmortensen8159 Yes. We have a global economy now and the competition is global. Americans have felt entitled for too long. And I'm an American. We have to compete with the world, whether we like it or not.
@@bluebeamgaming5173 no one ever really fought back just walked up to the vacants knowing what's in store but when it was little Michaels turn he turned the tables and shot Snoop
@@chipsthedog1 Yuh Gotta Think About Chris’s Image Though Nappy Hair, Dusty Clothes, Cold Face. Until Michael Came Yuh Really Didn’t Even Know What His Weakness Was (Kids) Plus To Get To Yuh They’ll Kill Whoever Including Your Spouse & Family That’ll Make A A lot Of Dudes Just Accept Death.
@@chipsthedog1 - By the time Chris and Snoop roll up it's already too late 90% of the time, Andre, Lex and the New York dealers are good examples. Then you have the odd fighter and smart man like Omar, Michael and Bodie who'll either figure them out and get away or die giving them a hard time
Rules of the game lmao wtf. These streets have you brainwashed. You really want drug dealers and gang members killing off whoever they want bc they made up some imaginary rules?
@@shifty1927 it was the only one that was not cold though and it was the only one that they could prove he did it too. It kinda made him more whole as a character, kinda reflective
Luciano made new rules for the Commission and ensured everyone could follow them. Stringer thought he could do the same but couldn't ensure everyone could follow
The fact that Omar spent 3 seasons tracking down the person responsible for Brandon's death is savage af the whole time it was Stringer who was the culprit
Actually it was Avon. He was the one who put the price on Brandon’s head and bird and Weebey were the actual ones who did the killing. All String did was ride in the car with them to the spot to scoop him lol. But he was definitely responsible for Wallace and D. And even with that, it’s part of the game. They were both snitches… even though D recanted, he still proven he couldn’t be trusted.
@@tdomonique504 Stringer was the one who actually killed Brandon remember when Omar and Stringer had that sit down inside of Butchie bar and Stringer was telling Omar how Brandon was being tortured with cigar burns and etc Stringer was low key talking about himself doing that to Brandon but put Brandon's death on Brother Mouzone
I absolutely LOVE how they subtly put that death in there. Goes to show the complete and utter danger of just free firing, without any real knowledge on what you’re doing.. As a result, their own friend/crew member took a bullet. Realism at its finest. Baltimore, at its finest.
@@comeatmebro8120 Slim was a true OG, his intro instantly made him a memorable character :D shit String murder aint no thang, but this is some assassination shit man
I've got the box set and have watched it many times but I'd forgot how cold that line by Snoop was "let's pray, here lie two New York niggas that came too far south for their own fucking good"
I’m Irish and I couldn’t understand half of what they were talking about half the time. I rewatched it with subtitles. Really really enjoyed it. Only series I’ve watched twice. Great post and totally subscribed. Thank you 🙏
Not only did he compile this ad free he also put timestamps of everything? What a hero!
Indeed!
Not all hero’s wear capes
Facts
True
Only ad free because of some copyright bullshit. But to put all this shit together you must be true fan.
Bodie's death really was the catalyst for season 5. It sent McNulty over the edge just when he was beginning to enjoy life.
Bonie, bidie?
It's crazy how the same character died simular on Raising Kanan his name was Dean, Ronnie stabbed him from behind smh
Bodie signed the waiver when he killed wallace.
I feel same way, at the same time Bodie was so conflicted it made him relatable just great writing.@@Youknow6969able
@@baracus885 "you know my name"
The brilliance of the character writing in this show is perfectly encapsulated by the fact that we felt upset when Wallace was killed but over three seasons they humanized his killer so much that we had an equal if not greater amount of sadness when Bodie met his untimely demise.
Well said brother. Wallace, Bodie, butchie, and D'Angelo hit hard!
@@PenGzCanFly Omar more so than Butchie, for Butchie not to been important enough.
Whew well said
and we didn't mind that Poot helped because the real victim and tragedy in the show was Poot's hairline
@@J_Ru31352 butchie was one of the most respected dealers in the city. Him dying had a lot of weight and repercussions on alot of peoples lives
chris helping the delivery woman with her cart and smiling at her seconds before he kills her is one of the worst deaths damn
Can you refresh my mind on exactly why he did that to that poor lady? Was it simply a case of wrong place wrong time or another one of Marlos "just because I say so's" cuz damn if it were just about her timing he could've waited until she left. That shit was fkd up. Unbeknownst to her that Lady was nothin but friendly to the man that was about to kill her for nothin. The wire boy I'll tell ya
@@JustAguyFromJersey he does it to blame Omar for the robbery. Some cold-blooded shit.
@@JustAguyFromJersey he killed her and had Old Face Andre frame Omar to get Omar locked up so they could hit him
@@JustAguyFromJersey he was framing omar. Omar caught a murder charge from that body.
@@JustAguyFromJersey iirc marlo tried to frame omar
Rip Omar 🕊aka micheal k Williams 🥀 truly my favorite character on the show
Sucks. Good dude.
Watch the Movie, "The Road."
Yep! Omar was a straight up BOSS! 😎
R.I.P Homie! 🙏
I've never seen The Wire, even though Baltimore being only just up the road from my primary hometown of Washington (#HTTR "always & forever!") is my 3rd favorite place, reading So Long Ago that it was about hypes, not a subject of any interest to me; but having now seen this compilation, I realize that it's more deep than just that, but that's what DVDs are for. It don't say if these are chronological or not but my prediction about Omar certainly was validated - though I was thinking he'd be The Big Finish thereto. (& so "graceless" a presentation!) So I will now be working my way "backwards" in Michael Kenneth Williams's filmography from Hap & Leonard whence 1st I saw him, but even just the little dollops of him in this assemblage show his acting wasn't - & it'll be a trip both revelatory & saddening that he is now lost to us far too soon. Mad black love always - & 2 swift deep middle digits to C. Jackson, K. Hart (less) & D. Washington for their ignorance & disrespect; it just shows clearly who had the bigger stones in that mix.
Yeah, hard to believe Irish is gone...but never forgotten!
My favorite character on the show as well rest in peace 🕊️ my brother Michael k Williams here come Omar yo💯
I’ll never forget how much D’Angelo’s death caught me off guard. I thought there was no way he would get killed off. Such a good show
A skipperino in the wild!
That was wack!! COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT!! KNEW THE SHOW WAS SPECIAL FROM THERE. A CHOKE OUT LESSON I THOUGHT...BUT HADNT THEY GONE A BIT OTT....OOOOOH NO!! D'ANG GOOOONE!! WOOOOOW!!!
D'Angelo had principles man. Such a shame.
nah i knew after he told his mom to let him be he was gonna die because he was gonna fuck up the plea deal if he stayed in prison
Yeah I thought he was the main character of the streets like mcnulty was for the cops only to have that thrown out of my mind instantly
Bruh the fact they tried to make it look like dude hung himself on a doorknob insults my intelligence till this day
Facts I thought the samething 😂😂😂😂 like how who would believe that 😂😂
ON GOD 💀💀. That makes me think how police detectives are sometimes, they just want to solve cases without taking into consideration logical stuff like that, the fucking statistics... that’s what the Wire shows us. Mccnulty was the opposition.
Its hilarious that it took McNulty less than 5 mins to discover it was a homicide. Lazy ass police really don't want to deal with murder cases lmao
@@k.2382 that was the reason I became a criminal justice major.
People do actually hang themselves on door knobs, it's not common outside of jail and other environments like that though, but it does happen.
They don't write gritty TV shows like this anymore. This was an absolute masterpiece.
Did you ever watch Sons of Anarchy? I thought that was pretty good, at least for a while. Love me a good crime drama.
Yeah they stole the 🇬🇧 version
Now they just write woke sheeeeeeeeeeit!
Yea sons was decent but it's not got the same 4D chess of the wire. 100% glad I watched sons a few times but Wire is next level
@@StewyAdamRuleslove me a good crime drama too no diddy I love the walking dead and breaking bad and true detective and snowfall
Bodies line "you ain't puttin me in one of them empty ass houses" always gives me chills, snoop and Chris were literal serial killers in season 4
Fr fr that’s one part I always talk about when I have conversations about the wire
Yeah especially knowing that it was something that really happened.
Nah fr
How many of us was legit mad in real life when Boedy got killed❓I definitely was
I was like 😲😲😣😣 nooo man lol
Snitches get got.
Karma for killing wallace
@Matt Voyer Bodie was tired is all. He was meant to portray the pawn that tries to cross the board despite knowing where they usually end up.
DS was too pro-dem, pro-cop and blue collar among other things but even if unintentional he ends up exposing how these entities end up doing as much if not more harm than the opposite side of the spectrum. He managed to be as neitral as one can be.
The Wire > The Sopranos. Between pretending the mafia dislikes the drug business and a mafiosi going to a shrink its very much a hollywood bit, though admittedly griping.
@Matt Voyer Simon showed the reality and didn't push a propaganda. The Wire showed things as they were.
Only if woke kids like you were sensible enough to see that instead of being dragged by stupid agendas and hashtags.
For me, the most painful and most messed up was TT, the little guy that died from the shooting of Bodie's crew. Really heartbreaking, kid didn't have nothing to do and his moma's scream haunts me
YEP. That's up there with Sherrod's death for me.
I think you can hear him say Okay Mom before he got hit
Wallace getting killed was worse than
The fact stringer made Bodie and Poot kill Wallace is probably the evilest thing he did in the whole series
Shit still makes me sick
Well I mean who else was supposed to get at em ?
Why? Why is that specifically more evil
Then anything else that happened? Bodie and Poot were lowlifes and Wallace as well - he sold drugs
I would say D Angelo death is colder because he playing with his kids and banging his wife like thats some cold shi
@@Uajoke Literally anyone else could have
that show was INCREDIBLE. Half the characters serve as an origin story for another character. Marlo is Avon's backstory. Michael is Omar's. Carver is Daniels. Pearlman is Phalen's. Dookie is Bubbles.... and so on... talented writing
i just finish the show and was thiking the same thing.
Carver is probably more like Colvin
@@mathnaul9984 (as Omar) Oh, indeed.
Marlo can't be Avon's backstory, he retired.
@@bernardsoul5186 you don’t know that. The show ends with Marlo going back to the street and getting a taste of the blood again. Not a chance he stayed out the streets for good
They killed Wallace but not his career
I cried for a whole day when Wallace died... It just made me think of G Baby in Hardball 😩😢💔
Cookie Love Michael b Jordan is in hardball too. He was actually in the scene where g baby gets shot
In the fact his mother had no clue where he was that was truly disturbing.
Correction they killed him but he's spirit flew out his body and he's a fresh start but doesn't remember hes pass lyfe now one greatest boxers in the world
Michael B. Jordan damnnnnnnn
"Why would you let Snot play if every time he runs away with the money?"
"Got to. It's America man."
This line does not get enough credit.
I think it went over alot of people heads just to clarify. He saying u can do whatever you want just understand the consequences
First scene in the entire series tells you exactly what it's about.
Yeah, but really though, there's no principle in the hood. He would've been bruised after the first attempt
@@johnturner3455 Who's to say he wasn't lol people in the hood get beat up all the time and it's love the next day
I believe in America
Series creator David Simon confirmed that the entire series is just a hallucination from Snot Boogie as he's dying. Crazy.
lmfao
So no one but only Boogie died?
Lolol
bravo simon
is this real?
The delivery lady’s death pissed me off so much.
Yep. People say Chris was ruthless. Nope, just pure evil.
Yes bro cause I stg she did probably the most accurate and moving portrayal of a sweet innocent loving lady going about life, I felt so much for her despite not even knowing her name and her showing up for like 15 seconds of the show... she was probably a mom and everything man
REALLY PLAYED ALICIA KEYS IN THE BG LIKE COULD THEY MAKE HER MORE ETHEREAL JUST TO BLOW HER AWAY
Made no damn sense 🤦🏾♂️
@DickEnchilada literally, she felt like the most real person on the show 😂
Prop Joe’s death was so sad, he was so accepting of it, even when his own nephew sold him out.
Agreed 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️even in real life yo family is the worst ones
so godamn satisfying when slim put a bullet in cheese's dome when cheese was talking all that tough shit with arrogance.
Joe died with grace. Hell of an actor that guy was.
🖕Method Man /Cheese
The thing that pisses me off the most is that Marlo keeps talking to him as he's dying. Shut the fuck up and stop condescending him in his last moments! What a dick.
Lol halfway through the video you start seeing only Chris and Snoop dropping bodies like the grim reaper.
Lmao right alot every kill was from them after a while. I was happy when Mike caught her
I wish one of there marks actually pulled a gun and fired back to the point where they had to pull a retreat
Hood version
Cuz they locked up Birdy and weebay
It’s basically their highlight film
Bodie is the death that I felt the most, he deserved to go out on top. One of the best series of all time hands down.
You understand it well....Bodie was a str8 soilder...played his position to come up. Definitely should've been one at top...🖕 Marlo
He did Wallace dirty. He had to go
@@DesirenGslvez9 Most def.
@@DesirenGslvez9fuck Wallace he was a snitch
Don't get me wrong, Bodie's death was sad...but what about Sherrod?? What about Omar? What about the little kid that caught the stray? What about Wallace??
I was so glad Cheese died. Fool did Prop Joe dirty.
Yup
And butchie, and HungeryMan, and Dog
He's like the wires Joffrey
@Something Something he was fighting his dog lol. Can't be more his fault. He thought someone drugged his dog and started a war over that. Not because of the dog life, because of the money. If he cared about the dog like you're implying, he wouldn't be fighting it.
@Something Something 😂😂😂. Yea..he said " y'all some cold mother fuckers ". you act like we saw method man break down crying in that scene? We didnt. You dont fight a dog you care about. Believe what you want. " He had much love for me even then " and a couple other lines like that dont overshadow the fact that you're fighting a dog. Like I said believe what you want, but Cheese is written to be cold. He might have cared about the dog, but the dog wasnt the reason for war. It was because he thought someone punked him. He killed Joe, his family member and mentor for money. He probably cared about him too but again he was written to be cold. All he cares about is money. Its why his name is cheese.
@@troyrussell177 Just like Ziggy
Regardless of how ruthless Stringer was, I like how he was smart enough to just accept his death after exhausting his options.
What can u do he had two of the worst killers I sorry soul assiantion more app
It's more like the only way out he saw was to offer money which it clearly wasn't about. Only once he realizes they don't want his money he accepts his fate
@@jmeijer6995 That's kind of what I meant by "exhausting his options". The other option being running away which he tried first.
He was a business man in a gangsters world and he committed wrong actions that he thought that were beneficial for the gang, that costed his life. Avon told him but he never listen.
@@chamchamtrigger oh mb I interpreted that wrong
live by the sword die by the sword, a truth told in the wire, not glorifying it no Hollywood happy endings just a raw social commentary. love this show.
So true 👍 but 😥 sad
Live by the sword die by the sword is a truth that comes from the bible actually
@@andrewbeck9675 No, it's a saying. Bible might have it in it, but god nor jesus got nothing to do with the truth
@@Kikiapina you're a devil
It should be prepare to die by the sword if you live by the sword. Plenty of people who live by the sword get off without any punishment whatsoever but I guess the og saying sound cooler 😅
This is the masterpiece that Power and BMF are trying to remake but nothing will ever be as real as The Wire. Even the casting they took people from Baltimore who weren't even actors and made them characters in the show acting for the first time just to get realism. Actually creating jobs in the city.... beautiful show and I miss it so much. Might be time for another re-watch
Facts ❤
The corner n the wire will never be recreate
BMF was actually real. Meech and Tee are ACTUAL people
True. Pac put Michael K Williams in bullet. That was his first acting credit. And he put snoop on this show.
Slim charles was from DC
Omar's death really caught me by surprise. Literally had me lost for words. It was expected that his death was inevitable but we all didn't see it coming. My favorite character in the series fsho
My favorite too. No doubt
yes,i wanted something dramatic too,in the middle of shotout or something like that
I remember when this child looked at Omar a few scenes earlier, i said to myself : "ok, i'm sure that kid's gonna kill him !"
Nevertheless it was brutal !!
Shit was whack as hell
@@marSLaZZ66 just finished thee series, and when the kid was the only one that didnt run away from omar, i knew.. and in the scene he was buying cigars i saw his death begire it hapend.. RIP Omar
Wallace’s death had me crying cause the pure emotion on his face and the fear
Yeah ! So heartbreaking !!
Most of it is sadness and betrayal. Can see it in his face. Sad as shit
why'd they kill him?
@@FAIRYGIRL911 He was clearly looking for a way out of the game, going away in the country for a while. They were afraid he might end up going to the police
@@tongtong4077 gotcha, thanks
when he said "Every death" he meant every death!!! the duck and the dog !!! 10/10
🤣🤣🤣
missed lil kevin
Missed hungry man
Missed Brandon Omar’s boyfriend Season 1
@@famoenterprise822 that was at 4:16
Wallace was really the most heart wrenching death for me. I can’t imagine the pain of having to kill your childhood best friend
Gtfo by listening to another man I would have turned that gun right back on him once he got done saying I had to do that oh really yea you right a this gun loaded you gave me right pow...the end
They had a choice
Don't worry. Wallace survived and became famous.
Big RIP to Michael K. Williams... dude really did some his best work on this show
And now Lance Reddick, too. May they both rest peacefully.
Lowlife drug addict
@@StewyAdamRulesanother vaccine victim
One died of a drug overdose, the other of heart disease. Not a vaccine. Maybe Covid, but not the vaccine.
@@Inbraneinthememsaneanother misinformation victim
"How my hair look Mike?", Snoop was coooold
She was a titan real Gangster
You look good girl “Mike”
Bruh...after all these years, I just realized Bodie was most definitely talking to himself before he killed Wallace.
Explain please.
@@meka071600 It's hard to without the context of the show. Stringer was telling Bodie how he had to man up and kill Wallace because he was weak.
@@4523bgb oh ok yeah that's true
“Stand Up, Be A Man”
I took it as he was trying to convince himself that Wallace somehow had it coming. He didn't want to kill his friend but he needed to believe that he had to. That Wallace brought it on himself.
I just hated the delivery woman's death. Shit was unforgivable, her smile was so genuine. Definitely didn't deserve that, Chris!!
Ya why did he do that
@@dixztubehe did it to set up Omar. Old face Dre was told to say that Omar hit her. Marlo wanted Omar off the streets so they framed the delivery lady on him
He needed a victim to blame Omar for the murder so he would go to jail therefore it was easier to get him killed in jail vs trying to hunt him down in the streets @dixztube
Bodie went out on the same corners he started out on with no real progression in his life but he was fearless and committed to the cause.
He was worried about making it to the end of the board and ended up never even moving.
He turn snicth
If the rule led you to this what good is the rule
They never say it but I always had the feeling that Chris was abused in a very similar way to Michael when he was younger. The way he takes out his frustrations against Devar told me that he certainly had some past trauma that he never fully dealt with.
It's heavily implied that he was abused as a young kid. That's literally the entire reason he lashes out so heavily against Michael's step-dad. It's also what ultimately ends up getting him convicted, since every time before he would just shoot his victims instead of beating them and leaving DNA
That part for me is the weak link of the Wire, nonetheless a masterpiece. Marlo, Chris and Snoop are psycopaths but we barely see no human side from them, we don't know where they come from. Little character building, way too cold.
@@TheTricktracktruck yeah them mofos were too gangsta lol
@@TheTricktracktruck what do you mean? They have a lot of sense! Marlo and his friends came to power quickly because of the vacuum that Avon and Stringer left. I personally find Marlo an interesting character, he ain't an addict to drugs but to power. He loves the game, being powerful. He's desperate to being recognized, respected. That's why he killed that market cop, because his ego was hurt after he lost in the poker game. You can see that in the last episode, when he finally gets to be a "clean" businessman but at the end he simbolically returns to the corners because he doesn't care about the money but the power.
@@TheTricktracktruck the Greek was the cruelest with the most bodies with him being in the game the longest
This made me want to go back and watch it all over again. I still can't get over Snoop checking herself out one last time and even getting confirmation that she was fly before she got killed. Props to Mike for letting her know she looked good.
If I had to do it all over again, and had to take bids all over again, I would still do it all over again, I would do it all over again I would do it fifteen times over again, if I bought fifteen houses that had foundation problems every time I would still do it all over again
@@prettycoolguy2850 wtf are you on
@@jeremyblackwater439 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Word that scene made no sense to me cause my boy Mike finna open your shit up so why does that matter theres going to be brains everywhere
@@smd544 🤣🤣 I feel you. I guess in that moment she knew her life was over so classic Snoop wasn't about to go out begging and pleading for him to spare her. She wanted to go out like the true gangster she was so she held her head high and took what she knew she had coming to her.
In Bodie's death, when he looks at Poot and shakes his head, it destroys me. It's a tired face, of someone who realized he's gone from zero to nowhere, as if he wanted to die to get it over with.
Yep right on the nail but I never felt bad for Bodie not what happened to Wallace, and how did it end with poot?
wallace and d’angelo were hard ones but man, bodie’s death really got me... that look smh
edit: omar’s just pissed me off.
The Great facts. wish he was able to knock off marlo or at least a few more of marlo’s people
Yeah me to
Exactly jp.. Bodies death hit me the hardest.. He was my favorite character.
And ya.. Damn kernard.. They should have shown someone smoking that lil bastard. Anyways..RIP bodie.. A soldier to the end.. This is my corner I ain't running.
Prop Joe hits hard. Frank Sabotka is painful. But yeah Wallace. Bodie and Dee all are powerful
Also stringer bell in my opinion
Chris & Snoop discussing the death of the dude in the vacant while he’s there pleading has to be the coldest kill in tv history 💀
Crazy that Chris was polite enough to let him vomit. He didn't have to....
I love that you included the duck
A Ghost. Ziggy was an idiot. Did that duck dirty. I like when the dude says that suck couldn’t hold his liquor for shit. They cut that part lol
And the dog!
A Ghost. But he forgot to add when butchie dog killed the rat in the ally💯or am I lookin to deep into the show❓
Killed Michael B Jordan and now he gets last 😂
High Definition DERO What are u talking about? This show was the best thing he was involved in...well, black panther was good but he wasn’t in the first 1 so I still stand behind my opinion.
seeing bodie wipe his tears off walking away and seeing poot tear tf up when he was putting down wallace and wallace’s expressions of pure fear and sadness, man that scene was probably the most heartbreaking death in the series
It hurt them to do but if you gotta go it's better to go quick at the hand of a friend
Wallace was too soft and naive. He would’ve eventually ratted
The older I get, the harder it is for just one particular death: Sherrod. Bubbles changed his life behind it, but it’s a tearjerker, on the real.
Hope everyone is doing their best to remain safe.
What got me wasnt the deaths but how Dukie basically became the new Bubbles as Bubbles got clean
@@busychrissy0.0 that was hard as hell to watch, and it still is
#Same
@@busychrissy0.0 That was super sad. Especially seeing as how Dukie was really the most innocent and compassionate out the group
Yup, tough to watch for an entirely different reason than the others
"how my hair look mike? you look good girl" *boom* damn. Then when cheese gets killed " that was for joe"..... respect.
Sorry that snoop kill bothered me. Not the fact that I thought she was a good person. It's the fact you dont fire a weapon in a vehicle that shit will make you dead literally. I mean I know it's a show. Lol other than that great scene!
@@yoshijb9428 the next shot is outside the car for all we know Michael ears be ringing
I like a good, violent drama. I generally like those long and meaningful death scenes that often try to rationalize death to us viewers and give us closure, because that's about as much as we can deal with our own immortality.
The Wire doesn't do that, though. You can be a major character, have an appearance in every episode, make an impact in the storyline and arc of other characters, but you still just get shot and that's it, no musical elegy, no closeups of teary eyes making their last twitches. You get shot and it's off to the next scene.
Like I said, I enjoy drama but it's just genius how realistically the Wire deals with characters dying.
Those moments are very sobering and some I will never forget. I haven't watched The Wire since it aired, but I still remember some of these scenes exactly as they were filmed, and think about them from time to time because of the impact of the realism behind them. I also have certain scenes from films by Martin Scorsese repeating in my head quite often. It feels to me like The Wire took cues from Goodfellas, while Scorsese took cues from The Wire in return with The Departed.
@@valhallaxx it's a hard re-watch
I never got how D'Angelos murder was never solved. My boy left fingerprints on everything from his hair to his shirt, to the belt
They never investigated it as a murder and by the time McNulty figured it out the evidence was destroyed.
He even left prints on his asshole.
There was nothing to "solve", CO's had a ready-made suicide explanation and didn't spend a single second looking any deeper. Why would they? A Black con's life is worth less than a dog's to them.
They simply didn't care.
They never wanted it solved because when it's a suicide it don't go on the stats
i think the implication was he set it up as a suicide and apparently they bought it. Whats fucked is it looked like he might've set it up to look like auto-erotic self asphyxiation too. D'Angelo really deserved better.
The wire and the corner made me keep my head in the books and get the hell out the ghetto. Black ppl in poverty should not have to live like this... it’s heartbreaking
The opening scene conversation was just the first of excellent dialogue throughout thd entire shows....this is why The Wire I'd still one of the best shows on TV.
Snot boogie yall
"this is America"
The death of Snot Boogie was the beginning of a question that rung out all throughout the series...McNulty was left speechless
Who's snot boogie ?
This show helped remind me of how blessed I am that I had parents who had good jobs and worked hard so that me and my siblings could live well. I mean this is just brutal. Its hard to watch.
This is da hood son
@@leftifornian2066 indeed it us from someone who watched on the side like ah chess board
@leftifornian2066 its the trenches not the hood bro
It's crazy because I lived in the middle of all of this ,grew up in east Baltimore and literally seen most of this right in front of me ,I never understood until I was a adult about TT death,how hurtful it had to been as a parent to deal with that smh
Ya I’m too soft for this world lol
Omar's death probably hit me the hardest. it just came out of absolutely no where
Omar had it coming! He was a was snitch
That was the only way to get Omar..Dude rarely was caught off guard the whole show..It was amazing just watching him get outta situations lol
No drama, one second your getting some Newports, next second lights out.
Brodie and Poot didn’t even want to kill him you can see it in their eyes, especially Poot😞.
In terms of murder I can't think of any character in the Wire who "enjoyed" killing with the exceptions of Marlo, Partlow, Snoop and Weebey.
@@tonykennedy8592 Cheese too.
Yeh what a great group of guys they are your right sistah
It looks like Bodie wipes his eye as he walks out of the room
@@tonykennedy8592 what about bird
34:55 Chris was a cold blooded killer with seemingly no compassion or emotions, but even that soulless creep drew the line at pedophiles (Could he have been a victim too? Might explain how emotionally withdrawn he is).
Anyway, that was the craziest beating on the entire show. The rage that spewed out of him shocking because of how unexpected it was, usually he was always calm and soft-spoken, even while killing. Chris was an evil bastard, but he did care about Michael.
he even had snoop shook lmao
When he put the gun away IT WAS PERSONAL... Michael becomes the new Chris/Omar "A man has to have a code"
It was obvious that Mike was molested by his stepfather and therefore got Chris to take him out....however Chris was also molested as a child,thus the reason why he lost it in that moment
@@kacey5324 exactly. For how "professional" Chris always is, he threw all that shit out of the window when it came to killing Mike's (step?)dad - he *spit on his corpse* afterwards!! DNA BRUH!! He was acting out of pure emotion. Personal hatred & loathing.
@@Maya_k that scene was so shockingly violent, but Snoop's reaction made me laugh out loud !! I really felt ashamed !
T.T.'s death ALWAYS stuck with me and the direction in that scene is A1. No one knows what they're doing, just shooting indiscriminately with hopes of hitting their target but the ones who always suffer the most are those who didn't have anything to do with it in the first place.
That shit still happens every single day and it's always over bullshit.
That scene is crazy first she look out the window then he gets shot staring out the window started off normal day in hood she grab one child told him to get down on the floor asap smh shit sad
Exactly 🤷🏾♀️ it's a never ending cycle 😔
Sobotka got me, he made a deal with the devils for the survival of the whole docks and the cliff hanger before made it look like he had a good fighting chance.
Can we just stop and appreciate the amount of work he put into this video clip you the real MVP
Word
Bro he even included a clip of the goose dying from the liquor. I had to go back to be like what the hell was that clip for and then I seen the goose dead on the table
HELL YEAH!!!
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Every death in the wire: 50 mins
Sounds about right
My thoughts exactly. Now I gotta go watch the wire again.
Every death in 32 minutes: th-cam.com/video/OyNHHe8Z3KU/w-d-xo.html
I saw a clip of this online and I need to watch this show now. What platform is it on???
@@Sweet_Air516 HBO's platform
He missed a few. Those vacants were full.
I feel left out for not watching this show, i watched every series back in the day before social media, how in the world did i miss this show😢
Stringer, Proposition Joe and Snoop had the best death scenes. They knew they were goners and went out without fear
Stringer ass was definitely scared, he just knew he was out of options.
Prop closed his eyes like a bitch 🤣😂
@@harrissr.615 facts all his dirt came back to haunt him “I bleed red you bleed green”
Boodie wasn't scared
@@sebastienmarvonhalen1166 Bodie was just tired of it all. No more running.
Wallace and Sherrod were the saddest deaths. Bodie, Prop Joe, Snoop, and Omar caught me off guard. Cheese and Stringer Bell I couldn't fucking wait.
D'angelos was sad as hell too
Wallace and Omar caught me off guard too.
What about Devonne? She was a nice piece of ass.
Bodie
@@KtotheG I'm slipping who the fuck was Devonne?
The security guard at the liquor store death was one of the most unnecessary deaths in the whole show
True but it was a build up for Marlo's ruthless narcissistic egotistical character 🤷🏾♀️
Cookie Love That’s true 🤔
Terrible death i think tat was the saddest death in the wire just wrong they should have got junkie to go in for a pack of Newport softpack
@@cookielove8174 she was a driver bringing supplies to store which even worse because they prepared that hit
I like how everyone who knew Omar agreed that he wouldn't murder a civilian.
I love the Gant reveal being the one and only flashback in the show. It feels like a warning, basically the show being like "we'll spell it out for u just this once, but from now on u gotta pay attention to all the pieces cuz they matter"
Think I remember someone saying how hbo made them put that in because they didn't expect anyone would remember him
Its Ed Burn saying that on the video `why every season of the wire matters`
@@themagpie_1 not at all lol the dude above you got it right, they forced them to put it in because they thought viewers would be confused, and they were pissed because it basically insults the viewers intelligence, which I agree with
Yeah, that first episode is so strange compared to every other episode. It's the only one with any kind of voiceover, and any kind of effects, like the flashback, the stylized zoom in the flashback, and the blue color tint.
The boy who died in shootout is sad because it happens alot now
Fun fact: That boy is actually Randy from the 4th season. Go back and check it out.
Been happening since the 80s
If ever a TV series nailed the truth about a city this show was it. Those of us who live in or near Baltimore know Charm City lost its charm years ago. I feel sorry for the people who live there and don’t have the resources to leave
gee, thanks
That's not how bmore is
Good thing I got out of there, 4 of my friends got killed thank God I wasn't one of them
@@groundshakersociety6637 I’m happy for you my friend but also sad you lost friends. Most of the murders are just young kids living a dangerous lifestyle
I like how Marlo's crew broke and violated every single rule and line that the barksdale crew refused to cross.
They did everything the Barksdales already did, killing security guards, girlfriends, civilians etc.
As far as I remember, Marlo’s crew never violated the Sunday truce
@@Docklead they didnt start turning on each other and killing each other off either
Rules are for those not able to break them.
They where just more cold and practical they how ever crossed the line by killing prop Joe. They damn well knew joe when he said he would would. They just killed him cause they enjoyed killing
This show was a privilege to enjoy. The more you look into it, the better it gets. Omar didn't need to die by the way.
His death was the most shocking!
Why not? Needed to happen to solidify his legend in the final episode when Marlo sneaks out of the party and hears those two guys talking about Omar
omar was a jackboy, it was going to happen to him sooner or later
you forgot Omar's grandma's hat
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Underrated Comment! Barksdale gotta go! Stringer too!!!
"On a sunday monin'..."
Church Lady’s Crown
🤣😂🤣😂👍
Slim Charles was sooo pissed at those guys.
The first scene in the show is not only the aftermath of a murder but a pretty deep take into where the show was headed. That conversation between McNulty and Snot's friend has so many themes that apply to the entire series, its brilliant.
I don't get it what do you mean ?
"Let's bang out" one of the most badass lines I ever heard 💪🏾
Poot’s expression throughout the process of killing Wallace is so sad. While Bodie comes out of the episode with very little credit, even when Poot fired the final bullets it’s effectively to put poor Wallace out of his painful misery, but his tears tell the real story.
Poots face before they go up the stairs. That was the face of the last shred of innocence dying in that boy. He knew what was up those stairs would charge everything. I felt the worst for the kids Wallace was watching. Dude was pretty much the only person that really gave a shit about them.
Poot felt so bad about Wallace his hairline receded a centimeter or 2.....
These actors are amazing
Kathy Childress worth it
Keynard is the best actor
Of course. It feels so real that you believe it actually happened. The way they paint the canvas is incredible
Some of them are't acting....
Felicia Pearson (Snoop) is from the area where they filmed.
Kathy Childress wtf are you talking about 145?? I literally bought the entire box set a few years ago for like £15
Car Alarms really do always be going off right as someone gets shot in this show.
Thinking of making a game of thrones one of these, it’ll take a long ass time but would you all want to see that? 😂
Edit: Season 4 has been completed, season 5 is in production
surely 😉
I mean I’m down for it, just the last few seasons are gonna remind me how horribly it ended.
Go for it!
Every main and supporting character death? Sure. But EVERY death? Including random soldiers in battle? Good luck amigo
Yes
They really went from the innocent child caught in gang warfare crossfire in his own bedroom to the duck that Ziggy Sobotka forced to drink whiskey…
Just brilliant.
Death scenes on The Wire, The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire were extremely creative and realistic.
breaking bad were creative too
On Oz they were just Disturbing
Collin O'Hara there’s a video of every death in sopranos now check it out
Billyツ why are u gonna make one when he’s already uploaded it ?
I think I can watch the wire and sopranos deaths. I think they had more meaning and not super graphic
Looking at this bring back a lot of memories and make me grateful I didn't get into the drug game. I grew up with boxsdale and all the players. watching my child hood friends kill each other was very sad.
I grew up in the Bronx when AIDS and the crack game came along.
So many friends lost, one way or another.
What's weird is that now that I'm older, I'm losing friends from various medical things - bad hearts and kidneys or whatever from the damage these cats inflicted on themselves when they was younger.
I show up for a wake or two every month. Outta all the dudes I went to high school with, not a lot are left alive now.
@@JohnSmith-mk1rj today kids are more wilder they out here smoking fentynal,self snitching rather shoot each other than fighting.its only going get worst the ogs failed them and only thing they good at is making money thanks to the internet they easily making 5k off a $250 pack of pills easily sell that in 1 day but since most dont have ogs.they out here strung out buying stupid sht instead of saving, buying property and most don't even try to be low-key ,they plan to trap forever Wich is stupid asf if they doing fenty pills they going to die real fast .if omar was person today robbing dealers he be billionaire in a year lmao
@@lionelsanches8699 bro I've got a friend that managed to get hisself hooked up with that Obamacare. He already don't work cuz he claimed he got hurt working his security job dealing with an angry dude. Messed up his back.
What really happened was he was cutting outta work to go drink - he worked at Madison Square Garden and he was crossing the street to go to the Blarney Stone and pow.
A car ran the light and smacked him.
He was already wrecked that night. The ambulance dudes let him pass his cocaine to someone else.
He managed to win the disability case after a bunch of years, so as far as the law goes, he was hurt 'on the job.'
So he already don't work and he just collects a check every month. Once he got Obama care, he looked up the symptoms for all the drugs he wanted, found hisself a corrupt Russian doctor (he went thru like 5 primary care doctors until he found a shady dude), and he got scrips for Oxy and Xanax and half a dozen other things.
He sells those. Oxies are like 20 a pill and he gets like 100 a month. Xanax are like 10 a pop and he gets 70 or so. Plus he gets Valium and some other stuff.
So he don't work, and he makes a ton of money every month selling his meds.
Meanwhile I'm out here going to work on construction sites every day (I'm an electrician) and killing myself.
This dude sleeps all day, wakes up at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and starts drinking.
As soon as the sun goes down and he sold his pills for the day he'll start sniffing some blow.
He crashes when the sun comes up. Takes some of his meds and just knocks out and does it again the next day.
That's my boy and all but that shit ain't fair yo. This dude got over, yo. He gamed the system and won. Shit is fucked up.
Bro the kids here in NYC are a bunch of little social justice whiny bitches. I mean, sure - we got some savages (there was a shootout on the highway just the other day), but since guns are hard to come by here in NYC (legally, anyway, so you gotta know someone to get a pistol. Shotguns are easier to get and a lot of NY'ers have one in their house, but pistols or SMG's or any other gangster like weapon are not that common. Plus I think you do a year in the feds mandatory if you get popped with one. So it ain't like we got crews of dudes on opposing corners gunning cats down every week.
When shit got crazy in Washington Heights back in the day and someone shot a cop in the face at random, Giuliani literally shut that shit down and went in there with Tactical Narcotics Team dudes (TNT) and those dudes are no joke. They deaded that hood as far as drug dealers are concerned.
It ain't like Chicago here. These kids roll with those Antifa and BLM crowds and riot and loot downtown every night.
They claim they're oppressed and they're fighting for their rights as they roll into the North Face store and steal jackets.
Shit is sad.
These kids seem like a waste of sperm if ya ask me.
@@JohnSmith-mk1rj 😶😲
God bless you for making this video. Here’s my little gift to everyone watching this. Time stamps for anyone looking for a particular death scene:
Snot Boogie/Omar Isaiah Betts 0:00
William Gant 2:41
Brandon Wright 4:16
Anton “Stinkum” Artis 4:23
Wendell “Orlando” Blocker 5:50
Nakeesha Lyles 7:38
Wallace 7:54
14 Immigrant Women 10:17
Sam, The Atlantic Light Crewman 11:15
5 Inmates in Jessup Correctional Facility 12:16
D’Angelo Barksdale 13:04
T.T. 15:31
Steven L. Miles 17:50
George “Double G” Glekas 18:19
Frank Sobotka 18:52
Cheese’s Dog 19:56
Jelly 21:16
Tosha Mitchell, Tank 21:41
Chipper, Country 23:29
Boo 24:31
Rico 24:55
Tatar 25:22
Officer Derrick Waggoner 25:50
LaTroy 27:17
Devonne 27:43
Russell “Stringer” Bell and his Bodyguard 28:12
Johnny Weeks 31:03
Unnamed Dealer 31:27
Fruit 32:25
Curtis “Lex” Anderson 32:56
Delivery Woman 33:16
2 New York Boys 33:54
New York Dealer 34:29
Devar Manigault 34:55
Sherrod 36:30
Preston “Bodie” Broadus 37:23
Drug Dealer 39:02
Corner Boy 39:25
Junebug and his Family 39:50
Butchie and his Bodyguard 40:13
Nathaniel “Hungry Man” Manns 42:11
Joseph “Proposition Joe” Stewart 42:51
Donnie 43:36
Manny 44:09
Savino Bratton 44:39
Omar Little 45:54
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson 46:28
Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff 47:49
God bless you for making this comment
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You are freaking awesome
That stock girl
F
Wat about old head Andre
Death that hit me the most was the kid who was just getting ready for school and got a stray when the gun fight started.
His stupid mother should of took that hit not him .
Best show ever. Fact! What’s crazy is there are a lot of British actors in the wire
Yup. McNulty, Stringer.
There are a lot of British actors period. They're taking over Hollywood. A lot of American drama fans don't like it, but I tell them that the American actors need to step their game up and compete better.
@@KtotheG that is just the truth. Many european actors have way better skills than american actors
@@kennethmortensen8159 Yes. We have a global economy now and the competition is global. Americans have felt entitled for too long. And I'm an American. We have to compete with the world, whether we like it or not.
@@kennethmortensen8159 that’s not the case at all
dammit cheese, ya failed to protect ya neck
Clever
lmao
🤣🤣🤣
For a. City full of guns it's strange how many just accepted their death at the hands of Chris & Snoop. Not our boy Mike though
explain
@@bluebeamgaming5173 no one ever really fought back just walked up to the vacants knowing what's in store but when it was little Michaels turn he turned the tables and shot Snoop
@@chipsthedog1 Yuh Gotta Think About Chris’s Image Though Nappy Hair, Dusty Clothes, Cold Face. Until Michael Came Yuh Really Didn’t Even Know What His Weakness Was (Kids) Plus To Get To Yuh They’ll Kill Whoever Including Your Spouse & Family That’ll Make A A lot Of Dudes Just Accept Death.
@@chipsthedog1 - By the time Chris and Snoop roll up it's already too late 90% of the time, Andre, Lex and the New York dealers are good examples. Then you have the odd fighter and smart man like Omar, Michael and Bodie who'll either figure them out and get away or die giving them a hard time
Chris taught mike everything
The saddest part of Bodie's death is that Marlo was 100% right to do it by the rules of the game
There are no rules to the game.
People get killed in their homes, at parties, at their work places, there is no such thing as “rules of the game”
Regardless of what you do for a living there are no rules to a game but there is manual
Rules of the game lmao wtf. These streets have you brainwashed. You really want drug dealers and gang members killing off whoever they want bc they made up some imaginary rules?
There are no rules to game, you absolute dope
Chris still the coldest character ever
Grim Reaper of the hood
facts i just watched his kill video a couple days ago. man when he beats that dude to death for like 40 seconds is so brutal .
Really tho and the only time he was ever scared was of Omar and that shows the aura that surrounded omar
Can’t say that without talkin bout WeeBay and Omar
@@shifty1927 it was the only one that was not cold though and it was the only one that they could prove he did it too. It kinda made him more whole as a character, kinda reflective
Man the way cutty and slim walk through the alley way right before the three dummies sabotage the whole hit, they some straight up hitters
Stringer Bell was basically the hood version of Charlie Luciano. He set up the commission aka the co-op.
Luciano made new rules for the Commission and ensured everyone could follow them. Stringer thought he could do the same but couldn't ensure everyone could follow
Snot Boogie/Omar Isaiah Betts - [0:00]
William Gant - [2:41]
Brandon Wright - [4:16]
Anton “Stinkum” Artis - [4:23]
Wendell “Orlando” Blocker - [5:50]
Nakeesha Lyles - [7:38]
Wallace - [7:54]
14 Immigrant Women - [10:17]
Sam, The Atlantic Light Crewman - [11:15]
5 Inmates in Jessup Correctional Facility - [12:16]
D’Angelo Barksdale - [13:04]
T.T. - [15:31]
Steven L. Miles - [17:50]
George “Double G” Glekas - [18:19]
Frank Sobotka - [18:52]
Cheese’s Dog - [19:56]
Jelly - [21:16]
Tosha Mitchell, Tank - [21:41]
Chipper, Country - [23:29]
Boo - [24:31]
Rico - [24:55]
Tatar - [25:22]
Officer Derrick Waggoner - [25:50]
LaTroy - [27:17]
Devonne - [27:43]
Russell “Stringer” Bell and his Bodyguard - [28:12]
Johnny Weeks - [31:03]
Unnamed Dealer - [31:27]
Fruit - [32:25]
Curtis “Lex” Anderson - [32:56]
Delivery Woman - [33:16]
2 New York Boys - [33:54]
New York Dealer - [34:29]
Devar Manigault - [34:55]
Sherrod - [36:30]
Preston “Bodie” Broadus - [37:23]
Drug Dealer - [39:02]
Corner Boy - [39:25]
Junebug and his Family - [39:50]
Butchie and his Bodyguard - [40:13]
Nathaniel “Hungry Man” Manns - [42:11]
Joseph “Proposition Joe” Stewart - [42:51]
Donnie - [43:36]
Manny - [44:09]
Savino Bratton - [44:39]
Omar Little - [45:54]
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson - [46:28]
Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff - [47:49]
R.I.P Michael K. William's. We lost 1 hell of a versatile actor and an even better human being.
60 Episodes - 70 deaths on screen. What a series.
Doesn’t seem like I jus watched 70 deaths
@@williamcartergrimes you're right because you didn't but here is your chance th-cam.com/video/OyNHHe8Z3KU/w-d-xo.html
The fact that Omar spent 3 seasons tracking down the person responsible for Brandon's death is savage af the whole time it was Stringer who was the culprit
Actually it was Avon. He was the one who put the price on Brandon’s head and bird and Weebey were the actual ones who did the killing. All String did was ride in the car with them to the spot to scoop him lol. But he was definitely responsible for Wallace and D. And even with that, it’s part of the game. They were both snitches… even though D recanted, he still proven he couldn’t be trusted.
@@tdomonique504 Stringer was the one who actually killed Brandon remember when Omar and Stringer had that sit down inside of Butchie bar and Stringer was telling Omar how Brandon was being tortured with cigar burns and etc Stringer was low key talking about himself doing that to Brandon but put Brandon's death on Brother Mouzone
22:54 Omar's boyfriend with the stupidest friendly fire ever seen.
also, 21:30 hey it's Sharrod
💯
Yo i just watched the episode again yesterday and didnt even notice lol smh. Thats crazy
I absolutely LOVE how they subtly put that death in there. Goes to show the complete and utter danger of just free firing, without any real knowledge on what you’re doing.. As a result, their own friend/crew member took a bullet. Realism at its finest. Baltimore, at its finest.
Right!!!🤯🤯 I was like damn!!
You couldn’t trust anyone, the betrayal is overwhelming! Damn.
That's the whole point. 👉 👈
The most justified killing in the entire show is the last one
Between that and Chris killing bug's dad...that was justice for real💯
I actually clapped when Slim killed Cheese lmao. Dude is such a boss with how he just casually puts a bullet in his head
@@comeatmebro8120 ....and that was for Joe!!! 👊🏿
Nah Omar was the real hero.
@@comeatmebro8120 Slim was a true OG, his intro instantly made him a memorable character :D shit String murder aint no thang, but this is some assassination shit man
"This sentimental mothafucka just cost us moneyy" 😂 im weak
love that little old dude lol
I've got the box set and have watched it many times but I'd forgot how cold that line by Snoop was
"let's pray, here lie two New York niggas that came too far south for their own fucking good"
Chris and Snoop were a damn killsquad duo..they got more kills than anyone else.
Snoop just casually walking around with a 5 gallon bucket of quicklime. She doesn't even worry about cops.
Something that I feel goes severely under appreciated in this show is the sound editing and sound mixing.
Definitely, the guns sound great, the background noise is immersive asf with the dogs barking and cars screeching
The sound is awful. It's hard to hear what people are saying 1/3rd of the time
Baltimore is the main character when you really think about it and they let the city speak.
I’m Irish and I couldn’t understand half of what they were talking about half the time. I rewatched it with subtitles. Really really enjoyed it. Only series I’ve watched twice. Great post and totally subscribed. Thank you 🙏
Show was something else huh lol no joke no lie
I had to use subtitles for The Commitments. Whatever helps.
never had the makings of a varsity killa......oh wait wrong show
sopranos/wire Parallel universe lol
🤣
You a funny guy.....oh wait that's a movie 😬
Lol
Same difference
I love how the sirens go off on the cars when they shoot higher calibers on the block this show was way to real lol
Wallace's death is the most heartbreaking for me...
There was heatbreak in both Bodie and Poot's eyes before and after they did Wallace like that.
Thank you for putting this together, it was phenomenal!
Lol they included the duck that died of alcohol poisoning.
All lives matter Lol
Ha & o 🤥
The bird couldn't hold his liquor for shit!