Rewatching The Wire for the 1000th time and I’m finishing up season 3. Watching the season finale after hearing this episode of the podcast and how they were “canceled” gives me a totally different perspective. It seems like the writers were giving us events that could send the show off for good. Stringer getting killed, Avon going back to jail and Marlo taking over, McNulty going back to the western district, Omar throwing his gun into the water, and so on. Everything seems so final if you’re watching it in real time and not knowing that there would be a season 4, just for everything to transition so smoothly into the next season. Greatest show ever.
Yeah, between WE Own This City, and this podcast, I had to do my annual re-watch. Skipping over 2 and 5 though. Then I'll re-watch We Own This City, as my S 6.
That opening section on McNulty is amazing - between the struggle to cast him, his own reluctance to do the job, it's just weird with how synonymous he is with the show now compared to that! I wonder if that Wendell Pierce ride along stuff influenced the writing when Carchetti did his version in season 4? It was a very similar experience for that character. It may just be something that Simon and Burns had experienced, but it did feel really similar.
Seems a theme of my favourite shows. I love Babylon 5 which was around about 5-10 years before the Wire and so many of those people have died. It's something like 60% of the people in the main credits have died IIRC
Can we ever can an interview with the HBO exec "Chris" that David Simon had to convince to get all 5 seasons of The Wire? It really is incredible that we got all 5 seasons...IMAGINE people if we got stuck with only 2 or 3 seasons.
They were going to stop every season. I think the fans wrote HBO to bring The Wire back after Season 1. But they wrote every season as its own stand-alone volume, thinking it wouldn't be picked up again.
that was exactly how I experienced season 2, tbh... my first few rounds of all 5 felt like the 2nd one was just a few episodes I had to somehow tolerate, but when I found myself paying more attention to Frank's story & the other elements connecting his plotline to the rest of the series... it just really hit different. I didn't even realize how heartbreaking his death was too... LOL.., so yeah... season 2 is fantastic but it has been unfairly taken for granted ,by most fans imo 😔
i honestly loved it immediately. I guess early on it's a bit slow but the sobotkas are just fantastically written characters and so engaging to watch. it's probably my second favorite season under 4
When I introduce my friends to this series, some of them are like "Oh this is a black series, with black drug dealers ecc." And I'm like, that's not the case, you get that second 'underappriciated' season and than you know, it is for everyone, now you can see a lot of black faces and know this is your story too. The second season killed the prejudice that's why I think it is very very important part of The Wire. It really made this show for everybody, it made it something different, better, universal.
I really want to see Lance Reddick playing Bubbles. - You know No-Heart-Anthony? - No-Heart-Anthony? Who's that? * Bubbles gives that "I'm personally ashamed to be your snitch" look, fixes his suit and leaves *
Hmm...was there something Lance Reddick was in where he plays a homeless guy...maybe some scene in Fringe? I feel like I've seen it, but I'm not sure if it's just my imagination.
I think both actors were appropriately cast. I wouldn't trade them or change a thing. The weakest link was probably Detective Greggs or Sonya Sohn. She was just okay.
@@davehan241 Lester Freamon played a bum will some kind of swollen arms things, Jay Lansdsman was a construction worker or painter, I forget but yea it sounds like the above stated series your talking about the "prequel" to the wire
While I'm really enjoying these podcasts, can we please stop with the over-the-top production on some of it? We really don't need police sirens when Wendell Pierce is talking about riding along on police calls. Really took me out
Honestly just finished the whole series, season 5 was terrible, the ending was so bad....makes me hate the whole series Honestly, there really was no point to this show at all. So disappointed what a waste of time....
So lemme get this straight, UP UNTIL season 5, you were totally on board with the show...and then after finishing season 5 you decide that the entire show was worthless? OR you were neutral or hating the show the entire time and season 5 only re-affirmed your judgment? So then did watching Godfather Part III ruin the trilogy for you? And if you are saying that The Wire was a colossal waste of time, then please educate us on what you think is a GOOD TV? Of course you are entitled to your own opinion, but your opinion is so childish in its over-reaction that it's the definition of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
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Rewatching The Wire for the 1000th time and I’m finishing up season 3. Watching the season finale after hearing this episode of the podcast and how they were “canceled” gives me a totally different perspective. It seems like the writers were giving us events that could send the show off for good. Stringer getting killed, Avon going back to jail and Marlo taking over, McNulty going back to the western district, Omar throwing his gun into the water, and so on. Everything seems so final if you’re watching it in real time and not knowing that there would be a season 4, just for everything to transition so smoothly into the next season. Greatest show ever.
I guess you like shows where people sit in a car and talk for 7 hours
Just finished rewatching the Wire again I can’t believe there’s not more to watch 😞 what a masterpiece
You can watch We Own This City
Watch the Corner
it be like that.... its happen to me 4 times already
@@olubukonla7352 its average
The Colesberry production credit references in the ray cole wake scene are so cool!! That’s the sort of stuff I live for. Brilliant show
Just finished we own this city and currently rewatching The Wire appreciate what you're doing METHOD many Thanks
Yeah, between WE Own This City, and this podcast, I had to do my annual re-watch. Skipping over 2 and 5 though. Then I'll re-watch We Own This City, as my S 6.
@@olubukonla7352 Why are you skipping seasons 2 and 5?
@@DoubleRDubPlays 1 is the best
@@entertainme7523 I like all the seasons, and I'm sure people will have their favorites, but a fan can't skip seasons though.
All the pieces matter.
@@olubukonla7352 skipping the docks and the school season smh 🤦
season 2 is one of my favorite seasons. the themes are very applicable to all us port cities, like brooklyn (where i'm from).
S2 was the weakest season
Same here. It's when we meet the big boys, the "Greeks"
@@olubukonla7352 Season 5 by far ruined the whole series
@@olubukonla7352 to you.
Season 2 is my favorite as well.
That opening section on McNulty is amazing - between the struggle to cast him, his own reluctance to do the job, it's just weird with how synonymous he is with the show now compared to that!
I wonder if that Wendell Pierce ride along stuff influenced the writing when Carchetti did his version in season 4? It was a very similar experience for that character. It may just be something that Simon and Burns had experienced, but it did feel really similar.
In working in corporate america Bunks line: There you go giving a ef before it's your turn to give a ef! Has helped me alot
That line needs to be one of those motivational posters...
ef?
Wow so many hidden gems. I’m feinin for more like bubbs, YERP!
Some of the cast are no longer with us. 😞
R.I.P Omar...
@@indranildutta4252 RIP Prop Joe
Seems a theme of my favourite shows. I love Babylon 5 which was around about 5-10 years before the Wire and so many of those people have died. It's something like 60% of the people in the main credits have died IIRC
@@wyattetzel926 RIP Norman Wilson
RIP Ray Cole
Can we ever can an interview with the HBO exec "Chris" that David Simon had to convince to get all 5 seasons of The Wire? It really is incredible that we got all 5 seasons...IMAGINE people if we got stuck with only 2 or 3 seasons.
chris albrecht. he resigned/was fired as head of hbo after he was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend.
@@mwenvlay wow
@@mwenvlay Ahhh, ok scratch that idea then. Thanks for the update though.
John C Reilly as McNulty would have been...different.
yeah...or downright pitiful.
SHAKE AND BAKE, BUNK
It's hard to believe HBO was going to stop after Hamsterdam, when the best season had not been made yet. 😣😣😣
They were going to stop every season. I think the fans wrote HBO to bring The Wire back after Season 1. But they wrote every season as its own stand-alone volume, thinking it wouldn't be picked up again.
i think season 2 was jarring to every first time watcher of the wire. on repeat viewings it's one of the best.
that was exactly how I experienced season 2, tbh... my first few rounds of all 5 felt like the 2nd one was just a few episodes I had to somehow tolerate, but when I found myself paying more attention to Frank's story & the other elements connecting his plotline to the rest of the series... it just really hit different. I didn't even realize how heartbreaking his death was too...
LOL.., so yeah... season 2 is fantastic but it has been unfairly taken for granted ,by most fans imo 😔
i honestly loved it immediately. I guess early on it's a bit slow but the sobotkas are just fantastically written characters and so engaging to watch. it's probably my second favorite season under 4
Facts.. it may seem slow at first but it all comes full circle come season 5 and definitely better second time around
I wish this had video
I am truly enjoying this podcast. Thanks!
The Wire will be part of cultural studies in educational institutions.
It has already been for a while
When I introduce my friends to this series, some of them are like "Oh this is a black series, with black drug dealers ecc." And I'm like, that's not the case, you get that second 'underappriciated' season and than you know, it is for everyone, now you can see a lot of black faces and know this is your story too. The second season killed the prejudice that's why I think it is very very important part of The Wire. It really made this show for everybody, it made it something different, better, universal.
don't bother
I really want to see Lance Reddick playing Bubbles.
- You know No-Heart-Anthony?
- No-Heart-Anthony? Who's that?
* Bubbles gives that "I'm personally ashamed to be your snitch" look, fixes his suit and leaves *
Hmm...was there something Lance Reddick was in where he plays a homeless guy...maybe some scene in Fringe? I feel like I've seen it, but I'm not sure if it's just my imagination.
@@davehan241 you may be referring to The Corner/ The Wire: The chronicles, both are prequels to the Wire series
I think both actors were appropriately cast. I wouldn't trade them or change a thing. The weakest link was probably Detective Greggs or Sonya Sohn. She was just okay.
@@sonofvenus1621 Ahh, that must be it!
@@davehan241 Lester Freamon played a bum will some kind of swollen arms things, Jay Lansdsman was a construction worker or painter, I forget but yea it sounds like the above stated series your talking about the "prequel" to the wire
25:49 makes my heart sing
Love method man x Wire.....best combination
If I get bored 🥱 I'm watching The Wire 4sho💯💪🏿
The M-E-T-H-O-D
MAN!
The whole cigar on scene was foolish. After the O.J. case most departments forbid smoking on crime scenes because the DNA contaminates the scene
RIP Old King Cole.
I see where Davis Mclary got his sales pitch in treme from
im glad they didnt get john c reiley
step brothers no
Yea when I heard “John c Reiley for Mcnulty Said no…
Surely that's a joke
Is the Wire back??
You should compare this to CSI
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
rad
While I'm really enjoying these podcasts, can we please stop with the over-the-top production on some of it? We really don't need police sirens when Wendell Pierce is talking about riding along on police calls. Really took me out
I did not even notice a siren...
Honestly just finished the whole series, season 5 was terrible, the ending was so bad....makes me hate the whole series Honestly, there really was no point to this show at all. So disappointed what a waste of time....
Watch it again. That's how The Wire works.
smh.
The ending was good, but it would have been better, and more realistic, if McNulty committed suicide after being forced off the force.
So lemme get this straight, UP UNTIL season 5, you were totally on board with the show...and then after finishing season 5 you decide that the entire show was worthless? OR you were neutral or hating the show the entire time and season 5 only re-affirmed your judgment? So then did watching Godfather Part III ruin the trilogy for you? And if you are saying that The Wire was a colossal waste of time, then please educate us on what you think is a GOOD TV?
Of course you are entitled to your own opinion, but your opinion is so childish in its over-reaction that it's the definition of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
Season 5 was cool. I dug it.