The incorporation of the unions, the election and the Greeks are three things that made this show better than a good series, turned it into a portrayal of Baltimore as a whole, from the drugs to the socioeconomic issues to the political climate and how it all ties in. David Simon really made a masterpiece man
@@mikewest712 Nah they were a great juxtaposition. The union guys had jobs, families, and were in a position that a lot of the criminal characters would have loved to be in, but they still had to do illegal stuff to make ends meet because they had been neglected/abandoned by the system; and the packages they help smuggle drive the main conflicts of the show in the drug world.
I found The Wire quite hard to get into at first. I didn't understand the hype. Slowly though while watching the first season I became invested. I had difficultly remembering all the different characters and telling them apart at first. So when it was time for Season 2, I was hugely confused with all the new characters again and I was invested in what was going on at the street level. I was disappointed in the change of focus. In the end Season 2 became one of my favourites, it has some of the best moments of the whole show.
From my first watch about 12 years ago, I saw the 1st season and enjoyed it. Then I started watching the 2nd and didn't get what was going on. I almost quit during the bar scene in the first episode where the dock workers are all drinking and singing. But as someone once said about The Wire, "If you give the show your time, it will reward you.". And holy carp it did with this season. After that, I learned to go into each new season with a clean slate.
@@autismisuncontrollable4925 Notice how Frank is wearing an orange safety vest, symbolizing the fact that he indeed works for the Union, it's the little details that make the Wire great
Always felt Frank Sobotka had one of the most tragic arcs in the show, season 2 in of itself was a real gut wrench rollercoaster emotionwise. He may have been dirty in ways, messed up and had the wrong ideas and approaches in others, and wasted the use of being union leader towards aiding the dock workers. But he always had good and honest intentions for what he was trying, to make the docks a stable, busy growing and important place, to give his workers a chance to work a good honest job for stable money and living. Right intentions, wrong approaches. He was dirty mainly by association, but not malicious. And he had a sense of right and wrong inside.
It's insulting to call The Wire a "TV show", its truth and ugly reality ‼ As President Obama rightly said its not a TV show but the greatest piece of art 🎨 ever produced in last few decades..
@@bthaman1855 So what? Ziggy confessed to the murder. Case closed. This is a TV show, yo. This is what it is. There is no 'Frank should have blah blah blah'. The story was written to unfold as it did. Folks need to get a grip and remember that The Wire is fiction.
Crazy coz i worked the wharves here in Timaru, New Zealand and the one thing we lacked was, unity. Oh we had a union rep, not a shade on the real reps from 30 year back but our joint was full of back stabbers and liars.
God that would be the life. Your the son of the Union boss of the docks, and you can do whatever you want without fear because your dad will never actually fire you. Even when you kill a Greek fence.
i wish The sopranos and the wire had cameos of their character in each other shows . like frank sabodka accepting money from chris moltasanti to drive of some of that japanese technology, only to open up the can and have Phil leonardo come out talking about how he was in there for 20 years and didn’t say a peep.
It's only 3.5 inches of hard blue steel that Frank sees because the rest are covered by his body fat, otherwise he could gain another half or even a whole inch if he loses more mass.
The incorporation of the unions, the election and the Greeks are three things that made this show better than a good series, turned it into a portrayal of Baltimore as a whole, from the drugs to the socioeconomic issues to the political climate and how it all ties in. David Simon really made a masterpiece man
Don't forget Ed Burns.
The union could have been left out so easy and replaced with anything else in the Baltimore area.
@@mikewest712 Nah they were a great juxtaposition. The union guys had jobs, families, and were in a position that a lot of the criminal characters would have loved to be in, but they still had to do illegal stuff to make ends meet because they had been neglected/abandoned by the system; and the packages they help smuggle drive the main conflicts of the show in the drug world.
VERY under rated season. I only appreciated it after I saw it again.
Its amazing! Shows the bigger picture stuff totally underrated.
Totally agree. It’s always the things you sleep on that end up being your favorite 👍
Yeah man it's by far my favourite
It slowly became my favorite one
Couldn’t comprehend it the first time? Damn.
“He ain’t fired, that’s his father” Is the most Baltimore thing ever
Season 2 is my favorite. Truly. Chris Bauer was phenomenal as Frank Sobotka.
He pretty much kills it in every role.
And get I don't hear anyone talking about Frank Sobotka!
@@peternoble3691 THE TARGET IS FRANK SOBOTKA
Agree 100%.
Big man already knew about the possibility of losing the dock to condominium building.
Universal remote... Put it down on docking station.
Niemals I'm geiste- Listen to this prick giving orders, you've got some balls my friend-_-
@@BronzNazareth Word to the wise... Remember Pearl Harbor!
Big man! Come have drink!
@@PepeNuclear 🔥🔥🔥😭♨️♨️♨️🔥🔥
I dunno how I loved season 2 on my first viewing. Its some of the best TV I've ever seen
I found The Wire quite hard to get into at first. I didn't understand the hype. Slowly though while watching the first season I became invested. I had difficultly remembering all the different characters and telling them apart at first. So when it was time for Season 2, I was hugely confused with all the new characters again and I was invested in what was going on at the street level. I was disappointed in the change of focus. In the end Season 2 became one of my favourites, it has some of the best moments of the whole show.
@@BigHorseFilm most definitely, i didn't even know the wire existed, it wasn't suggested to me or anything I just came across it some how
From my first watch about 12 years ago, I saw the 1st season and enjoyed it. Then I started watching the 2nd and didn't get what was going on. I almost quit during the bar scene in the first episode where the dock workers are all drinking and singing. But as someone once said about The Wire, "If you give the show your time, it will reward you.". And holy carp it did with this season. After that, I learned to go into each new season with a clean slate.
The Season 2 Finale was one of the best TV Episodes of all time
Notice how he looks nervous when he leaves the office and notices the seagull eyeing up his 3 1/2
It’s the little details that make the Wire great.
wow that seagull must have bein Valchek in disguise
also notice how the docks are docks
so deep
the wire man every goddamn day i see new stuff
Notice how there's water in the docks, it's those little details that make the wire great
@@autismisuncontrollable4925 And there might even be fish in the water! We'll never know!
@@autismisuncontrollable4925 Notice how Frank is wearing an orange safety vest, symbolizing the fact that he indeed works for the Union, it's the little details that make the Wire great
Interesting shadow of how the season goes. Nicky and frank talking like father and son and frank treating ziggy like the moron that he is
Nat-"Yall needa crawl back down them holes remind yourself who you iz and where you came from"
Used to hear that kinda shit all the time with a union guy for a dad lol
I can see Frank dying going too heaven and going too a beautiful dock that always gets ships lol and there is work everyday
Always felt Frank Sobotka had one of the most tragic arcs in the show, season 2 in of itself was a real gut wrench rollercoaster emotionwise.
He may have been dirty in ways, messed up and had the wrong ideas and approaches in others, and wasted the use of being union leader towards aiding the dock workers. But he always had good and honest intentions for what he was trying, to make the docks a stable, busy growing and important place, to give his workers a chance to work a good honest job for stable money and living. Right intentions, wrong approaches. He was dirty mainly by association, but not malicious. And he had a sense of right and wrong inside.
probably the best way to inform the viewer they’re father/son
Ziggy troll smile when frank tells him he's fired 😂😂😂😂😂
damn you fine
Damn you lonely
@@LtSprinkulz did you cry when Ziggy abused that Duck ?
@@kajcsapapa thanks 👍
"Later for you, goofus."
zig stole the container and pretended that it is disappeared lol
That’s what I was wondering, it was just a show for them to steal containers.
First time I saw that I was so drunk, I was thinking Ziggy was Frank's father because I was only following the dialogue.
Lol I remember I was drunk as fuck too, I couldn't understand shit I had to watch everything again the other day haha
He told him how it was gonna go, but Frank didn't didn't listen.
If an old black man cusses you out and tells you how to play it you listen
@@migosmetro265 bad advice
Frank wanted it to be one way...
@@missbelled6700but it was the other way.
A day in the life of Frank Sobotka
The title had a stroke.
It's insulting to call The Wire
a "TV show", its truth and ugly reality ‼ As President Obama rightly said its not a TV show but the greatest piece of art 🎨 ever produced in last few decades..
It's also a TV show
@@RealityCheck6T9 shut up goofus
@Tim Obama said not me. Please raise this with him ‼ 🤣🤣
It is a TV show and a form of entertainment but it is also one of the greatest shows of all time.
@@RealityCheck6T9 your name says it all. It's a tv show but a damn good one
Frank and his son’s dynamic in season 2 is an interesting mirror to Bey and Namonds relationship in season 4.
"Later for you, goofus."
Fucking guy, just lost his job and he couldnt care less
What's the point of putting on an act if no one is going to play along?
This show was so extraordinary but season 2 may be the best; certainly the most underrated
Not the best but definitely the most insightful
Not the best but absolutely important.
Not the best but definitely absolutely, Season 3 is the most insightful and the greatest
The layers of this show are ridiculous. I hate that happened to Frank
You shouldn't it's his fault the way he went.
If Frank wouldn't have snitched then the Greeks woulda let Ziggy go free and not kill him
@@bthaman1855 Ziggy confessed to the police that he killed GG. He wasn't going anywhere.
@@communityparty5560 Don’t you remember they had a high ranking official working for the Feds
@@bthaman1855 So what? Ziggy confessed to the murder. Case closed. This is a TV show, yo. This is what it is. There is no 'Frank should have blah blah blah'. The story was written to unfold as it did. Folks need to get a grip and remember that The Wire is fiction.
“Three and a half inches of hard blue steel.”
"Later for you, Goofus."
Ziggy does look like tweety bird when the guys says it
Ziggy>Avon Barksdale.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
FUCK NO , Avon is Avon He is OG , Atleast he isn't the one getting beating in jail.
@@hitmanpraveen9950 wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
sh
Lmao!!
Where in the fuck do you come up with that comparison
later for you Goofus
Hahaha
Damn frank.. Your not prepared!!!!!!
The exception that proves the rule!
You oughta show some respect... i. Not a kid anymore
Your shinebox is here somewhere, lost in the stacks
@@jeremydewitte6912 the timeless classic
I wonder if Nicki sabotka ever got that 20 bucks from Ott
He came back to Baltimore in season five just to take that $20 and piss at carcetti
I'd take any mf money if they're just giving it away
Cost him 20$ to get rid of Ott
Crazy coz i worked the wharves here in Timaru, New Zealand and the one thing we lacked was, unity. Oh we had a union rep, not a shade on the real reps from 30 year back but our joint was full of back stabbers and liars.
God that would be the life. Your the son of the Union boss of the docks, and you can do whatever you want without fear because your dad will never actually fire you. Even when you kill a Greek fence.
i wish The sopranos and the wire had cameos of their character in each other shows . like frank sabodka accepting money from chris moltasanti to drive of some of that japanese technology, only to open up the can and have Phil leonardo come out talking about how he was in there for 20 years and didn’t say a peep.
"Who you is" lol.
that smirk at 4:23 reminds me gaius baltar from bsg.
It's only 3.5 inches of hard blue steel that Frank sees because the rest are covered by his body fat, otherwise he could gain another half or even a whole inch if he loses more mass.
why did the guy snitch at the end? he doesnt have their back?
You got the union office, I got the electric cart.
@@MrWhite-pn7ui ?
Lol that fat guy with the news paper was Tony sopranos head coach in the bad dream lol
They Know What’s Going On foreal .. 💯‼️ they Sneaky as Fuck ...
Season 2 was my favorite season. Probably cause I’m white
Nat was right.
Ziggy is by far the worst most annoying character in this otherwise near-perfect series.
He was meant to be an annoying fuck up
i kinda liked him to be honest. least he was funny
No, was great
Guess he wasn't black enough.
this is why we cant have good shows ya’ll only see characters at face value
Nat looks like George Floydd.
That's "Saint George".
The comment creator is blind and the first responder is a racist.
His eyes aren't drooping from fentanyl
@@rickyray2794 or being murdered by a bully with a badge.
@@RD-zx6py Or robbing a pregnant woman?
Gotta learn dude, not everything is black an white.
So sad, David Simon is a lefty, he hated what has happened to the unions.
Yeah, he even met with liberal jesus Barack Obama.
What does politics have to do with this? Unions voted for Ike, Nixon AND Reagan so what is yours’ point?!
@@roderickstockdale1678 Then Reagan murdered the air traffic controllers union in broad daylight to show every other bigwig how to do it
@@MrBritishNinja he was a typical democrat turned republican(trump, who he actually paved the ground way for).
@@roderickstockdale1678 and Obama was a leftie turned Democrat. Reagan killed the unions, but both parties abandoned them
Good lord can we stop with the term underrated