@@NormAppleton That sounds more like Rawls. I think Marimow genuinely thinks he's a good leader who makes good decisions. The unfortunate side of the Dunning-Kruger effect in full effect. Marimow doesn't even realize Rawls is using him to destroy troublesome units.
I just realized Marimmow is the anti McNulty all the way down to his hair. He’s like bizzaro Superman. He’s what jimmy would have become if he played the corporate game and climbed the ladder.
not really. For one, you see his ego filling past his ears when Rawls gave him command of the unit. McNulty was so full of himself he didnt care what the bosses thought as he view himself as better than them. 2nd. He went in with preconceived notions (by Rawls) of what Major crimes and investigations are all about. McNulty on the other hand is all about making cases and beating the bad guy by whatever means necessary, including going against the grain. He only cared about results. If McNulty was loyal he would've been more like Bunk or Kima.
The best is when Rawles asks him "how's that beach house coming?" and instantly interrupts his response with "Greaaat. Sounds great". It just communicates that A. we are done conversing about the transfer and B. If he has any problem with item A. then Rawles will be happy to ruin him financially. Dammit the dialogue on The Wire is just the best!
8:30 "Not for long Herc" lol, he gets fired from BPD and falls ass backwards right into a higher paying private sector gig with Levy. Herc was definitely one of the luckiest characters on that show.
@@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher88tbf, all he did was correctly surmise to Levy that whatever the PD was doing, it was almost certainly not legal. The Marlo case blowing up is 100% on the PD (especially McNulty & Lester).
@@brandonb3174yeah so was Lester, and the rest of the unit. That's why they were still on him. It's odd that marimow had the right suspicion but used that as an excuse to drop the case.
Marimow knows what he's doing, he's just a company man. Probabky was good police, but is all about the company. Lester and McNulty are about the case, he's the opposite.
@@billybatts8283 Marimow can show the odd flash of competency, it's just that he's not a guy whose job is to see to it that actual police work is performed.
At the end, Herc suggests to Lester that since he is a sergeant, the direction of the investigation should go through him. Thus cementing that Herc learned literally nothing.
@@tapset Nothing cracks me up quite like a pedant who doesn't know how to use a dictionary. Here's some help; '2: in effect : VIRTUALLY -used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible' You can thank Merriam Webster if you wish.
The interesting thing about Marimow is his lack of self awareness. Rawls knows when he's pushing them to be less productive. Marimow doesn't have any idea he's used to ruin perfectly functional units.
@@steverogers7601 well this is him playing the political game with at this point thinking Carcetti had no shot to win. He's maneuvering knowing Burrell is on the shit list. It wasn't about the Drug dealers it was about Freamon sticking it to the politicians with all he found. But that's the point of the show. Nothing can get cleaned up in a city like Baltimore because of the Politics and the corruption
It's hilarious because when they first met Herc was the only one who got on his good side about making quick rips. The relationship was built on the BS and it didn't work out for Herc either.
The funny thing about the description of Marrimow as a sucky boss is that he is actually based off a boss that David Simon had whose name was William Marimow, and Simon had apparently had a bitter feud with the real life Marimow while working at the Baltimore Sun.
Sad thing is they don't make shows anywhere near this good anymore. Especially a crime series. Breaking bad and better call saul were the last of a dying breed.
I'm actually seeing how the supervisor was now. That part where he's insisting on the CI's name. I'll bet the supervisor wanted to know the identities of anonymous sources too.
@PixxelBros David Simon is the creator of The Wire. He use to work for the newspaper paper The Sun, also known as The Baltimore Sun, for around two decades before creating The Wire. Simon's old supervisor was named Marimow and was such an ass and disliked that Simon named this asshole Lt. after him
I got to work with Boris (the actor who plays the LT) in 2015. He was a GREAT guy, very talented, and made me wonder how he can play such as$holes in films.
If fucking _HERC_ of people is showing more smarts than the guy who outranks him, it makes you wonder just how Marimow even got to the lieutenant's posting.
@@ubahfly5409 Fuzzy's still in the game, and still a tough sonofagun! The other day I saw him take a mean backhand and bounce back like it was nothing!
His lines were perfectly backwards: lead with the personal interest, then compliment on the success of the mission, then close with the turning over of command. Instead...
in the army ive seen company/battery commanders as well as 1SGs and PLT SGTs ruin good units just like that…….morale usually dies by nightfall once they assume command
We had the same in the marine corps. What sucks is that in the corps, you’re stuck with these d-bags and there ain’t much you can do about it. Now that I’m a civilian working in corporate America, if I run into a manager like Lt marrimow, I simply jump ship to either another team, another department, or another company. It works out even better because most of the time whenever you jump ship, you have the opportunity to make even more money than before.
Two different kinds of LT in the first scene. The kind you send into good units, and who let's them do their job. And the kind you send to good units, to ruin them. And both are unaware that they are used to either give a unit free hands, or to fuck them up.
You did see the end of the 4th season right? Though in all honesty I hated the character shift he had from the end of the first season. Talking about “big harry ball cases” and being against rip and run.
@Colby Martinez yea but he realizes he kinda deserved it when he is talking to Carver about Colicchio. He payed a price, I think it was enough. Sometimes I think we get this weird zero sum attitude that a person has to experience complete loss and destitution to be redeemed or contrite
This shows exactly why I never wanted to be a cop. All it takes is for me te be having a bad day and a Rawls/Burrel/this fool for me to lose my job and curse out all the superiors.
Marimow wasn't fired by the way. It takes a _lot_ to get fired as a cop. They probably just assigned him to manage a crappy police station. Herc only got fired because he stole a camera and lied about it on paper, and annoyed the mayor enough to make him force management to follow through.
@@tharqal2764 yep: incompetence gets you promoted/shifted, but an egregious error that affects the ego of a superior can and will get you booted, lest there be some trail of managerial oversight leading up to that point.
At the start, the really jacked up thing is that after buddy accepted his shit re-assignment, Rawls stopped him at the door just to shit on him a little more for no reason. And it's not even a guy he didn't like. VERY telling. He didn't just kill the unit because he thought he needed to, he enjoyed knowing he was stopping them from solving crimes. Rawls is one of the worst people in the series.
Rawls was police but he was a player in the political game. He did what was untimely best for himself, and also added a little cherry on top by messing with the major crimes unit who e already had a hard-on for. The folks who play the politics game in law enforcement, in the education system, in technology, in the corporate world, in the service industry, in the entertainment industry, are some of the most conniving, shameless, and distrustful people you could ever meet.
I think Rawls was telling the lieutenant that this de facto demotion was nothing personal and wouldn't affect his retirement plans if he was quiet and went away.
@@chet6969 That’s possible. But why ask him just to dismiss him? And in front of the other guy? You may be right, but I think there was an added “asshole vibe” that wasn’t necessary. But the fact that we’re talking about it, is something that tells you…..this was a GREAT show.
Gov and military work. There's some model used in military orgs that declares soldiers in competent and motivated, incompetent and motivated, competent and unmotivated, incompetent and unmotivated Each one of them has certain uses
Used to have a joke at an office I worked at among the other managers who were watching the show as well as it came out. We’d fist bump and say “The Western District way” about the most benign and inconsequential task.
I think Rawls asking about the beach house was code to let him know it wasn’t about punishing him. He didn’t care enough to actually listen lmao but honestly a nice gesture overall
@@tonykennedy8592 also entirely possible. But the funny part is that if that’s true then he was acknowledging a commander who does nothing is more effective than a bad one lmao
@@ftgntc Herc wasn't malicious, only incompetent at doing anything like detective work. He believed in "the Western District Way", but to him that just meant being a tough guy and giving a troublemaker a beating before tossing him in jail. When it wasn't time to bust heads, Herc became friendly and could connect well with people in the community, like when he let those corner kids play with the identikit in s3. Truly bad cops like Colicchio and Walker hater the communities they policed and treated everyone over whom they had power brutally. Herc might have worked well in social work or community outreach, somewhere where violence wasn't part of the equation.
@6:50 when Her's Cell phone rings, his ringtone is 3 6 Mafia's "Stay Fly"???? How ironic is that Herc is down with the Brothers????? The very same ones he fucks up on the streets 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ain't that a kick literally 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
4:25 no wonder marimow wasnt able to rip and run with so much incompetence around him. He asks for the location of Marlo's Evil lair, and they tell him about some open yard?! everyone knows bad guys set up their evil lairs in underground bunkers, abandoned chemical plants, mysterious ruins, etc. Marlow was ready to Rappel down onto Marlo's Lair, and kick some ass! but with this broken unit, he never had a chance.
Marimow never had the makings of a varsity superhero. Small villain knowledge, that was his problem. For fucks sake, Dr. Venture did better than him at his quest against evil.
The best cop in the Bawlmer Police Department. Major Crimes would’ve never gotten anywhere without Lt. Marimow’s wisdom and guidance. I feel safer knowing that he will bring back stats and put that fucking dope on the table by any means necessary. 😂😂😂
That's what we DO here now ... We get on The Street, and *WE RIP AND WE RUN* ... We also RIP AND WE RHYME, WE RHYME AND WE RIP, THIS IS THE WAY THAT MARIMOW SPITS!!!! You're *too close* man!!!"
How could Herc spend years with elite, capable police like McNulty,Gregg's, Freamon, even Carver and still happily go along with Marrimow and his "rip and run" bs.
@@coreyrowe4119 The closest they might've ever been would be if McNulty was on the raids that Marimow tried ordering on Marlo's corners (though I imagine McNulty came up with an excuse to sit them out just like he did with the Pit raid in season 1).
Generally the Wire has complicated bad guys. There was nothing complex or ambiguous about Marrimow. However, he was perfectly cast as a hatchet, who destroys good police units. Nothing likeable about him, other then he was so bad, he was sort of good...lol
Like, terrible as a person he may be, Marimow still shows a few odd moments of competency. Like being suspicious of Herc's meteoric rise to Sergeant (Herc took the position of "Mayor's chauffeur" because it's a guaranteed way to make rank within a year; he was promoted within three months because of the indiscretion Royce needed to buy his silence on). Or correctly figuring out that Herc is an incompetent with the whole "Fuzzy Dunlop" nonsense.
@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102Good insights! He was horrible, except with Herc. He saw right through him! lol He was a horrible hatchet man, but when it came to Herc, he was basically spot on! Hilarious how he saw through Fuzzy Dunlap! It took me several viewings of the Wire to get that joke! 😂
@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 He also was right that Marlo can't the run the west side without bodies. They eventually found where he was storing them in the vacants
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"You jumped out on bad information Sargeant" - The guy that just ordered half the district to jump out on bad information.
Marrimow is what Herc what have become if he’d stayed with the department.
@@811chelseafc as in being dumb? He already is that, other than that no.
@@jtboss8139 no a dumb guy with authority who is used by the bosses as a brute.
Yeah but he went by the book herc didn’t
Sergeant
Marimow does not cast off talent lightly. He heaves it away with great force.
Well said!
He's that guy weilding power for powers sake
He's so good that I'm not sure the actor even knows what he's playing
@@NormAppleton That sounds more like Rawls. I think Marimow genuinely thinks he's a good leader who makes good decisions. The unfortunate side of the Dunning-Kruger effect in full effect. Marimow doesn't even realize Rawls is using him to destroy troublesome units.
😂😂😂
I just realized Marimmow is the anti McNulty all the way down to his hair. He’s like bizzaro Superman. He’s what jimmy would have become if he played the corporate game and climbed the ladder.
Great analysis!
A leader of men
Instead of "The fuck did I do?" it's "I've got your report and will bury you with it" 😄
not really. For one, you see his ego filling past his ears when Rawls gave him command of the unit. McNulty was so full of himself he didnt care what the bosses thought as he view himself as better than them. 2nd. He went in with preconceived notions (by Rawls) of what Major crimes and investigations are all about. McNulty on the other hand is all about making cases and beating the bad guy by whatever means necessary, including going against the grain. He only cared about results. If McNulty was loyal he would've been more like Bunk or Kima.
@@heywait925 Dave?
The best is when Rawles asks him "how's that beach house coming?" and instantly interrupts his response with "Greaaat. Sounds great". It just communicates that A. we are done conversing about the transfer and B. If he has any problem with item A. then Rawles will be happy to ruin him financially. Dammit the dialogue on The Wire is just the best!
I saw it as more of time to retire!!
Rawls has more than one symptom of a sociopath.
8:30 "Not for long Herc" lol, he gets fired from BPD and falls ass backwards right into a higher paying private sector gig with Levy. Herc was definitely one of the luckiest characters on that show.
With Juice, you lose, just remember that
He also ended up inadvertently tipping Levy about the bad wiretap in the Stanfield case.
@@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher88tbf, all he did was correctly surmise to Levy that whatever the PD was doing, it was almost certainly not legal. The Marlo case blowing up is 100% on the PD (especially McNulty & Lester).
Later goes back in time to work for Capone.
The convo with Herc and Prop Joe was great.
I met Boris McIver on a plane once and he said cops come up to him all the time about this character.
2:51 Marimow's a prick, but at least he's spot on to be suspicious of Herc's promotion. Also, he does see through Herc's "Fuzzy Dunlop" BS at 5:34.
He was right about it being odd Marlo having no bodies
@@brandonb3174yeah so was Lester, and the rest of the unit. That's why they were still on him. It's odd that marimow had the right suspicion but used that as an excuse to drop the case.
Marimow knows what he's doing, he's just a company man. Probabky was good police, but is all about the company. Lester and McNulty are about the case, he's the opposite.
He’s just leery of meets
@@billybatts8283 Marimow can show the odd flash of competency, it's just that he's not a guy whose job is to see to it that actual police work is performed.
At the end, Herc suggests to Lester that since he is a sergeant, the direction of the investigation should go through him. Thus cementing that Herc learned literally nothing.
Herc was a total moron lol but he played his role of "goon" cop perfectly 👌
Instead of figuratively nothing?
@@tapset Nothing cracks me up quite like a pedant who doesn't know how to use a dictionary.
Here's some help; '2: in effect : VIRTUALLY -used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible'
You can thank Merriam Webster if you wish.
@@JudgeDreddMegaCityOne I wouldn't waste a wish on that
@@tapset Huh?
The interesting thing about Marimow is his lack of self awareness. Rawls knows when he's pushing them to be less productive. Marimow doesn't have any idea he's used to ruin perfectly functional units.
And is very realistic too, I have a boss who is the living picture of Marimow both in manerisms, incompetence and lack of self awareness.
Maybe he does and just doesn't care?
And it’s so messed up how Rawls knows and understands this.
He’s legit attempting to prevent good police work from catching a known drug dealer.
@@steverogers7601 well this is him playing the political game with at this point thinking Carcetti had no shot to win. He's maneuvering knowing Burrell is on the shit list. It wasn't about the Drug dealers it was about Freamon sticking it to the politicians with all he found. But that's the point of the show. Nothing can get cleaned up in a city like Baltimore because of the Politics and the corruption
The first 20 seconds of this scene shows he understands his job exactly
Rawls, smiling: "Lieutenant Marimow; my Trojan horse."
The Herc/Marimow talk when he says “and I’ll be there to pass out sandwiches at your execution” is one of my favorite acting performances of the show.
It's hilarious because when they first met Herc was the only one who got on his good side about making quick rips. The relationship was built on the BS and it didn't work out for Herc either.
The funny thing about the description of Marrimow as a sucky boss is that he is actually based off a boss that David Simon had whose name was William Marimow, and Simon had apparently had a bitter feud with the real life Marimow while working at the Baltimore Sun.
And 10 years later the actor went on to play a newspaper editor in House of Cards
@@Hunteriffic86 LMAO YOU'RE RIGHT! It came full circle!!!!
The real-life Marimow was later the inspiration for Thomas Klebanow during the _Sun_ arc of season 5.
As much as i detested Marimow, his treatment of herc, was the closest he got to being punished
What? Herc actually got fired in the show from the police department.
@@washedupwarvet2027 Yeah and then ended right up working for You-Know-Who UGH
The wide shot of the board with sporadic pictures with no cohesiveness or links is perfection. Perfect writing. Prefect direction. Perfect show 👌
The environmental storytelling in this show is absolutely top-tier 💯
Sad thing is they don't make shows anywhere near this good anymore. Especially a crime series. Breaking bad and better call saul were the last of a dying breed.
A total hatchet man, no respect for this guy whatsoever as Lester said “a cancer”
Lester actually called him a virus
@@kalo_reefer same thing really
@@lazlo686 details mr Lazlo, at the Baltimore Sun God still resides in the details..
@@kalo_reefer lol
0:37 "did i do something wrong?" Yes, you did good police work. Can't have that
Knowing this character is named after an supervisor Simon had at the Sun and didn’t like makes it even better.
I'm actually seeing how the supervisor was now. That part where he's insisting on the CI's name. I'll bet the supervisor wanted to know the identities of anonymous sources too.
am i on drugs,.,.,.,.,. or did that not make sense?
@PixxelBros David Simon is the creator of The Wire. He use to work for the newspaper paper The Sun, also known as The Baltimore Sun, for around two decades before creating The Wire. Simon's old supervisor was named Marimow and was such an ass and disliked that Simon named this asshole Lt. after him
@@pharaohhussan1890 ya i know. i was just high reading it and misread what they were saying. it was worded a little funny.
@@PixxelBros lol no worries, I do that s*** all the time whenever I smoke
This guy played the role so great.
He does good in season 5 boardwalk empire too
He was in the Miami Vice movie too.
"Anything could be in those crates from Odessa"
Even the minor characters in The Wire were perfectly cast, dimensions of incredible talent
He's got the mouth-breathing Mick look nailed down
I got to work with Boris (the actor who plays the LT) in 2015. He was a GREAT guy, very talented, and made me wonder how he can play such as$holes in films.
He was really good in POI as well
Means he's a great actor. I enjoy his work.
Did he give you the OOSH GOSH MUASH?
3:50-3:57 Marimow was so incompetent that he even had Herc surprised
If fucking _HERC_ of people is showing more smarts than the guy who outranks him, it makes you wonder just how Marimow even got to the lieutenant's posting.
Fuzzy Dunlop actually exists IRL. He used to come by the court trying to get served but Venus & Serena would just smack him around.
tf you talking about??
@@frenchify7506 You being serious? How you ain't never heard of Fuzzy D? Little guy w/ the short green hair? Wilson's cousin? C'mon now, quit playin.
@@ubahfly5409 Fuzzy's still in the game, and still a tough sonofagun! The other day I saw him take a mean backhand and bounce back like it was nothing!
@@ubahfly5409 who the fuck is that?
😂😂😂 funny ah. That boy been getting smacked around for decades now.
Imagine if McNulty had worked under Marimow. He would have had a greater appreciation for Daniels that’s for sure.
One of those two would have been dead in a month at the other's hand.
McNulty was smart enough to screw Rawls over, he would have completely annihilated Marimow
Herc is like a giant vicious pit bull . could bite anyone’s head off but will get lost in the street instantly without a handler.
A lot of brawn, without much brains.
“How’s that beach house comin?”
“Beach, um -“
“Greeeeeat! Sounds great!”
😭🙆🏾♂️😂
I detest Rawls. What a brilliantly cast character, though.
His lines were perfectly backwards: lead with the personal interest, then compliment on the success of the mission, then close with the turning over of command. Instead...
Yes, he was my favorite asshole lol. He cracked me up.
The way he says... GREATTT. JUST GREAT! And his face and smile. Lol 😆
in the army ive seen company/battery commanders as well as 1SGs and PLT SGTs ruin good units just like that…….morale usually dies by nightfall once they assume command
Damn man I can only imagine. What would they do if you don’t mine me asking?
😂😂 swear to god. Morale used to drop immediately. I was stationed at Hood and Stewart.
We had the same in the marine corps.
What sucks is that in the corps, you’re stuck with these d-bags and there ain’t much you can do about it.
Now that I’m a civilian working in corporate America, if I run into a manager like Lt marrimow, I simply jump ship to either another team, another department, or another company.
It works out even better because most of the time whenever you jump ship, you have the opportunity to make even more money than before.
I've had a BUNCH of these types in the Navy. Disgusting.
When I was at ft Campbell and the Schofield that's all I saw lousy e 8s and lousy e 7s
Out on the the street they say Fuzzy Dunlop is yellow, but dude always bounces back no matter how hard he's hit.
They tried to serve him up, but there was no love for Fuzzy.
“This fuzzy fella, doesn’t exist”. 🤣
Two different kinds of LT in the first scene. The kind you send into good units, and who let's them do their job. And the kind you send to good units, to ruin them. And both are unaware that they are used to either give a unit free hands, or to fuck them up.
I am so mad Herc never had to pay for his sheer stupidity and ignorance
You did see the end of the 4th season right? Though in all honesty I hated the character shift he had from the end of the first season. Talking about “big harry ball cases” and being against rip and run.
@Colby Martinez yea but he realizes he kinda deserved it when he is talking to Carver about Colicchio. He payed a price, I think it was enough. Sometimes I think we get this weird zero sum attitude that a person has to experience complete loss and destitution to be redeemed or contrite
@@brianbaker2884 yea you are correct his character did come of age but not in the way i had desired
@Colby Martinez I doubt most people would consider being a gofer for a sleazy ambulance chaser "successful"
@Colby Martinez I just said exactly what happened, dipshit
Seems like just about every large organization, both public and private, has a Lt. Marimow or two.
Facts
Or 20
Yep. The game of work has 20 Marimows for every 1 McNulty@@NormAppleton
This LT.Marimow? Has no respect for our thing!
That animal Marimow. I can’t even say his name
@@ianspeight8313 don't do it to yourself Philly. It's hard to forget, I never forget. What the fuck was it?
Fuckin nauseating
"he should have stood up like a man
i did thirteen years -- and four months"
My estimation of Lt. Marimow as a man just plummeted.
OHHHHHHH Just got it. Fuzzy Dunlop is a tennis ball. Wow. Just realized that 😂
This shows exactly why I never wanted to be a cop. All it takes is for me te be having a bad day and a Rawls/Burrel/this fool for me to lose my job and curse out all the superiors.
Yep, & corrections & the military are just as bad, with all higher up positions filled with moronic sycophants
Marimow wasn't fired by the way. It takes a _lot_ to get fired as a cop. They probably just assigned him to manage a crappy police station. Herc only got fired because he stole a camera and lied about it on paper, and annoyed the mayor enough to make him force management to follow through.
@@tharqal2764 yep: incompetence gets you promoted/shifted, but an egregious error that affects the ego of a superior can and will get you booted, lest there be some trail of managerial oversight leading up to that point.
The one bad apple rule
@@tharqal2764he never said marrimow got fired.
At the start, the really jacked up thing is that after buddy accepted his shit re-assignment, Rawls stopped him at the door just to shit on him a little more for no reason. And it's not even a guy he didn't like. VERY telling. He didn't just kill the unit because he thought he needed to, he enjoyed knowing he was stopping them from solving crimes. Rawls is one of the worst people in the series.
Rawls was police but he was a player in the political game.
He did what was untimely best for himself, and also added a little cherry on top by messing with the major crimes unit who e already had a hard-on for.
The folks who play the politics game in law enforcement, in the education system, in technology, in the corporate world, in the service industry, in the entertainment industry, are some of the most conniving, shameless, and distrustful people you could ever meet.
I think Rawls was telling the lieutenant that this de facto demotion was nothing personal and wouldn't affect his retirement plans if he was quiet and went away.
@@chet6969 That’s possible. But why ask him just to dismiss him? And in front of the other guy? You may be right, but I think there was an added “asshole vibe” that wasn’t necessary. But the fact that we’re talking about it, is something that tells you…..this was a GREAT show.
@@jordanjames2611 I agree with everything you just wrote. Rawls is an asshole, and this is a great show!
@@chet6969 when they showed him in the gay bar as a closeted homosexual….I legit gasped! It takes a good show to get REAL emotion lol.
Raids every house in west Baltimore well after they get info on the wire and comes up empty -> “you jumped out on bad info!”
fuzzy dunlop was the one guy who could give the whole game rooster up . To bad Herc lost his contact .
crazy how being bad at your job has its uses in government work
Government thrives on incompetence, and further justifying it.
The worst rise to the top
-FA Hayek
Gov and military work. There's some model used in military orgs that declares soldiers in competent and motivated, incompetent and motivated, competent and unmotivated, incompetent and unmotivated
Each one of them has certain uses
One of the funniest characters ever, aggressively incompetent and unpleasant. But sniffed out Herc like a bloodhound.
Lt. Marimow proves how much of a hack Rawls was he knows this Lt. is the worst but follows orders. Smh.
Used to have a joke at an office I worked at among the other managers who were watching the show as well as it came out. We’d fist bump and say “The Western District way” about the most benign and inconsequential task.
This guy was a crazy almost indestructible hit man on Person of Interest.
I think Rawls asking about the beach house was code to let him know it wasn’t about punishing him. He didn’t care enough to actually listen lmao but honestly a nice gesture overall
Rawls was a politician. Every now and then he gave a shit. Most of the time, he didn't.
@@NormAppleton only when it was his turn, and usually not even then
I think it was Rawls saying he knew the lieutenant was doing f*ck all lieutenant-ing.
@@tonykennedy8592 also entirely possible. But the funny part is that if that’s true then he was acknowledging a commander who does nothing is more effective than a bad one lmao
@@tonykennedy8592 I'd take it a step further, he's threatening his nest egg if he thinks of complaining.
“Attendance at all office meetings is now mandatory” where ever you go in the world these ass kissing, backstabbing stats men are always the same.
Shit floats
@@NormAppleton If you eat alot of fat yes, otherwise it sinks.
Marimow is the name of a Baltimore Sun editor than David Simon despises lol
LOL, I didn't know that.
This actor knew exactly how to play this role. I like it.
Prop Joe hiding in plain sight at 3:57
Marimow is a smart dude who can’t take stress. Dangerous.
I like how in this show the police/politicians/criminals who might be bad at their job still have good traits. Its very realistic
@@ftgntc he was good at busting heads i guess
@@ftgntc the scene with Bodie's grandma in S1
@theodoremcdonald9471 that was one and only decent thing herc did in the entire show
@@ftgntc I phrased that weird by good traits I meant he was a morally good guy, as opposed to like officer walker, marlo, cheese esc
@@ftgntc Herc wasn't malicious, only incompetent at doing anything like detective work. He believed in "the Western District Way", but to him that just meant being a tough guy and giving a troublemaker a beating before tossing him in jail. When it wasn't time to bust heads, Herc became friendly and could connect well with people in the community, like when he let those corner kids play with the identikit in s3. Truly bad cops like Colicchio and Walker hater the communities they policed and treated everyone over whom they had power brutally. Herc might have worked well in social work or community outreach, somewhere where violence wasn't part of the equation.
Baddest ringtone of all time
Worst
a surprise...this channel....but a welcome one!
He's kind of leary of meets. He's actually a tennis ball.
@6:50 when Her's Cell phone rings, his ringtone is 3 6 Mafia's "Stay Fly"???? How ironic is that Herc is down with the Brothers????? The very same ones he fucks up on the streets 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ain't that a kick literally 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
4:25 no wonder marimow wasnt able to rip and run with so much incompetence around him.
He asks for the location of Marlo's Evil lair, and they tell him about some open yard?! everyone knows bad guys set up their evil lairs in underground bunkers, abandoned chemical plants, mysterious ruins, etc.
Marlow was ready to Rappel down onto Marlo's Lair, and kick some ass!
but with this broken unit, he never had a chance.
Hollowed out volcanoes.
Marimow never had the makings of a varsity superhero. Small villain knowledge, that was his problem. For fucks sake, Dr. Venture did better than him at his quest against evil.
"Telephone Reporting Unit", 🤣🤣🤣
That's probably worse than the Marine Unit.
Marimow's character was such a goof lol it felt good when Lester reclaimed control of Major Crimes.
i like the way Marimow grins with admiration at the beginning, after Rawls tells him the slippery political angle they can play
Did he just ask Herc for ideas..??
The best cop in the Bawlmer Police Department. Major Crimes would’ve never gotten anywhere without Lt. Marimow’s wisdom and guidance. I feel safer knowing that he will bring back stats and put that fucking dope on the table by any means necessary. 😂😂😂
1:40 Marimow didn't realize it but he guessed before anyone else at all the bodies in the vacants.
That's what we DO here now ... We get on The Street, and *WE RIP AND WE RUN* ... We also RIP AND WE RHYME, WE RHYME AND WE RIP, THIS IS THE WAY THAT MARIMOW SPITS!!!! You're *too close* man!!!"
😂😂😂😂
YES WE RIP, AND WE RUN, IM A COP, ILL DO THE WORM
Herc: no sir please don't do the wo-
*Marimow starts doing the worm*
Flawless casting. I hated him immediately, just based on the expression on his face
How could Herc spend years with elite, capable police like McNulty,Gregg's, Freamon, even Carver and still happily go along with Marrimow and his "rip and run" bs.
Because he isn't a big thinker. He was always an attack dog and when pointed in a direction he'd pursue it.
Cuz Herc is a dumbass lol
The actor that plays Marimow is so underrated. Any time he shows up in a supporting role I know it’s gonna be good
Underrated is Overused
There was nothing Herc could do about it. Marimow was a made man, and he wasn’t.
It was wiseguy real greaseball shit
Marimow might be my favourite character
He's hilarious
“What can we do with that?”
Get our camera taken by Marlo’s people 😂
Fuzzy Dunlop is my new login!
It’s like if Captain Sobel from Band of Brothers was put in charge of the MCU.
This guy has been raising his voice since this clip started😭😭 I can’t even sleep to this
6:49 Herc’s ringtone: Stay Fly by Three 6 Mafia
Marimow does not give away great talent. He heaves it away with great force.
true, Herc was natural police and Marimow never appreciated his talent properly
I had a boss a lot like this. I quit and got another job within a month.
6:50 I still have that same *Three6 Mafia* ringtone
You must be 79 years old
@@StainsStainsStains ur mom is 79 yrs old
@@loyaltyisroyalty5616 yeah and her 2 ringtones are “stay fly” and “in da club”
From what I've heard, David Simon based Marimow off of his old boss.
Geez I had a boss JUST LIKE this. I thought that Alonzo was bad jeepers!
Sometimes life just gives you a moment…
I have never seen a carnivore eat a carrot
lmao at Herc having 3-6 Mafia "Stay Fly" as his ringtone
im guessing there are no Mcnulty/Marimow scenes? that would have been pretty sweet lol
He was on patrol in the western district throughout season 4 so they never actually crossed paths, would've been a real battle of wills if they did!
Jimmy would have made marimow's life a living hell.
McNulty might have actually appreciated Daniels if he met Marimow lol
Marimow is the exact opposite of Jimmy down to the hair
@@coreyrowe4119 The closest they might've ever been would be if McNulty was on the raids that Marimow tried ordering on Marlo's corners (though I imagine McNulty came up with an excuse to sit them out just like he did with the Pit raid in season 1).
Never seen this show but immediately recognized the two guys at the start from Person of Interest
Lol another accurate portal by the wire because he is such an incompetent cop which is the norm
😂😂😂 is he really a Trojan horse if everyone knows he's a unit killer?
Great job, really enjoyed the edits😊
Herc stays lucky though, he makes bank working for Levy
God is the best leadership mentor a man could ever ask for. Anyone trained by him is destin for greatness.
lol guy's got the creepiest eyes ever.
You know it's bad when Herc knows you're bullshit.
Marrimow and Herc we’re heading on a collision course!
LMBO!! I love this guy!! 😅😂😂😂
Guy made Rawlings seem like a sweetheart
Fuzzy Dunlop is the smartest of them all.
Watching Lt. Marimow is pretty amusing.
Is that Caesar from new vegas? 😂
Why'd Marimow get fired again?
Daniels axes him when he becomes the head of criminal investigations.
Charlie Marimow...My Trojan Horse
Generally the Wire has complicated bad guys. There was nothing complex or ambiguous about Marrimow. However, he was perfectly cast as a hatchet, who destroys good police units. Nothing likeable about him, other then he was so bad, he was sort of good...lol
Like, terrible as a person he may be, Marimow still shows a few odd moments of competency. Like being suspicious of Herc's meteoric rise to Sergeant (Herc took the position of "Mayor's chauffeur" because it's a guaranteed way to make rank within a year; he was promoted within three months because of the indiscretion Royce needed to buy his silence on). Or correctly figuring out that Herc is an incompetent with the whole "Fuzzy Dunlop" nonsense.
@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102Good insights! He was horrible, except with Herc. He saw right through him! lol He was a horrible hatchet man, but when it came to Herc, he was basically spot on! Hilarious how he saw through Fuzzy Dunlap! It took me several viewings of the Wire to get that joke! 😂
@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 He also was right that Marlo can't the run the west side without bodies. They eventually found where he was storing them in the vacants
How is someone not smarter than you when they most definitely outsmarted you, the guy was a total mope.
bosses like this never last, zeros as cops.
Caesar's looking good on this one
My Trojan horse