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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: rik on July 14, 2007, 09:37:01 PM
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True Story.
I just finished watching season 4 again, and man this fuckin' show is great, I can't wait for season 5. This will be the final season, I hope they don't go out the way The Sopranos did.
I recommend people who don't watch the show to start watchin it, you won't be disappointed.
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I don't really watch television anymore. What's so great about this show?
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I don't really watch television anymore. What's so great about this show?
Everything.
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I don't really watch television anymore. What's so great about this show?
Everything.
Like what bitch?
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I don't really watch television anymore. What's so great about this show?
Everything.
Like what bitch?
The story line, the acting, the music they play. It's a show based on the drug game in Baltimore.
Go to this link to learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_%28TV_series%29
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Bro I got Direct TV and no HBO
I deserve one of these :grumpy:
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Yeah, I got Direct TV too. I got HBO strictly for the shows.
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i thought season 1 & 3 were the best, season 4 was missing McNulty, season 5 should be dope
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season 4 is my favorite. ive been a fan of the Wire since day one. since like 4-5 years ago. the storytelling is just so intricate, and its developed from season 1 all the way through 4, and its not just self contained episodes or seasons.. like a conversation from season 4 ties all the way back to a conversation in season 1, so you gotta stick it through..
anyways, its my favorite show ever. and on another note, I saw Snoop (from Marlow's crew) out here at a Snoop Dogg show in LA during the BET awards week.
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I don't think I've ever seen an episode that I didn't like.
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Haven't seen Season 4 yet since it's not out on DVD, but man, am I looking forward to see it. The Wire is indeed the best show on TV, period.
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Better than Sopranos or OZ ?
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^ I never seen OZ but I would say it's better than the Sopranos.
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its def better than sopranos, sopranos storylines really suck at some points like during the middle of their run.. and i think the way they did the ending solidified my preference of the wire over sopranos.
id say its better than oz too, i havent watched that much of oz, but from what i did saw i really didnt like it.. you'll see some characters from OZ in The Wire, since HBo always recycles their actors.
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errm, LOST
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errm, LOST
you stay losin' B, the wire is fasho number one show along with 60 minutes and the o'reilly factor
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errm, LOST
you stay losin' B, the wire is fasho number one show along with 60 minutes and the o'reilly factor
If Killa said it, it's gotta be true. Ya dig?
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errm, LOST
you stay losin' B, the wire is fasho number one show along with 60 minutes and the o'reilly factor
If Killa said it, it's gotta be true. Ya dig?
killa!
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errm, LOST
you stay losin' B, the wire is fasho number one show along with 60 minutes and the o'reilly factor
If Killa said it, it's gotta be true. Ya dig?
killa!
I got computers 'putin
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good show
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
Better late than never.
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^^^^*quotes Omar: "Oh indeed!"
I've started re-watching the first season a few days ago. I'm at episode 7 right now. I'm watching this first season for the 5th time now. It keeps amazing me how good their storywriters are at developing plots and sub-plotlines. Also the character development is interesting...
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aint seen any episodes but only heard good things, gonna go get the first series in the next few days
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^^^^*quotes Omar: "Oh indeed!"
I've started re-watching the first season a few days ago. I'm at episode 7 right now. It's watching this first season for the 5th time now. It keeps amazing me how good their storywriters are at developing plots and sub-plotlines. Also the character development is interesting...
The first scene of the first episode is hilarious. Great way to start off a show.
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"Snot Boogie?" Lol...yeah, that's a nice scene indeed.
*spoiler alert!: One of the funniest scenes is in episode 4 I think: where Bunk & McNulty are investigating that house, and the only things they're saying are "fuck", "fuck me", "motherfucker!", etc...LMAO.
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"Snot Boogie?" Lol...yeah, that's a nice scene indeed.
*spoiler alert!: One of the funniest scenes is in episode 4 I think: where Bunk & McNulty are investigating that house, and the only things they're saying are "fuck", "fuck me", "motherfucker!", etc...LMAO.
Yeah...that shit is funny.
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*spoiler alert!: One of the funniest scenes is in episode 4 I think: where Bunk & McNulty are investigating that house, and the only things they're saying are "fuck", "fuck me", "motherfucker!", etc...LMAO.
yeah that scene is great, I was going to mention it yesterday but couldn't be bothered.
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i am going to get into this now
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just bought the first season on dvd the other day and finshed it.... really good show... i like it... thanks for the recodmendation!!! great show... that junkie is fuckin funny how he thinks he runs shit!
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On the second season now, first was fucking brilliant but I'm not sure about the direction this season is taking. It looks like there are gonna be two different groups BPD are investigating and that may get confusing - plus I thought McNulty and Bunk were great together.
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Just finished watching the second season yesterday, this show really is the shit. 8)
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Glad to hear that more and more people are digging The Wire. Spread the word! That's how I got to know it...through Justin from Dubcnn.
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Season 5 isn't coming till next year. :-\
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^^^^Damn, that's still a while. Hopefully they'll release the Season 4 DVD earlier than that though. I still haven't seen it...
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Bought series 1 and 2, ive watched the first series and im hooked.
I thought it was pretty slow the first few episodes and didnt really understand the hype, but by mid way i started to really get into it.
Gonna start watching the second series this week.
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Yeah, when you're watching The Wire for the first time, it takes a while to get used to its pace. The way the storyline unfolds is very similar to a book - some of the writers on the show are writers (Dennis LeHane, George Pelecanos) - so it's indeed quite slow. Plus, there are so many characters on this show, it's hard at the beginning to keep up with them. The Wire requires a little effort from its watchers with all of this, but you get good television in return.
Season 2 is currently my favourite one. Haven't seen Season 4 yet though...
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Season 4 was on some real shit.. it brought out the most "emotions" outta me. like i seriously felt for the characters..
Season 4 or 1 is probably my favorite.
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Season 4 was on some real shit.. it brought out the most "emotions" outta me. like i seriously felt for the characters..
Real spit. I feel you on that.
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i seen 1 and 2.. i like 1 better....
wtf is up with Omar... a gay gangster?.... that shit is just wrong.
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so there has been 4 series so far ?
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so there has been 4 series so far ?
Yup, the 5th and final season is coming in 08.
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so there has been 4 series so far ?
Yup, the 5th and final season is coming in 08.
cool, looks like i will be getting a couple more dvd's then
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season 2 was kinda lame imo. fucking thieving polacks.
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season 2 was kinda lame imo. fucking thieving polacks.
The black street side of the storyline wasn't very strong but I though the docks side was better than anything else in the series so far. What didn't you like about season 2?
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i wanted to see where the money goes in season 1.... its real interesting shit. stringer is a mother fucker
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^^ you'll see how season 4 ties in season 3,2,1 all together. seaosn 2 seems like it goes off the main storyline, which it does.. but you'll see how season 4 ties it all up. season 2 is very pertinent.
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yeh cool.... i have seaosns 1 and 2 on dvd.... but i am downloading season 3. is season 3 or 4 on dvd?
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yeh cool.... i have seaosns 1 and 2 on dvd.... but i am downloading season 3. is season 3 or 4 on dvd?
Season 3 is, Season 4 hasn't came out on DVD yet.
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yeh cool.... i have seaosns 1 and 2 on dvd.... but i am downloading season 3. is season 3 or 4 on dvd?
See sig for 3 (the best season, imo), and here's the season 4 artwork, set for a late 2007 release:
(http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/6955/thewires4earlyix7.jpg)
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im halfway through the second series, totally hooked. I try and watch at least one or two episodes a day.
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im halfway through the second series, totally hooked.
The Wire will do that to you :) Seriously, the storyline about the docks is great. You get to know how everything works over there. The thing of it is, pretty much everything of what they show happens in reality too. I was watching a documentary the other day about drug smugglers in the port of Antwerp, and they basically had the same method as the Sobotka crew.
Season 2 has some great characters: Frank Sobotka, Nick, those Greek dudes, etc...really good actors.
Jome: thanks for posting the cover/info. Can't wait! 8)
I started watching Season 3 again just a few days ago. My dad was like "don't you ever get bored knowing what will happen as you've already seen it?". But that's the beauty of it, lol, re-watching The Wire, looking at every detail, the way storylines unfold, the way new characters are introduced, etc...
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I'm gonna cop the 1st season and start to watch .. the reviews are such incredible , that the show gotta be something worth ...
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im halfway through the second series, totally hooked.
The Wire will do that to you :) Seriously, the storyline about the docks is great. You get to know how everything works over there. The thing of it is, pretty much everything of what they show happens in reality too. I was watching a documentary the other day about drug smugglers in the port of Antwerp, and they basically had the same method as the Sobotka crew.
Season 2 has some great characters: Frank Sobotka, Nick, those Greek dudes, etc...really good actors.
Jome: thanks for posting the cover/info. Can't wait! 8)
I started watching Season 3 again just a few days ago. My dad was like "don't you ever get bored knowing what will happen as you've already seen it?". But that's the beauty of it, lol, re-watching The Wire, looking at every detail, the way storylines unfold, the way new characters are introduced, etc...
ziggy is one funny guy .I also like the way at seems that every two episode there must be one titty shot lol.
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damn, im loving that red tintin. cant wait to cop.
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This show is crazy. i am in the middle of season 3 and its officially my favorite show (followed by Sopranos). I didn't know anything like this show existed. Its exactly the sort of show i like to watch.
I would love to see a show just like this where they follow cocaine from south America through Mexico into the states (like in the movie traffic) and how it connects with Los Angles gangs and crack selling in Compton, south central etc. Like from where it is manufactured all the way to where it is consumed. regardless of the drug (heroin or what ever). I would like to see more of the international trafficking thing and where all the laundered money goes and all the politics involved as well as the police work.
I also liked it how Method Man plays Cheese is in the show.
The dude who plays Avon (guy from Paid In Full i think?) fits that character soo well.
The guy who plays Bubs is such a perfect looking junkie!
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I would love to see a show just like this where they follow cocaine from south America through Mexico into the states (like in the movie traffic) and how it connects with Los Angles gangs and crack selling in Compton, south central etc. Like from where it is manufactured all the way to where it is consumed. regardless of the drug (heroin or what ever). I would like to see more of the international trafficking thing and where all the laundered money goes and all the politics involved as well as the police work.
I also liked it how Method Man plays Cheese is in the show.
The dude who plays Avon (guy from Paid In Full i think?) fits that character soo well.
The guy who plays Bubs is such a perfect looking junkie!
That sounds indeed like an interesting concept for a good show, about the drug trafficking from Latin America to the States. I think the only problem with it would be to shoot on location. Not too many of those South American countries are keen on having film crews around. Especially not in the 'rough' areas. I was watching a documentary the other day about the slums in El Salvador and the dealers over there weren't having it that cameras were nearby. They HAD to leave. So that would most likely be the major problem.
If they could make it work and if they approached it with a The Wire-like method, it would indeed be a pretty good show, yeah.
And yeah, Wood Harris - "Avon Barksdale" - does a damn good job. Everybody else too though: Stringer, Cutty, Freamon, Daniels, Rawls, Bunk, Slim Charles, Omar, I mean: literally everybody! You can rarely say about a show that EVERY actor is good, but with The Wire it is the case, period. Props to their casting agency. What I also like is that they pick "authentic people". Most of the "project mopes" weren't even actors before they got put on for The Wire. I've read that somewhere. Slim Charles, for example, plays in a Baltimore go-go band, and they just asked him if he would be down to play a part on The Wire.
I'm telling you: this show is about as real as it can get.
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Yeh i think it would be awesome show. Imagine dudes lifting weights n slangin on corners in Compton or where ever with 64 Chev low riders, Cadillacs, regals etc. you could do soo much with that show. how the Latinos connect with the African American gangs etc. and where all the comes from etc. maybe how one of them guys goes to prison n quits the game n gets into rapping?
I would like to throw in Game to play a character like Cheese in The wire. He played this character in Waist Deep... Big Meat.... did a good job.
but then again it cant be no low budget bullshit...and i am sure with enough $ there would be a way around getting to film in the real poor parts of the latin america....hey thats just my 2 words
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man i been thinking bout that show i thought of... it would be insane 8)
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Finally watched the 1st season : AMAZING 8)... bout to start to watch the 2nd 8)
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^^^^Glad to hear you're feeling it bro! I finished watching Season 3 for the third time just a few days ago actually. Can't get enough of that show.
Btw...I haven't forgot about LA. I've been meaning to holler at you...just been a bit busy, is all. Will probably send you a PM during the weekend.
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^^^^ no pb homie ;) yeah this show is great , very realistic , some great talks between characters that make you think about the sense of their life , some funny moments ( the best imo is when Bunk burned all his clothes after fuckin with this black milf and told Jimmy ; you smell pussy on this ? I ain't smell no pussy no more , there won't a case on this inspector ;D ;D)... another scene is when they went to the crime scene (the one killed through the window) with all the "fuck" talk LOL
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Yeah, that scene is hilarious. Bunk is the man! Be sure to let us know what you think of Season 2 btw. So far that's my favourite one...
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^^^^^ I guess they work on a new case in the 2nd Season but we still will see Stringer Bell and them or is it completely different ?
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I'm not gonna give away any spoilers, but yeah, just so you know: although Season 2 has a different main storyline, it still focusses on the Barksdale crew.
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^^ Yeah, all the seasons tie in together.
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^^^^Glad to hear you're feeling it bro! I finished watching Season 3 for the third time just a few days ago actually. Can't get enough of that show.
Btw...I haven't forgot about LA. I've been meaning to holler at you...just been a bit busy, is all. Will probably send you a PM during the weekend.
yeh man holla at ya boy
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just got through the second series, i think i actually liked this one even more than the first.
Probably as im more used to the characters and there little quirks .
Give it a week or two and i will get series three. Once ive watched that im gonna be gutted to have to wait for series 4.
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^^^^ yeah I finished episode 9 and it's great ,the 1st 2 episodes are very slow though ... sucks that Dee got killed in jail though ... good to see the whole team back working on the case .. Ziggy is a crazy guy , LOL at the duck ....
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just got through the second series, i think i actually liked this one even more than the first.
Probably as im more used to the characters and there little quirks .
Give it a week or two and i will get series three. Once ive watched that im gonna be gutted to have to wait for series 4.
just download season 4
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Just finished Season 4 ... the last episode was :o.. the greatest thing about The Wire is the work made on the characters and their evolution ... this is pure GENIUS ... on a personal side (don't know if y'all have the same feeling) , the show is great at making you appreciate some characters who sadly got killed then ( Dee , Wallace , Bodie ) ... are there any shows of this kind , which aren't popular ?
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Just finished Season 4 ... the last episode was :o.. the greatest thing about The Wire is the work made on the characters and their evolution ... this is pure GENIUS ... on a personal side (don't know if y'all have the same feeling) , the show is great at making you appreciate some characters who sadly got killed then ( Dee , Wallace , Bodie ) ... are there any shows of this kind , which aren't popular ?
thats what i have been saying to my mates , its all about connecting with the characters. I actually care what happens to the characters in the wire, unlike heroes where any could die and it wouldnt bother me.
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Down to 'The Wire': It's a Wrap for Gritty TV Series
Real Life and Fiction Jostle for a Final Time As Acclaimed HBO Show Shoots Last Episode
By Teresa Wiltz; Washington Post Staff Writer
It was early still -- about 10 p.m. on Friday -- and somewhere in Columbia, David Simon was giving a tour of the sights: There, he said, pointing, was the Baltimore mayor's office. Over there? The city's Western District police headquarters, and there, that little closet of a room, "that can be the visiting room at Jessup." Pause. "Or the jail. Depends. We just redecorate."
As he stood on a platform, taking in his world, it was hard to ignore the irony: For the past two years, a good chunk of "The Wire," the HBO show that critics have praised for the grittiness of its inner-city vérité, has been filmed in an anonymous soundstage in the burbs -- a soundstage that reportedly will be turned into a massive Wegmans Food Market.
After five seasons, and this final episode, they would be done.
"It's time," said Clarke Peters, who plays Detective Lester Freamon, "to pull the plug on 'The Wire.' "
It is the actor's lot to say goodbye again and again, to bond with cast and crew, only to be sent scattering after the wrap. But this, everyone insisted, would be a particularly sorrowful parting: This morning, they buried one of their own, the daughter of a crew member who died of breast cancer. Tonight, they were putting "The Wire" to rest.
"I was a wreck," said Deirdre Lovejoy, who plays Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman on the show. "But there was a funeral and that put everything in perspective." She looked around the room at everyone guzzling champagne, slapping backs and engulfing each other in hearty bear hugs. " This is a happy death."
Simon, who once covered cops for the Baltimore Sun, always knew that "The Wire" would end at exactly this point. From the beginning when the show debuted in 2002, he saw it as a visual novel, with each season a distinct chapter exploring an aspect of inner-city life: The first season examined the drug trade; the second focused on Baltimore's longshoremen; the third grappled with politics and the notion of reform; the fourth dug into education and the lives of the city's children. This season, which begins airing Jan. 6, explores the media, featuring a morally challenged reporter played by Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed the indie film "The Station Agent."
"The Wire" has always struggled in the ratings; last season it averaged 1.6 million viewers per episode. But it's always enjoyed the admiration of critics, who praised it as being the "most authentic epic ever on television." Notwithstanding the giant soundstage, a good 50 percent of the show was shot on location in Baltimore, with real-life characters frequently sprinkled in with the fictional ones. Like former drug kingpin Melvin Williams, whom co-producer and writer Ed Burns, an ex-Baltimore cop, once arrested in a big takedown. Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who did time as a teenager for killing a 16-year-old girl, made her acting debut last season, playing an assassin. Even Robert Ehrlich, when he was Maryland governor, made a cameo -- as a state trooper in the governor's office last season.
Over the years, Simon has carved out a cottage industry from covering Baltimore's drug and crime issues, from "Homicide," to the HBO miniseries "The Corner," based on his book by the same name, to "The Wire." But despite the show's depiction of Baltimore as decaying and dysfunctional, the city has benefited greatly from its presence, from its showcasing of B-more music to the tens of millions in revenue it has brought to the city. In many ways, "The Wire" is a long, convoluted love letter to Baltimore-- from a conflicted but resolutely committed lover.
But even the greatest love affairs come to an end.
Said Wendell Pierce, who plays Detective William "Bunk" Moreland: "He told us from day one, 'It's a novel.' He had the novel in his head, and he wouldn't share with us."
It wasn't until last year that Simon told his cast that this season would be the last.
"If you get five years out of a TV show," Pierce said with a shrug, "that's pretty successful. I'm proud of it. . . . We showed the possibility of television used as an art.
"There are people who come up to me and say, 'I hate the show.' I accept that. They're still engaged. If at the end of an hour of watching 'The Wire,' if you don't feel bad, you should."
This sensibility of art as mission statement pervades the conversations of everyone here -- writers, actors, producers, casting directors, crew. Here, they don't talk about TV, they talk about "television." There is a sense of them being the earnest outsiders, messengers shining a klieg light on society's ills. Whether you like it or not.
It was sweltering on the set of the cop shop: No cooling fans allowed during filming. Too noisy. Which meant that between takes, the makeup artists rushed in to dab at the sweat on the faces of Pierce and Dominic West, the British actor who plays Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty.
Behind a stack of file cabinets was the video village, where Simon and his crew hunkered down over TV monitors, listening intently to the action on headsets. Actor-filmmaker Clark Johnson sat in the director's chair. He directed the pilot; it seemed only fitting, Simon said, that Johnson direct the coda, too.
Johnson, honey-colored, genial, goateed, stared into the monitor. "Tighter, tighter, mo' tighter," he called out, jumping up to confer with his cast, in this instance McCarthy and West, who were filming a confrontational scene. They would film this scene over and over, from every angle, wide, medium and "mo' tighter."
At 9 p.m., it was time for "lunch," which was held in a giant tent outside the warehouse. Surrounding it were massive trailers: wardrobe trailers, caterers' trailers, even bathroom trailers marked "Desi" and "Lucy." A woman from wardrobe, bald and heavily tattooed, greeted everyone with a big smile, while weathered crew dudes hung back for a smoke. Folks were queuing up in the food line, grabbing trays and loading their plates with lobster tails, steak and baked eggplant before heading into the tent.
Notwithstanding the cameras, the makeup artists and the high-rent grub, this was your standard office party. On the walls of the tent, a gag reel was projected, a litany of you-had-to-be-there jokes: close-ups of actors munching on chips, belching, cursing, a montage of "The Wire's" extravagant use of the F-word. Actors wandered in with their families, while Andre Royo, who played Bubbles, ran around, dressed like a newspaper peddler, handing out copies of a fake newspaper, "The Wire," with a giant headline: "HBO SERIES WRAPS PRODUCTION: Fifth season concludes in Baltimore; Emmy voters will be given one last shot to get it right."
After lunch, it was back to work, and as the clock edged past midnight, folks started getting giddy. The final episode was an hour and a half, as opposed to the normal hour-long length, but the production schedule dictated that shooting be confined to 11 days. Simon, juggling another HBO miniseries, admitted that he's been consistently late with turning in scripts. ("Really, really, really late," said Royo, with a laugh.) The night before, they filmed until close to 3 a.m. They would be even later this night.
So all kinds of silliness ensued. Actor Reg E. Cathay showed up to watch, his curly 'fro completely shaved bare. Johnson, not to be outdone, came back after break with all the peach fuzz on his head shaved, too. No way he, he said, was he going to be upstaged. A crew member worked the set sporting a three-foot Afro wig.
"Did that [expletive] just mock my performance?" Pierce joked to one of his cast buddies. "I know I'm not as good as you, but damn, you don't have to rub it in."
At 3:10 a.m., it was time for some goodbyes. Everyone applauded after Sonja Sohn, who plays Shakima Greggs, wrapped up her final scene. Her teenage daughter ran to her, shoving a bouquet into her crying mother's arms.
"Ain't no need to hold the tears back," said Sohn, her voice shaking. ". . . It's not going to be like this again. It can't be."
At 4:40 a.m., the assistant director called out, "It's a wrap, it's a wrap. We're done. Forever."
Everyone stood around clapping and clapping, wiping away tears. It's hard to say goodbye to five years of friendship and steady employment. Pierce is going to act in a New Orleans production of "Waiting for Godot." Royo is heading with his wife and daughter to Los Angeles, to run their new restaurant and act in theater. Peters and West are going to ride horseback across country to raise money for AIDS awareness.
Pierce, a native of New Orleans, thanked everyone for standing by him after Hurricane Katrina. A wardrobe worker, who first met Simon when he was an inner-city preteen haunting the set of "The Corner," sobbed, hands covering his face.
Simon held his plastic champagne cup aloft. "It's 4:40," he said, "and I am at a complete loss. I'm out of words.
"I am very spoiled by this cast and crew. . . . To all of us and for this last night . . . L'chaim."
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thats too bad.... i think they could keep going for a few more seasons...
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Sopranos >>>>>> Insert Here
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Sopranos >>>>>> Insert Here
The Wire > The Sopranos.
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when does the new season start?
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January 6th ... 10 episodes
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i dont even know what im going to do once the wire hits hbo in january.. dont got hbo on my tv, and not sure i can afford it.. but damn its going to be a good start to the 2008 winter.
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One of the greatest shows i've ever seen, i'm watchin the 3rd season right now actually, episode 4 (Amsterdam). I just bought it, now i got seasons 1, 2 & 3 (And they really great)
Sopranos >>>>>> Insert Here
The Wire > The Sopranos.
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I just borrowed season 1. I just started watching it, awesome show!! not in the same league as sopranos but then again nothing is.
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I'm justin watchin episode 6 from the 3rd season and i noticed that Omar is watchin "The Oz" from the television :D
Anybody else noticed it? They watchin a scene where Beecher & Keller are talkin...
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still aint got the third series , hopefully gonna get it when i get paid in week or so.
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still aint got the third series , hopefully gonna get it when i get paid in week or so.
You gotta get it, have you been watchin the 3rd season?
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I just borrowed season 1. I just started watching it, awesome show!! not in the same league as sopranos but then again nothing is.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. Back to front Wire season 1 is better than anything to ever come out of Sopranos. It's smarter, it's more captivating, it's better written, better acted, and way more realistic. Sopranos have too many high spot moments for the crowd to beat Wire season 1. After season 1 the show falls a bit in some parts but rises in others. All in all at it's best it's just as good if not better than Sopranos at its best. At their worst Sopranos just sucks. A lot of season 4. The Vito storyline of season 6. The Columbus episode. Wire never gets that bad.
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I just borrowed season 1. I just started watching it, awesome show!! not in the same league as sopranos but then again nothing is.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. Back to front Wire season 1 is better than anything to ever come out of Sopranos. It's smarter, it's more captivating, it's better written, better acted, and way more realistic. Sopranos have too many high spot moments for the crowd to beat Wire season 1. After season 1 the show falls a bit in some parts but rises in others. All in all at it's best it's just as good if not better than Sopranos at its best. At their worst Sopranos just sucks. A lot of season 4. The Vito storyline of season 6. The Columbus episode. Wire never gets that bad.
Really though.
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season 4 was missing McNulty
What the fuck? Why?
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^ I never seen OZ but I would say it's better than the Sopranos.
"The Oz" is very dope too, but yeah "The Wire" is waaaaayyyy more better then "The Sopranos"...
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thats too bad.... i think they could keep going for a few more seasons...
Yeah, but then you run the risk of going out the way The Sopranos did.
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Why is McNulty in season 4, somebody tell me? :-\
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Why is McNulty in season 4, somebody tell me? :-\
BIT OF A SPOILER AHEAD
He's in it, he's just not as big a part of it. Season 4 revloves around McNulty's departure from the politics of the job and just doing straigh policing. He's a lot happier and his life turns around. By the end of the season he realizes that he can't solve the big crimes from his new position and decides to return to the Major Crimes Unit. One of the last scenes sets up his return and it has to make you think that McNulty going after Omar is going to be a big part of season 5. Ofcourse the way this show is Omat could end up stepping on some Greek toes and getting killed early on.
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Why is McNulty in season 4, somebody tell me? :-\
BIT OF A SPOILER AHEAD
He's in it, he's just not as big a part of it. Season 4 revloves around McNulty's departure from the politics of the job and just doing straigh policing. He's a lot happier and his life turns around. By the end of the season he realizes that he can't solve the big crimes from his new position and decides to return to the Major Crimes Unit. One of the last scenes sets up his return and it has to make you think that McNulty going after Omar is going to be a big part of season 5. Ofcourse the way this show is Omat could end up stepping on some Greek toes and getting killed early on.
Aiight thanks for the info...
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still aint got the third series , hopefully gonna get it when i get paid in week or so.
You gotta get it, have you been watchin the 3rd season?
No in the UK they have only just started showing the first series, i picked up the first two on dvd.
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season 1 of the sopranos might be better than season 1 of The wire, but as a whole run, sopranos cant fuck with the Wire. Sopranos took numerous dips in the storyline, and just fucked up some of the series imo. and the storylines never really seemed to go that deep.
The Wire Season 4 solidified it as a better show than Sopranos will EVER get. sopranos never evoke that sort of emotional response from viewers. Like for me, i could give a fuck about a tv character, but after watchin season 4 of the Wire, like i was feelin sad for reals.. and i know some other people can definitely voice these same sentiments.. like it left you feelin like "damn... its like that?" .. you really felt for these characters, and their struggles..
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season 1 of the sopranos might be better than season 1 of The wire, but as a whole run, sopranos cant fuck with the Wire. Sopranos took numerous dips in the storyline, and just fucked up some of the series imo. and the storylines never really seemed to go that deep.
The Wire Season 4 solidified it as a better show than Sopranos will EVER get. sopranos never evoke that sort of emotional response from viewers. Like for me, i could give a fuck about a tv character, but after watchin season 4 of the Wire, like i was feelin sad for reals.. and i know some other people can definitely voice these same sentiments.. like it left you feelin like "damn... its like that?" .. you really felt for these characters, and their struggles..
I think Season 1 vs Season 1 Wire takes it easy. Now Season 1,2,3 vs season 1,2,3 it comes a little closer. But like you said, season 4 vs season 4 is where the two really separate. To compare similar scenes I think the Wallace scene from season 1 was way more powerful than anything on Sopranos season 1. Even more powerful the the next season's Pussy scene.
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^^ actually my own preference is The Wire Season One.. but i can just totally see how someone might like Sopranos S.1 more.. but just as the seasons progress, The Wire definitely takes the cake.
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The Wire/Oz>The Sopranos (every other show on HBO)
No doubt about that...
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you guys are crazy. wire is dope but sopranos is legenadry. only on dubcc have i heard people say wire is better but Ive never heard anyone else say that
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sopranos is cool, and its better than 90% of the other shows out there.. but the intricate storyline and writing and character development for The Wire is just ridiculous.
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Daamn, just finished season 3 and fuck it was good! 1 & 3 are my favourite so far, season 2 is really great too. Anybody know when they gon release season 4 here in Finland?
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I got a few questions, is Avon gonna be on the season 4? And is season 5 coming?
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I got a few questions, is Avon gonna be on the season 4? And is season 5 coming?
***Spoiler Alert***
No Avon is not in season 4. Season 5 is coming in January. It will be the final season
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you guys are crazy. wire is dope but sopranos is legenadry. only on dubcc have i heard people say wire is better but Ive never heard anyone else say that
That's because of the success and the success is because of the immediate gratification. Sopranos isn't all that different than most other Dramas over the years. Add swearing and take away cheezy backdrop scores from Dallas or Dynasty and Sopranos really isn't all that different. It's better yeah, but The Wire is like a well thought out novel presented on TV. Sopranos is just a TV show. The Wire is way more subtle. It has it's fair share of problems too. The whole Brother Mouzone storyline was pointless, but in the end Sopranos has way mopre stupid moments than the Wire does.
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I got a few questions, is Avon gonna be on the season 4? And is season 5 coming?
No Avon is not in season 4. Season 5 is coming in January.
Now that's really fucked up. But that's good news, even though it will be the last season...
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Marlo is a awsome
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i think i already mentioend this, but I saw Snoop (Felecia Pearson....Chris & Snoop) at a Snoop Dogg show out here during BET awards. i was goin to say what up, but i dunno haha, she just seemed so fuckin hood in the show, that i was kinda intimidated to say anything to her in real life, hahaha. not to mention that she was charged for murder at 16..
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not to mention that she was charged for murder at 16..
So how old is she now?
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shes 27 now.. she did 8 years for a 2nd degree murder when she was like 14. so shes been out for like 4-5 years now..
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shes 27 now.. she did 8 years for a 2nd degree murder when she was like 14. so shes been out for like 4-5 years now..
Aiight, thanks for the info...
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WTF SNOOP IS A GIRL? i thought he was a guy? looks like a kid n shit?
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yeah snoops a female haha. she's also a lesbian.
yeah she hella looks like a kid.. but she craaazy. ahah.
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yeah snoops a female haha. she's also a lesbian.
yeah she hella looks like a kid.. but she craaazy. ahah.
wtf a dyke gangster bitch who looks like a kid? wtf...
but yeh she is hard as fuck,
edit: that scar on marlows face looks like some gangsta shit
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I first thought she was a guy too, but then i heard her voice. She really looks like a little boy...
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/21/arts/21wire_CA0.190.jpg)
(http://www.danaroc.com/images/inspiring_snooppearson2.jpg)
(http://www.danaroc.com/images/inspiring_thumb_snooppearson.jpg)
With her braids, oversize clothes and baseball cap turned to the side, the small, youthful Snoop looks like a teenage boy. With her partner, Chris Partlow, she is the muscle for the drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield. She is a cool, calm female killer who creatively makes enemies disappear with the use of a nail-gun, hiding the bodies in Baltimore’s vacant and condemned row houses on HBO’s much-praised series “The Wire.” The actress Felicia Pearson, who plays Snoop, has emerged as one of the show’s most compelling characters; Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly, called her “perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series.”
In a show that is known for authentic characters, the 26-year-old Ms. Pearson has lived the kind of hard life embodied by her character. She was born to two drug-addicted and incarcerated parents and reared in an East Baltimore foster home.
“I was a crack baby,” Ms. Pearson said by telephone from Baltimore. “I was, like, three pounds, and I had to get fed with an eyedropper.” She started selling drugs at 10 and at 14 was locked up for more than seven years after shooting a woman. “I grew up not giving a damn about anything, because why give a damn if you are in a foster home and your parents didn’t care anything about you?” Ms. Pearson said. She added that she had so many drugs in her system when she was born that she was cross-eyed as a child. “Kids would tease me, saying that I’m cross-eyed and don’t have a real mother, and all those kids who said those mean things, I beat the hell out of them,” she said.
She said her life turned around at 18, when a man she called Uncle Loney, a local drug dealer who looked out for her and sent her money in prison, was shot and killed. It was he who had given her the nickname Snoop because she reminded him of Charlie Brown’s favorite beagle in the comic strip “Peanuts.”
“He was my best friend,” said Ms. Pearson, who was an inmate at a women’s penitentiary in Jessup, Md., when Uncle Loney was killed. “When he got shot, I had a reality check and said to myself, ‘Man, you got to get yourself together and get yourself out of here, because nobody’s going to keep taking care of you.’ ”
After earning her G.E.D. in prison, Ms. Pearson was released in 2000. She landed a local job making car bumpers, she said, but was fired two weeks later after her employer learned she had a prison record.
Then, two and a half years ago, while employed at a car wash, she got her big break. At a local nightclub she met Michael K. Williams, who plays Omar, a gay gangster who robs drug dealers for kicks, on “The Wire.” Mr. Williams said he saw that Ms. Pearson had charisma, and he was fascinated with her hard-knock story and thought she would be perfect for the show.
After a meeting with “Wire” producers, Ms. Pearson was hired to play the nail-gun-toting Snoop, despite having had no acting experience. “She just blew me away,” Mr. Williams said. “There was just this beauty in her. When I looked in her eyes, I saw all this pain, but she still smiled and lit up the room.”
Ed Burns, a “Wire” producer and former Baltimore police officer, said: “She’s just a natural-born actor. She came from a very, very tough background, but it didn’t scar her. So she can interpret that background in her character.”
Ms. Pearson said her first day on the set was strange. “Everybody was staring at me, I thought that I was doing something wrong,” she said, adding that she was told not to look into the camera, and to just act natural. “I was like, ‘You want me to act like I was on the corner?’ They were like, ‘Exactly, just be yourself,’ and that’s what I did.”
Mr. Williams loved what he saw. “If you meet her and you talk to her, she is unmistakably Baltimore.” he said. “And the city of Baltimore is the lead star of ‘The Wire.’ ”
There’s nothing more Baltimore than Snoop’s accent, which at times is so hard to decipher that a fan on the Internet Movie Database said she watched her scenes with closed captioning so she could read her words. “It’s basically a Baltimore thing,” Ms. Pearson said. “I say everything that’s in the script, but I put a little twist on it, like the way we would say it in Baltimore.”
Ms. Pearson is now taking acting classes at the Baltimore School for the Arts. “I’m just getting prepared for whatever comes my way, because I know people are saying that this is luck,” she said. “But luck ain’t never come my way, so I’m preparing myself for everything.”
And she said that she has put her troubles behind her. “I did what I did when I was younger, but I am a changed person,” Ms. Pearson said. “My character Snoop on the show is a coldhearted person, but I’m not coldhearted any more.”
Ms. Pearson said she hoped to be an inspiration for others. “I still can’t believe it, because I come from the gutter,” she said. “I hope and pray that someone reads my story, or hears me talk about my story and will be, like, ‘She did it, I will see what my chances are.’ ”
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The wire dvds are not distribuited outside u.s. ?
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/21/arts/21wire_CA0.190.jpg)
(http://www.danaroc.com/images/inspiring_snooppearson2.jpg)
(http://www.danaroc.com/images/inspiring_thumb_snooppearson.jpg)
With her braids, oversize clothes and baseball cap turned to the side, the small, youthful Snoop looks like a teenage boy. With her partner, Chris Partlow, she is the muscle for the drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield. She is a cool, calm female killer who creatively makes enemies disappear with the use of a nail-gun, hiding the bodies in Baltimore’s vacant and condemned row houses on HBO’s much-praised series “The Wire.” The actress Felicia Pearson, who plays Snoop, has emerged as one of the show’s most compelling characters; Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly, called her “perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series.”
In a show that is known for authentic characters, the 26-year-old Ms. Pearson has lived the kind of hard life embodied by her character. She was born to two drug-addicted and incarcerated parents and reared in an East Baltimore foster home.
“I was a crack baby,” Ms. Pearson said by telephone from Baltimore. “I was, like, three pounds, and I had to get fed with an eyedropper.” She started selling drugs at 10 and at 14 was locked up for more than seven years after shooting a woman. “I grew up not giving a damn about anything, because why give a damn if you are in a foster home and your parents didn’t care anything about you?” Ms. Pearson said. She added that she had so many drugs in her system when she was born that she was cross-eyed as a child. “Kids would tease me, saying that I’m cross-eyed and don’t have a real mother, and all those kids who said those mean things, I beat the hell out of them,” she said.
She said her life turned around at 18, when a man she called Uncle Loney, a local drug dealer who looked out for her and sent her money in prison, was shot and killed. It was he who had given her the nickname Snoop because she reminded him of Charlie Brown’s favorite beagle in the comic strip “Peanuts.”
“He was my best friend,” said Ms. Pearson, who was an inmate at a women’s penitentiary in Jessup, Md., when Uncle Loney was killed. “When he got shot, I had a reality check and said to myself, ‘Man, you got to get yourself together and get yourself out of here, because nobody’s going to keep taking care of you.’ ”
After earning her G.E.D. in prison, Ms. Pearson was released in 2000. She landed a local job making car bumpers, she said, but was fired two weeks later after her employer learned she had a prison record.
Then, two and a half years ago, while employed at a car wash, she got her big break. At a local nightclub she met Michael K. Williams, who plays Omar, a gay gangster who robs drug dealers for kicks, on “The Wire.” Mr. Williams said he saw that Ms. Pearson had charisma, and he was fascinated with her hard-knock story and thought she would be perfect for the show.
After a meeting with “Wire” producers, Ms. Pearson was hired to play the nail-gun-toting Snoop, despite having had no acting experience. “She just blew me away,” Mr. Williams said. “There was just this beauty in her. When I looked in her eyes, I saw all this pain, but she still smiled and lit up the room.”
Ed Burns, a “Wire” producer and former Baltimore police officer, said: “She’s just a natural-born actor. She came from a very, very tough background, but it didn’t scar her. So she can interpret that background in her character.”
Ms. Pearson said her first day on the set was strange. “Everybody was staring at me, I thought that I was doing something wrong,” she said, adding that she was told not to look into the camera, and to just act natural. “I was like, ‘You want me to act like I was on the corner?’ They were like, ‘Exactly, just be yourself,’ and that’s what I did.”
Mr. Williams loved what he saw. “If you meet her and you talk to her, she is unmistakably Baltimore.” he said. “And the city of Baltimore is the lead star of ‘The Wire.’ ”
There’s nothing more Baltimore than Snoop’s accent, which at times is so hard to decipher that a fan on the Internet Movie Database said she watched her scenes with closed captioning so she could read her words. “It’s basically a Baltimore thing,” Ms. Pearson said. “I say everything that’s in the script, but I put a little twist on it, like the way we would say it in Baltimore.”
Ms. Pearson is now taking acting classes at the Baltimore School for the Arts. “I’m just getting prepared for whatever comes my way, because I know people are saying that this is luck,” she said. “But luck ain’t never come my way, so I’m preparing myself for everything.”
And she said that she has put her troubles behind her. “I did what I did when I was younger, but I am a changed person,” Ms. Pearson said. “My character Snoop on the show is a coldhearted person, but I’m not coldhearted any more.”
Ms. Pearson said she hoped to be an inspiration for others. “I still can’t believe it, because I come from the gutter,” she said. “I hope and pray that someone reads my story, or hears me talk about my story and will be, like, ‘She did it, I will see what my chances are.’ ”
She actually good looking dressed up
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The wire dvds are not distribuited outside u.s. ?
Yeah they are...
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Somebody got a link to see the "intro" of the first season ?
For "intro" i mean the score before the start of every episode,i've tried on youtube but i haven't find a damn thing
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
Just finished watching the the 4th season yesterday. I can't believe Bodie got took out, leaves only one member from the Barksdale crew from the first season left on the street I think (Poot).
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
Just finished watching the the 4th season yesterday. I can't believe Bodie got took out, leaves only one member from the Barksdale crew from the first season left on the street I think (Poot).
there is still that dude who is now hangin with Prop joe... use to be Avons muscle...
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
Just finished watching the the 4th season yesterday. I can't believe Bodie got took out, leaves only one member from the Barksdale crew from the first season left on the street I think (Poot).
there is still that dude who is now hangin with Prop joe... use to be Avons muscle...
Slim Charles? I think he first appeared in season 3.
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
Just finished watching the the 4th season yesterday. I can't believe Bodie got took out, leaves only one member from the Barksdale crew from the first season left on the street I think (Poot).
there is still that dude who is now hangin with Prop joe... use to be Avons muscle...
Slim Charles? I think he first appeared in season 3.
yeh that dude.
props for the creator of this thread... i watched all four season... i thought season 1 n 3 are best.. followed by 4 then 2. my favorite show... follwed by sopranos
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Just started watching the first series (yeah I know I'm fucking late). I think I'm hooked already.
Just finished watching the the 4th season yesterday. I can't believe Bodie got took out, leaves only one member from the Barksdale crew from the first season left on the street I think (Poot).
there is still that dude who is now hangin with Prop joe... use to be Avons muscle...
Slim Charles? I think he first appeared in season 3.
yeh that dude.
props for the creator of this thread... i watched all four season... i thought season 1 n 3 are best.. followed by 4 then 2. my favorite show... follwed by sopranos
You're welcome.
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just watched the fist two eopisodes of season 3 , so far early on it aint dissapointed.
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Somebody got a link to see the "intro" of the first season ?
For "intro" i mean the score before the start of every episode,i've tried on youtube but i haven't find a damn thing
up
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Just started to watch season 4, watchin "Home Rooms" right now (episode 3), all episodes been real good so far.
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Finished season 4, great season once again, it's fucked up that Bodie died though.
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^ Yeah....That was my favorite character. He went out like a soldier, though.
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Bodie went out fighting...pretty sick fighting scene
Thats whats crazy about this series...you kind of feel sorry for him...but then agian, you gotta remember he killed wallace. he aint no saint.
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Bodie went out fighting...pretty sick fighting scene
Thats whats crazy about this series...you kind of feel sorry for him...but then agian, you gotta remember he killed wallace. he aint no saint.
wallace was a bitch and didnt to get got........nigga was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooooo soooooooooooffftttttttttt
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Bodie went out fighting...pretty sick fighting scene
Thats whats crazy about this series...you kind of feel sorry for him...but then agian, you gotta remember he killed wallace. he aint no saint.
wallace was a bitch and didnt to get got........nigga was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooooo soooooooooooffftttttttttt
and omars got a soft asshole...whats your point?
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too bad David Simon kinda choked the last season .. Season 5 is a little dissapointing ..
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Bodie went out fighting...pretty sick fighting scene
Thats whats crazy about this series...you kind of feel sorry for him...but then agian, you gotta remember he killed wallace. he aint no saint.
wallace was a bitch and didnt to get got........nigga was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooooo soooooooooooffftttttttttt
and omars got a soft asshole...whats your point?
this is why eye cant stand you white people............what the fuck you mean what is my point.................. the nigga wallace was soft............therefore the game was going to eat him up anyway period!!!! you dumb ass with your lame gay ass reply
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Bodie went out fighting...pretty sick fighting scene
Thats whats crazy about this series...you kind of feel sorry for him...but then agian, you gotta remember he killed wallace. he aint no saint.
wallace was a bitch and didnt to get got........nigga was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooooo soooooooooooffftttttttttt
and omars got a soft asshole...whats your point?
this is why eye cant stand you white people............what the fuck you mean what is my point.................. the nigga wallace was soft............therefore the game was going to eat him up anyway period!!!! you dumb ass with your lame gay ass reply
wait, whos white?
"fuck your dumb ass with you lame gay ass reply"
Coming from a guy who has Omar as his avy.