The Wire, Season 5 -- Read Between the Lines

The previews for the upcoming episodes kook great, too.
Especially when Marlow goes to prison to visit somebody.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that scene was in Homicide, too. Think it was Bolander and Munch. This is pissing me off about Ep 52. I have OnDemand and from what I've read, Scumcast airs the coming week's episode on Monday. Well, it's damn near Tuesday and still nothing. Anyone else encounter this?

 

I have Time Warner, and it went on at exactly midnight last night.

 

Charter's came up Sunday afternoon.

 

Munch & Bolander work their magic:

 

What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire/

 

I finally finished Season 4 last night & will catch 51 tonight.

Episode 49? Holy freaking shit that was amazing. The show had the bar raised pretty high for me, then I watched that and it went higher. That was an unreal 60 minutes of TV. Wow.

 

Anyone else catch the brand name of the shit being sold on the street?

Get your Greenhouse Gas, it's hot.

 

CJR has a lengthy article about the relationship between Simon and the editors.

http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/secrets_of_the_city.php?page=all

More or less with the take that all three are right and wrong and the degree of one or the other depends on your perspective.
Simon basically abandoned the traditional newspaper approach and looked at it like a novelist and the editors sticking with the traditional newspaper approach.
Or more simply Simon thought that big complex problems couldn't be solved by a simplistic approach.

 

Why would they redo that old gag from Homicide, then? Especially as the first scene, since the series now has a reputation for great opening scenes? Big disappointment.

 

I think the main reason why they did that was to set up Bunk's line about "the bigger the lie, the more they'll believe it" and that being the mantra for the entire season (as starting to show in 52).

 

About halfway through the DVDs, and while I enjoy the newsroom bits (first initial dbags and suspender wearing editors) I'm still surprised how slow the cops are in picking up on Prop Joe's murder. (Not a surprise that his death went unnoticed by the newsroom sans it's recently discharged cop reporter) It's not a great season, but Simon did a good job of wrapping up a number of threads. And still no clue why McNulty returned to his drinkin' and whorin'.