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The Wire comes to BBC2 (Spoiler free, please)

Back on tonight, excited me... ended up staying up last Friday night to catch the first three episodes of Season 2 again, which frankly was a waste of time because I was so tired by the end I can barely remember anything about them. And that's having watched them the previous week. Ah well, I'm sure it'll all come flooding back tonight at 11:20.
 
skyscraper101 said:
From the Wire, to Holby City. Clarke Peters (Detective Lester Freamon) certainly gets about.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_8045000/8045497.stm
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Now Ive never seen Holby City, but "working on a show like Holby City tested Peters like never before." probably isnt a good thing!

"You've got to get it in a certain amount of time because they've got an hour of television to do a week. This is like a factory," he said.

This a man who did 8 shows a week in Five Guys Names Moe, Chicgao, Witches of Eastwick... etc

Man's got to pay his bills, but Holby is the anti David Simon!
Bah!.. its hard accepting that they aren't really Princes of Baltimore.
 
If it was a choice between Clarke Peters with his old skool hammy stagecraft and Dominic West . . . the cringeometer goes less into the red with Lester.



So . . . if it's ok with absolutely everyone, shall we continue?

Interesting parallels to be had between D'Angelo and Ziggy, doncha think - sons ill-fitting the family business, etc?
 
A mate of mine got fed up with The Wire as he reckons there is some really terrible acting in it - particularly from the actors who played Frank Sobotka and Tommy Carcetti. Can't say I noticed myself, I was too gripped by the storylines to spot any bad performances (although McNulty's accent grated at times).

Does anyone else feel it was let down by the acting?
 
For the newbies – and to piss off our Pict-coloured self-obsessive, three questions from last night. One easy, one moderate, one tricky:

1) What was the name of the woman estate agent who showed Nicky Sobotka around the house?
2) What was the toon playing as Beadie Russel was turning herself into real police by developing a CI?
3) What was interesting about what the Greek who met Frank Sobotka on the waterfront was wearing?
 
Got to go out now:

1. Mrs . . . McNulty - it was Jimmy's wife
2. Midnight at the Oasis
3. The same colour and style jacket Ziggy had before Cheese took it from him
 
Loved Sobotka's rant at Bunk and Beadie when they served those warrents to him last night,v impressive:cool: Ziggy trying to save face in front of the corner guys after gettin done over by Cheese at the start of last nights ep:D
 
"What you're forgetting, Detective, is that every I.B.S. local on the East Coast has had its ass in front of a federal grand jury two or three times already. You want to throw your summonses, throw 'em. You want to subpoena our records? Shit, you don't even need a subpoena no more. Our books have been open to the Justice department for eight years. We're here through Bobby Kennedy, Tricky Dick Nixon, Ronnie "The Unionbuster" Reagan and half a dozen other sons-a-bitches. We'll be here through your weak bullshit, no problem! These four ain't workin' today. You wanna leave the papers here, I'll make sure they get 'em and go downtown on 'em."






D understood the game better than Jay Gatsby, that's foo sure.
 
London_Calling said:
For the newbies – and to piss off our Pict-coloured self-obsessive, three questions from last night. One easy, one moderate, one tricky:

1) What was the name of the woman estate agent who showed Nicky Sobotka around the house?
2) What was the toon playing as Beadie Russel was turning herself into real police by developing a CI?
3) What was interesting about what the Greek who met Frank Sobotka on the waterfront was wearing?
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1) I thought it was McNutly's wife
2) Dunno
3) Dunno
 
El Sueno said:
How fucking cool was Omar in court last night? :cool:
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Yeah. Loved his court outfit and the way he kept waving his tie.

Was rather surprised by all the nudity. We haven't seen any real nudity up til now. All of a sudden we have a totally nekid striper and McNaughty's wife in a naked clinch with him.

Wishing they wouldn't put it on so late though. I need to get to bed early and I can't until i get my Wire fix.
 
Marius said:
Was rather surprised by all the nudity.
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Me too, first we get Niko's girl hooking out her wicked tits a couple of episodes ago, now everyone's at it. :cool:

I see they've doing the same deal as last week; 3 episodes Mon/Tues/Wed and then all three repeated silly hours late Friday night/Sat morning. So I can have an early night tonight at last! (I'm so pissed off my digibox recorder is fucked, otherwise I'd have every episode on hard drive. :( )
 
He gets led into the library storeroom, then he's strangled from behind with a leather belt until dead. The murderer then ties the belt around D's neck, sits him down leaning on the door and ties the other end of the belt to the door handle. He slips through the door, which is closed behind him by the weight of D's body. Roll credits.
 
That one surprised the fuck out of me n mrs b when we saw it. A literally jaw dropping moment. What a fucking series.
 
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