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re: The Baltimore Riots got me thinking about "The Wire".
Posted on 4/29/15 at 2:52 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 4/29/15 at 2:52 pm to Ace Midnight
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Lester was probably great murder police back in the day - as Bunk
Lester and Bunk are my two favorite cops. when Lester proves he's not a hump in season 1 was 1 of my favorite parts of the series.
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Posted on 4/29/15 at 2:55 pm to ligerbait
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The drug war began it, certainly, but the stake through the heart of police procedure in Baltimore was Martin O’Malley3. He destroyed police work in some real respects. Whatever was left of it when he took over the police department, if there were two bricks together that were the suggestion of an edifice that you could have called meaningful police work, he found a way to pull them apart. Everyone thinks I’ve got a hard-on for Marty because we battled over “The Wire,” whether it was bad for the city, whether we’d be filming it in Baltimore. But it’s been years, and I mean, that’s over. I shook hands with him on the train last year and we buried it. And, hey, if he's the Democratic nominee, I’m going to end up voting for him. It’s not personal and I admire some of his other stances on the death penalty and gay rights. But to be honest, what happened under his watch as Baltimore’s mayor was that he wanted to be governor. And at a certain point, with the crime rate high and with his promises of a reduced crime rate on the line, he put no faith in real policing.
how does he expect anything to ever change with this attitude?
This post was edited on 4/29/15 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 4/29/15 at 3:03 pm to Dire Wolf
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how does he expect anything to ever change with this attitude?
I was about to post the same thing
Posted on 4/29/15 at 3:09 pm to H-Town Tiger
I am dumbfounded. The entire piece is about this guys failure to lead but you will still vote for him because he has a D next to his name.
I love David Simons work and respect a lot of what he says but god damn.
I love David Simons work and respect a lot of what he says but god damn.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 3:21 pm to rbWarEagle
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Even the lack of finality was enjoyable
WTF? THe final montage is one of the best ten minutes in TV history IMO.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 3:40 pm to ligerbait
That's an interesting article because I remember several times during the series thinking they had to be exaggerating the police state nature of things. The article makes it sounds like they grossly undersold that angle.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 3:41 pm to CocomoLSU
Yeah I love the closing montage. Things never changing is kind of the poinr
Posted on 4/29/15 at 5:13 pm to CocomoLSU
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WTF? THe final montage is one of the best ten minutes in TV history IMO.
I just meant that the whole thing, season by season, never really gave you that feeling of closure. I'm not criticizing it, though. I think it's a great reflection of reality.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 6:00 pm to Ace Midnight
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Syndor was the best overall cop on the team.
No, not really. He was solid.
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