BBC Two to air The Wire
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It threw me at first that there was no Lieutenant in the Homicide squad. Everything went from the Sergeant to the Major and then the Colonel. The police slang seemed different from what I remembered from Homicide. So when a "red ball" was finally mentioned I remembered. Maybe it is generational like NYPD desk Sergeant became a Lieutenant's job?
IIRC currently a sergeant's basically the shift supervisor, so everything everyone does goes through him to go up the chain
And its not just the city and drug war politics which is honest. Look at the wives and girlfriends, instead of the supermodels we get real people. When McNulty and DeAngelo have affairs in hindsight you can even say they stepped down.
Cops don't get into super firefights and run off to continue the hunt instead of being put on a desk until the investigation is done. In fact the cops don't get into gunfights. With the exception of a major storyline of one character
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I'm trying to remember the number of times a cop has fired their gun in the series, and outside of one incident in the third season that should be obvious, I can't think of any others. That really puts the series in a new light, especially compared to Homicide: Life on the Street, which I've grown to love (as far as I've seen, through most of the third season, anyway), but find far, far different than The Wire.
I'm trying to remember the number of times a cop has fired their gun in the series, and outside of one incident in the third season that should be obvious, I can't think of any others. That really puts the series in a new light, especially compared to Homicide: Life on the Street, which I've grown to love (as far as I've seen, through most of the third season, anyway), but find far, far different than The Wire.
^ The same guy, the legacy hire, in the first season at the Towers when the B team cops got drunk one night. He had another accidental discharge at the offsite office. It was the finale of the first arc when the SWAT team was set to invade which should have been the final evidence that this show was different.
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I don't remember "the legacy hire" (nice
) firing in that scene in season one, but it's been a while since I've seen those episodes. I think it's almost certain that a character who "don't scare" had the most action in the entirety of the series. (Well, not that kind of action. For that, there's always McNulty).
I don't remember "the legacy hire" (nice
) firing in that scene in season one, but it's been a while since I've seen those episodes. I think it's almost certain that a character who "don't scare" had the most action in the entirety of the series. (Well, not that kind of action. For that, there's always McNulty).
^ McNulty may have gotten the action on screen but Lester, Cedric, Dee, and Stringer were able to keep the girl. The diner waitress, his ex-wife and the political consultant used poor McNulty. It wasn't shown, except at Wallace's squat but I think Poot was said to be the champion in that area.
Im kind of slow I just remembered the don't scare refrence. In fact I think he got the most action on the show and his relationships were the most loving and stable shown. Maybe the cop and the stripper or the baby mama and the copy store owner came close in best relationships
^Yes, because no one ever says fuck in real life...
It wasn't that, it was just so over used! And I can talk, because I swear a lot, but not every second word. Although there have been times......
I know people who do. I can at times, I don't remember thinking it was out of place, but it has been a while. Maybe I'll agree when I see it again.
It wasn't that, it was just so over used! And I can talk, because I swear a lot, but not every second word. Although there have been times......
Cool, I guess I can take this off my rental list now.
It wasn't that, it was just so over used! And I can talk, because I swear a lot, but not every second word. Although there have been times......
Two things are going on. First it is made for HBO, on basic cable and broadcast TV you can't use the word at all so on HBO they push the envelope on such matters. Look at the sexual content on the first episode of Rome for another example. It becomes less noticable, yet you still have to deal with Baltimore slang.
Secondly, especially in the first year you are dealing with murder and narcotics police on one hand and boys who have been stealing drugs on the streets since they were 11 years old on the other side. The other characters have a direct connection to that world. Season 4 can be called the how they got there story arc. You can then appretiate more a character who was able to function in other places, yet under stress the corner boy vocabulary reemerges.
Yet one of the most famous scenes on the show nothing is said except a variation of fuck. If you don't go to R rated movies because of langauge used then avoid HBO TV shows entirely.
I remember being a bit shocked and turned off by the language, but you honestly stop noticing it a few episodes in. At least I did. It's not that there's any less of it, but you get used to it.
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