The Wire

[Neurochick]

bklynred said:

Arrrggh, neurochick. You're killing me.

What can I say bklynred , I'm a bad, bad girl.

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bklynred said:

Arrrggh, neurochick. You're killing me.

She is such a tease!

[zacandmax]

I didn't even want to respond because I am so tempted to ask Neurochick to PM me....but I am resisting temptation (for once in my over indulged life!)

[Neurochick]

Resistance is futile.

[zacandmax]

It's over. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just some musings...

So Dukie (poor Dukie!) is the next Bubbles, Michael is the next Omar, and Kinard is the next Marlo?
Why did Marlo punch that dude out like that? Is he THAT concerned with his reputation and name?
Chris and Weebey. Ride or die like a mothafucka.
Bye McNulty and Freemon. And did you see that young chippie Lester is married to? Yeah, I like those bowlegs too, Girlfriend. I ain't mad at ya.
Gotta love Kima Greggs. And Cedric Daniels. And fine ass Slim Charles. And Bunk. Especially Bunk. And Gus.
Gotta hate Maury Levy. And Herc. And asshole Scott Templeton. And the two editor dudes.

I'm gonna miss this show.


I'm so glad Cheese caught it. I couldn't stand his dumb arrogant ass.

[Neurochick]

I'm so glad Cheese caught it. I couldn't stand his dumb arrogant ass.

When I watched this on Friday, I kept rewinding that scene because it seemed too good to be true. I was SO sick of Cheese, and have been for years, I guess Slim Charles was too.

I really felt for Dukie, but I'm glad that Bubbles was sitting with his sister and her son.

Michael as the new Omar, loved it.

Marlo will have to slither down a rat hole and never be seen again, I noticed the guys on the corner were talking about OMAR and did not know who the heck Marlo was.

Glad Daniels got out of that nuthouse and Rhonda's a judge, too cool.

Glad Lester and Shardine were still together, I remember her from season one.

Chris and Wee Bay chilling in prison. I bet Avon's running the place with the Russian dude.

Wonder if Levy will give his card to Slim Charles. Herc was so stupid, he didn't even get why Levy was happy with him, totally clueless.

Glad to see Carver get promoted, I remember when he and Herc were dumb and dumber, Carver grew up, Herc did not.

All in all a great finale, I'm glad those spoilers of McNulty blowing his brains out were false.

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neurochick said:

I'm so glad Cheese caught it. I couldn't stand his dumb arrogant ass.

All in all a great finale, I'm glad those spoilers of McNulty blowing his brains out were false.

Heh. And you know I was disappoined he didn't blow his brains out.

[zacandmax]

The mayor here in Philly had a special screening in City Hall of the finale last night. I entered a contest over and over to win tickets, but my luck is in the toilet. Anyway here is what the local paper had to say about the screening. Because the articles are only available for a limited time, I will post the entire article.

At City Hall, mayor has 'Wire' unplugged
It's a wrap for HBO's urban drama.

By Karen Heller
Inquirer Staff Writer

It's good to be king or, in Michael Nutter's case, mayor.

If your favorite television show of all time happens to be HBO's The Wire, which had its finale last night, you could have placed a phone call to the Greater Philadelphia Film Office's Sharon Pinkenson 10 days ago and seen if you could stage a viewing party in City Hall.

Welcome to Mayor Mike's Movie Night, complete with beer and popcorn, Raisinets and Twizzlers.

Not only did Nutter get the viewing of the 93-minute fifth-season finale a full hour ahead of national broadcast, but he lined up nine - count 'em, nine - of the series' stars.

"Omar! Omar!" some of the 100 fans assembled yelled at Michael K. Williams, better known as Omar Little, the bane of West Baltimore drug dealers, who, alas, bit the convenience-store dust a few Sundays ago. Instead of showing up with his customary long coat and shotgun, the actor was incongruously dressed in a vintage Boy Scout shirt. "I've been travelling a lot. This is what I had clean," he said.

Based on photo ops and fans amassed, Williams was the crowd favorite, despite his life of crime. This may have been the first time a vigilante was so celebrated in City Hall.

"I learned a lot from the series, what to do right and what not to do," the mayor said before the screening of his "favorite show of all time." Nutter penned a love letter to the show in yesterday's Inquirer.

The mayor stressed that he in no way resembles The Wire's fictional, opportunistic and severely unctuous Mayor Tommy Carcetti. "He is always focused on getting to the next place." Like the governorship?

"I only have my eye on the office around the corner," Nutter said.

"This parallels a lot of what we do," said Manwell Glenn, the city's assistant managing director, who is married to Sandra Dungee Glenn, chair of the School Reform Commission, who was hooting through the screening with obvious delight.

Deborah Seay, an educational consultant with 35 years in the city school district, said "I put the capital F in Fan." She's an old friend of the mayor's who was thrilled to be watching with the stars. Later, she asked the panel of nine actors "whether there was any possibility of making a movie, like they're doing with Sex and the City" - her other favorite - "then maybe you can save Dukie the way you did Bubbles."

Jermaine Crawford, the 15-year-old who played the troubled, homeless teen, was there with his father, Germantown-born Milton, and his mother, Wanda, as well as his music manager John Gore.

This would be distinct from his acting manager, who was not in attendance.

Clark Johnson, originally of West Philadelphia, had the dual distinction of directing and starring in last night's episode as heroic Baltimore Sun city editor Gus Haynes. "I'm the worst actor I've got," he said, bringing along one of his "30 first cousins in the area," Derrick Lee Sr., a school principal in Delaware.

Many of the cast members, who finished shooting in September, found the night bittersweet, an end to a stellar five-season acting project that produced a thorough portrait of a city ravaged by drugs, corruption and business as usual.

"Lester is the grown-up I want to be when I grow up," said Clark Peters, who played the smooth-talking wire expert Lester Freamon, whose career ends in flames.

Wendell Pierce, known as the can't-hold-his-beer Detective Bunk Moreland, was in attendance, though not with his customary cigar. He was the first to sign on for the movie night, and the most interested in continuing the Wire tradition.

In response to Seay's question about a movie, Pierce said he and Sonja Sohn, who played Detective Kima Greggs, "had secured financing and are hoping [series executive producer] David Simon and others will get on board."

Simon, who was in Los Angeles, addressed the assembled crowd via a video message before the screening. "I expect a key to the city of Philadelphia," said the producer and writer, who has been scathing in his view of his hometown Baltimore's corruption and crime, "because it will be a cold day in hell when I get one in Baltimore."

Had Mayor Mike's Movie Night not come together, "I would just be at home watching like everyone else."

But it did. And in introducing the evening, Nutter said "this is the beginning of other movie programs and, when the weather gets nicer, events in City Hall's courtyard," a political promise he expects to keep.

I am so jealous. I wanted to go.

[bklynred]

I had no idea there were rumors of McNulty committing suicide. He is way too self-absorbed for that. I called him being a scapegoat but wasn't quite sure how'd they do it. I'm glad he didn't lose everything (Beadie's still putting up with him at home) although clearly he's gotta work out his next career (maybe a PI? It works for all the main characters in detective novels).

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Shoot. When they were doing that mock wake at the bar for McNulty I got all excited thinking he bit the big one. Then he moved and killed my joy. That McNutty. He is such a buzzkill. ;D