TV Lives - The Wire is Back!
Sheeeeeeee-yit! I am so happy to report that the best show on television starts up again tomorrow night - the final season of “The Wire” airs on HBO at 9 p.m. EST. Of course, I’ve cheated and watched it on On Demand twice already. I love to try and hold out for the Sunday night time and get my dose when I should, but I could not sit at home for a week with a cold, when all the other shows on TV seemed to involve Tila Tequila, people losing weight, or reruns about sex crime forensics, and NOT watch the first episode of “The Wire.” I mean, I’ve been re-upping on all of the other seasons and interviews for months now in preparation for this episode!
My favorite scene had to be the Xerox scene, though usually the drug dealers and little hoppers are MUCH smarter than that. Did you notice that the latest package is being branded as “Greenhouse Gas?” A few years ago, it was “WMD.” They keep up with the times. I can’t believe how the show has interwoven so many people and issues each season. They add a new element each season (this year it’s journalism at The Baltimore Sun), yet they keep up on the other elements they’ve added like politics and the schools an integral part of the story. It looks like they may even keep the port a little more involved this season. I love that the writers show how complex many decisions are, how much a one decision can trickle down and affect so many people, and why Baltimore is in such a seemingly hopeless state. Also, it’s not just Bodymore that’s in shambles; Baltimore represents many cities on the show.
OK, the whole other two people of you who watch “The Wire” out there, who is your favorite character? I tried to choose, I love them all so much, from the brilliance of Prop Joe to the unbelievably dirty Clay Davis; from real POH-LEECE like Lester to that hot mess McNulty, from the ambitious Stringer Bell to the drug-legalizing Bunny Colvin, I can’t decide. It comes down to a three-way tie between The Bunk, Omar, and Bubbles. To me, Bubbles is Baltimore. I always wonder if the state that Bubbles is in represents the state that Baltimore is in at that moment on the show. Right now the city is struggling to repair itself but it is far from “a new day” with the school budget shortfall. Bubbles seems to be in the same state. He’s clean, but he lives in his sister’s basement and has to wander the streets all night.
OK, for those of you who don’t watch, you can at least get a grammar lesson out of this. Did you know that if you say you “evacuate people” you mean that you are giving them an enema? You can evacuate a building, but you don’t say that you evacuated people from the building. I did not know that. Apparently, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution doesn’t either, as I just read about some people “being evacuated” in there yesterday. It’s hard to have good grammar when the newspapers we read don’t even know the rules.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
The Wire is all that is and all that ever was. Cant pick a favorite- they are all a perfect string of pearls.
January 9th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Erianthe, I think my favorite line from this week (I watched ahead already - I made it until Monday noon without cheating - sad!), anyway, favorite line was “this game is rigged.” McNulty took that from Bodie, right before he inadvertently caused Bodie to get whacked. I think the actor who played Bodie got whacked on “Oz” too, by a French prisoner with the gun that the character who plays Carver on “The Wire” left behind for Adebesi to find. I definitely get WAY too involved in HBO Series!
Becky