The Wire (1 Viewer)

[Raider Nation]

Felt so bad for Bubbs when he thought it was Herc coming to save him, but he got yet another beatdown for his trouble.

Herc is a terrible person.

His entire purpose on the show was to be a meathead ####up.

He is responsible for maybe the funniest moment of the whole series.GUS TRIANDOS!

Also loved it when he asked the little hopper where he buys those hats with the bill on the side.

 

[shuke]

Finished the entire series today.

Break down Bubbles for me.

Great actor, great character.

You could feel his pain before he...

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hung himself

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The spoiler probably isn't necessary at this point, but I'd hate to have someone read that before seeing it.

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Why he was never nominated for an Emmy is a shame.

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Watched season 1 for the fifth or six time recently, watching season II again as I type this.

Nobody bothered to watch the show, that's why. Except you.Since day 1.

 

[Apple Jack]

Finished the entire series today.

Break down Bubbles for me.

Great actor, great character.

You could feel his pain before he...

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hung himself

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The spoiler probably isn't necessary at this point, but I'd hate to have someone read that before seeing it.

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Why he was never nominated for an Emmy is a shame.

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Watched season 1 for the fifth or six time recently, watching season II again as I type this.

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Nobody bothered to watch the show, that's why.

Except you.Since day 1.

Well, yes, along with just about all of my friends. But I don't have an Emmy vote, so obviously I was referring to the Emmy voters not "bothering" to watch, in spite of there being a bit of responsibility associated with casting a vote.

 

[RoxSolid]

Found this link - top 100 wire scenes. Some of the videos are dead, but any true wire fan can replay all these scenes in their head.

http://forums.icine.org/the-top-100-scenes-from-the-wire-t20311.html

 

[The Ref]

Found this link - top 100 wire scenes. Some of the videos are dead, but any true wire fan can replay all these scenes in their head.

http://forums.icine....ire-t20311.html

Not a bad little list. #1 surprised me a bit but I can't say it's a bad one.

I can't leave 8. Carver Visits Randy at the Hospital out of the top 3 personally.

Also I never would have said this from memory, but 9. Brianna Confronts McNulty about D'Angelo is a really great scene and is deserving of top 10.

3. Bunk Chides Omar is top 3 no doubt.In my book 11. Stringer Tells Avon he was Behind D'Angelo's Death should be higher then both 6. Omar Little and Brother Mouzone Kill Stringer Bell and

4. Stringer and Avon on the Rooftop.

 

[Apple Jack]

Bunk burning his clothes #1 and it's not close.

 

[Apple Jack]

Without looking:

1) Wallace

2) Bubbles/sharod scene

3) dookie hustling prezbo

4) Omar/brother/stringer

5) Rawls/mcnutty in the hospital

 

[Sarnoff]

#41 (Bunk & McNulty investigate a crime scene, only using the word 'f###') and #38 (Snoop buys a nail gun) are my two favorites.

 

[Apple Jack]

You'd have to make two lists, one for gravity and one for levity.

 

[SacramentoBob]

#41 (Bunk & McNulty investigate a crime scene, only using the word 'f###') and #38 (Snoop buys a nail gun) are my two favorites.

Nail gun scene probably in my top 10-15.

 

[The Ref]

You'd have to make two lists, one for gravity and one for levity.

Because as someone already said... Bunks clothes, the "F" crime scene and the nail gun are all top 5 if your going for the funny. But in my mind you cant put any of them in a top ten with so many great serious scenes.

 

[bigmarc27]

The chess scene with Deangelo, Walace, and Bodie was listed at 71 - that's easily top 5. It summizes the entire drug trade aspect of the show.

 

[SacramentoBob]

The chess scene with Deangelo, Walace, and Bodie was listed at 71 - that's easily top 5. It summizes the entire drug trade aspect of the show.

The king stay the king.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Finished the entire series today.

Break down Bubbles for me.

Great actor, great character.

You could feel his pain before he...

Spoiler

hung himself

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The spoiler probably isn't necessary at this point, but I'd hate to have someone read that before seeing it.

Spoiler

Why he was never nominated for an Emmy is a shame.

Spoiler

Watched season 1 for the fifth or six time recently, watching season II again as I type this.

Nobody bothered to watch the show, that's why. I don't even recall any nominations, let alone wins.Yeah, no one ever got nominated which is ridiculous, but considering that Id be hard pressed to say Bubbs is the most likely guy who wouldve got nominated because he just didnt have enough screen time. The people most likely to get nominated I say would be Williams, West, or Elba.

 

[Ilov80s]

The chess scene with Deangelo, Walace, and Bodie was listed at 71 - that's easily top 5. It summizes the entire drug trade aspect of the show.

The king stay the king.

Great scene, but tough to match Omar on the stand with his borrowed tie. "...Just like you man - I've got the shotgun, you got the brief case... it's all in the game though right."

 

[Raider Nation]

No way Jimmy could ever hook up with Red again once Daniels got in there. Hot dog >>> hallway.

 

[Chaka]

No way Jimmy could ever hook up with Red again once Daniels got in there. Hot dog >>> hallway.

She might have no choice but to try and go back to Jimmy after Daniels left her for Shadynasty.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

No way Jimmy could ever hook up with Red again once Daniels got in there. Hot dog >>> hallway.

She might have no choice but to try and go back to Jimmy after Daniels left her for Shadynasty.

"He was black""Those were the days"

 

[derek245583]

Just finished it all last night...Totally awesome show.

 

[The Noid]

Just finished it all last night...Totally awesome show.

I re-watched this with my wife over the last couple months and it was her first time through. We got to the final epsiode 2 weeks ago, but she refuses to watch it because "then it will be over "

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Michael K. Williams tweeted that the actor Robert Chew (Prop Joe) has died. :(

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Michael K. Williams tweeted that the actor Robert Chew (Prop Joe) has died. :(

"Wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? Boredom. They just can't handle that ####. You keep it boring, String. You keep it dead ####### boring."

 

[The Noid]

Michael K. Williams tweeted that the actor Robert Chew (Prop Joe) has died. :(

Does Method Man have an alibi?

 

[SacramentoBob]

Michael K. Williams tweeted that the actor Robert Chew (Prop Joe) has died. :(

Does Method Man have an alibi?

 

[The_Man]

Nice article from the Baltimore alternative paper before Season 4, about how Prop Joe mentored the young actors.http://www2.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=12201#TheWireHBOHe was a local Baltimore guy and worked with troubled kids in real life.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Nice article from the Baltimore alternative paper before Season 4, about how Prop Joe mentored the young actors.http://www2.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=12201#TheWireHBOHe was a local Baltimore guy and worked with troubled kids in real life.

Yeah, I saw somewhere that he had a total of 22 pupils who were on the show at some point, including all four of the kids in S4.

 

[Raider Nation]

Michael K. Williams tweeted that the actor Robert Chew (Prop Joe) has died. :(

Surprising. He was the picture of health.:tips a 40:

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Robert F. Chew, a 52-year-old Baltimore actor and teacher who portrayed one of television’s most unforgettable characters as Proposition Joe on HBO’s “The Wire,” died Thursday of apparent heart failure in his sleep at his home in Northeast Baltimore, according to Clarice Chew, his sister.Mr. Chew, who appeared in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “The Corner,” as well as “The Wire,” also taught and mentored child and young adult actors at Baltimore’s Arena Players, a troupe he stayed with as his television career blossomed in David Simon HBO series. Through his work at the Arena Players Youth Theatre, he brought new talent to the attention of casting directors and coached the team of young actors who played students in the Baltimore City School system in Season 4 of “The Wire.”"Robert was not only an exceptional actor, he was an essential part of the film and theater community in Baltimore,” David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’ said in an email Friday. “He could have gone to New York or Los Angeles and commanded a lot more work, but he loved the city as his home and chose to remain here working. He understood so much about his craft that it was no surprise at all that we would go to him to coach our young actors in season four. He was the conduit through which they internalized their remarkable performances."In terms of what Mr. Chew brought to Proposition Joe, Simon said: "The Wire cast was an embarrassment of riches and it was easy, I think, for outsiders to overlook some of those who were so essential as supporting players. Robert's depiction of Proposition Joe was so fixed and complete -- from the very earliest scenes -- that the writers took for granted that anything we sent him would be finely executed.”Pointing to a scene that indicates the range of talents Chew brought to the production, Simon said, "Late in the run, almost as a tip of the hat to the work that Robert had done for us, I wrote up a scene in which Proposition Joe -- in order to determine whether someone was a police officer trying to infiltrate his drug crew -- gets on a pay phone and in rapid succession imitates four different characters in four different voices. If you remember that scene and Robert's performance, you know everything you'd need to know about how good an actor this man was.”"And apart from that, he was a fine and generous man," Simon concluded.Pat Moran, the legendary Baltimore casting director, said, “Robert Chew was an incredible actor as good as any of them that ever stepped on the stage on Broadway or anywhere. This was a great actor, but a greater man.”“This guy worked with young kids where he taught over at Arena,” Moran said. “That’s where I knew him from before ‘Homicide.’ And he would usher young talent into auditions that people ordinarily wouldn’t get a chance to see. And he would teach and mentor them, and the kids just adored him.”In a 2006 interview I did with Mr. Chew, he described Proposition Joe, by saying, “If you are thinking of ‘The Wire’ as a western, Joe would be the guy in town who owns all the land…. And he’s trying to make sure he has everything arranged so that the town runs the way he wants it to run – so that it runs for his profit. He’s always calculating that way."Based in part on a local narcotics figure who was killed in an after-hours club in 1984, the slow-moving, smooth-talking Prop Joe had some of his best moments opposite other great and complicated crime figures on the urban frontier of "The Wire" -- like Omar Little (Michael K. Williams).One of those scenes from the 2006 season featured Prop Joe, whose last name was Stewart, working his smooth magic on Omar in barroom meeting.The language itself in the mouth of Mr. Chew was a delight: "A businessman such as myself does not believe in bad blood with a man such as yourself - it disturbs the sleep," Joe says."I bet it do," Omar responds, exhaling smoke in Joe's direction."By way of amends," Joe says, ignoring the disrespect and pausing for effect, "a proposition."By the end of that exchange, as I wrote in that 2006 piece on Mr. Chew, Prop Joe had set Omar on a collison course with Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector), an equally cold blooded killer. It was just the kind of conflict from which a clever deal-maker like Joe always seemed to profit.But the biggest winner was the viewer in getting to savor such a fine and sure-handed performance from the hometown actor playing Joe.Mr.Chew broke into TV in 1997 with an episode of NBC’s “Homicide.” He continued with Simon on the HBO mini-series, “The Corner,” which premiered in 2000.Born in Baltimore, Mr. Chew graduated from Patterson High School and attended Morgan State University where he sang in the school’s world-renown choir. He was working full time in Baltimore area theater since the early 1980s. He continued to teach in the Arena Players Youth Theatre after “The Wire” ended production here in 2007.“He was a triple threat,” said Catherine Orange, director of Baltimore's Arena Players youth theater. “He could act, he could dance and he could sing. He was an extraordinary teacher and director for us. He believed in our kids and was a task master.”In 2006, Mr. Chew helped 22 of his students land parts in Simon's landmark series.“Whenever I had to dig deep and find kids who not only had the talent but the reality and the belief, kids who didn’t look like the ones in a Jello commercial, I called Robert,” Moran said Friday.“I’ve had calls today from students of his who he continued to mentor and teach into adulthood. He impacted people, lots and lots of people. And I don’t think he knew that," Moran added."He was a quiet, shy guy. Prop Joe’s character was the exact opposite of what Robert Chew’s real character was. With a look or a gesture, Prop Joe could be terrifying. But that was just acting. Robert Chew didn’t have a mean bone in his body.”Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Calvin B. Scruggs Funeral Home, 1412 East Preston Street.In addition to his sister, Clarice, Mr. Chew is survived by his mother, Henrietta; and two sisters, Tonya Chew and Maureen Little. All live in Baltimore.

Baltimore Sun

 

[Raider Nation]

Pointing to a scene that indicates the range of talents Chew brought to the production, Simon said, "Late in the run, almost as a tip of the hat to the work that Robert had done for us, I wrote up a scene in which Proposition Joe -- in order to determine whether someone was a police officer trying to infiltrate his drug crew -- gets on a pay phone and in rapid succession imitates four different characters in four different voices. If you remember that scene and Robert's performance, you know everything you'd need to know about how good an actor this man was.”

 

[Apple Jack]

####. One of my favorites. Keep you candy ### "actors." This was a man communicating.

 

[The Ref]

Michael K. Williams tweeted that the actor Robert Chew (Prop Joe) has died. :(

"Wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? Boredom. They just can't handle that ####. You keep it boring, String. You keep it dead ####### boring."

One of my favorite quotes from the show.

 

[Raider Nation]

GOTT DAMN RIGHT the Ravens are champs...

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

The corner has been on HBO signature lately. I forgot how good this is, how many wire actors are in it, and how much if a precursor it was. Excellent.

 

[SacramentoBob]

The corner has been on HBO signature lately. I forgot how good this is, how many wire actors are in it, and how much if a precursor it was. Excellent.

They are all over the place. Sometimes just a short cameo role. Jay Landsman (the super fat Sergeant) was in it for a quick second as a worker at the scrap yard. Blink and you'll miss him. The ending of The Corner was pretty sad, especially what happened to Sidnor's character.

 

[Raider Nation]

The corner has been on HBO signature lately. I forgot how good this is, how many wire actors are in it, and how much if a precursor it was. Excellent.

Good lookin out. I didn't even realize this was On Demand right now.

 

[drummer]

Michael B. Jordan who played Wallace is getting Oscar buzz for the lead in Fruitvale Station.

 

[Joe McGee]

Michael B. Jordan who played Wallace is getting Oscar buzz for the lead in Fruitvale Station.

Wow, he looks older here. How time flies.

 

[Christo]

Still hard to watch the scene where Wallace gets popped. :(

WHERE'S WALLACE!

 

[gump]

Michael B. Jordan who played Wallace is getting Oscar buzz for the lead in Fruitvale Station.

Vince...a little undersized, but a dangerous dual threat.

 

[T Bell]

The chess scene with Deangelo, Walace, and Bodie was listed at 71 - that's easily top 5. It summizes the entire drug trade aspect of the show.

The king stay the king.

Great scene, but tough to match Omar on the stand with his borrowed tie. "...Just like you man - I've got the shotgun, you got the brief case... it's all in the game though right."

I actually like Omar roaming the streets unarmed in his bathrobe looking for his Honey Nut, and then leaning up against the building to take a smoke and having a g-pack just drop out of the window to him.

"Omar strollin'!"

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Starting again with S01E01.

So friggin good.

 

[T Bell]

Starting again with S01E01.

So friggin good.

Do they yell, "Homer creepin'!" in your neighborhood?

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Starting again with S01E01.

So friggin good.

Do they yell, "Homer creepin'!" in your neighborhood?

Just the parents

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Starting again with S01E01.

So friggin good.

Do they yell, "Homer creepin'!" in your neighborhood?

You get a whole different vibe when Homer goes in search of Honey Nut in his robe.

 

[Christo]

Starting again with S01E01.

So friggin good.

Do they yell, "Homer creepin'!" in your neighborhood?

You get a whole different vibe when Homer goes in search of Honey Nut in his robe.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Michael B. Jordan who played Wallace is getting Oscar buzz for the lead in Fruitvale Station.

Looks interesting. Will definitely check it out at some point. Thought he was good in Chronicle last year.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Michael B. Jordan who played Wallace is getting Oscar buzz for the lead in Fruitvale Station.

Wow, he looks older here. How time flies.

Well, season 1 of The Wire was over a decade ago, so indeed.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

Still hard to watch the scene where Wallace gets popped. :(

WHERE'S WALLACE!

I hated Deangelo's face

 

[drummer]

Looks like Wallace might be in yet another Rocky sequel:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/michael-b-jordan-in-talks-to-star-in-new-rocky-sequel-creed-20130724

 

[McGarnicle]

Starting again with S01E01.

So friggin good.

Just started again also, now with the wife joining me. This will be my third trip, her first. I'm picking up so much more context and catching things I missed the first time.