Cool News
HBO Transmits The Last WIRE Of 2006!!
I am – Hercules!!
Irony of ironies! “The Wire,” the not-comedy show comedy genius Patton Oswalt has been raving about since forever, transmits its shocking finale opposite Oswalt’s own Comedy Central special “Last Laugh ‘06”!
Of course, if you’re like me and get the On Demand, you saw the final “Wire” on Monday. The unwashed see the final episode tonight.
There will be a fifth and final season. No one knows when.
10 p.m. Sunday. HBO.
70%-Off Season Sets!!
I was all excited when the entire extra-crammed Twilight Zone series set
fell to $209.99 a few month ago. At the moment it’s only $182.77!!! That’s $36.56 per season!!!
$11.99 Cheyenne: The Complete First Season
$17.99 Smallville: The Complete Third Season
$11.99 V: The Complete Series
$11.99 Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season
$8.09 The Ben Stiller Show: The Complete Series < --- Comedy genius Judd Apatow (“Freaks and Geeks,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) very involved with this one!!
$5.99 Blue Collar TV: The Complete First Season
$11.99 Friends: The Complete First Season
$11.99 F-Troop: The Complete First Season
$8.39 The Jamie Foxx Show: The Complete First Season
$8.39 MADtv: The Complete First Season
$8.39 Murphy Brown: The Complete First Season
$8.39 Night Court: The Complete First Season
$8.39 The Wayans Bros.: The Complete First Season
$8.39 ER: The Complete First Season
$11.99 Knots Landing: The Complete First Season
$8.39 Without A Trace: The Complete First Season
$8.99 The Brak Show: Vol. 1
$8.99 Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law Vol.1
$8.99 The Oblongs: The Complete Series
$8.99 Robot Chicken: The Complete First Season
$8.99 The Venture Bros.: The Complete First Season
-
+ Expand All
-
Let's hope we don't have to wait two years between seasons again.
-
keep them coming
-
And the end is nice , seems we will be seeing more of one of the main characters again next season.This season was great, hope we only wait till next fall to see season 5.
-
probably not until next summer i'm guessing. shit. i fell behind, and my crappy cable company doesnt have on demand...so i'll have to catch up when it comes out on DVD. i hate when that happens...anyway, i'm praying that McNulty comes back into the forefront and they actually have, ya know, a WIRE tap and a whole heapin' helping of the Major Crimes Unit in the final season.
-
Michael is the next Avon Barksdale.Dukie is the next Stringer Bell.Randy is the next Bubbles.Namond is the next Clay Davis.And Kennard is the next Marlo!
-
oh wait, that's right...Omar is sort of like Michael Jordan...there will NEVER be another Omar.
-
Production sometime in March 07 for a late 07 or early 08 premier according to an interview of the guy who plays Bubbles. Can hardly wait for the dvd set though. I love the audio commentaries.
-
And that's a damn shame. McNulty fuckin' rules. He's gonna open a serious can of whoopfuckingass on Marlo next season for what he did to Bodie.
-
Shit, sorry bout that minor spoiler above. I know it's prolly too late now, but, sorry anyways.....
-
to watch The Wire when I had HBO...4, 5 years ago so it must have been in it's first or second season and I was never constent with catching it at the same time so I could never really get into it, but now I wish I had, I have a feeling it's a lot like HOMICIDE (same creators right? or producers?) where you relaly have to marinate yourself in it to "get it" Homicide, man there's a show I miss, if it hadn't been for my friend justin telling me how much better it was then LAW & ORDER which I was raving about, then I would have never checked it out,
-
You are correct. I watched 5 or 6 episodes of the first season out of habit because it was Sunday night and that's what I did on Sunday nights. I kept wondering why I was watching it because nothing was really happening and it was VERY slow. Then all of a sudden, I was hooked (the moment of clarity came during the scene with Greggs in the alley in the car). Get the DVDs and give it another chance. You won't be sorry.
-
to the best season of television ever produced (yes i said it). the show's got an unprecedented 9.8 on imdb, and has some of the most gushing reviews i've ever seen, but no one watches it. sometimes people suck.
-
when you watch the finale hoping this character or that character wasn't going to die. Then, guess what happens, somebody dies.
-
I fucking love this show, and this season was no different. In my opinion, it was the best season yet. That being said, here are my Top 10 Wire moments from the previous 4 seasons. (*Warning* I'll try to keep them as spoiler-free as possible as pertaining to tonight's episode, but this will include the deaths of major characters from seasons 1-4)
10. Ziggy Sabotka finally going nuts and killing Double G in his store (season 2)
9. Marlo capping that girl right in front of her house after finding out she was a mole (season 3)
8. Michael beating down Kennard with Namond running away (season 4)
7. Bodie's fate and it's effect on McNulty (season 4)
6. D'Angelo getting strangled in the Jail library (season 2)
5. Prez pistol whipping the 14 year old kid, causing a mini riot in the towers (season 1)
4. Rawls in the gay bar (season 3)
3. Stringer revealing to Avon that he was the one behind D'Angelo's murder (season 3)
2. Omar and Brother Mouzone gunning down Stringer (season 3)
1. Kima getting ambushed in the alley (season 1)
I know I'm missing a lot, but I had to narrow it down. -
Kennard should have his own show, the "The Kennard Variety Hour". Also, Beadie is looking good. Hopefully there will be some shower scenes next season, pivotal to the plot and tastefully done of course. I think they over did it with the foreshadowing in the garden and the clouds, but it did set the mood and give you a sense of dread.
-
DrBanner, your moments left out some of the great drunk McNulty escapades- like getting drunk, crashing then re-doing the crash and ending up bloody in bed with that waitress.
My top scene is in season 1 where where McNulty and his partner only say "fuck" while going over the crime scene- "fuuuck" "fuck!" "fuck?" -
Will be much more involved in the final season , so say we all.
-
yeah I need to get it on DVD, I know that, there's just been more pressing issues, like you know...rent =)
-
Saw this On Demand - DAMMMMMMN this is a good episode. Kind of Shakespearian. Jimmy McNaulty in the frackin hiz-ouse y'all!!! Next year can't come fast enough.
-
Bodie, king of the "spit-take", you will be missed. There's always one "major" death on The Wire each season, and this year it was Bodie. Well, at least he went out with a bang and not like a bitch! I like that his death was the impetus for McNulty to be a "Dick" once more; hopefully he'll be a nice, sober Dick, instead of a mean, old drunk Dick. The Wire is a great show, and one that actually improves in quality each season. I can't wait for season 5...
-
Yes. The "fuck" scene as they make each new connection at the crime scene is one of the great single moments in all of everything. And we get another season. Man, this makes me forgive HBO for an awful lot.
-
Bubbles turning the undercovers into "dope fiends". Explaining how they need more dirt and broken vials on the soles of the shoes. The first "Fuzzy Dunlop" when the camera gets run over. The opening scene of season one describing how Snot Boogie died. When McNulty asks why they didn't just kick boogie out of the craps game and the black guys says "This America we can't do that". Discovering Kima is a lesbian. Discovering Omar is gay. Omar going for cereal in his robe and everyone running from him. McNulty and the Russian hookers.
-
...Omar on the witness stand. Ah, hell...you could pretty much list every scene Omar's appeared in. And Bunk burning his suit. Actually, to do the show justice it would have to be a list of more than a hundred. Think about Stringer and Avon's last talk or the first time Lester comes up with the kind of brilliant detective work we now expect, the thing with the boxing poster, or...see?
-
...and the cautionary tale about what to do when Rawls asks him where he'd like to land.
-
..."nice work" between Stringer and McNulty, the moment between Marlo and Avon in the courtroom at the end of season three, nearly every scene with Proposition Joe, but most especially the East Side/West Side basketball game, the first time you see Stringer holding one of his corporate board meetings, mistaking what "he was my dog and I killed him" meant...Damn I love this show.
-
...McNulty proving why the floater belongs to Rawls in season two. Loved that.
-
One of the finest TV series ever. I am like Herc and saw the show on Monday. Brilliant episode to a great season. "The Wire" is one of the very few great moments in American TV.
-
i LOVED Bunny's talk with Weebey in tonight's episode. if you told me 2 months ago how much i was going to care about Namond, i wouldn't have believed you. and who can forget the brutal murder of Michael's stepfather? or "Where's Wallace?" at the end of season 1? or Randy's "Miss Donnely, i know about a murder"? or tailing Avon after the basketball game? or when they finally got Stringer on tape right before his final meeting with Omar? jesus, i love this show.
-
New to this forum...The Wire is the best show on TV period...one of my favorite moments is when Omar goes into the drug house dressed as an old man in the wheelchair...classic!
-
the show itself is the best series ever. shiiiiiiiit.
-
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/08/tv.thewire.bubbles.ap/index.html
-
The Wire, however, never does. Everything else is junior varsity.
-
why do people confuse irony with coincidence? especially "professional" writers like herc?
-
The finale is over, and now my Sundays look very bleak... My Cowboys lost 42-17 also. Shit, Sundays are looking like crap. By the way, I love how many major publications are now calling THE WIRE the best show on TV. It is, but no one I know watches the motherfucker. Someone said it was like HOMICIDE. It is in a way. It always got incredible reviews and critical acclaim, but no one watched the show and it kind of limped along to its inevitable death. But thank God there will be a season 5. I remember reading that the show's creators thought this would be the last season, so they were writing a season finale that tied everything up. Now that I've seen it, I can only think how pissed I would have been if the show had been canceled at this point. This tied up nothing, but really, really makes me salivate as I look foward towards next year. God I love this show.
-
One of the greatest things about this great show is that with the number of major, well-defined characters presented, every episode has some interaction between two or more of them that results in something unexpected. Like, for example, in tonight's episode, we had tremendous scenes between Colvin and Cutty, between Bunk and Snoop, between the Greek guy and Marlo. A lot of the pleasure in this season came from that kind of interweave, that can only come when you've taken the time to build such a strong foundation. Incredible stuff.
-
What more can be said? This was an amazing ending to a season where a lot of characters changed a lot. Think about it, just about every character went through huge changes. And when you have maybe 20-30 characters per episode, that's a lot of changes. I was happy to see Spiros back. He pretty much made season 2. Looks like he'll be back for season five. So far, they've set up season five to be fuckin insane. Insane I tell you.
-
when avon is berating stringer about authorizing the hit attempt on omar, breaking the sunday truce and blasting omar's gramma's crown off the top of her dome
-
randy yelling "you gonna look out for me sgt. carver?" in the hospital. no swearing, and i come close to losing it every time i see it. i highly doubt the people who choose globe and emmy nominations will remove their heads from their asses for long enough to recognize the show though.
-
I only recently watched seasons 1-3 on DVD to catch up. Its going to be painful having to wait until late 07 or early 08 for the last season. I wish they didn't have to wrap things up. Its not as if the drug trade is going to end if they get the current players.
-
The look on Presbos' face, witnessing Dukie on the corner selling dope (knowing that there is no way he can save him) was so heartbreaking...And poor Randy winding up in that purgutory of a group home was totally fucked-up. In The Wire there is no such thing as an all around happy ending.
-
Best. Show. EVER. You're the man, Bodie! Forever. What great stories for the kids, too. EVERY arc this season was unreal. So good. So, so very good. Favorite moment from the past though: man, I just love season 1's "Where's Wallace at, String?" Just a beautifully set up scene. God, this show's fucking great. Outstanding. Well done, Burns, Simon, and everyone involved in the show. You may not have many fans, but the ones you do have are REALLY big fans. Looking forward to the DVDs and Season 5.
-
When I saw the HBO promos, I wasn't sure how the kids and the school stuff would tie in to the "wire" and the rest, but it added an interesting layer to the show. I love how everything from City Hall, the police, the drug dealers to the corner boys and school kids all end up affecting each other's lives in ways they might never know. Good stuff....
-
when carver is whaling on his steering wheel and the horn is honking...you wanna laugh but instead you wind up wanting to cry.
-
This season was by far the best TV show for YEARS!!! Shame about Boadie, the last of the true Barksdales. Awesome ending, shame about Randy and Dukie. I saw Michael's turn to the darkside early on, but those 2's stories hit deep. There had to be a 5th season, too much left undone. Is Marlo going to get The Greek's connection? Is McNulty going to be a raging, womanizing alcoholic again? Is Daniels going to become commissioner? Is Michael going to slimb up the ladder and be an enforcer next season? This season raised the bar of all of television to create engaging characters/storiylines, and the next season will have to be even better. I hope they get the props they deserve come emmys and golden globes- they give it to Sopranos and that hasn't be that great for years- it's The Wire's time!!
-
Bubs is the most heartbreaking character I've ever seen on television. I've never felt worse for any character.
-
I think it was mentioned earlier, but the scene where Omar was getting cross examined by Levy (barkesdale's lawyer) sticks out in my mind as being one of the best scenes in the series. I think that was in season 1.
-
but to begin - episode 50 (4.13) "Final Grades" stands up there among the finest eps of the series...(best ep in my mind is still #11 (1.11) "The Hunt" which was the post-Kima and Orlando shooting when all the cops threw politics out the window and all became "real poh-leece".)
But for the favorite moments?
10) Justin trying to sell drugs to Bunny Colvin. (ep.3.1 "Time After Time")
9) Omar getting dressed for breakfast in phone books and atlases (ep.4.7 "Unto Others")
8) Horseface stealing Valchek's new van and putting it on its "World tour". (ep.2.2 "Collateral Damage")
7) Omar turning in his clock for repair to Prop Joe. "What's wrong with it?" "It ran out of time." (ep.4.11 "A New Day") Bonus - Omar getting the clock back in ep.4.13 "Final Grades".
6) "You see that? That's the North Star. Follow it home." (ep.3.6 "Homecoming")
5) End of season one - Omar sticking up a New York dealer..."It's all in the game." (ep.1.13 "Sentencing")
4) Avon telling Stringer to leave the safe open "no point in ruining a good safe" and then the look on both of their faces when McNulty and Daniels only cuffed Avon. (ep.1.12 "Cleaning Up".)
3) The Sobatka file slowly making it's way through the FBI mail cart to be posted on the FBI web and thus alerting The Greek's mole, all while Sobatka himself is going to meet the Greek, and which arrives first, (ep. 2.11 "Bad Dreams")
2) Bodie being led to the back of the florist to pick out a REAL funeral floral arrangment for DeAngelo. (ep.2.7 "Backwash")
1) The impassioned, very true-to-life speech by Walon at the Narcotics Anonymous meeting which brought Bubbles to actually sober up. Played by real life addict and ex-con Steve Earle, who means every word of it. And bonus points for bringing Walon back for this last episode. (ep.1.9 "Game Day")
Anyone who loves that character, should hear Steve Earle's music. You can hear why they cast him. Pure genius....And thus, I hear WMD's are the bomb! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!! -
Was when everyone at the wire finally found out that Avon had been released from prison about 10 years early... McNulty yells, "Big Joke!" And, Kima tosses a phone at the camera. And we cut to black.
-
Afrer WeyBey knows he's goingt o jail he brings D'Angelo into this dakened room. D'Angelo is sure he's about to be executed and Wey-Bey turns on the lights and there's a whole bunch of fish tanks and WeyBey asks D'Angelo to feed his fish.
Coles: "I got laid last night"
Bunk :"Oh yeah? Your ass still hurt?"
Bodie and Poot first murder-executing their best friend.
I agreee with the scene of Carver walking down the hall with Randy screaming at him "You gonna help me Sgt Carver?" Carver crying in the car.
Though the fuck murder scene cannot be topped.
And again- If Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon) gets passed for an emmy nom again, and the show is passed for Best Drama , then the voters ought to be killed and forcred to watch 7th Heaven and Yes Dear for eternity
-
and that is not because my best friend from my teenage years had a speaking part in it (Derrick Horton for Officer Baxter) but this show serves as a historic document of the realities of urban America. As a PG County Maryland resident who went to public schools and taught in DC schools for a year...this show is deadly accurate. I saw the final episode of this season on Demand and it is just great. Looking forward to Rome...another good HBO show you guys should check out. Rumor has it that Season 5 will focus on the Media, hopefully it is just as great as this season's School centric episodes.
-
where Bunk and McNulty recreate that murder in that chick's kitchen and find the slug in the refrigerator door.
-
i dont see randy becoming a hopeless junkie. hes too smart
im thinking he becomes a new omar. he loses all his innocence and enthusiasm.
him and namond basically changed into each other by the end -
One of the best scenes from this last episode was the conversation between McNulty and Daniels. If I'm not mistaken, the dialogue was a verbatim recreation of one of their first scenes from the first season ('No street rips','Chain of command'), only this time they each spoke the other's lines. It was all delivered with smiles and sense of accumulated irony at all that had happened in the years since then. Excellent work by Simon.
-
You're absolutely correct -- the scene that they were revisiting was either in the second or the third episode of the first season. I only recognized it because I recently bought the Season 1 DVD, and I watched the episode in question about a day before watching this season finale.
It was a great scene, showing that the characters themselves are aware of how far they've come, and of how much respect they've developed for each other since their rocky beginning. -
Great how this show can make you feel bad for a drug dealer. When the season first started I was kind of upset to see McNaulty and Bodie pushed off to the side but I figured it was all done for a reason and the look on McNaulty's face when he finds out Bodie was killed. You feel it ... it's a mix of sadness from a missed opportunity to get a CI but a personal loss because he knows this guy and on a base level has a certain amount of respect for him. God this show is great!
-
Finally we have a much-needed Wire talkback, so sad that the show went unnoticed on this site while I've seen other garbage-ass shows up on the main page (*cough*, Jericho) multiple times.
This show is brilliant... watched seasons 1-3 over the summer 2 years ago and couldn't wait till they brought it back for 4. Great season, this show truly does get better and better. The finale was mind-blowingly good. Bodie went out like a soldier, and next season it's payback time because THE BAND IS BACK TOGETHER baby! Marlowe has to go down... the guy is a fucking monster.
Favorite moments, off the top of my head:
1)McNulty's drunken double crash.
2)Omar and Bowtie BACK2BACK vs. Stringer.
3)Randy's "you gonna help me?" rant at the hospital... if you didn't feel something there you're dead.
4)Michael's beatdown of Kennard... he deserved it.
5)Any time Daniels says "Dammit McNulty"
Can't wait until season 5, it's gonna be a barn burner. I need to get the DVD's, what's this about awesome commentary?
-
I second that emotion. Hate watching The Wire leave for another season. Only thing I hate more is watching my Cowboys lose 42-17 come the fuck on man what happened? Anyway those two things set my mood for the rest of the week. Can't wait for the new season to start. Anyone else get the feeling that Marlo is going to try to hook up with the Greeks himself and get smacked down hard. And that Omar is on serious borrowed time now. Too bad about Randy and Dukie those kids definetly got the short end of the stick. Or the long end depending on your point of view.
-
because it was so heartbreaking, and this is in the entire history of The Wire...when Bubbles goes with Johnny to the substance abuse meeting and goes up to get his keychain, followed by Johnny kidding him about it, followed just by the look on Bub's face, and knowing he was unforunately going to go crashing back into his life as a dope fiend. that was absolutely fantastic.
-
Who was the guy that Michael wacked near the end of the episode? I didn't recognize him and couldn't tell if he was someone significant, or just some unlucky SOB.
-
the pimpin business has been slow. but no more wire till 2008=abu ghraib...yeah, its that bad
www.carpemundus.com - next post due in 2074 :( -
Superb. Time to go back to Season 1.1 and start yet again for all the details and the craft we missed. What's the Sunday alternative: Sleeper Cell 2? Please...George the 7th Chicken already highlighted most of the Great Moments, but the small stuff sticks too...Bubs: "It's a fine line between heaven and here."
-
...when Omar and Proposition Joe settle on 20 cents on the dollar for the dope Omar stole and we later hear Marlo tell Chris that Omar's selling the drugs back for 30 cents on the dollar. And you just smile, because you've known that guy, and that moment is so true, and they don't even dwell on it in this show, it's just a bit of throwaway business, and it is perfect. Damn I love this show.
-
Some great moments mentioned above; I get a kick out of every time Bubbles asks for "McNutty".
I'm amazed how much "The Wire" rises above all other HBO drama. We've had some great moments in Rome, Deadwood, Sopranos, Carnivale, etc...but nothing as consistently excellent as the Wire. -
My two favorite moments were from the same episode: The "Fuck" scene in the kitchen, where Bunk and McNulty show why they're the best in the Baltimore Homicide Dept, and the Herc-moving-the-desk scene that opened the episode, and the bemused look on Lester's face the whole time.
-
I feel really empty now it's all over. We probably won't see season 5 'til 2008.
I loved the use of Paul Weller's cover of Walk On Broken Splinters during the final section of the season finale.
Watching "Dookie" on the corner selling drugs broke my heart.
Great fucking show.
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- Whitney Houston 1963 - 2012 -- 383 total posts 380 posts
- New JUDGE DREDD post production footage pops up -- 111 total posts 111 posts
- WTF HOLLYWOOD: SOLARBABIES -- 75 total posts 73 posts
- HANNA's Saoirse Ronan to boss around seven little people -- 71 total posts 68 posts
- Does ‘SNL’ Rhyme With ‘Deschanel’?? Learn Which SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Vet Hosts After Sexy Zooey!! -- 77 total posts 55 posts
- If the Behind the Scenes Pics of the Day drops her pen, pick it up, but don’t look at her legs or else it will be on your record. -- 54 total posts 48 posts
- There's a STAR TREK video game that is going to lead into JJ's STAR TREK 2 apparently... -- 165 total posts 41 posts
- Herc’s Seen Tonight’s Return Of THE WALKING DEAD!! Discuss Also DOWNTON ABBEY, FEAR FACTOR, PAN AM, ONCE, SIMPSONS, DYNAMITE, LUCK, SHAMELESS, BAIT CAR, THE GRAMMYS And More!! Sunday Is Sweeps Day 11!! -- 41 total posts 41 posts
- To Commemorate The 3D Release Of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, George Lucas Wants You To Know...Greedo Shoots First!! -- 500 total posts 35 posts
- Avid Comic Reader Hercules Does Battle With Tedium During Kevin Smith’s COMIC BOOK MEN! -- 28 total posts 28 posts