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Patton Oswalt - Like Everyone Else - Begs You To Watch HBO's First New WIRE Since 2004!!

borisF, CreepingKid.... by Red Ned Lynch	Sep 11th, 2006 08:26:00 PM
The best reason for having HBO for most of the last half decade premiered its fourth season last night. I loved Deadwood and will miss it like hell, but The Wire is the best show to ever air on HBO. Maybe anywhere.
Best show ever, but... by Negator76	Sep 11th, 2006 10:14:23 PM
... if you want to appreciate it, watch it from the fucking beginning. It's the 21st century, folks. Get a DVD player already. Then rent the first three seasons of this incredible, brilliant, funny, heartbreaking, edifying, shattering show. Then throw your DVD player away. It's best that it die happy, rather than be soiled by the disc of an inferior show. All you people who complain about 'Carnivale'... As yoda would say: break me a fucking give. The show was O-KAY. Nothing more. One season of filler, one season of sloppy writing. Some good creepy moments and performances sprinkled throughout. 'The Wire' makes 'Carnivale' look like a halfwit platypus-child in comparison. And people who think '24' is the best show on television... deserve to be stranded in west Baltimore wearing nothing but a Dave Matthews tour shirt and Superman underoos with 'Omar is a butt-packer' painted on the crotch. Uh-huh.
Best show ever, but... by Negator76	Sep 11th, 2006 10:14:54 PM
... if you want to appreciate it, watch it from the fucking beginning. It's the 21st century, folks. Get a DVD player already. Then rent the first three seasons of this incredible, brilliant, funny, heartbreaking, edifying, shattering show. Then throw your DVD player away. It's best that it die happy, rather than be soiled by the disc of an inferior show. All you people who complain about 'Carnivale'... As yoda would say: break me a fucking give. The show was O-KAY. Nothing more. One season of filler, one season of sloppy writing. Some good creepy moments and performances sprinkled throughout. 'The Wire' makes 'Carnivale' look like a halfwit platypus-child in comparison. And people who think '24' is the best show on television... deserve to be stranded in west Baltimore wearing nothing but a Dave Matthews tour shirt and Superman underoos with 'Omar is a butt-packer' painted on the crotch. Uh-huh.
I agree with by mrtwig48	Sep 11th, 2006 10:21:30 PM
what he said. Except he stole the last part from Die Hard 3.
Patton Oswald Is Freakin Hilarious by MarkoOhNo	Sep 11th, 2006 11:45:33 PM
But I don't subscribe to HBO. :P There are SO many HBO channels... why don't they have HBOFR? (HBO Free heh)
bacci40, This is for you : ) by Mace Tofu	Sep 12th, 2006 12:43:23 AM
Keep it wavin' http://tinyurl.com/gr8wk Path to 911 was as good as United 93 or WTC. I've seen all 3 movies and they overlap in scenes which is interesting to see how each approached the same material. I've never seen The WIRE ... yet!
A slight fiction by weebay	Sep 12th, 2006 06:30:27 AM
As someone who lives in Baltimore I just have to say that most of the show if filmed in East Baltimore. Ed Burns even said so in a recent interview. The Hamsterdam were filmed in east B-More. Also the majority of the cities drug murders talk place in east Baltimore. Also something close to 80% or more of the murder victims in the city last year had criminal records.
The Deacon by weebay	Sep 12th, 2006 06:36:16 AM
The guy who plays the deacon in the church who helped Cutty with advice when he got out of jail and who also is friends with Bunny Colvin, is played by Melvin Williams AKA "Little" Melvin. He was the city's biggest drug dealer in the 60's 70's and early 80's until he went to jail. The Avon Barksdale character is based on Little Melvin as well as a couple of other dealers. A Little Melvin character was also in the movie "Liberty Heights"
"soft eyes" by cocolopez	Sep 12th, 2006 08:38:38 AM
second episode of season IV was excellent- as usual. The Wire > Deadwood. Deadwood > everything except The Wire.
Indeed by Ace Hunter	Sep 12th, 2006 09:34:55 AM
I needs me my Omar. Spect he be showing up soon. It's all in the game.
Wow... by dejectedgeek	Sep 12th, 2006 09:43:20 AM
This is a fan-fucking-tastic show. I watched the season 4 opener for my first episode of The Wire and I was hooked, even though I have little to no clue who most people are.
The Wire deserves all praise. by tidge	Sep 12th, 2006 10:33:14 AM
Yep, I've enjoyed the HBO original programming, but The Wire shames everything else HBO has produced: The acting, the drama, the tension, the writing has been consistantly excellent...what's more, its is possible for a viewer to see how much the creators care about maintaining this level of excellence. I am in total agreement with those that would like HBO-philes who think either Carnivale or Deadwood was the best thing Home Box ever produced...try The Wire...any random episode...and you will be amazed. I'm also catching the new season On Demand, and I greatly prefer the option of catching the 'new' episode at my leisure.
I suspect Omar will by Chest_Rockwell	Sep 12th, 2006 10:33:20 AM
show up in episode 3. HBO on demand, roxors the soxors. Hell, I stayed up till midnight on sunday, just watch episode 2 as soon as it was available on my hbo on demand.
Herc, You Have Such A ManCrush On Patton Oswalt! by Maisie Chainsaw	Sep 12th, 2006 12:44:05 PM
In other news, The Wire is one of the best shows in the history of television.
Baltimore by Deep Roots	Sep 12th, 2006 01:24:47 PM
Great shows take place in Baltimore! I wouldn't be surprised if in the Series finale of "LOST" it turns out that the island is really somewhere in the Baltimore Harbor or something. Long live Baltimore!
Hell Yeah - I'm Pumped! by allfunandgames	Sep 12th, 2006 05:42:38 PM
Best show on TV ever is right! Can't wait. Heard that WB is not releasing series 3 on DVD in Australasia which SUCKS!
5th Season on the Way- OFFICIALLY by High DeF JeFF	Sep 12th, 2006 08:23:27 PM
http://www.broadcastingcable.c om/article/CA6371196.html#TheW ireHBO
Just caught the first episode... by -guyinthebackrow	Sep 13th, 2006 11:53:59 AM
Great stuff. But where's Omar?! I need my Omar fix! "Pandemic! Pandemic! Got yo Pandemic here!"
Wire talkbackers/BorisF by Rich Malone	Sep 14th, 2006 12:08:41 PM
O.k., some talkbackers type that there's no reason to keep HBO after the cancellation of hits like'Six Ft.Under'and 'Deadwood', yet their on a talkback with three or four dozen people who are television junkies and are aware of 'quality' programing who are speaking about a show that follows in the vein of the very shows they miss, and just might be a little better? I'll never understand why The Wire gets shitty ratings, while CBS 'feel good' shows that offer repetitive slapstick comedy or pop culture get the top ratings week after week. Because the cast of The Wire is 70% Black, does that diminish the quality of their stories? Can America not view Blacks outside of the drug dealer or villian # 1 on this weeks 'LAw & Order? (Naw, officer, I didn't do it, homie! It was Tavon pig!")No other show gives Black characters thoughts, motives, feelings, regrets, charisma, and other traits outside of Black cop, Black Gangster, Black 'Buppie', 'Omirossa' type-Black chick, or hip-cool Black guy sidekick(see 'Not Another Teen Movie' for ex.)Sorry 'Shield'. Love it for the breakdown of street police work, but not all Black villians wanna "187 on that ass wit'a 40oz, boyeeee!" The Wire is an eye-opener to all those who don't get a chance to grow up in the ghettos of Chicago, Philly, L.A, N.Y., ATL, Detroit, etc... I assure you, my life growing up there echos themes of the Wire more than a 'Friends' or a 'West Wing'. America has many different stories to tell, and The Wire nails other arenas (City Hall Corruption, Public Schools, Drug Policies, Jails, Media,etc..). Why do real topics scare people so? Especially if the entertainment value on The Wire is excellent as well?
Why the wire will never get good ratings by weebay	Sep 15th, 2006 06:45:41 AM
David Simon said it himself. White viewers won't look at a show that's majority black. They just won't. You would have thought that at least the first episode would have gotten good ratings considering the critical praise this show has gotten this season. If you tune in and don't like it that's one thing. But it wasn't even given a look by most people. Black viewers will look at all kinds of shows no matter what the racial make up of that show is.
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