MetaFilter posts tagged with TheWire

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gerryblog — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:22:24 -0800

You’re going to hire people to guard your sh*t, but you’re not going to give them health care. Vice has a long spoiler- and profanity-laden interview with The Wire creator David Simon, running the gamut from backstage Wire details to the media's obsession with "the Dickensian aspect" to his next series (set in New Orleans) to Joe Lieberman to this fight he almost got in at a concert one time. Via /Film.

It's Baltimore gentlemen...

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:48:34 -0800

The Wire - 100 Greatest Quotes (SLYT) (NSFW)

Contemporary issues as handled by tv

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:41:52 -0800

TV and Parables of Our Times: Speaking of Faith ( a weekly radio program about "religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas") looks at how tv deals with issues in contemporary life. A link to the main episode (MP3) is on the page along with various support media.

Limit Your Exposure : In depth annalysis of Mad Men

Mick — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:13:53 -0800

AMC's Mad Men is the best show on telivision that no one is watching (now that The Wire has ended), it's the most adult, most stylish, best written show on television at the moment. And we say "adult" in the sense that it's subtle and complex, not in the "there's a lot of sex" sense (although there's plenty of sex).. Here is some outstanding in-depth analysis of the first episodes of season 3 (spoilers aplenty).

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

tiny crocodile — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:10:42 -0800

Fancy a coffee with Dominic West? Rather tasty British actors in slightly ridiculous soft focus sell instant coffee, using sexy literature. Take your pick. Dominic West reads an extract from Lady Chatterley's Lover, Dan Stevens reads Madame Bovary, Greg Wise reads Lust Caution. Pride and Prejudice, Les Deux Amants, and Middlemarch also feature. This might be aimed primarily at the ladies.

The Wire Illustrations

OmieWise — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:40:16 -0800

The Wire Illustrations -- Characters from The Wire, illustrated.

The Life and Times of Fuzzy Dunlop

Abiezer — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:02:12 -0800

The Wire Files Open-access online journal darkmatter, "producing contemporary postcolonial critique," devoted its fourth issue to the television drama The Wire. An editorial explains that the "special issue aims to examine the place of race in the complex formation of the series." Thirteen articles cover The Wire's political economy, subversion of heteronormative assumptions, racial codes, Herc as a Zelig-like nexus, Baudrillardian urban space and much more in a veritable smorgasbord of academic bean-plating.

Saving Journalism?

Jeff_Larson — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:21:57 -0800

Steve Coll [pdf], Marissa Mayer [pdf], and Arianna Huffington [pdf] testified today at the Senate Commerce Commitee's hearing on The Future of Journalism, but clearly the main attraction was David Simon [pdf].

David Simon in conversation with Bill Moyers about The Wire

dougzilla — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:01:19 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal, April 17, 2009 From crime beat reporter for the BALTIMORE SUN to award-winning screenwriter of HBO's critically-acclaimed The Wire, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today. Sorry for the one link post.

A world in which knowledge is always a double edged sword

Electric Dragon — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:15:23 -0800

The Wire - David Simon's original pitch and series bible. "At the end of thirteen episodes, the viewer - who has been lured all this way by a well-constructed police show - is not the simple gratification of hearing handcuffs click. Instead the conclusion is something Euripides or O'Neill might recognize: an America at every level at war with itself." [Previously.] (via)

Stringer and McNulty are coming home!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:15:53 -0800

Blatantly jumping on the opportunity to create yet another thread on The Wire, I'd like to remind you that starting tonight, BBC 2 will air the entire series start to finish, an episode every weekday. First episode starts in a moment, at 11:20 PM UK time. Watch! I've you've never heard of the show before, here's a good write-up by Charlie Brooker, who also made a nice TV special on the show. We've discussed the series quite a bit around here and on the Green. [SPOILERS] The final season wrapped up last year in the States, and while it never reached very large TV audiences it gained a rabidly evangelic cult following. Moreover, it seems to have been almost universally liked by the Metafilter contingent, which is definitely a rarity. In any case, this should be a brilliant opportunity for those in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe to catch up, so good luck and have fun.

Stringer Bell goes legit?

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:14:01 -0800

In a recent report for the Abell Foundation, University of Maryland Criminologist Peter Reuter asks whether, in light of the evidence from Switzerland, The Netherlands and elsewhere, Baltimore might not be the best place to try the first US heroin maintenance programme?

The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist

box — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:06:29 -0800

Lafayette Gilchrist is one of my favorite piano players. Featured on a Down Beat cover a few months ago (with Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran), he has released a half-dozen or so albums with his group, New Volcanoes, and he's the regular piano player in saxophonist David Murray's quartet. His playing and composition styles are informed by funk, go -go and hip -hop. And he's from Baltimore. Of course, you might also know him from his appearance on the soundtrack to The Wire.

Abandoned HBO Soundstage for "The Wire"

dersins — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:19:59 -0800

"So I found out yesterday that the soundstage for "The Wire" still existed. I wasted no time in visiting it and was there almost less than 24 hours [sic]. It's one of my favorite TV shows ever and I had to see this before everyone ruined it. The building is also scheduled for demolition and they are going to build a super market on it." NOTE: LINK CONTAINS SPOILERS There's lots of other goodness (and a lot of crap) at the LJ "Abandoned Places" community.

Pilot School

Bookhouse — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:41:15 -0800

Pilot School. A nice collection of teevee show pilot scripts. Observe the embryonic state of many of the classics of the past few decades, including Buffy, The Wire, Hill Street Blues, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos and The West Wing. For people who aren't students of the form, the most interesting part may be the small changes that happen between script to screen. For instance, Twin Peaks was originally named Northwest Passage, Tony Soprano was named Tommy, and The West Wing's C.J. Cregg was described as "compact."

An Important Angry Work Of Art

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:09:43 -0800

Charlie Brooker - Tapping The Wire (1, 2, 3).

I Am The King Of Meta

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:25:55 -0800

WireFilter: David Simon speaks at USC Law on journalism and The Wire. (Youtube - 1:22:50; a few mic/sound problems in the first few minutes)

Why?

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:51:14 -0800

'There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed' David Simon on The Escalating Breakdown Of Urban Society Across The US

Making the Wire

chunking express — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:56:18 -0800

Making the Wire.

The HBO series The Wire, a panoramic view of Baltimore through its drug world, schools, government, seaport, and newspaper, has been widely acknowledged as one of the greatest television dramas ever produced. To mark the release of the final season on DVD, the Museum of the Moving Image presented a panel, Making "The Wire", with David Simon, the series creator and co-producer; novelist and screenwriter Richard Price, who wrote several episodes; and four of the show's stars: Seth Gilliam (who played Ellis Carver), Clark Johnson (city editor Gus Haynes), Clarke Peters (Lester Freemon), and Wendell Pierce ("Bunk"), moderated by David Schwartz, Chief Curator.

He's just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick.

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:22:01 -0800

After 'The Wire,' Moving On to Battles Beyond the Streets - 'The Wire' co-creator Ed Burns talks about his life and his and David Simon's new project, 'Generation Kill', premiering next Sunday on HBO.

Shiiiieeeet

AceRock — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:09:33 -0800

The Wire's War on the Drug War By Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon

The Wire: 4 seasons in 4 minutes

PeterMcDermott — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:38:11 -0800

Q. Everyone tells me how great The Wire is, but I've missed the first four seasons. Should I bother with Season 5? A. Yes. Ultimately, you'll want to buy the DVD's, but until then we've got The Wire: four seasons in four minutes. (Single link U-tube)

playing with the tuning knobs when the back of the appliance is in flames

gerryblog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:45:17 -0800

The Wire is dissent; it argues that our systems are no longer viable for the greater good of the most, that America is no longer operating as a utilitarian and democratic experiment. An already-quite-good discussion about The Wire, originating in Mark Bowden's Atlantic article ('The Angriest Man in Television') and continuing through Mark Bowden's post on the show's nihilistic bleakness gets even more interesting on Matt Yglesias's blog, where the creator of the show stops by to give his opinion on what it's all supposed to mean.

Who Gets to Tell a Black Story?

whir — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:02:50 -0800

Prior to his critically acclaimed program The Wire, creator Edward Burns wrote the HBO miniseries The Corner, which also focused on the drug trade in Baltimore. Charles S. Dutton, an African-American Baltimore native and former convict probably best known to most as TV's "Roc," was chosen to direct the miniseries. Who Gets To Tell a Black Story?, part of a Pulitzer-prize winning NYT series on race in America, examines Dutton's take on how to make a TV program which portrays a mostly African-American cast of characters, the struggles and differing perspectives of Dutton and Burns, and how race is portrayed in Hollywood. The Wire junkies looking for a pre-season five re-up may be able to stomp some life out of the following package of previous MeFi links, which everybody already posted while I was trying to craft an awesome, meticulous post about The Wire: HBO prequel videos, an outstanding profile of Burns from the New Yorker, the marriage of the real-life people who formed the basis of The Wire's Omar and The Corner's Fran (this article itself is mentioned towards the end of the Burns profile), an examination of the legal principles in Burns's book Homicide, an interview with the actress who plays Snoop.

Laughs Tracks Being Used For Good, Not Evil

dhammond — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:31:02 -0800