Official Spoiler Etiquette. The stars of your favorite TV shows
(assuming your favorite TV shows include The Wire, Heroes, Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, or True Blood) teach you how not to ruin them for your friends.
posted by lazaruslong
on Mar 14, 2012 -
141 comments
“You know what Miami gets in their crime show? They get detectives that look like models, and they drive around in sports cars. And you know what New York gets, they get these incredibly tough prosecutors, competent cops that solve the most crazy, complicated cases. —What Baltimore gets is this reinforced notion that it's a city full of hopelessness, despair and dysfunction. There was very little effort—beyond self-serving—to highlight the great and wonderful things happening here, and to indict the whole population, the criminal justice system, the school system.” —
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III, on the effect of
The Wire on Baltimore’s reputation.
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posted by kipmanley
on Jan 18, 2011 -
119 comments
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!
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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Mar 30, 2009 -
64 comments
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.
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posted by Bookhouse
on Nov 21, 2008 -
29 comments
