The Wire | Season Two | Episodes 3 & 4 | Full-Length Commentary
Added 2023-04-25 22:00:03 +0000 UTCCommentary for The Wire - Season Two - Episodes 3 & 4
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Fantastic thought. I like how the bass moves under it and recontextualizes it's harmonic qualities depending on where the bass is. It's a really simple idea -- play one high note on a piano and play around on the lower notes and see how the color changes. So common in music and so useful in composition.
Potato Jones
2023-04-28 02:17:45 +0000 UTCI LOVE this comment! Everything you mentioned was 💯
Charlotte Drolet
2023-04-27 12:28:21 +0000 UTCThe season 2 version of Way Down in the Hole is the original recording by Tom Waits, who wrote the song. It comes from his 1987 album Frank's Wild Years.
james repka
2023-04-27 04:20:17 +0000 UTCThe saxaphone is meant to be like shunting ships or something, reminiscent of the dock horns.
Pokerpope
2023-04-26 20:44:26 +0000 UTCI want to talk about Dee for a second. This was a pivotal moment for him in episode 4, when he "cut himself" off Avon. So far, he really wasn't honest with himself. He often pointed out how the game shouldn't be about killing people, how it should be more "human", more fair, but the truth is everything he did so far was selfish. He himself killed someone and was OK with the fixed trial that got him out. Even when the wittness was killed... he felt bad for him, but he didn't quit or do anything. He got along with it. When Stinkum got promoted, you could sense he felt it should have been his turn, and was willing to deal with Orlando to get some benefits aside, and so on. My point is, he was accepting the dirt when the game got the goods for him, but he felt like he should have not deal with the bads, for some reason. And when the bads came hard on him , he suddenly "saw the light". I know the Wallace thing got him thinking, but it still wasn't honest. He would've stayed in the game if he wasn't caught with that package. He had that fantastic monologue, about how he was born into the game and was forced to live it, which is true, it was kind of a confession for him, but even then it wasn't about justice, not even justice for Wallace. It was still about him not doing the years he felt he wasn't supposed to do. This time it was different. He realized Avon killed people again and he couldn't deal with it anymore, even if it meant he could've benefited from it. This time, he was willing to sacrifice himself, just to not put the weight of five human lives on his shoulders. And live a honest life finally. This is the moment when he truly rised. As for the dockers, they are sort of "born into the game" too, they know they are stuggling, but some of them just can't dump this life for whatever reason... family tradition, neighborhood and the whole community they feel they belong into. There is a strong nostalgia factor involved. Frank Sobotka knows their time is about to end, and he's just trying to turn the tide, even if it means he has to get his hands dirty. His motivation isn't money at all, but the work and securing future for the docks. Out of all the great characters in this series, he is one of the most complex I think.
Mino BG
2023-04-26 20:44:09 +0000 UTCYeah, but I think the question was about how the drug dealers themselves make money off of inmates. They're not gonna care for cigarettes or candy for currency. I'm pretty sure the actual buying of the drugs from the correctional officer is only money from their canteen accounts.
Veya
2023-04-26 03:28:47 +0000 UTCSmall correction, in episode 3, Butchie said Avon had no "flex" meaning, flexible, so when Avon wants something he isn't gonna change his mind or back down. Basically Butchie had no choice and shouldn't bother trying to change Avon's mind. I only mention this cause that street lingo is gonna appear again in the series and that's what it means.
Veya
2023-04-26 03:27:16 +0000 UTCA little corruption builds character.
Grand Moff Slackin'
2023-04-26 03:03:47 +0000 UTCThere's also alternate currencies. It used to be cigarettes, but I guess you can't really smoke in prisons anymore so I've heard of postage stamps and ramen. There's a bunch of stuff on YouTube about the inmate economy.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-04-26 01:28:18 +0000 UTCYeah canteen accounts I believe.
Veya
2023-04-26 00:33:55 +0000 UTCPrisoners have money, that's how they pay for the drugs. When you go to prison you get an account where family members or close friends can send you money, and they pay the dealers through commissary items. Or if the dealer wants cash, the inmate who is buying the drugs will have a friend/family member send a money transfer to the drug dealer's family member/friend to pay for the drugs.
M Salam
2023-04-26 00:08:33 +0000 UTC
