The Wire | Season One | Episodes 7 & 8 | Full-Length Commentary
Added 2023-03-22 19:01:01 +0000 UTCCommentary for The Wire - Season One - Episodes 7 & 8
This is a watch-along, you need your own copy of the series.
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yeah kind of giving away some characterization before it's revealed in the future
Veya
2023-03-24 04:25:30 +0000 UTCPosting lines from future episodes & or future seasons should be considered *SPOILER* talk .. shouldn't it?
Tank Obadiah
2023-03-23 18:04:14 +0000 UTCIndeed
Jonny Kerr (JK)
2023-03-23 03:29:20 +0000 UTCHe's one of the lucky few of us that is good at what he loves and gets paid to do it.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-03-23 03:13:05 +0000 UTCI don't see the boy snitchin
Jonny Kerr (JK)
2023-03-23 01:38:11 +0000 UTCYou got Omar all wrong homes. Money is the by-product. He rips and runs for the thrill. How you supposed to run with the wolves come night, when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
Jonny Kerr (JK)
2023-03-23 01:36:48 +0000 UTCInteresting reading and great summary.
Mino BG
2023-03-22 23:23:40 +0000 UTC* Good eye on seeing Omar spot the photo of Orlando's from the bulletin board. Omar, as always, has his own agenda. Unlike the Police, he doesn't go home at night and forget about the day's problems until tomorrow. * The kid asking Wallace for help with his math homework can't see the abstract connection between the arithmetic he's doing in school and keeping count of money and vials of dope because the latter is intrinsic to the world he lives in and the former is about a letter grade that he has no parents to show. * Stinkum and Wee Bey were going to take out Scar, an independent dealer working on that corner (one of the guys who scattered when the shooting started). That's the corner Stinkum was going to take over selling Barksdale's package. * With Bird locked up, Stinkum dead and Wee Bey hobbled, Avon is at least temporarily without his three most important enforcers. Come at the King, etc... *The cops in our unit fall into three general categories: The Hercs and Carvers, fighting (as Kima says) the war on crime "one brutality case at a time," who always think that bustin' some heads is good police work; the obsessives like Jimmy McNutty who want to do good police work but have no qualms about who they hurt along the way; and the good cops like Kima Greggs and Lt. Daniels, who seem idealistic and want to do good work, but seem to be able to have relationships. But as we've witnessed twice so far, even Greggs and Daniels have no qualms about getting involved in some serious police brutality for seemingly the flimsiest of reasons. * Though they make it look like a good polices tool here, Civil Forfeiture is one of the most misused, authoritarian laws in the War on Drugs (tm). People have had their homes and cars seized, police have simply emptied folks wallets during a car stop. Whether or not charges are ever filed, police can keep the money or property seized. Folks (most often poor folks without legal representation) have to spend months fighting through legal roadblocks to get assets returned. * "You were observed in one of the city's drug-free zones..." Kima says to Day Day upon his arrest. The drug-free zone is another product of the War on Drugs (tm), perhaps worse than Civil Forfeiture laws. This essentially allows the city and/or the Police to designate real estate as a civil-rights-free-zone where you can be arrested for not walking fast enough. Baltimore in particular expanded this concept in the early 2000s, designating whole neighborhoods (all of them black) as DFZs. You'll hear the police in the show referring to "indicted" streets or corners.
james repka
2023-03-22 22:03:43 +0000 UTCMy name is my name
FuzzyDunlop
2023-03-22 19:34:10 +0000 UTCRIP Lance Reddick. He carried himself as a gentlemen in every acting role I witnessed.
Cliff Douglas
2023-03-22 19:26:03 +0000 UTC
