Film Student Watches THE WIRE s4ep10 for the FIRST TIME 'Misgivings' Reaction! 

Michael's storyline this season is truly one of the greatest of all time. There is so little dialogue to explain what is going on. The story is told almost entirely through nonverbal communication. Truly a testament to the phenomenal child actors they got for this show. You immediately pick up on that Michael must have been sexual abused and that's why he's uncomfortable being around/relying on adult men. Then there is that unspoken understanding between him and Chris. More phenomenal acting. He doesn't tell Chris why but Chris knows exactly what the situation is clearly based on his own lived experience. And finally there is the absolutely brutal beating towards the end of the episode that reinforces Chris's past. This is the stuff that truly makes The Wire stand out even amongst the greatest shows of all time. I don't know another show that could effectively convey an entire plot line and back stories on multiple characters with essentially no dialogue. Fucking incredible and this is what always brings me back to this show. I can never sing enough praises for this show.

That scene with Chris is beyond harrowing; LM reactions had one if my favorite responses to the scene.

Spot on about Chris' past experiences. The look he gave Mike and the beatdown he issued on Mike's dad were telling. Also, the conversation between Namond and carver about boys being sexually abused in "baby booking" is likely indicative of Chris' past.

Bodie and Poot's advice to Kevin would have probably been good advice if they were all working under Avon and Stringer. Marlo Stanfield is a whole other beast with a very different way of thinking. Kevin cooked his goose with Marlo when he involved Randy when he had been directed to send Lex to the playground himself.

Chris is always so stoic and to see him explode and to see how shocking it was to snoop is rattling. It’s almost the equivalent to freaking out brother mouzone or Omar. You made a cold blooded killer scared.

Right on time! Elie, have you already seen Band of Brothers? If not, you really should consider including this on a next poll or something. Between BoB, Wire, Breaking Bad and Sopranos, you have the holy "quadity" of tv shows.

34:25 the last man standing. No customers, no crew, friends. Such a powerful image of Bodie especially if one has followed his story from the beginning. In the Wire there's enough story where you could focus on any character as almost the main character (main character being Baltimore)

Parents and environment, if both are bad you have no hope. Remember Bunk talking to Omar? Even Bunk tried to be on them streets with parents but they had a community, the street dudes told Bunk to go home. The game is so vicious now the community is lost.

Such a heartbreaking episode on soooo many fronts, from Randy getting caught up in this mess because Kev couldn’t follow simple & direct orders to Michael resorting to such drastic measures to protect not just him but mostly Bug & watching Chris do that to Bug’s dad, though extremely brutal was beyond warranted, too many people like that man get to roam around freely to harm other kids with zero repercussions but you know who else deserves treatment as such?! Officer Walker! You’re right about him, only joined the force to beat his own people further down, especially the kids or hoppers as they call them!

Re-watching makes me impressed at how damn good Clay Davis is at what he’s doing.

What Bunny is doing with the class is pretty much the same strategy he tried with Hamsterdam. Isolate the problem, allow the main population to do better without it, and then focus on making the problem better. The issue is, and despite the superhero rhetoric and how much we want to see Bunny or Prez touch these kids hearts like dead poets society or something like that, this is a problem that goes deeper than the classroom and goes deeper than the school system. Which, I'll remind you, was the basis of Tony Gray's campaign and he ended up far behind. Chris is one of my favourite characters of the show precisely because all we know is what is not said. It's widely believed he's an army vet, for example, going by how efficient he is at violence. And how he never lost his composure, except for this one time, relating his story to Michael's.

This season this the writers said we need a lot more hate and decided to throw in Namond's mom, Officer Walker, and the demon stalking Bubs.

That opening scene with Snoop is the message of the season you've picked up on: these kids can be educated, but as long as it can be something they can relate to. Abstract promises of doing things the "regular" way don't work: their lives and outlook aren't "regular". Snoop could only understand the nail gun specs as it related to an actual gun; these kids can only understand math that they have regular exposure to: street gambling. Trying to teach the same system to everyone is a key failure of education in these poverty-stricken communities. Again, as I said, a failure to understand how "poverty" isn't just a simple lack of money. A word on Officer Walker: that was David Simon's statement about how the cops aren't like this because this is some race issue as some people try to boil this down to and simplify. It's institutional. Also, I really dislike that school psychiatrist- gets slapped once and she loses all composure and professional ethics to take out her frustrations on a program that was actually helping these kids.

I read Dominic West's scenes were shot in one go at the start of the season. Fair point about the bigger picture but the difference between Randy's ambition and Old Face Andre is that Randy's ambitions are for a legitimate business whereas OFA's business is just a front.

bad people are just bad or shady or whatever term you want to use. black, white, or asian whatever.corruption has 1 thing in common no matter what race.....green

Elie, Cutty can't help he's a Ex Felon on Parole.

We need the next episode when you get back, 👍🏿💯%

The wire is indeed the best ever tv show made.....I recommend gommorha la series Neapolitan mafia tv show if you want to do a European tv show reaction.

"They said that right" How you know??? lmao

Come on Elie, Carver was under Major Colvin, he was his commanding officer.

Been absolutely loving all of your reactions for this show and you definitely gained a new subscriber/follower… I’d love to see you react to We Own This City on max which also takes place in Baltimore which is also where I’m from and currently live !

It's actually Sydnor, not Syndor. JS

18:55 like when he talks about micro-facial expressions and i've been seeing the episode with a giant watermark that allows me to watch 10% of the screen ._. jajaja

I know he's a kid but every kid in the hood knows, No talking, No telling. If he took his punishment for being a lookout for that bathroom issue which was Proven to be not a rape. The girl confessed and they all got suspended. But the truth of the matter Randy Snitched.

A lot of cities aren't like baltimore.. one of the oldest cities in the United States top 5 um pretty sure

Was worried you weren’t able to get this episode past the censors. It’s a tough one to watch…

It's spelled AmeriKKKa.