The Misunderstood Psychology of Chris Partlow from The Wire 

“Why ain’t in your repertoire no more nigga.” Big clue

Plus the way he trains Marlo’s peoples, target practice at least once a week and he runs training drills with snoop to teach new people like Mike.

Good call. I figured the same thing. He doesn't behave like the other street guys, even in the way he talks. All business.

Did you see him in the "Old Man" on FX? It felt like strategy and experience was natural to him, him and "Snoop" were the "Hart Foundation" of murder. Button up shirt and to the point. Dude was a beast.

Perhaps, but you don’t have to go to Fort Benning to learn that

@@victormuhammad1393 he had money because he was a… uno what never mind

Got Money Being A Killer 😂

😩😩 bro got me

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Lmaoo

I disagree the mountain was a brute, Chris is strategic

@@davidcage7501 true, but Chris and The Mountain both killed innocent civilians and an entire family. The Mountain slaughtered Elia Martell and her baby, and Chris slaughtered Junebugs family. Plus... they're both from a "western" party of their respective worlds. Cleganes from the Westerlands and Chris from West Baltimore.

Its because its not his thoughts. its another youtuber

He is an evil character no doubt, however his and everybody’s else’s actions throughout the wire are all driven by something that isn’t just simply malicious intent, but rather flaws in there very real human physce

Their all players in da game u play it you know the risks! not evil until inocents are killed, marlo's organisation is a fucken scary one.

You mean sociopaths not psychopaths

@@jaylove9844 beef is inherited war is far more important and bigger than one persons morale compass of good and evil war deserves your full attention because there ultimate stakes are at risk loseing- death winning living and

Yeah, and didn't even do a better job either.

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Facts. He thought he was low but then again that’s what white a lot of white people do

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Seemed familiar... imma go check it

Wrong, go back and listen carefully to the conversation between him and Marlo on that subject. Marlo said "make it no bail"which means homicide aka a no bail charge....

@@WeldonWelder Chris chose the woman. Not Marlo. Also Chris decided to kill Bugs daddy and leave him on the street as a message.

Yea but he never talked disrespectful to Marlo as Marlo did him... So even in your scenerio, Marlo had lead... If Chris grew up with him, he must've went to the military @ 17 or 18... That would mean Marlo was making his come up solo... Marlo was there, but Barksdales had west side on lock... Tells you how Avon operated that Marlo's crew existed but was not a problem... Omar was a bigger threat...💯💯💯

Exactly because I saw Chris advised Marlo on how to handle a few situations especially on how to deal with Omar

From A man’s world podcast

Just like every other white man always taking something from us

Damn near word for word

Ain’t this Amw style of content this dude sounds way to similar

@@Mr704kiam yup this is a engagement farmer. They find a community to exploit for views

I’d argue Chris to arguably be the biggest threat one on one to Omar Little, don’t think many, if anybody in the show matched these two guys on a tactical level

She under estimate Mike, whole time he was really learning from Chris. That why he was able to kill her using the strategy that Chris taught him.

I’m happy I’m not the only one that put these two together. He dn word for word on bro video

he stole it from him

​@@mars3676Is it word for word? A man's world is hardly the only person to point out this kind of speculation about Chris's character. Alan sepinwall, The guardians re-up...the AV club. People have been analyzing the wire for 15 years. Most of it predates the recent RU-vid creators that have started covering it. No one really has a Monopoly on theorizing about Chris potential history with the military.

Fair point, I shoulda gave Wee Bay some credit here when talking about the most honourable and loyal soldiers, think the shot of he and Chris and the end of the show, the two most loyal soldiers, should of been discussed in this video, perhaps down the line I do a video on Bey

Yes sir that would good work,have u watch all 5 season

@@anthonydavis8061 yeah, I’ve seen the whole show several times

Ok cool me too it's my 1 of my favorites I could watch it 100 times never gets old lol

Very plausible, surprisingly never heard this before, nice outlook.

I had a similar take but I never thought of him being a child soldier. I assumed he might have had a father who was military and controlling but also physically and sexually abusive. He ran his kids like boot camp but also violated them physically and sexually. Chris probably went to the military as well but couldnt assimilate enough to be the kind of soldier they wanted him to be. He found the kind of king he didn't mind pledging to in Marlo. Would love an explanation on why that loyalty exists.

Uhmmm, what do you think the phrase said by Marlo " Make It No Bail" means.....

he got the same respect and loyalty from marlo

I'm assuming childhood friends? But I get what you mean. Marlo had Chris's undying loyalty but never really explained much of any of their back stories. Maybe it's better that way since we can draw our own various conclusions.

Marlo had the/ was the connect, that was everything back then

@@morganW2012 It possible, but I really don't believe Chris's loyalty stems from Marlo just having the connect.

Chris was just muscle.marlo was both business and killer

Correction: I meant to say A Man's World Podcast

Yeah 100% your right, a fair portion of his work really inspired me to start my own channel actually, fair point

you are totally correct. All the way to point not one idea express was original.@@sfn7219

Yeah, I’ve drawn a good amount of inspiration from his videos, he’s a goat when it comes to video essays 👍

@@Snaz.17 that’s awesome, I like that you include more cutscenes with that very sinister background music. 🔥

I don’t recall ever saying that Chris isn’t an evil human being? I’m just taking this argument, and Chris’s justifications for his actions to the extremist level. All I argue in this video, is simply that his actions aren’t solely driven by the intention to harm innocent or guilty lives, and therefore Chris would not fall under the category of absolute evil. As with every character, fiction or non fiction… we all have our reasons for acting the way we do, no matter how twisted our actions!

You might want to go back through the video, if that was your intention. At the very least, there must be times when your intention is to state things as the way Chris must be perceiving them, but where you do not explicitly say "Chris is probably telling himself," etc. Because in lieu of that caveat, you say he isn't evil a bunch of times. You say he never commits an evil act because of evil intentions, when in fact, all his evil acts are motivated by evil intentions. You say he's not motivated by wickedness or malevolence when he kills the delivery lady, but to kill an innocent person for the advancement of yourself and your partner in crime is purely wicked and purely malevolent. Chris is not sadistic. The whole point of the Eichmann quote is that evil is just as evil when it's done without emotion. Chris's emotionlessness only makes him more terrifying-no less evil.

​@@Snaz.1711:59 you say that "...Chris isn't as Evil as you Wire fans make him out to be...." You also say his actions towards innocents aren't malevolent. I don't care why you want to kill someone. If you kill them you kill them. I don't care if you are acting on orders or on malice. The result is the same. And this inherently evil. You are right that Chris wasn't a serial killer simply murdering victims for personal enjoyment or hatred of people. But he definitely didn't value human life beyond their usefulness to the cause he pledged himself to. The problem of evil is we don't acknowledge it as such because of how and why it is performed. We see it with racism in America. To many Americans, both black and white, Racism didn't racism unless it's the violent and abrasive racism of Jim Crow and preceding. So basically if black people aren't being hung and killed and explicitly told they aren't allowed in certain spaces then it's not racism. Covert racism is still racism. Unconscious racism is still racism.

You literally just explained what he did while trying to say he ant say anything 😅

@@kiriefcollins5009 actually I didn’t! He tried to say Chris wasn’t all that bad some how he just was a team player. I made a point showing how he was still a piece of shit! My favorite character in the show actually!

Appreciate it so much brother 🙏🙏

Yeah 100%, one of the most diverse and stacked casts by far

​@@Snaz.17really enjoyed this Bro. The Wire was just one of those shows that was too good to even be put into words. The fact that it has never been nominated for a single Emmy is plan suspect. I remember a political figure(, definitely a figure who was high up the ranks maybe a Senator) actually pleaded with the creators for one more season. Chris Partlow was definitely one of my favorite characters. I had written a screenplay a few years back which was picked up by an independent production company to be made and the actor who played him was talked to about a role. It didn't end up happening though but it was an exciting time back then.

@@ppiorkowski1502 wish you all the luck in the world bro, get back to writing and see if you can get that made, appreciate the support too

@@xmurisfurderx if I spoke in my normal voice you’d switch off in 30 seconds

@@Snaz.17 I switched off after 2:30 because of the voice.

This serious? This insightful as anything, thank you for sharing this man. All shows nowadays paint this world to be an organised one…

@@Snaz.17 Ive been clean for over a decade but i work in “recovery” at a methadone clinic across the river in Philadelphia now, so I still have one foot in the street so to speak. One thing the show brings up that’s kind of taboo but extremely prevalent is Michael’s situation with his mom’s boyfriend or whatever. Chris must’ve been in a similar abusive situation with how he handled that situation. The show was pretty realistic when it came to showing how the individual corners operate, save for the fact that only a couple of”big” guys operate basically half the city. The reality is that it’s a more block to block small time operations. It’s all cartel product and obviously there is a big time distributor, but it’s no where near what organized in a way like the mafiosi, how it’s portrayed in the show. Up until five years ago, every week there would be a neighborhood crew getting busted. An older uncle would supply his sisters teenage kid with product because he’s too scared to work the product himself, the kid gets busted, rats out the uncle, the uncle rats out his supplier and that supplier rats another guy who is only running slightly more product than he is. The guys actually pushing the large quantities are unknown to these crews. The suppliers change all the time to keep them in the dark. They know these corner crews are untrustworthy and will snitch in a heartbeat. Plus, now the product is so deadly. During the Afghanistan conflict all the product was coming from there, once that ended now it’s all coming from the southern border, and it’s synthetic, not actually heroin. Philadelphia is run mostly by Puerto Rican connections, it’s why the city was the first to have the fentanyl boom, and now it’s the tranq. Check out Kensington Philadelphia videos on RU-vid. This is what I’m dealing with at work each day. I have a client or two dying of it each week. To be honest, I don’t know how much more I can take.

@@smelltheglove2038 I will definitely check out these videos, thank you so much brother, and good luck with your work 🙏

This is set in the 2000's but the structure of the streets is taken from the 80's. Things were organized. It was that way in most cities. Older guys went to jail and left the youngsters on the street making their own rules. The show is trying to show that transition.

@@smelltheglove2038 Hey Man how u doing? Just messaging as I’m going to be in the States for a few months come June, and I’m hoping to visit Philadelphia somewhere around the 11th and 13th of August… Just wanted to see if you were up for a little interview/walk around the city? Give me a rundown of what’s truly going on out there, and hopefully I’ll be able to educate some of the people on my end about this issue… My email is Callumsnazel@gmail.com, if you’re interested and willing to discuss this further… Cheers man 👍

Now I cant unhear it.

Now now.

Yes. He Def bit all his work

It was business, it wasn't personal. Chris had a family & everything. Also on a few episodes Chris advised Marlo on how to handle a few situations Marlo was in.

Well he was trying to make Omar talk. But honestly he didn't even want to go after Omar. He was just following orders.

The majority of said predators usually end up back in the same home they committed the crime in once released aswell, very flawed world we live in

No. But you have to have a level of psychopathy to be able to kill people without any remorse or emotion. You could say that it’s part of the game and they knew what they signed up for but what about the security guard who was only doing his job? Who got killed for speaking to Marlo the wrong way when he didn’t even know who Marlo was. Chris had no problem with it.

@@jjones9822 THE GAME is THE GAME .The don’t call Baltimore BODYMORE FOR NOTHING

Yeah but Chris is an actual predator. He's a fucking psycho. He murders person after person because he was told to do it by a sociopath. He's a monster.

The thing that made the wire great is that it was so realistic in how it portray the details and realities of the worlds they ventured into. In said world civilians get killed as a casualty of street activity. That being said, if it was your mom working as a delivery driver restocking shelves at a corner store and she was gunned down simply because she was there, would you still say ''I don't think Chris was evil." ? He can be more than one thing. He can have layers. The Wire was great at humanizing the layers of people, even the monsters, who often are seen as one dimensional in entertainment and in media. He can be a great father, a loyal friend, and a remorseless killer. That's why Omar was so beloved and respected. As violent as he was he had a code and didn't attack civilians. I always saw Chris like a hood version of Javier Bardems character from No Country for Old Men. Not quite as dark but close.

You’re an entire army? Sheesh… that’s impressive

@@Snaz.17 maybe if you spent time in the us military you'd know he's right. don't nobody give a dam about yourr freedom . it takes a special kind of stupid toy to tell a former soldier about the military and how solders are.

@@strugglingwithdeamon if I spent time in the US military, I would know that he is an army? Also why does it only have to be the US military? Why not any another military like the UK? Have you yourself served in so many you can make this claim?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE AND COMMENT!

Already made brother, check the channel

Your just observant don’t mean it’s the same as being a trained soldier he knows how to get rid of a body and think 2 steps ahead

@@kiriefcollins5009 so do I

@@kiriefcollins5009 I grew up a soldier. I'm no Rambo by far. But I know how to use a gun, knife and anything that is considered a dangerous weapon. The only difference between me and them, is I didn't have a choice. I didn't join the fight. I was forced to fight.

@@kiriefcollins5009 and if by any chance you served. I thank you for that. I'm clearly stating that for me the fight started at home and adapted to the situation further. Survival is an instinct, not a training.

Thank you so much bro 💪

Selmy didn't kill innocent wife and kids tho, chris was evil

Thank you so much brother, the one I’m going to upload on Snoop in the next few days gonna top this 🙏🙏

He's all heart? He killed an Innocent woman and felt nothing. He's evil

Ed Burns have said he’s ex-military

Maybe when he was throwing the knife trying to get Omar

I completely disagree. Being ex military is a completely plausible explanation for the things that made Chris standout even amongst WeeBey and Slim Charles. They were loyal and disciplined street muscle. Chris was that and then some.

I always thought that too

in the show or ?

She is 24 in season 3, 26 in season 4 and 28 in season 5

Oh 150%, I’ve taken it upon myself to further his legacy as he hasn’t posted for months now 😫🥲

@@Snaz.17 he actually posted a new video 1 month ago

@@PlayaSzn oh yeah, LETS GOOO!!!!! I had no idea.

@@Snaz.17 same I’ve been checking his page for the last 2 years but he’s back finally

I’m British bro, can’t help it

​​@@Snaz.17British Nationality ain't got nothing to do with it I work with 2xEnglish dudes & they sound nothing like you 😅 Your whole solemn tone in your presentation of this video is just too boring Sorry

@@wayne9077 Not just the tone, but the odd cadence.

DaFukk?! Make it make sense verbally 😂😂😂😂

Basicslly said a stud wanted to throw his boy the bussy​@@WeldonWelder

Down the line, she is a very difficult character to analyse but I’ll defo give it a go 🙏🙏

Vincent Vega was sloppy and also a drug addict. Chris Partlow couldn't be more different.

I think Snoop is very understood lol she’s a violent bully who enjoys inflicting pain onto other people. The scene where Mike is questioning her and Chris while they sit in the car about whatever June Bug said, you can see their differences right there. You can tell that Chris has asked himself the same questions Mike was asking at that moment, but tells himself it’s not about wrong or right, it’s about what he has to do, but Snoop just doesn’t give a fuck she just wants the opportunity to hurt someone, it’s not about right or wrong or what she has to do. It’s about what she CAN do.

@@Yvanehtnioj2000 I have a huge video on snoop coming very soon, I agree with your point to an extent, however there are many factors that need to be taken into account when looking at her psychology

@@Snaz.17 maybe but I think Snoop is essentially in the same boat as Monk, a bully gravitating to a bigger bully (Marlo) so that she can have more victims to bully. Like Kenard. Also, looking forward to the video!

You don't remember the scene. When Chris, Michael and Snoop were discussing the job, Mike had his reservations on Marlo's reasoning and Chris glanced at him in the mirror as a way of affirming his take on it. Chris passively felt that Marlo was a bit trigger happy that's why he held back the Omar antics when they were in lock up.

Thank you so much brother, appreciate it 🙏