I know people have said this before but it’s insane how well casted every person in this series is including the extras. Each prisoner had maybe 30 seconds of screen time and they absolutely killed it
I agree. I personally consider the Wire to be the best casted tv show of all-time along with the best dialogue of all-time. Every single character on the wire is casted perfectly. Just shows that there's alot of black acting talent out there. Such a beautiful show.
I love the first guy. He knows someone, that knows someone, that knows someone. Gotta love chains like that. And this guy wants to get 2 other people off along with himself.
@@qkljhewgfhergk Honestly. Could have agreed to ankle monitor two dudes and if they actually got the gun back, they could work a deal for the third dude and be out no problem. Definitely a missed opportunity because those same 3 dudes could have been future C.I.’s.
"Yah, yo, I'm hearin' d' boy Dink got d' man gun. Now, I ain't sure yet if dat Dink be Dinky Dink or Inky Dink or maybe Fat Dink. Then again it might be Flat Nose Dink. Nah way. Nah. Nah. Dat can't be him. Dat Dink dead." The actor who delivers this quote is brilliant! WTF Everyone in The Wire is great.
He said dink dink dumb fuk, not dinky dink. Clean the ear wax out of your ears before you try to copy the entire script into the youtube comments. You are annoying af
No doubt. And while there will never be another show like the Wire, HBO has been making great content for a while now. They got some good stuff in the modern era too. Check out Raised by Wolves or, if you want some more fantastic David Simon, check out The Deuce.
@@ronoccc Oh yeah, Rome was amazing! You know what was another great one from that era? Deadwood. I'm so glad they made that movie and wrapped up the story. Edit: I just noticed the OP mentioned Deadwood, but the point still stands. Deadwood was great.
This is another gem by Wendell Pierce, who does a first rate job in showing the tedium and dead ends a police detective runs into in trying to track down good information. It mirrors the frustration Bunk and Lester run into on the Atlantic Light, whose crew members develop convenient lapses in their English. "Look, man, do it have to be the cop's gun? I can get you a gun." Comedy gold.
“Nah that can’t be that dink, that dink dead” LMAOOO this really is one of my favorite funny scenes from the wire😂 gosh I wish I could rewatch this show for the first time again!! Best tv show in television history!!
@@liamg1706 People snitch in jails, on the street, inside police departments, inside police cars(undercover or not) and even in court where everyone can see. Testifying is normal and it's how a lot of cases on criminal conspiracies are built, only low level criminals follow the "code" because they were brainwashed by top level criminals who don't want to get snitched on.
@@bernardopkmDP178 it carries a death sentence in alot of cases ,nobody in their mind would do it so openly unless the were under witness protection to rat in court then go into the witness protection program
I couldn't imagine even a lawyer like Saul Goodman getting someone off for killing 4 people. Yeah he got Lalo off for a murder but Lalo would've been screwed if he didn't have 7 mil just laying around.
It’s crazy to me that mob guys could cut those kind of deals though. Sammy the bull had 19 murders and walked free on a deal. Those are serial killer numbers, and they cut him loose for a bigger fish.
God, I miss this show. As I get older, I get pickier and watch less stuff. Right now, the only thing I watch is Game of Thrones and I don't really like it but merely tolerate it.
Get "Chiefs" 1983.... a six part mini-series starring Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Brad Davis, Paul Sorvino, Danny Glover and John Goodman.. you won't be disappointed.
Seen Sopranos? You probably have. If you ever come across another series anywhere close to the calibre of The Wire and Sopranos let me know fucking immediately
Game Of Thrones was actually cool when it focused on politics and fantasy, now it became a booring action series that mainly focuses on dragons and silly adventures.
lol at the guy who wants to sell Bunk guns. Still a bit smarter than the Taliban dude who expected the $100 reward and a walk for turning himself in...
Naw that wasn't him.. the dude who told Sherrod to beat up Namond was the fat dude Omar trapped in the alley & robbed back in Season 1 with Brandon & Bailey..
Always like scenes like this. If I was one of these, I would be the most useless, no value guy there. "You want quotes? I got movie quotes if need'em. Sitcom? I got acouple. Mostly Friends-related".
The Wire does a great job of tying the past to the present, I wonder if flat nose dink who is dead is the same dink who was killed on the the show The Corner that was about life on Baltimore corners before the Wire came on.
Does anyone else feel like the Wire ruined tv for you? I just can't get into most shows as I compare them to the Wire. Even Breaking Bad I just couldn't get into because it seemed so much more cartoony than the Wire (outside of Brother Muozone, some of Omar's story and the serial killer plot, the Wire feels so realistic).
That it was a show written from a journalist's view of things, about real world events and situations, helped so much. Baltimore was the world they knew and cared about. With shows like BB it's very clearly a bunch of TV writers trying to write entertaining television first, and say something real about the world they live in second. They don't really care about Alberquerque or the workings of the streets and cartels past how it serves the plot of the show, it's just an exciting setting to add drama to the characters and put them in gunfights and near-death situations, and not a real character in the same way that B'more was, y'know? The Wire was first and foremost a cathartic piece of artwork on the human condition, tapping into the frustrations held by both writer and viewer, frustrations with the systems and mindsets afflicting us, and doing this in a much more real and relatable way than something like BB. I liked BB just fine but like you said it's hard to compare. The Wire really has a strong real-world message that's backed by more than just idealistic wishing for a better world. David Simon really knows his shit about The Game and all the shit that comes with it.
Thank you, I thought the same damn thing when I first saw this years ago! I started jamming MJG in '92 or '93 so I have a frame of reference to work with and the voice & look are both damn similar. Maybe. Shout out to M... JG... PIMPTIGHT
It is truly amazing the (high) level of critical thinking & analysis you can find in the comment section of a show like this, but you go to the comment section of a Marvel movie & it's just dudebro & 'you didn't read the comics, therefore you are dumb' type shit.
