yea poor dukie

Just spent the last 45min reading all those character analyses. Good $hit.

Has any seen "The Corners?"

David Simon did it and its apparently the prequel/basis for "The Wire."

Its on Netflix. Worth it?

Its good but very different from the wire. Less entertaining, more like a documentary. Fun to watch as a wire fan because of the crossover of actors and ideas.

Thanks.

Got it in my queue

The Corner is great. Def kinda depressing, but very good.

I hated Marlo. Just a punk, insecure and power hungry.

Barksdale and others at least had some good redeeming qualities.

lolllll @ marlo being insecure

ye big difference between being vigilant and insecure.

wvu never dissapoints

2/10 on season 5. Pretty boring tbh.
Mcnulty going back to his usual self was a letdown.

giving a wire season 2/10 seems super unfair.

I'm 2/10 through season 5, that's what I meant. Ep 2 out of 10.

haha okay now makes sense. still early.

Stringer is wayyy more insecure than marlo

Better than him being a whipped like a little bitch by Beadie

On my third watch, watching with pops for his first time.

Just watched s2e6 (Omar in court/D being killed) and he's antsy as hell wondering if D is actually dead or not

Relative to the other seasons, I'd probably give season 5 a 6 or 7/10 tbh. Of course comparing it to anything else I'd still pick season 5 lol.

I'd rather watch the abortion that is season 5 over 99.99999% of anything else on television.

Watching s05e06. Lol @ the first scene of the ep when Marlo sees how Omar escaped and says "that's some spider man **** right there." made me laugh irl.
Season got better.

FWIW, the entire first season is on youtube.

I only truly appreciated Marlo after his final scene which is also one of my favourite of the series.

That't the whole point of his character. Whereas the Barksdale generation still clung to family values and used the force of their awesome personalities to get **** done, Marlo represents that next generation which knows only violence. Marlo is extremely talented at violence, absolutely merciless, and the only thing he cares about is his name (it is his name). He has risen to his position by being the most dangerously violent person in Baltimore, which is kind of staggering.

Marlo may not be the most expressive character or the most interesting onscreen because he is reserved, quiet, and calculating, but he is social destruction itself, he is the logical conclusion. He is the ultimate extension of drug prohibition and military (police) occupation of neighborhood territory, under generations of refinement and fertilization.

Avon is Myth, Marlo is the Real.

I love the juxtaposition of Marlo's "My name is my name" with the Greek's "My name isn't even my name".

Two opposite approaches to their way of doing business, both developed by complete dedication to their work and abandoning everything else. Marlo is all reputation and intimidation, the Greek is a non-entity stripped of all identity. Both refined products perfected through generations of criminals, at the end of it neither has any humanity left.

I have no idea how i missed that, really good point. I think the Greek gets better and better with each rewatch of the show. Awesome character.