SEASON 2...is starting off on an unexpected pace, and I love it! The Wire & The Office & Better Call Saul & Always Sunny & More on Patreon! Click here: www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema Have a great day y'all!
There is a lot of good TV out there, but The Wire is a level above everything else. It's so artistic, realistic and humane at the same time. Btw don't know if you commented on this in the uncut, but both Frank Sobotka and Stan Valchek are polish-american, and the Church they're competing favors over is the polish-catholic church of Baltimore. The Wire is so rich with texture, including such a small cultural minority and their internal conflicts in their painting of Baltimore.
You can see why originally season 2 confused a lot of people. It is taking it's time to get started, all the familiar characters are all over the place, new ones have come in and so on. And yet I found myself laughing at everything Jimmy does, like it's a damn comedy. Honestly if one wants to tell a good and gripping story, throw some humor into it. Everyday humor makes everything feel so much more real and relatable. And even if this season has been a slower burn so far, I swear everything with Jimmy, Bunk and Lester has been pure gold. Also, this season is important to the context of the show. To me it seems that so far they are showing that crime is not a race thing, but a class thing. At a certain level of poverty, everyone does something to stay alive. If they had just 5 seasons of one group of people doing crimes, it would send an unintentionally bad message. But they are showing here that crime isn't just as simple as that.
Ziggy is Frank's son, not grandson. Interestingly, there is only a 13 year age difference between the actors. Chris Bauer (the actor playing Frank) was just 37 when this season aired. He looks at least 10 years older.
He said - they had airpipes on the top of the crate that got crushed. So they were alive, but their air supply got cut off, and they suffocated in there, hence the look of their bodies. Ziggy's actor, James Ransone (a Baltimore native, like many in the show), has had a pretty interesting career. I watched him jerk it to completion in Ken Park, pop up here, and is now a pretty well regarded actor following movies like Sinister, It Chapter Two and The Black Phone.
As a fellow recovering alcoholic (fist bump), I *do* recommend it! It's just one of those ridiculous, hyper-masculine things you gotta do at least once...
The apperance of Greek organized crime in this show is so interesting to me - they have never been high-profile in US media, but because of the outsized role of Greece in global shipping, they have been key players in international smuggling for a very long time. Most of the time they are really good at staying in the shadows.
Valchek (the police colonel) and Sobotka (the union boss on the docks) have known each other all their lives, and have always been rivals. Now that Valchek has power as a high-ranking police officer, he is using that to try to dig up dirt on Sobotka all for his own petty grievances. I have never worked in government, but I have worked in large corporations where upper managers (directors and VPs) made lives of staff miserable because of their petty squabbles and power plays against each other when the executives in the C-suites were too stupid, too blind, or too distracted with their own petty concerns to give a crap about what was good for the employees and the customers.
Oh shit, I didn't realize the guy who played Master Chief was the guy in the wire. That's why I love revisiting these older shows this way and seeing familiar faces.
Welcome to the world of The Greek. One could say he's the actual main character, and Baltimore is just a small slice of his life and empire. Also, he could just be middle management himself.
The genius of the writing is... Yes, it is SUPER dumb to be starting an investigation over a stained-window beef and a waste of police and resources BUT... The case that comes out of it ends up being incredibly important, complex, and dangerous.
I think that's called a "Miner's Breakfast" when you drink a raw egg in your beer with a shot of whiskey to chase it (I realized they aren't miners on the show).
This is great! I would totally watch the uncut versions, but without a time-code to sync the show with the reaction, it's a little difficult for me to figure out where in the show you are. I'm hard of hearing, so a visual cue is helpful. Not a complaint by the way! I'm happy to watch these edited videos!
2:00 This scene has long bothered me. Why are the bodies strewn about so haphazardly? If you're the one pulling the bodies out of the container, why wouldn't you just line them up? Lining them up would make things easier for yourself and everyone else involved. It would take extra work to arrange the bodies the way they're shown. It's more striking visually, but it's hardly realistic.
Gangsters are gangsters, irregardless of race. Some people like this season less than the others, because the gangsters are white. I disagree, I think this is as good as the rest of “The Wire”, which, not to sound like a broken record, is as good as it gets.
SEASON 2...is starting off on an unexpected pace, and I love it!
The Wire & The Office & Better Call Saul & Always Sunny & More on Patreon! Click here: www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema
Have a great day y'all!
Has anyone told you how likable your personality is?
As a Pole, I won't lie, it's very Polish that they argued about church stained glass windows.
There is a lot of good TV out there, but The Wire is a level above everything else. It's so artistic, realistic and humane at the same time.
Btw don't know if you commented on this in the uncut, but both Frank Sobotka and Stan Valchek are polish-american, and the Church they're competing favors over is the polish-catholic church of Baltimore. The Wire is so rich with texture, including such a small cultural minority and their internal conflicts in their painting of Baltimore.
Prez too, don't forget him!
You can see why originally season 2 confused a lot of people. It is taking it's time to get started, all the familiar characters are all over the place, new ones have come in and so on. And yet I found myself laughing at everything Jimmy does, like it's a damn comedy. Honestly if one wants to tell a good and gripping story, throw some humor into it. Everyday humor makes everything feel so much more real and relatable. And even if this season has been a slower burn so far, I swear everything with Jimmy, Bunk and Lester has been pure gold.
Also, this season is important to the context of the show. To me it seems that so far they are showing that crime is not a race thing, but a class thing. At a certain level of poverty, everyone does something to stay alive. If they had just 5 seasons of one group of people doing crimes, it would send an unintentionally bad message. But they are showing here that crime isn't just as simple as that.
Ziggy is Frank's son, not grandson. Interestingly, there is only a 13 year age difference between the actors. Chris Bauer (the actor playing Frank) was just 37 when this season aired. He looks at least 10 years older.
Kima said it best when she called him "Cool Lester Smooth"
It's his true name and title.
He said - they had airpipes on the top of the crate that got crushed. So they were alive, but their air supply got cut off, and they suffocated in there, hence the look of their bodies.
Ziggy's actor, James Ransone (a Baltimore native, like many in the show), has had a pretty interesting career. I watched him jerk it to completion in Ken Park, pop up here, and is now a pretty well regarded actor following movies like Sinister, It Chapter Two and The Black Phone.
He was a pretty great radioman in Generation Kill, too
@@JoeFF85 Cpl. Ray Person was awesome!
Don't try the beer in the egg. You don't want to do that.
I'm a recovering alcoholic, I've done that, and I can tell you that you don't want to do it.
Advice taken hahaha
As a fellow recovering alcoholic (fist bump), I *do* recommend it! It's just one of those ridiculous, hyper-masculine things you gotta do at least once...
The apperance of Greek organized crime in this show is so interesting to me - they have never been high-profile in US media, but because of the outsized role of Greece in global shipping, they have been key players in international smuggling for a very long time. Most of the time they are really good at staying in the shadows.
"The Greek" ain't even Greek. He says so in the end. I think he's Russian mob.
Valchek (the police colonel) and Sobotka (the union boss on the docks) have known each other all their lives, and have always been rivals. Now that Valchek has power as a high-ranking police officer, he is using that to try to dig up dirt on Sobotka all for his own petty grievances. I have never worked in government, but I have worked in large corporations where upper managers (directors and VPs) made lives of staff miserable because of their petty squabbles and power plays against each other when the executives in the C-suites were too stupid, too blind, or too distracted with their own petty concerns to give a crap about what was good for the employees and the customers.
Loving going through the wire. One of my favorite parts of the week.
Oh shit, I didn't realize the guy who played Master Chief was the guy in the wire. That's why I love revisiting these older shows this way and seeing familiar faces.
Welcome to the world of The Greek. One could say he's the actual main character, and Baltimore is just a small slice of his life and empire. Also, he could just be middle management himself.
LMAO I always thought that was you singing in the outro.. years later and i finally see the real artist
The genius of the writing is... Yes, it is SUPER dumb to be starting an investigation over a stained-window beef and a waste of police and resources BUT... The case that comes out of it ends up being incredibly important, complex, and dangerous.
I think that's called a "Miner's Breakfast" when you drink a raw egg in your beer with a shot of whiskey to chase it (I realized they aren't miners on the show).
This is great! I would totally watch the uncut versions, but without a time-code to sync the show with the reaction, it's a little difficult for me to figure out where in the show you are. I'm hard of hearing, so a visual cue is helpful. Not a complaint by the way! I'm happy to watch these edited videos!
You're 14 jamos at 2 am was wild
Avon was listening to (The Flute Tune by Push)😉
The “good to see you”s were nice ❤
Ronda & Jimmy, the original Kim & Jimmy
the port guys are polish, the super bad dudes are greek
Anyone up for some crab guts?
2:00 This scene has long bothered me. Why are the bodies strewn about so haphazardly? If you're the one pulling the bodies out of the container, why wouldn't you just line them up? Lining them up would make things easier for yourself and everyone else involved. It would take extra work to arrange the bodies the way they're shown. It's more striking visually, but it's hardly realistic.
McNulty got Rawlins good.
The Greek
Gangsters are gangsters, irregardless of race. Some people like this season less than the others, because the gangsters are white. I disagree, I think this is as good as the rest of “The Wire”, which, not to sound like a broken record, is as good as it gets.
Thx for the reactions. Are you aware how much you way “if I can be honest with you” ??
if I can be honest with you, nope! lol