"The Wire" Appreciation Thread

[lukethedrifter]

before I opened your spoiler I had picked the middle one as my favorite

[ghostrunner]

I just looked back at my first post where I considered Rawls a good character and Clay Davis a bad one. That had to be before Davis uttered "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit" the first time.

Speaking of which, they never did address Rawls appearing for like 2 seconds in a gay bar. That was one of best throwaways I've ever seen.

[The Third Man]

So, I'm watching The Wire...again. I think this makes my fourth time through.

[vinsanity]

Some cop in New Mexico pulled a McNulty...in broad daylight.

Uniformed Cop Caught Having Sex With Woman On Hood Of Car

[Smith Corks One]

So, I'm watching The Wire...again. I think this makes my fourth time through.

I am too, but only for the second time - hadn't watched them since their original air dates. I enjoyed them back then but only now am I realizing how truly [expletive] amazing the show was. At the time I was more into The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, but now I realize The Wire was probably the best of the bunch.

[The Third Man]

[SHOW]

Spoilered for size.

[manofkards]

Who knew Idris Elba aka Stringer Bell is British when watching The Wire? He didn't tell the Wire folks he was
British when he interviewed for the part. Took him a long time to learn the part. Mcnulty's Brit accent was audible at times to me, but never Stringer's.....that i recall. perhaps i would feel differently relistening now.

Season 2 of Luther starts tonight on BBC America. i have not started Luther season 1 yet.

[lukethedrifter]

Can't really remember when I found out that he and McNulty were Brits.
Carcetti is Irish or English as well.

[longhornbaseball]

Dominic West sounds like he's doing a fake British accent whenever he speaks in real life.

[ghostrunner]

There's this actress on Sons of Anarchy who plays an Irish lady, but I've seen in other things for years. Two thirds of the season I thought to myself how weak her accent was. Turns out she's from Belfast.

The lead in that show is also a Brit, which I never would have guessed before I found out. There was a period from like 2007-2009 where all these British actors started playing Americans on our TV shows. I could probably crank out a list of a dozen or so if I thought about it for a few minutes.