The Wire 5x8
Added 2023-07-11 23:23:03 +0000 UTCEnjoy Friends
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On HBO with the regular episodes there are some shorts that act as prequals that came out with the fifth season. Don't read the other reply to my comment cuz they spoil it smh
Edward
2023-07-19 20:43:35 +0000 UTCyoung omar and young prop joe. It basically shows you their origin and why they do what they do. Like 5 minute clips.
Pacman24
2023-07-19 20:30:13 +0000 UTCWhat prequel clips?
Daniel & Mattieu FRR
2023-07-18 21:58:11 +0000 UTCyo dont forget the prequal clips when you guys are done
Edward
2023-07-18 21:30:55 +0000 UTCfo sho LOL. that scene, especially the ending line of "he's probably a highly functional alcoholic" or whatever, is one of my favorites from the show. That look on McNulty's face, where he wouldn't even think of questioning the truth of that alcoholic fact, is priceless. He's thinking, like, goddamn, fuck, they got me 100% on the profile, wtf....
physaks
2023-07-17 11:59:47 +0000 UTConly people to make michael look away were his step father and marlo. He tried real hard to play that shit off with chris and snoop. felt like he was lying to himself. Hes been feeling top dog ever since he got chris and snoop to kill his step dad. wasn't used to feeling that insecurity anymore.
Edward
2023-07-15 03:29:40 +0000 UTCOn the other hand, Poot has always been a unsentimental pragmatic dude so maybe he would just think “You know that Michael B. Jordan guy reminds me of someone… oh yeah that guy I killed.. I think I need some more popcorn”.
Eric Posin
2023-07-13 04:31:20 +0000 UTCNow that we see Poot is out of the game and working at Pootlocker, I’m wondering how Poot in the upcoming years after the show, will deal with an actor who looks like a grown up Wallace becoming a big movie star? Does Poot take his kid to see Black Panther and Creed and then have a bout of PTSD?
Eric Posin
2023-07-13 04:11:08 +0000 UTCI like to think that the whole plot line of season 5 is simply to get to the point where McNulty realizes he has the profile of a serial killer
Craig Manning
2023-07-13 01:14:59 +0000 UTCLook up Stephen Glass, who Gus mentions. Former reporter, dude went from making up a quote here and there to making up entirely fictional people and events, reporting them all as facts
John Collins
2023-07-12 19:00:52 +0000 UTCI agree this show deserves all the paragraphs great insight thanks
Daniel & Mattieu FRR
2023-07-12 17:57:47 +0000 UTCAnd an additional comment on my previous post, about the STORY coming to an end: THE Easter Egg of All EASTER EGGS !!!!!!!: The house street address number visible on the front of Beadie's house during the conversation where McNulty reveals the fraudulent fiction of his serial-killer story to Beadie, so the gig is up, and where he keeps talking about "the story", "the hero", as in Greek tragic hero, and how it's all made-up for the people/society but "hard to explain": !!!!! This house street number is 1616..........the year of William Shakespeare's death.....when the bard, the story-teller, the author, dies. So the story is now over, the fantasy is up, the narrative is ended....[BTW this is verified with a show writer on the series, although just the coincidence couldn't possibly be explained otherwise anyway, they don't just put a number on a production set, it's there because it's supposed to mean something, unless it's a generic reserved number like for movie telephone numbers, license plates, etc.] More Shakespearean Easter Eggs in The Wire: Shakespeare's rival dramatist during the late Renaissance was Christopher Marlowe -- I think you can identify the two antagonist characters in The Wire with those names. Marlowe also died young, just like Marlo is young. Also, Avon Barksdale -- Shakespeare was from the town of Stratford-upon-Avon.... Finally, there is a previous scene where this street number is visible during another conversation between Beadie and McNulty in front of her house, also about stories' ending and foreshadowing this conversation here. I don't remember which episode, since I just noticed it this time while rewatching the series for yall's reactions -- you learn something new everyday and all that LOL. There are a ton more Easter Eggs and references to both Shakespeare's tragedies and, especially, the original classical Greek tragedies that The Wire is based on -- I really don't know how David Simon et al. managed to nerd-out this deep on a ratings-poor TV series and STILL finished it AND made it into such a hyper-realistic masterpiece. Kudos and credit to HBO of course too -- well, the HBO of that time, sadly no longer.... BUT, still two episodes to go. This is just background info to think about while watching the last two, hopefully it will be useful to some viewers here, if interested. Sorry about the length, but this show deserves it!
physaks
2023-07-12 13:21:51 +0000 UTCThis one and the next couple of episodes have tons of symbolisms and Easter Eggs relating to the end of the show, but already a few appear in this episode. 1). The cat that Kenard is about to set on fire: You can go back and see that whenever Omar is shown walking down an alley in previous episodes and street runners are announcing his entrance there's usually a cat preceding Omar running in the alley or around the corner beforehand. I'll leave it to you for now why the specific animal is a cat. 2). Cycles and repetitions in humanity's history: This will be explored more in the final two episodes, but you can already start thinking about who from the young characters will be the next {BLANK} (the next Omar, the next Marlo [hint hint, young psycho prodigy killer, with a hostile relationship to Omar], the next Bubbs, the next Bunny cop rabbi, etc.). 3). The STORY coming to an ending: McNulty's psycho-killer fiction, Templeton's lies in the Sun paper, and of course "The Wire" itself. All appear to be coming to a head and approaching an ending, while Life continues and recycles the same situations with different succeeding individuals regardless.
physaks
2023-07-12 05:48:33 +0000 UTCOmars downfall is them kids. He even said "He's just a kid" when he saw michael talking to snoop and them in season 4".
Pacman24
2023-07-12 02:28:58 +0000 UTCAnd he always spoke about how he'd do things on his name alone, but in the end he ends up in a bag with a tag on his toe and names mixed up because in the end, he's very inconsequential and just a nobody in the grand scheme of things. Ends in a bag just like so many he put there before.
celilmandir
2023-07-12 02:27:24 +0000 UTCBro Templeton might actually have a mental illness. Just lying for the fuck of it. Even switched up the chocolate milk to coffee for no reason whatsoever. 😂
prolifik5
2023-07-12 02:13:54 +0000 UTCOmar was the baddest dude in all of Baltimore and at the end he's limping and living off of pure anger and winds up as just another body whose story gets scratched off the newspaper. That shit really puts things into perspective. Beadie is right, in the end all you have in this world is family and if you're lucky maybe a few other people.
Sol95
2023-07-12 02:08:47 +0000 UTCAaaand that’s why Carcetti might just be the biggest scumbag in the show. The whole “I can help Baltimore more as the governor” was always bullshit. There’s always another deal to cut or concession to make in politics, and rather than doing right and taking the money the first time, he fucked his city and constituents over twice for his own career.
John Collins
2023-07-12 01:18:55 +0000 UTCNot too much if you remember many times it showed Omar had a soft spot for kids which is why when he came in the store Omar saw him then turned back around first time we saw Omar he shoot the guy and told the kid to get the drugs he implied that he would shoot him but never would ever when Michael met with Marlo and he was steaked out he said he just a kid and even when he was selling drugs the lady with the baby was able to get free drugs
Kwame James
2023-07-12 01:15:31 +0000 UTCJust a heads up he told him to bang a little longer because he needs to make money he's too young to get a job and he doesn't know Michael is literally taking care of him so realistically it is the best thing he could have told him poot only has one body he done prison time did a murder and been shoot at he knows he has no future in Marlo organization unlike Avon he looked out for all his people even the pawns
Kwame James
2023-07-12 01:03:17 +0000 UTCI love the balls of this show. What a fan favorite and what a way in how to deal with it. GoT had those balls once upon a time.
PIG
2023-07-12 00:37:08 +0000 UTCWhat I wanted to say but couldn't last week was that Kenard didn't call Mike a gimpy motherfucker or whatever, he was talking about Omar. One of the big complaints people bring up about S5 is about hella random the whole Omar thing was. But if you were paying attention, it wasn't random at all. Going back to season THREE, Kenard was one of those kids that was live action role playing as Omar after that shootout. Kenard even got the line "It's MY turn to be Omar!" Then you get to now times like about two years later and Kenard sees what he knows of as a fucking legend -- except he's all broken down. Kenard's an evil fuck, you saw what he was doing to that cat. Only natural that one day he would move up and see if gods bleed. ps i am very proud of you formal
ShaneSpear
2023-07-12 00:25:19 +0000 UTCFormal must be so happy wearing his prediction king crown!
celilmandir
2023-07-11 23:54:40 +0000 UTCah man, you beat me at my stupid game of trying to post a stupid random quote as the first comment. probably testament to the significance of the episode!
Sam Gavshak
2023-07-11 23:26:52 +0000 UTCI want some of that pepper steak
Sam Gavshak
2023-07-11 23:25:39 +0000 UTCOh, I've been waiting for this one.
C Perry
2023-07-11 23:25:14 +0000 UTC
