The Wire Season 3 EP 11 & 12 Early Uncut Access
Added 2025-02-16 21:51:23 +0000 UTCSeason 3 was on another level! Genuinely can't wait for Season 4. From characters like Avon and Stringer, to new ones like Marlo and Brother Mouzone..this world and it's themes continue to amaze me. Realism to surrealism. Nothing is quite like The Wire.
EP 11: https://youtu.be/OcN9Kv2GvRc
EP 12: https://youtu.be/EVFJOrJLTMk
EP 11 & 12 Uncut: https://vimeo.com/1057307248
Comments
I skip a week after every season (with any show so I can get a breather.) It's up now.
James Adams
2025-03-02 17:06:51 +0000 UTCIs the wire release every week? No wire for a while...
BT
2025-03-02 08:52:04 +0000 UTCSeason 4 is not personally my favorite, but I have a suspicion that for James it will be.
MR
2025-02-18 11:04:20 +0000 UTCI’m looking forward to you watching S4. It’s my favorite season of The Wire and maybe my favorite season of TV period.
Mike Ayres
2025-02-17 22:10:59 +0000 UTCYes, one tries to be as realistic as possible, the other is an extended dream/nightmare.
Kana Kawase
2025-02-17 21:10:23 +0000 UTCCompletely with you. This is my first time watching as well and it really is just the best. Can’t wait to get into season 4 and 5
Matt B
2025-02-17 20:41:35 +0000 UTCBeen hearing lots of good things about Deadwood as well!!
James Adams
2025-02-17 14:32:28 +0000 UTCLoved how the camera was so still during that too. Couldn’t think himself out of this one
James Adams
2025-02-17 14:30:20 +0000 UTCThat is awesome. Wow!
James Adams
2025-02-17 14:29:31 +0000 UTCThe Wire & Twin Peaks are the two best shows of all time... Although fairly different in tone and style! lol
PostalElite
2025-02-17 12:43:31 +0000 UTCI love how they mirror the lines from both Stringer and Colvin as they are both being put to death (one figuratively, the other literally) by the very caste that they came up in and were trying to escape from by changing the game.
MrBooShoes
2025-02-17 07:34:43 +0000 UTCGreat reaction and commentary throughout! Fantastic season as well. Season 4 is something extra special, so I know we're all looking forward to it after the break. I'm already in my feelings about it and I haven't seen it in years. You were really enjoying the dialogue and writing in these last two episodes. In my opinion, the very best dialogue in any show of any genre, hands down, is Deadwood (another HBO show from the mid 2000s). The dialogue in every episode is almost equivalent to a Shakespearean play. The protagonist Al Swearengen is unforgettable and unmatched. I would definitely put it on your radar if it isn't already.
James
2025-02-17 05:10:48 +0000 UTCWhen you get to the end of The Wire you will feel a big empty void inside of you that longs for that same level of storytelling. The good news is that after they finished producing The Wire, David Simon and most of the same crew went on to make 'Treme'. Its characters and themes pick up right where The Wire left off. It's a shame that it wasn't as big of a hit as The Wire, but I don't think that made it a weaker show at all.
Brandon
2025-02-17 02:47:20 +0000 UTCAlso shows Stringer to be a hypocrite. He gets on Avon about his pride and beefing over corners but as soon as he gets played for chump change he’s all in his feelings and ready to go hard down a very stupid road. these guys are making millions a month and he got got for what, 50Gs or something. That’s the equivalent of me getting played for 45 cents. It’s all wounded pride and respect
Jesse Trovato
2025-02-17 02:14:38 +0000 UTCRIP Stringer, that misguided snake of a man. Trying to revolutionize the drug game, while himself being just a community college level man, who only feels smart because he is surrounded by idiots. Barely a gangster, not a business man - a man without a country. The game was too dead set on it's ways, to be changed. And Stringer's constant need to double-cross anyone who got in his way, finally caught up to him. Him going behind Avon's back and killing Dee and having Muzone hit, meant that Avon didn't see him as someone to defend. I am 100% sure that if they were on early season 1 terms, Avon would have taken a hit business wise, to protect his brother. But killing Dee and confessing it, meant that Avon didn't go the distance to protect him. Avon is a monster too. He is a drug kingpin, who has had witnesses killed, among other crimes. And yet he understood the game, and you could always take his word on something. So even between two bad people, Avon was a gangster with a code, while Stringer was a confused, overly ambitious, under qualified, snake of a man. Still, he is one of the top tier TV villains, because of his complex nature. There is a certain danger about a man who thinks that he is super smart, and then it turns out that he actually isn't all that. He was a great villain because of how many sides there were to his actions.
Legato
2025-02-17 02:10:18 +0000 UTCOh I’ve been waiting for this scene all season but I could never remember when it came. Cutty going in there spitting his sales pitch about a gold circle membership then he has the heart to ask a man like Avon if he’d like the silver or bronze package. The beauty of the scene is that we as the audience have the misdirection of thinking Avon is mad about being asked for money but then the relief of him giving him everything he needs PLUS 50% more because 15k is nothing to him. The initial problem is that why would a man like Avon getting ready for war take the time to be pretend frustrated with Cutty, he’d just congratulate him and move on. But the real beauty is that on second watch you see he’s frustrated with his name and picture on the wall. So the “why are you bothering me with this shit” is coming from that and not the audacity someone would ask him for 10Gs to help the community. It’s shows the greatness of him and Slim Charles (Pusha T) that they’re smiling knowing on some level they’re doing a good thing. Of all my wire memories that scene I never forgot.
Jesse Trovato
2025-02-17 02:09:55 +0000 UTCThe beauty of Stringer and Avon is that Avon is violent but ultimately a good person. He’s a soldier and going to war but he has a code and a moral compass (Sunday truce, family first, giving money to help the youngins at the Gym). Stringer is not violent, he isn’t about that street life and beefing but is not a good person. He breaks every code an honorable man would have (lying, conniving, setting people up, torture, etc.) Stringer represents that street life that doesn’t just leave because you walked yourself from Druid Hill to Capitol Hill. He doesn’t land in his new world and ultimately fails at both, loses the war or at least his battles, gets played by the state senator, and gets caught out without his gun. Even Omar at the very end tells him “you still don’t get it!” There are lines that he crossed that you can’t, buy, or lie, or narc your way out of…it’s about respect and credibility. He lost his credibility on the streets and sold it for respect that he never got in the political/business world. Such a beautiful juxtaposition of characters and morality
Jesse Trovato
2025-02-17 02:02:18 +0000 UTCMan stringer's death definitely hit hard. I like how he tries to weasel out of it, one last time only to realize the game is the game. Went out like a man. That scene with Avon was basically the "last supper" between them. Episode 11, 10/10 for me.
Markus Burns
2025-02-17 00:22:04 +0000 UTCSeason 4 is about to hit you like a ton of bricks.
James Edwards
2025-02-16 23:47:57 +0000 UTCThe fact that they have both already betrayed the other at that point really adds another dimension to the whole conversation.
Kana Kawase
2025-02-16 23:34:40 +0000 UTCJust started the second episode, and at the beginning, you ask the same thing about what kind of life Stringer could have had given different circumstances. You suggested a teacher. I imagine him owning a successful small business and living a very happy life.
Kana Kawase
2025-02-16 23:30:01 +0000 UTCThis season was also about reform with Stringer and Colvin as the two analogues, trying to reform their institutions that cannot be reformed from the inside. Right down to their last words being the same ("Get on with it, motherfucker."). Then you also had Slim Charles' conversation with Avon being a metaphor for the Iraq War, which was happening at the same time as this season ("The thing about war...if it's a lie, we fight on that lie.")
GDC
2025-02-16 23:29:16 +0000 UTC“I think I just witnessed the best season of my life” I felt the exact same way until I watched season 4 lol
Young Simba
2025-02-16 23:25:31 +0000 UTCThe final scene between Stringer and Avon on the rooftop is the best scene in television history IMO. Just the build up over three season toward it, giving us backstory as to their relationship, and cementing their innate differences before the greek tragedy that is the end of their stories. All superbly acted by Elba and Harris. Perfection.
GDC
2025-02-16 22:46:39 +0000 UTCYou asked about the writer in ep. 11 -- it was written by George Pelecanos, a crime novelist from DC. All of the next-to-last episodes are written by him.
Alexander
2025-02-16 22:45:54 +0000 UTC“Middle Ground” is an all-timer. Also, the reason that episode reminds you so much of a novel is because it’s written by George Pelecanos, who was a novelist before he came onto the show. The penultimate episode of every season is written by him, and they always hit hard!
William Davis
2025-02-16 22:44:46 +0000 UTCThe scene with Avon, Stringer and Slim Charles is one of my favourite in the series. It really demonstrates the dynamic between Avon and Stringer. String may have book smarts, but he lacks common sense. He has power in the organization only to the extent that Avon lets him. The second he starts to get stupid, Avon effortlessly asserts his authority and Stringer walks out of the room in shame. Meanwhile, Slim Charles quietly watches. I wonder what kind of man Stringer would have become if had been born under different circumstances.
Kana Kawase
2025-02-16 22:27:18 +0000 UTCWe getting Shogun still my guy?
Joseph Thomas
2025-02-16 22:05:10 +0000 UTCSeason 3 is genuinely amazing but season 4 might be the best season of television I’ve personally ever seen. The new institution they focus on there hits the absolute hardest.
sayhello2heaven
2025-02-16 21:57:13 +0000 UTC
