The Wire Season 2 EP 9 & 10 Early Uncut Access
Added 2024-12-08 22:05:57 +0000 UTCWelcome back to more of The Wire. Season 2 is already introducing new ponds and showing us how far the web of corruption and crime sprouts throughout the city and further. With that, all new characters, relations, themes, and many more to help dive deeper into the immersive world of this story. I'm pretty excited, hope you are too!
EP 9: https://youtu.be/_4syf5Ye2rg
EP 9 Uncut: https://vimeo.com/1037255276/574b76949d
EP 10: https://youtu.be/A4mXm-Gjv6E
EP 10 Uncut: https://vimeo.com/1037259168/07c3823853
Comments
You were talking about set design. For long term sets that they use for a large chunk of the season, those are usually designed. For one off scenes like that gunshot sequence that probably was somebody’s house that they rented for a couple hours. Most things shot in Baltimore are done that way, so there is less set design unless the script calls for specific items that aren’t there that people go and find. I’ve worked on some of that in Baltimore productions.
Jonathan
2024-12-10 21:37:41 +0000 UTCRegarding a prequel showing how Stringer and Avon got the towers and came to power, Samuel L. Jackson once expressed interest in making a movie about it where he would play the drug lord that ran the towers before losing the war to the Barksdales. David Simon thought about it for a second until deciding against it.
GDC
2024-12-09 21:57:51 +0000 UTCHe has a magnificent Baltimore accent, too.
Kana Kawase
2024-12-09 21:45:43 +0000 UTCIs it’s always sunny dropping anytime soon?
Toshinori
2024-12-09 18:13:40 +0000 UTCJust a heads up the Chinese cemetery line wasn’t about Avon it was someone else.
Mack M
2024-12-09 03:22:20 +0000 UTCMan, a lot goes down in these two episodes. Lots of big plot points and introductions to future players, but I don't want to spoil so I won't point them all out. I do have some neat minor details to share though: First is that though it's the first time we see her in person, the girl that meets Nick on the playground near the end of episode 10 is the same girl that Maui and the other dock guys pranked Ziggy about knocking up earlier in the season. To quote Nick himself when Ziggy says he only fucked her once, "everybody down the point fucked her the once, Zig." Second is that the poor kid that gets killed in the beginning of episode 9 was also actually a named character, "TT", that we have met/heard of before. In the intro of Season 1, episode 6 when we see how Wallace is living and trying to care for all of the young kids in the neighborhood, Wallace is passing out chips and juice boxes before they head to school. Wallace doesn't have enough to go around and tells the last kid to "go share with TT, man". So TT was (most likely) one of those kids. It's never acknowledged or expanded upon at all in the show, but it is just a tiny throwaway detail that makes the whole world of the show feel truly interconnected. I'll to my best to point out any more similar easter eggs I know as you go, but keep an eye out and see if you can spot some yourself cuz there's plenty more of them.
Tom McTernan
2024-12-09 02:07:01 +0000 UTCIt takes a while for the pieces to come together, but if you ask me, the best actor in season 2 is James Ransome as Ziggy. Nails how fucking annoying and whiny and ineffective the character is and then completely humanizes him at the end.
R K
2024-12-09 01:49:19 +0000 UTCYeah I don't have a nickname for the guy, just call him Prez lol
Markus Burns
2024-12-09 01:19:36 +0000 UTCThe older white cop with a mustache in the last scene of episode 9 is played by the real life person Sergeant Landsman's character is based on. He tried out to play himself but didn't get the part.
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar
2024-12-09 00:33:05 +0000 UTCYou knew that Ziggy was headed for a fall, but the show still managed to take you by surprise. Let's just appreciate how great James Ransone's performance was as Ziggy.
Kana Kawase
2024-12-08 23:58:35 +0000 UTC
