This season is sort of all over the place. There are a bunch of things going on, but they're not as obviously intricately connected as before. You've got Omar's Adventures in Thievery, the War of the Stained-Glass Windows, the Imminent Return of the Surveillance-Story Paradigm, the Barksdale Crew in:
Life After Sentencing,
Murder x 14, and Whatever the Frakking Hell Those White Boys Are Doing.
Stringer's getting with D's girl! That shit is cold. He's going to have to talk more macroeconomics to get me to like him again.
Avon sure knows how to keep a kid off drugs. Damn.
Did you know the actor that plays String is English?
Best faux-American accent ever. Better than Hugh Laurie's, which I thought was about perfect.
Yeah, I'd really love to have overheard String and McNutty hanging out off-camera with their real accents.
Yeah, they should have done a DVD commentary together. Talked about getting "take-away" in Baltimore, or, honestly? Anything they want...those guys absolutely pwn my ass, though I've no idea how to pronounce that sentiment.(The accents were a gift with purchase, though.)
Not that I don't love the ones with DW and MKW, especially the one where West explains how Wendell Pierce rescued him after he learned what "cracker" means in America.MKW laughed SO hard at that one.
You know who else is British? Lester Fucking Freamon. Or, at least, Clarke Peters.
Really? Cause I thought he was USAian and worked in the UK. Not that his performance was anything less than faultless and awesome, either way. If he is a Brit, long line for The Wire accent Prize! I love Lester.(I thought maybe that events of(sniff) the last season would alter that? But, no, still full of Freamon love. Which is beautiful, but if taken literally, possibly TMI.)
Oops, Erika's right: [link] I'd always heard it the other way. Anyway, the dude's natural accent these days is more Brit than American.
Lt. Daniels is getting the band back together!! Woohoo! Even if it's a shitty detail. I wonder if every season is like this. I mean, the show is called
The Wire,
after all. You have to figure they need to work in, well, a wire at some point.
I'm getting a little more drawn into Frank and Nick, but Zig is a dumbshit jerkoff. Can he die so they can bring Wallace back to life? That's how it works, right?
THEY NEED CHEMICALS TO MAKE BOMBS, YOU IDIOTS.
Did McNulty seriously give his ex-wife stolen headphones??
The dinner scene with Daniels and Kima and their significant others was awesome. Obvious and on-the-nose, but awesome.
I'm a little confused about Stringer's schooling. Why did he go through all that car-switching cloak-and-dagger to get to his class before? Did that just look more complicated than it actually was? Because I thought he was keeping it secret from his crew to retain his street cred or something, but he's studying in front of them.
