In Europe, I might be called a social democrat, maybe a green, or, depending on the country, a labourite.

Huh.

Our love would be doomed, though. Cause *I'd* have to be the cheery one. Fuck *me*.

David Simon's significant other is Laura Lippman, right?

Yeah. Lifestealing heffa. (Actually, I like her work...short stories better than the long ones, though. So far, her endings aren't All That. Like my cyber-published ass has room to talk, though.)

Though it also creeps me out how much I like this show in which I'm more or less rooting for a sociopath serial killer. Except, it doesn't actually creep me out. Creepy.

I've had a lot of practice cheering on charismatic murderers at this point . The only time soulless Angel was ever on screen and I wasn't rooting for him to kill someone was when he had Willow by the throat in "Innocence."

No thoughts on the penultimate Wire of S4?

It's the first episode I saw!

Our new cable deal now gets HBO and so I decided to jump in randomly with the TiVo.

I didn't realize it was the culmination of so many arcs, so for a first time viewer let me just note: (1) Whoa! Very intense; (2) Whoa! Bringing the bleak; (3) Surprisingly easy to follow the story considering I don't know anybody's name or history.

But shit...kids beating down on kids. Evil mommys of the pink christmas tree. Clearly doomed techie kid with one last act of helpage. Good mom burnt to a crisp. Good cops thwarted for finding bodies, but then getting the go-ahead on a purely political power play. Big lumpen asshole cops taking the heat on themselves. Good boxing coaches missing the memo on the cold hard facts of the street today.

Whoa...and I thought I was being brave jumping into Season Two while they were all Cop with Glasses, Tough Woman Cop, Hottie Aussie Cop(English+ Faux Balmer comes out vaguely Aussie at first. McNutty's voice is greatly improved since.) That was a heavy intro, Hecubus. It took me forever to keep the cornerboys straight, and it's shockingly easy for me to start talking like one and wanting to tell somebody who'll be all "Wtf?" to "Holla at me later, a'ight?' (pulls out orange couch for the Bot) They don't *all* hurt that much. Only Wallace, and maybe Ray Cole's wake...oh, and Frank Sobotka...you'll run away, now, right, bunk?(But something about Frank connected me to something...ancestral or something. That won't happen to everyone. I don't think.) My mother doesn't get it. Especially with the weeping. But it's also really hilarious. Honest. George brings the pain cause he's all about the kids. But he also wrote that thing about the guy that invented McNuggets that I still laugh at, because iirc the phrase "clowny ass" figures in somewhere.

Who's the cop pulling out the nails? Lester? He's got the gravitas going for him.

Lester Freamon, Major Crimes' Yoda. Unjustly confined for12(?) years to Evidence Control for pissing off the bosses.(he knows the years months and days, but I think I fucked it up) Currently enjoying a phenomenal comeback, which he is risking by doing his damn job. Makes more making doll furniture anyway.(Which is how he survived hanging with the drunks and burnouts he used to work with.)

I want this actor to play Derek Strange, but SLJ is more famous and probably will.
Very cruel reassigment at BPD...they ask you where you want to go, and do the opposite. Lester said if he could get outside and talk to people, he could deal. So they stick him in a windowless room with bloody shirts. Sometimes I think The PTB did that to me too. "Well, Officer, you're about to be reincarnated. Any thoughts?"

"As long as I can exercise every day, I'm game."

Bwah ha ha.

Fuckin' bosses.

Erika's right: that is a heavy place to jump in. My first episode was the last of S2, another heavy one, from which I learned: a) I had no idea what was going on and b) I needed to find out, immediately. Luckily Season 1 had just come out on DVD.

>12(?) years

Oh, come now, Mrs. Simon. That's 13 years... and 4 months.