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The Wire, season 2

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on May 9, 2009
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Okay, my Humax is still chopping the ends off, but The Wire season 2 is three episodes in on BBC-2 and it continues to amaze me. It truly is a wonderful piece of TV.

Episode 2 contains this gem of dialogue, again from State’s Attorney Rhonda Pearlman: “Last night you were too drunk to fuck. This morning too hungover. What’s the most useless thing on a woman? A drunken Irishman. Only you’re not really Irish, are you, McNulty?”. This is followed by an admission by our hero McNulty which proves that he is, after all, an asshole.

And many thanks to Stefanie for sending me this fascinating interview with Wire creator David Simon: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/watch.html

Hooked on The Wire

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on April 3, 2009
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‘Watch The Wire’, says the press, ‘watch The Wire’ says Charlie Brooker - hell, even Claire Bolderson tells me ‘Watch The Wire, you’d love it’, it is - they all say - the Best TV Show Ever Made. And I like a bit of Good TV. So I know I should like it, I know I would like it, only it’s several seasons in, I don’t have the dosh to buy the DVDs nor the time to watch it.

Then BBC2 start showing it from season 1, episode 1. Every night, just to make my life hell like they did with Larry Sanders. Can’t not watch it. It’s free-to-air and too damn good.

So - aside from the fact that my Humax box cuts off the last 2 minutes of everything on BBC2 when I use series-linking - I start watching (thank you bbcredux for restoring my missing cliffhangers). And I am getting hooked, even if I occasionally have to switch the subtitles on. It does require full attention and hence it does make The West Wing look like In The Night Garden.

The episode I am watching now (number 3) has - as far as I’m concerned - attained the status of genius TV with the following scene: McNulty makes a wonderfully clumsy, and rebuffed, pass at State’s Attorney Rhonda Pearlman, which immediately cuts to unexpected but somehow inevitable sex. The entire dialogue of the sex scene runs like this:
‘You? You? You?’
‘As if you give a shit. You’re an asshole, McNulty.’
‘What the fuck did I do?’