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The Wire - S2-Episode 4 - Hard Cases
Jun. 30th, 2011 09:56 pmYou sick of me posting about The Wire yet? Look at it this way, there's only three more seasons to go...and I could be posting about work instead or my life or the weather.
And the episodes just keep on getting better and better, although I do admittedly want to know if Rawls ever gets that stick taken out his ass or gets it? Half want to search out spoilers to find out. But resisting, this is not a show I want to be spoiled on. Half the fun is in the discovery.
My favorite character is back! YAY!!! Apparently my favorite characters are different than other people's favorite characters... I love Shakima Greggs. Tough, but still female, and not super powered. Also no skimpy outfits. Nice. We also get more of the cigar smoking robber gal working for Omar, who looks completely different than Greggs. There are definitely more female characters in S2. Love the diversity in casting - it really does look like an inner American city. That's the problem with most American Television Series - they don't look like real life in the city, maybe in a suburb in Johnson County, Kansas or Mainline, Pa, or Westchester, NY or somewhere like that - but not the city.
Also, the small details about wage, union, working the system, and the politics of it...are pitch perfect. Right down to the costumes - those big orange jackets - we wear them on the Railroad as well - they make it clear that you are a government worker or dock worker or city worker. Also bright so you stand out. I don't - just have to wear the vest on site tours.
Put on the closed-captioning again - because Lance Reddick's Daniels is almost impossible to hear over my air-conditioning.
"If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance" - Shakima Greggs.
( Spoilers for S2, Episode 4, where I continue to rave about The Wire. )
And the episodes just keep on getting better and better, although I do admittedly want to know if Rawls ever gets that stick taken out his ass or gets it? Half want to search out spoilers to find out. But resisting, this is not a show I want to be spoiled on. Half the fun is in the discovery.
My favorite character is back! YAY!!! Apparently my favorite characters are different than other people's favorite characters... I love Shakima Greggs. Tough, but still female, and not super powered. Also no skimpy outfits. Nice. We also get more of the cigar smoking robber gal working for Omar, who looks completely different than Greggs. There are definitely more female characters in S2. Love the diversity in casting - it really does look like an inner American city. That's the problem with most American Television Series - they don't look like real life in the city, maybe in a suburb in Johnson County, Kansas or Mainline, Pa, or Westchester, NY or somewhere like that - but not the city.
Also, the small details about wage, union, working the system, and the politics of it...are pitch perfect. Right down to the costumes - those big orange jackets - we wear them on the Railroad as well - they make it clear that you are a government worker or dock worker or city worker. Also bright so you stand out. I don't - just have to wear the vest on site tours.
Put on the closed-captioning again - because Lance Reddick's Daniels is almost impossible to hear over my air-conditioning.
"If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance" - Shakima Greggs.
( Spoilers for S2, Episode 4, where I continue to rave about The Wire. )