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Let me put it this way t3cii:

You remember that scene between McNulty and Bunk when they're both drinking at a bar and McNulty thanks Bunk for "not being too rough on him on his first time?".

At the time I saw that, years ago mind you, I actually thought some gay shit had happened with those two.

I'm not kidding.

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Wow. You're actually the second person I've seen who thought that.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

The second person ?

When I saw that scene again, I wondered how could I have EVER interpreted that, now you're telling me there was someone else ? Good lord.

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You guys have got to watch The Fades, I watched 3 episodes back to back last night and it's pretty awesome, aside from a bit of squiffy acting and dialogue, but the concept and execution are awesome, also the main characters are big film/comic nerds and Watchmen and Alan Moore get a couple of nods in dialogue.

the concept revolves around people that can see the dead, basically ghosts, called Fades, these fades are meant to ascend but some miss their opportunity and get stuck on Earth, and begin to age and/or rot.

SPOILERS: [some of the Fades that are stuck on earth discover that if they consume flesh they become solid, and basically like invisible zombies, the people who can see ghosts have an order called the angelics (so called because they have angelic powers, some can heal, and some even have wings) and they fight these fades. the main character discovers he is one of the Angelics and the most powerful one that the order knows about.]

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Just saw the first three episodes.

I must say, this is an extremely refreshing experience after watching the first season of Deadwood, the latter is not a bad show, but the way it handles itself, the way it's written, lend itself to a very particular type of audience, so, apart from the magnificient performances of Ian McShane and Powers Boothe (among many others) I couldn't keep myself committed to that show, maybe someday I'll go further than the first season, though it's not going to be any soon.

But this ? Holy shit.

Amazing show, this has probably THE BEST written dialogue I've seen for any television series ever, it's impressive, it keeps you on your toes, it unravels the characters and makes them feel dozens of times more real and legitimate than anything anyone has ever seen before, we see cops swear, talk dirty and act with contempt towards their profession, we see gangstas speak smoothly and trying to keep a low profile, I know those are vague examples, but in a nutshell, it's like someone really went ahead and removed EVERYTHING that is wrong with cop shows and delivered an entirely new experience, all without losing the heart of what should make a show like this so endearing.

Curiously, I once heard the creator of the show mentioning how this isn't really a cop show, but an analysis on the different institutions of society, and how being a member of one defines you one way or another, you can clearly see what he talks about when one watches the show, and I'm aware that the entire premise goes further than the police and the gangstas after the first season.

I hate cop shows, but The Wire ? Holy shit ! HOLEE SHEEEEEEEEET !

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Welcome to the cult. You can check out the Wire thread when you're done. Although some of it is me and AYB talking about season 4. It's good that you're into the show now after only 3 episodes, some people take longer to warm up to it.

Currently my cable provider is giving me a free preview of HBO. Just a few episodes of some of their shows. I watched the first episode of Game of Thrones. Too early to give my impressions on it, and they only have the first episode available. That's also true of Boardwalk Empire and Treme. They also have the first two episodes of the Wire, and some Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Glad to be in it, my only problems are with the pacing, which is really fast and allows very little time to digest the unique layers the show offers, such as the bureacratic disputes between the major, the deputy, Judge Phelan, Valchek, the sergeant and so on. Sometimes it becomes a little too much for what little time is offered, then again, you can kinda see why this show lasts an hour instead of the standard fourty five minutes.



OH LORD ...

Fuck cable, can't you get Netflix ?

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Just watched episode number 7 of Homeland. Fuck me, this show is getting fucking amazing...

Refresh my memory ?

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Everything unfolds.And Carrie fucks up(atleast for the time being since I´m only up until 7) an awesome weekend that was born out of nazi bashing...

The Wire wind up toys:

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

OH LORD WHO MADE DAT !!!!

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The Wire, up on the tenth episode.

I gotta say, Herc and Carver, holy shit is there a pair of stupider cops in fiction ?

It almost makes me think if, similar to the "Fuck" scene, the creators of the show are taking a jab at buddy cop films

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I dunno. Some dude.



Herc might be the worst cop on the show.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

It's funny, for the purposes of any other type of cop show or movie, these guys are the prototypical cops, but for The Wire ? The team couldn't have two more idiotic people on it

Though I gotta give it to Domenick Lombardozzi, who plays Herc, playing stupid characters has it's own merit !

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Carver isn't that idiotic, but he's pared with Herc. Without going into spoilers, he is someone who cares and tries to make a difference.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

http://moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk/?p=2821

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

A show that succesfully manages to explain to it's audience the difficulty that involves the loss of a loved one without pulling any stunts or manipulating it's way into sappy, sad, eye-rolling scenes, and doing so with a good handle on the whole "layers of reality" angle that other movies have gone into in recent years, such as The Matrix, Inception and Sucker Punch.

I was afraid the procedural part of the show would overshadow the central theme, but it mixes in very well, it fits the flow of the narrative and it doesn't break the momentum of the episode at all, in fact, it reveals more about the experience that the main character, Michael Britten, is going through.

In short words ? Awesome sauce, will keep watching.

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I personally found the procedural aspect to be the weakest part of the show, but that's most likely because establishing all the crazier goings-on had to take priority. Now that all of that's cleared, I expect that the balance will be much more solid.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

At least it sort of tied into the main theme, and I didn't feel it tackled over the other parts.

Though, after finishing the episode, I had a thought:

Let's say Michael wakes up February 1st with Hannah, goes through the motions, sleeps, and then wakes up February 2nd with Rex, what happened in Hannah's reality on February 2nd ? What happened to Rex's on February 1st ? Does one reality account for the other ? Are there one-day gaps in each reality ? Hope the show thinks of this and tackles it in the future !

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