7 thoughts on “Best Lines From The Wire”

  2. We just blasted thru all 5 seasons of the Wire earlier this year. During one of the first visits to the video store, when we checked out Season 1, episodes 3-5 or some such, the guy behind the counter said, “This is due in three days, but you’ll be back sooner.” How right he was!

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  5. Off the top of Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s head, almost five years ago:
    “1. There can be no ongoing discourse without some degree of moderation, if only to kill off the hardcore trolls. It takes rather more moderation than that to create a complex, nuanced, civil discourse. If you want that to happen, you have to give of yourself. Providing the space but not tending the conversation is like expecting that your front yard will automatically turn itself into a garden.
    “2. Once you have a well-established online conversation space, with enough regulars to explain the local mores to newcomers, they’ll do a lot of the policing themselves. …
    “5. Over-specific rules are an invitation to people who get off on gaming the system. …”
    Read the, well, you know.

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  6. I loved this montage. It was awesome. I am only through season 3 with Netflix and the new DVD on the counter in the kitchen but it is my all time favorite shows now.
    I worked in Baltimore while this was filming and have no idea why I didn’t watch it back then.
    It’s the Game baby, It’s all in the game.

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  7. As far as being the best show on TV I’d remind people of it’s Baltimore-based predecessor: “Homicide: Life on the Streets” which, while a more traditional ensemble cast show, possessed much of the same flavor and was just as good, if more limited in scope. I would also contend that the Vancouver-based “The DaVinci Inquest” was equally as good as “The Wire” in all aspects–subject and scope, casting, dialogue and acting.

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