Performances from The Wire that you thought were wack

[Kill Dat Noize]

The top 3 worst performances on The Wire:

3. Method Man

Stick to rappin. Thought he came off too much like a try hard.

2. Carcetti

He's a beast on GOT but for whatever reason he's awful as Carcetti and it's a shame because he was such a major character.

1. Ziggy

Can't believe people here are defending him. I hated Ziggy and not because he was a character that demanded pity but because the actor portraying him was annoying as fukk and never delivered a believable performance. Dude was definitely related to somebody or some shyt either that or somebody owed his agent a really big favor.

 

[Black Ball]

The top 3 worst performances on The Wire:

3. Method Man

Stick to rappin. Thought he came off too much like a try hard.

2. Carcetti

He's a beast on GOT but for whatever reason he's awful as Carcetti and it's a shame because he was such a major character.

1. Ziggy

Can't believe people here are defending him. I hated Ziggy and not because he was a character that demanded pity but because the actor portraying him was annoying as fukk and never delivered a believable performance. Dude was definitely related to somebody or some shyt either that or somebody owed his agent a really big favor.

I thought Meth did a good job. He brought a natural humor to a street character.

Ziggy? So you hated the "actor" because he was annoying? But the character Ziggy was supposed to be an annoying dikk head that you hated though. So the actor didn't do his job?

 

[the cool]

All the black characters except stringer and de Angelo


All the others I knew in real life they talked white and acted like Carlton banks

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

I thought Meth did a good job. He brought a natural humor to a street character.

Ziggy? So you hated the "actor" because he was annoying? But the character Ziggy was supposed to be an annoying dikk head that you hated though. So the actor didn't do his job?

No, because he couldn't act.

 

[ADLT]

All the black characters except stringer and de Angelo


All the others I knew in real life they talked white and acted like Carlton banks

#WPOY2014

 

[kp404]

All the black characters except stringer and de Angelo


All the others I knew in real life they talked white and acted like Carlton banks

Walk out on this red brick mothafukka :kimstare:

 

[dennis roadman]

Don't forget that Narese Campbell was based off real life Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and all of her fukkery

I hated Scott the journalist, he seemed like a cornball. It's amazing how one can hate a character of a TV-show, but you just can't help it.

speaking of scott and real life episodes:

Janet Cooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In a September 28, 1980, article in the Post, titled "Jimmy's World",[1] Cooke wrote a gripping profile of the life of an 8-year-old heroin addict. She described the "needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms." The story engendered much sympathy among readers, including Marion Barry, then mayor of Washington, D.C. He and other city officials organized an all-out police search for the boy, which was unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent. Barry, responding to public pressure, lied and claimed that Jimmy was known to the city and receiving treatment; he, Jimmy, was announced dead shortly after.[2]

Two days after the Pulitzer Prize had been awarded, Post publisher Donald E. Graham held a press conference and admitted that the story was fraudulent. The editorial in the next day's paper offered a public apology. Assistant managing editor Woodward said at the time:

I believed it, we published it. Official questions had been raised, but we stood by the story and her. Internal questions had been raised, but none about her other work. The reports were about the story not sounding right, being based on anonymous sources, and primarily about purported lies [about] her personal life – [told by three reporters], two she had dated and one who felt in close competition with her. I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story—fake and fraud that it is. It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.[5]

Cooke resigned and returned the Prize. (It was awarded to Teresa Carpenter of The Village Voice.)[4] She appeared on the Phil Donahue show in January 1982 and said that the high-pressure environment of the Post had corrupted her judgment. She said that her sources had hinted to her about the existence of a boy such as Jimmy, but unable to find him, she eventually created a story about him in order to satisfy her editors.

see Scott's serial killer produced by high pressure newsroom. david simon is from the dc area and was a local journalist in the early 80s btw

 

[61 Corpses]

speaking of scott and real life episodes:

Janet Cooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


see Scott's serial killer produced by high pressure newsroom. david simon is from the dc area and was a local journalist in the early 80s btw

Yeah Simon's grudge against The Sun is partly why Season 5 was written so horribly. Dude wasnt focused

 

[kp404]

Yeah Simon's grudge against The Sun is partly why Season 5 was written so horribly. Dude wasnt focused

You think Season 5 was written horribly? I thought it was excellent and his experience as a journalist gave us real insights, and bias, against the news industry and how it operates...I loved it and thought it was written superbly

 

[dennis roadman]

Yeah Simon's grudge against The Sun is partly why Season 5 was written so horribly. Dude wasnt focused

i didn't think it was horrible, it just went too far from why most of its original fanbase watched. brehs were blown as fukk in season 2 because it was all white people, but when the gangster element was made known gradually, everyone relaxed and enjoyed.

season 5 is what The Newsroom wants to be.

also HBO made them cut it down to 10 episodes, im sure a lot got lost in the shuffle

 

[Data-Hawk]

HAHAHA......


On another Note.... I just started watching Oz and noticed damn near the entire Wire cast is on there + peeps from Dexter & Fringe.

 

[K-ZOE]

I only noticed Stringers accent come out twice on the show.

In season 1 when he got mad at the nikkas at the Print Shop about how to run the shop like a real business. He yelled real loud some shyt like "Then thats how we going to do it" and shyt came out super British

The other scene is you can hear bits and pieces of his accent when he wrestles Avon to the ground in Season 3 when talking about how D would of snitched on the team.

Lol I was gonna post this. When he told Avon D'Angelo was gonna bring the whole shyt down "Stahtin wit yew keella!!" That shyt came out mad british lol.

 

[Data-Hawk]

dude grew up 6 blocks from me. i used to just imagine that he was too brolic for silver spring so he moved to west baltimore in search of adventure

a lot of the kids were amateur actors pulled off the streets by robert chew (prop joe). he ran an acting academy in baltimore. funny shyt is that dude was an INCREDIBLE actor because he was so flamboyantly gay in real life.

This... My brother knew the dude who tried the Drive by and failed. Think he was shot in the head. Watching The Wire has always been odd to me because you can tell whose exactly from here..lol

 

[K-ZOE]

I hate to be that dude but anybody saying Ziggy, Carcetti, and Bubs were played by bad actors don't know jack shyt about acting. Now Daniels? He's always annoyed me in everything he's ever been in. From Oz to the Corner, to the few episodes I've seen of Fringe. He always just seems so wooden. He'd be a good black vulcan in Star Trek tho.

 

[kp404]

I hate to be that dude but anybody saying Ziggy, Carcetti, and Bubs were played by bad actors don't know jack shyt about acting. .

Yep