Things you didn't notice on The Wire until multiple watches

[King Harlem]

Good finds. To add to that, I always found the scene (season 3) where Chris is being driven off after drive by-ing Avon to be kinda similar to the scene (season 4) where Carcetti is being driven off after observing the workers who he forced to fix the sewer / rundown playground / leaking fire hydrant etc.

There isnt much of a connection in what theyre doing, but their expressions are the exact same. Probably just feeling re-assured that what they're thinking/doing is paying off - Protecting Marlo from a trap / Improving failing infrastructure.

Avon is dead is Chris lights that truck up.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Avon is dead is Chris lights that truck up.

I never understood why chris didnt just let off more than one. but that scene is soooo cold.

“go by them slow”


Also all the easter eggs in bodie death scene so crazy too. not just the chess shyt

 

[Chris Cool]

yeah i get you but at the same time its not like anybody was taking lex serious even after he caught that body. little kevin been talked about since the 1st season i think, unless its a different little kevin cause they never actually show him but stringer does mention how a “little kevin” caught one, so he already had some sort of status to be afraid of lex who noone took serious and was seen as somewhat of a joke

You're confusing him with "little man".

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

You're confusing him with "little man".

Nah in the very first episode of the series when theyre in the club stringer says “little kev got that body” im paraphrashing but he says little kev

 

[Erratic415]

Everyone hates Namond’s mom, for good reason, but I think Michael’s mom is even worse

Social services looked into the reports of the sexual abuse that Michael suffered.

If you pause it as it pans left at 0:16, you can see that it’s says it’s inconclusive due to the mother not cooperating.

Later on she brings the same child rapist to her home and dismisses Michael’s worries with “people change”.



I like Shamrock’s character more on rewatch. He’s funny and entertaining.

Taking criminal conspiracy notes

“String, Poot did have the floor!”

 

[get these nets]

yeah i think mouzone is originally from bmore. I do remember a scene where they talk about a black dude making it out of bmore and setting up in NY. i think it was a scene in butchie bar but i could be wrong.

exactly. he seemed way too familiar woth the territory and the whole get down of everything going on. prop joe saying that is kinda a dead giveaway too. like how would he know about mouzone if mouzone was only a cat from ny

I don't think he's from Baltimore. Best evidence is the end of this scene

 

[get these nets]

Everyone hates Namond’s mom, for good reason, but I think Michael’s mom is even worse

Social services looked into the reports of the sexual abuse that Michael suffered.

If you pause it as it pans left at 0:16, you can see that it’s says it’s inconclusive due to the mother not cooperating.

Later on she brings the same child rapist to her home and dismisses Michael’s worries with “people change”.

She's terrible. The guy is Bugs' father, which is why she didn't cooperate. fukked up scenario,

You have an eagle's eye for details.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

I don't think he's from Baltimore. Best evidence is the end of this scene

yeah i finished a rewatch a couple days ago and caught that

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Not sure if this has been posted in this thread already but was reading it the other day and found it very interesting

Apologies if it has

The Parallel Demises of Stringer Bell and Wallace on ‘The Wire’

As we approach the 10th anniversary of the series finale, a look back at the connections between the deaths of two pivotal characters

www.theringer.com

It's all in the details.....

All the pieces matter

It truly is the greatest show ever written, nothing even come close

 

[Erratic415]

The actors who played Bodie and Chris were about the same age in real life.

Wood Harris (Avon) is also only 2 years older than Larry Gilliard (Dee). Gilliard was a classmate of Tupac and Jada Pinkett in that performing arts school in Baltimore. He’s only a year younger than the actress who played his mother, Michael Hyatt.

Bodie, Poot, and Wallace are all supposed to be around the same age, 16 at the start of the series. JD Williams is 9 years older than Michael B. Jordan.

 

[Erratic415]

Michael was always annoyed by Namond’s not backing up his mouth with any action.

 

[Erratic415]

- Prop Joe has another nephew besides Cheese that was in his camp

Drac.

I don’t think Cheese was originally written as Prop Joe’s nephew. I think they changed it, as well as Cheese’s last name from Flagstaff to Wagstaff. I don’t remember any mention in season 2 or 3 about Joe and Cheese being related.

Joe meets with Nick and some of the Greeks to talk about Cheese and Ziggy and Joe doesn’t say that Cheese is his nephew. Joe and Cheese have a scene later in the season after Mouzone shoots Cheese and there’s no mention of them being family.

Early in season 3, they arrest one of Prop Joe’s dealers with the hope that Drac will be promoted because he’s related to Joe. Joe promotes Cheese, and Drac is heard on the wire basically saying “how can he promote Cheese instead of me when I’m kin?”

Drac actually has some really funny conversations that they hear on the wire.

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Drac.

I don’t think Cheese was originally written as Prop Joe’s nephew. I think they changed it, as well as Cheese’s last name from Flagstaff to Wagstaff. I don’t remember any mention in season 2 or 3 about Joe and Cheese being related.

Joe meets with Nick and some of the Greeks to talk about Cheese and Ziggy and Joe doesn’t say that Cheese is his nephew. Joe and Cheese have a scene later in the season after Mouzone shoots Cheese and there’s no mention of them being family.

Early in season 3, they arrest one of Prop Joe’s dealers with the hope that Drac will be promoted because he’s related to Joe. Joe promotes Cheese, and Drac is heard on the wire basically saying “how can he promote Cheese instead of me when I’m kin?”

Drac actually has some really funny conversations that they hear on the wire.

I'm pretty sure he does and that he says it's his sister kid and that family is forever causing him problems

Edit: I've just watched a clip on YouTube with that scene and I'm wrong , he doesn't mention it being his sister kid
My bad sorry

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

So who shot snot?

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Michael was always annoyed by Namond’s not backing up his mouth with any action.

this didn’t need a rewatch to tell me Namond was status