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

[gluvnast]

Makes you think what role did Chris and Snoop play, with Marlo obviously being the king

It's obvious that Chris and Snoop was his two Knights. Both enclose the enemy in a L shaped and attack at close proximity. The question is who's Marlo's queen?

 

[Yinny]

It's obvious that Chris and Snoop was his two Knights. Both enclose the enemy in a L shaped and attack at close proximity. The question is who's Marlo's queen?

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

It's obvious that Chris and Snoop was his two Knights. Both enclose the enemy in a L shaped and attack at close proximity. The question is who's Marlo's queen?

How did i forget that obvious scene my bad

 

[get these nets]

It's obvious that Chris and Snoop was his two Knights. Both enclose the enemy in a L shaped and attack at close proximity. The question is who's Marlo's queen?

Chris served as both Stringer and Weebay to Marlo.

 

[gluvnast]

Dookie still rocking the vote for Carcetti hoodie long after he's elected Mayor....

 

[get these nets]

Now, this one surprised me when I first noticed it.
Try to remember what year the final season of the Wire aired.(2008) Baltimore REALLY is heroin central for America because...when McNulty is running around looking for corpses.....one of the guys he's talking to at the morgue mentions that they have several bodies that were FENTANYL overdoses.

Media is talking about fentanyl like it's a recent "epidemic"....Fiends been dropping dead from it in Baltimore for over a decade.

 

[gluvnast]

This is why The Wire and the Barksdale organization was the best. Lets put all of this into context. Cutty was released from prison. He attempted to rejoin the Barksdales organization but his heart is no longer towards that old life. Avon understood and out of respect let him resign as part of the organization. Cutty wanted to start a boxing gym to help KIDS to get out of the streets and gangs and so forth. The people who you would of THOUGHT could reached out and help him do something this positive in the community denied him, the church, the people who provide the permits, the courthouse, none of them.... but it took a known dope kingpin that represents the NEGATIVE aspect to reach out and give more than requested without it being a loan or an owed favor or anything.

 

[gluvnast]

Food is featured a LOT in the series. But the only people you see eating home cooked meals/dinner table meals are law enforcement/lawyers/9-5 types. The drug dealers, fiends, and corner kids are shown eating a lot, but it's always takeout or junk food from the corner store. The exceptions are when they are invited to eat at a proper table by taxpayers, like Naymond when staying with Colvin or Bubbles when he is brought upstairs to have dinner with his sister or Stringer when he goes to have dinner with Donnette (which happens while he is trying to go legit.)

There is also the time Avon prepares ribs at a cookout type event, which makes sense because the Barksdales are a strong family, at least on the surface, so having dinner together and meeting the baby moms and children helps to reinforce their foundation and at least present the facade that they are united like a normal family.

Randy's foster mom makes home cooked meals and offers Carver some, which illustrates that Randy was living in a good home, but the one time we see Michael try to make a home cooked meal for his brother, you find out his mom sold the rice-a-roni for drugs. The one time we see Bubbles making hot dogs for dinner is when he is trying to make a home for Sherrod.

Home cooked meals at the dinner table are used in the series as a symbol of home stability and represents the American dream of living a normal, healthy, successful life. Herc finally feels like he has "made it" when he gets invited over for dinner by Levy to have his wife's brisket.

 

[gluvnast]

Season one where Wallace was giving the little abandoned kids their school lunch was the 1st time you saw Kenard.

 

[get these nets]

Season one where Wallace was giving the little abandoned kids their school lunch was the 1st time you saw Kenard.

was he one of those kids? you sure?

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

I've mentioned this multiple times...

She first pulls up in Hamsterdam in a fancy car with a bunch of white friends, just looking to score drugs for a good time.

Next scene she appears is in Andre corner shop, she's now a prostitute/crack addict...showing her down fall since her first scene, selling p*ssy to get money for drugs.

Her next scene is right before bubs speech in season 5, she is now clean & back on the right track...

She's in 3/4 scenes at most but it tells a story it's self.

David Simon da gawd...

The subtle details

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

Michael's first kill was the dude who kept robbing and assaulting Bubbles

I've watched the show five times over and never realised that

 

[FreshAIG]

If you watch the show, Chris was the brains and the muscle of the Stanfield operations. Most of the time Marlo did whatever Chris thought the best idea was.

 

[FreshAIG]

I've watched the show five times over and never realised that

Because it's not true.

 

[Kaypain]

If you watch the show, Chris was the brains and the muscle of the Stanfield operations. Most of the time Marlo did whatever Chris thought the best idea was.

Marlo was the proxy