Finally got around to starting The Wire. What a fucking show. Watched the first 6 episodes last night. Couldn't stop. Hope it keeps me this interested, great start so far.

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The show goes downhill when McNulty quits the force to go to clown school.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'm sure you've heard this a bunch but it's the best show of all time. It'll only get better.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Keep binging.

I finished season one, got half way thru season two and stopped, picked it up again last week, fuckin awesome show

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I am the liquor Randy

It will. It keeps getting better til season 4 and season 5 is great, just not compared to the other 4

I remember first watch. I confused Stringer and WeeBey for a while

Omar being gay threw me for a loop. Wasn't expecting that angle. I love how each character looks like a normal cop/gang stereotype but everyone is deeper than that. Very well written.

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It's a great show. Tough to say any show is the greatest of all time, but it's as well made as any.

One thing I did find was that I do not re-watch it. It's a show that gets seared into your memory. It's also just plain depressing.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

The best episode of that show was when the Doobie Brothers came back to the school to play! That was awesome.

"Well, I built me a raft, and I shoo bop a wop bop..."

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Finished season 1. The old black detective is the only one that made it out OK. McNulty got assigned to marine division. The LT lost his promotion to Major and The old white detective got put on the street. What the fuck? They won the case and everyone still got screwed.

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Done. What a show. Fantastic

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Yeah, I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you. You know I'm just a gangsta, I suppose. And I want my corners.

Oh indeed.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

And it ends with Marlo taking a corner in a suit.

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FARVIO COMIN!!!

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Shoutout to RPB and FF for being my sounding board as I was watching and not ruining anything along the way.

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I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The Rawls in a gay bar scene was a great reveal wasn't it?

And never followed up at all. Just 'this ball buster cop is gay. What a change of stereotypes'

Same with Carcetti. He plowed that one chick at a fundraiser and you think he's gonna be this huge womanizer. Nothing comes from it...

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They followed up when Sarge got puked on and saw the PD bathroom graffiti that "Rawls is Gay" and chuckled.

That last scene with Bodie and McNulty in the park was great.

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You know me like that.