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The Wire - Season 5 episode 2 (Patreon)

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2024-10-21 19:00:01
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Full link. https://youtu.be/h0bphiCxPzU

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james repka

A small background story came to its conclusion in this episode. At the beginning we see Dee Dee speaking at the recovery meeting about how low her life sank when she started doing drugs. We first met Dee Dee in season 3 episode 8 where she was in a car with her friends nervously buying an 8-ball in Hamsterdam. The dealer tries to make small talk with her but she cuts him off, saying "No offense, but could we just get the 8-ball please?" In season 4 episode 8 we get a glimpse of Dee Dee again in Andre's store buying cigarettes, while Andre asks her why she's still sticking with her pimp. She defends the pimp, saying "all I know is that he loves me." Now we meet her well into recovery, talking about all of the lows she said she wouldn't do to get drugs, and how she eventually did them all. It's a nice little arc, giving you some hope in this dark world.

james repka

Templeton clearly made up the story about "EJ," the kid who skipped school to attend the Orioles' home opener. We watched him talking to people at the game, looking for a heart-warming story to write up -- he clearly ran out of patience and made a story up. Templeton is what became known in American journalism back in the late 90's - early 2000's as a "Fabulist," a reporter making up all or parts of stories to gain acclaim and possibly awards for their writing. David Simon had been a reporter for the Baltimore Sun early in his career. Gus Haines, the city editor here, is most likely a stand-in for Simon at the paper. The managing editor Klebanow (played by David Costabile, who you recognize as Gale from BB) and the Executive editor who approves Templeton's fake article are based on Editor or Publishers from Simon's time at The Sun, who he felt helped to undermine journalism in the 90's leading to the collapse of many local newspapers by the early 2000s.

TheMulattoMaker
>>153006991

Such great writing in this show. They gave a character like ten seconds of screen time in a random S3 episode, maybe fifteen more in S4, and then built an arc out of it in S5 by giving her a speech and a very quick playing-with-baby scene. "Doing more with less", indeed. Oh- Mary, Dee Dee isn't the lady that was rough with her kid in the shelter/kitchen.

TheMulattoMaker

That thing Avon does with his hand is a W to represent West Baltimore. D'Angelo did the same thing way back in S1 when he met Shardene and she asks him where he's from. There's a lot of different stories about where that sign came from. Is it a gang sign, is it supposed to be West Side or West Coast, stuff like that. Basically a bunch of rappers started doing it back in the 90's and it kinda just became its own thing that really means "west anything". Good catch with Jimmy learning the trick about neck bruising earlier in the episode. This is like the third of fourth time I've watched this and I never put two and two together about him getting the idea from the situation at the morgue. ...then again, y'all, Mary's clearly been watching too much Wire. That perfectly-placed "sheeeeeit" at 39 minutes had me rolling 😆