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The Wire Season 4 EP 13 Early Uncut Access (Patreon)

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2025-04-20 15:48:56
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2026-06
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The Wire has been sitting at the throne for some of my favorite experiences in television and I can't wait to dive deeper into its story and characters. A difficult landscape with puddles having the depths of oceans.

EP 13: https://youtu.be/h3faNgkUnC0

EP 13 Uncut: https://vimeo.com/1077077790/0d04427b5d

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TES

".....LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! THE MOMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...." Let's go!!!!

ckenney711

Great reaction as always James. Appreciate all your videos, but particularly on The Wire. Season 4 is my favorite season of television ever, it was great revisiting it with you.

j c

Bodie was killed by O-Dog, not Michael. It's hard to tell cause it's so dark.

William Davis

The best episode of the show, and one of the greatest TV episodes of all time.

Bigron71 The Great

Amazing reviews. I love how you analyze the show from a societal view. I think Snowfall will give you the same feeling.

TES

It's beautiful that at least one of the four main boys had a happy ending. The season ending on Namond being adopted by Colvin is amazing. Because if that wasn't there? I'd suffocate in my own tears, man...

Kana Kawase

You do a good job at the end of articulating what makes The Wire unique. It's really a show that only could have come from David Simon and Ed Burns, a veteran crime journalist and a former police officer turned public school teacher (sound familiar?). They're not just pulling this stuff out of their imaginations; they're recounting things they witnessed or experienced themselves. And it shows on screen. Keep in mind the guy from Narcotics Anonymous who comforts Bubbles at the end. He's played by Steve Earle, who recorded the theme song for Season 5, which you'll hear in a couple weeks.

Áine McGrillen

This episode is so heartbreaking- nothing a cynical, maudlin way, but just at how it highlights the relentless loss of human joy and potential. All of the boys at the start of the series had the possibility to end up anywhere, and only one got anything like a hopeful future by the end. At the start of series 1 you mentioned that your Mum was looking forward to you watching thus (I'm probably closer to her age than yours, and watched the series when it first aired...). I'm interested to know if you have discussed it with her and does she watch your reactions? Obviously you don't have to answer that if it feels too intrusive or nosy. I've really enjoyed revisiting the series again. It has absolutely stood the test of time. Oz was a few years before this - probably hasn't aged as well, pretty violent, but used some interesting story telling techniques/quirks. It was a show I felt never got the props it deserved at the time.

Cabba

only one episode?! psh, unreal!

Markus Burns

Appreciate you putting Bodie on the thumbnail his death hit hard on these rewatches. I knew that scene with bubbles would get to you lol it happens to everyone. That ending montage is basically saying that the cycle repeats itself no matter what you change imo. Most definitely the best season by far no discussion needed. I legitimately don't know any other show like the wire, that's why you need to savor the last season lol

Martin Heron

“Man come down here to tell me my son can be anything he damn please.” Just the best. And that final shot of Carver seeing the boys’ names on the wall… it’s insane given how monumental the Barksdales and the first three seasons were that this one season was able to establish something completely new that feels so loved in by its close.

Tom McTernan

I've watched and re-watched this show so many times and I think that this episode is my favorite for basically all of the reasons James touched on. It's powerful not just because it's tragic or eventful, but also because it's so real, insightful, and human. Although I KNOW that it's not reality, the fact is that it really might as well be. Bubbles and Prezbo maybe aren't real people, but there ARE real Bubbles and Prezbos everywhere in the world. All you have to do is go out into the community in order to meet them. So when an episode like this comes and so many transformative moments happen to these people, good and bad, it still hits no matter how many times I've seen it because these things are still happening to real people all around us all of the time. There are kids struggling to find their place in the world while grappling with impossible circumstances. There's both corrupt and valiant politicians and police. With all of that in mind, and feeling empathy towards these characters as if they were actual people, a scene that stuck out to me in my most recent re-watch was Bubbles and his sponsor in the psych ward. James mentioned it, that the Christmas backdrop really contrasts against the pain that the characters endure in the scenes. This is Bubbles absolute rock bottom and will stay with him forever, and it's something he won't forget ever. I imagine that for the rest of his life, Christmas time may always be a painful time because of this moment right now. And extrapolating that further, it's likely the same for other characters as well. Randy, for example, will remember this time of year for when he lost his home and foster mother to the fire.

Leric

i hope u have subtitles on cus u talk over the most important dialogue sometimes lol

Jesse Trovato

Bro, there is nothing like the wire. Are there good shows? Yes. Great actors? Sure. But nothing has, and in my opinion will touch the wire. It’s like Apocalypse Now. It’s lightning in a bottle and honestly could never be made again. The sprawling cast, slow novel-esque ratcheting of tension, the unflinching look at the evils of our society…it seriously won’t happen again. Sopranos is great, amazingly acted, great plot…but wire killed it for me due to one thing: the show begins and ends with Tony. He’s the smartest, toughest, gets the girls, escapes death, and everything else to make him the single most important person in his universe. Wire on the other hand has a whole cast where bubbles is the heart, freeman is the brains, McNulty gets the ladies, bunk has the swagger, Marlo is the dead eyed killer etc etc Seriously check out Carnivale. It is another HBO show from their golden years. The storytelling and blend of genres is unbelievable. They did things in that show I’ve never seen done before or since. But honestly Sopranos budget killed a lot of those golden era shows but you can’t go wrong with any of them: Rome, Carnivale, Deadwood, Six Feet Under. All great, but my favorite show of all time (tied with wire) is Carnivale.

Melewig

Check out Southland

Legato

Season 4 of the Wire is so important because of the care and effort it puts into analyzing the problem. A lot of people just say something like ''race'', ''poverty'', ''drugs'' and such, and don't really go deeper into it. But Wire just does a full cross section of society and let's us know from the very top, to the very bottom, where things go wrong. Focusing on the School side of things was brilliant because that's where every young person's life starts getting formed. It's a collective experience. And when they are already writing off kids, letting them fall through the cracks there, then what hope do they have? And on the top levels of the city, the decision is made based on a cynical ''Kids don't vote''. So yeah, top to bottom, everyone is to blame. And we watch these few good people like Prez, Colvin, Denis, Carver, McNulty, grow, learn to care for the kids, and we see them try their very best to help or save them. And in the end, only one kid got saved. They all deserved a Colvin in their lives, but for every one saved, 5 join that very sad life on the street. Kids are the future, and we saw the system fail them, and thus the cycle continues. Just like the intro shows, the wheel keeps turning.

Wesley

Small thing I noticed in Michael and Dookie's new home, all the doors are slightly ajar and never fully closed. I think this comes from Michaels years of childhood abuse, and him wanting to feel safe. A show that I always recommend when people finish The Wire is "We Own This City" 6 episode HBO miniseries, written and produced by the same people who did The Wire, and starring many of the same actors. Heavily focused on police corruption and abuse, it's about very real, and very recent events that happened in Baltimore.

Jaz Rodgers

Bodie was killed by a pawn. They kill diagonally. Bodie was focused on the rooks (Snoop and Chris)