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The Wire: Season 2 - Episode 1 - Patreon Exclusive (Patreon)

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2022-12-27 13:00:03
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/B4gYdzxg95 - For Patreon tier "Cinephile" or higher.

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The Wire: Season 2 - Episode 1 - Patreon Version

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thomas king

What an annoying watch along. F'n giggling the whole episode

D

Please please please put these on YouTube! I don’t have a TV but want to watch your reactions

Śéáń

RIP Expanse watchthrough, it will be missed, but long live the Wire watchthrough! Excited to get back to this, I'm appreciating the show a lot more than when I first watched it 10yrs ago

L

Yessss!!

Shannanr

Best show ever no question

Onno Smits

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Athanor

Contentious is not the right word, it's close to the best the show has to offer :D Maybe "unexpected" would be a better descriptor.

Rollo Tomassi

I’m so happy you two are getting to this … I’ve really been enjoying experiencing it with you both. I watched the entire series years ago, but here’s my two cents on season 2 … it’s excellent! The problem is that season 1 was perfect. But I would put season 2 of The Wire against any other show’s season 2, except maybe Sopranos, and The Wire would kick its ass. Just enjoy … it’s gonna be a great ride!

John Richards

A bit about the music: They use a different recording of the same song for the opening theme each season. Only two versions had been released before the series- season one is a cover performed by the Blind Boys of Alabama, season 2 uses the original version by the writer of the song, Tom Waits. The last 3 seasons use versions recorded for the show. The series does not have a score, no background music to direct your emotions - almost all of the music in "The Wire" exists in the world of the series. There is music in many scenes, but it is sourced in the scene - it's music the characters would hear. One last tidbit: The Nighthawks were a popular local band in Baltimore and Washington DC, I had seen them play several times before their appearance in ""The Wire"

redddfer44

A lot of people I know adore the shit out of S2, myself included. I love how when you saw Russell (we see her name on the tag), your instinct was to assume she was dead meat. The Expanse really did a lot of that in its season 2.

Stu84

Season 2 was definitely a tonal shift, but its because viewers didnt know what the WHOLE show was going to be at that time. Looking back it's probably one of the most important seasons as it sets things up that pay off in the future.

Jeff K

Season 2 is excellent, but yeah, when it first aired it totally threw people off because it almost entirely shifted the setting and introduced so many new characters. In a way, The Wire is a bit of anthology series that all just happens to take place in the same city and has most of the same characters each year. To a degree, the seasons can stand alone, but they make up one fantastic, cohesive show. All the pieces matter.

Jeff K
>>98342900

Yep. It's funny watching it back after completing the series, and seeing how many crucial things were first introduced during this season that would impact basically every storyline down the road.

Jeff K
>>98343507

It’s so hard to order them. I think basically everyone would agree 4 is the best and 5 is the weakest (won’t say worst, because it’s still good), but 1, 2, and 3 are pretty interchangeable for me. I think I would go 1, 3, 2 but that’s not taking anything away from 2. It’s basically like 2A, 2B, and 2C in my rankings.

Tenn Seven

You can get a good feel for how big a shipping container is just by looking at the scenes that take place in Frank Sobotka's office, which is made out of a shipping container. They're supposed to be one big, open space. That door the cop found was a false wall someone put in that particular container. Some people take old shipping containers and make tiny houses out of them!

j c

Frank Sobotka is the most well developed character on TV. I will fight you on this. Unless you're George, then I'll mud wrestle you on this

Carlos Hurtado

During covid, i lived in a shipping container home that my parents have on their property. They are huge!

Spacedone

When season 2 first came out everyone thought they were getting a continuation of the Barksdale/Stringer story as you'd expect with any other show so they were a bit thrown by change of focus. By the end of the season everyone had started to realise that David Simon's ambitions for what The Wire was all about was much grander than just another police procedural show. There's a reason why season 2 is general considered better than season 1. Enjoy!

PIG

:D

Onno Smits

Reminder for everyone outside the US that has problems syncing the reaction with HBO MAX: Open the reaction video in YouTube (not via Patreon), press F12 to open the console, copy paste this and press enter: $('video').playbackRate = 1.043; Simone and George will now talk 4.3% faster, which will sync perfectly with the time-adjusted PAL formatted HBO MAX videos.

Onno Smits

If you're like me, and need a bit of a reminder what happened in Season 1, this video is great and completely spoiler-free for the other seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0UxGLay_g BE WARNED: The YouTube comments on that video are NOT spoiler-free.

Skinny_Obelix

I remember not feeling the direction they went in series two but I ended up loving it.

GBmain
>>98356183

Agree, I still loved it, but season 3 is probably my favourite from memory. maybe 5, i can't remember, too many years ago. I really want them to just blast through a couple seasons in a row of The Wire, the wait was brutal.

james repka
>>98340579

The other constant (all five seasons) is the closing theme: The Fall, by Blake Leyh. The way the end of the episodes are written and shot, you get to the point where you can anticipate the credits and the theme. Having watched every series helmed by David Simon (Generation Kill, Treme, Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, and We Own This City) I sometimes feel like I can smell the last 30 seconds of an episode.

Grand Moff Slackin'

If you were going to make a “The Wire” like series but have it based in Canada, what city would you base the story in?

james repka

I think part of it was the change in focus at the beginning. Stringer is there, so is Avon, but the main focus moves to the docks. A few accused the show of becoming "whiter" for better ratings. By the middle of the season you begin to see that what Simon is doing is pulling away from the tight focus of S1 and telling a bigger story about the American City and how it is being squeezed to death by modern economics, and this has been going on at one level or another since the 70s and 80s. After season 2 most folks tuning in knew that we were going to see different views of Baltimore through the eyes of folks associated with different institutions, each of these institutions (police, gangs, unions, politicians, media) desperately working to maintain their own status quo in a world that is constantly changing around them. The individual folk who work within the system can often recognize the flaws, and sometimes even try to right the course of their own institution, but are opposed by the massive inertia inherent therein...

G P
>>98347528

I'd say Tobias Beecher in Oz, but Frank is definitely a contender

Martin
>>98365375

They already have one. The city is Nova Scotia and the series is called “Trailer Park Boys.” Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles are the drug-dealing criminals and Mr. Leahy and Randy are the self-appointed vice squad trying to take them down.

Travis

I don’t think you would have been as locked on to pacing problems as you were if not for prejudice due to the comments you read about it. They were setting up characters. Some of which are new (and annoying as hell ngl, ziggy is completely obnoxious and irredeemable). This show is always dialogue heavy, I think that’s one of its great qualities. This season is a bit uneven but really comes together for some shocking moments throughout.

Astraeos
>>98384122

I was really hoping they wouldn't read people's comments on Season Two in advance. I mean, literally almost everybody has the same reaction at first, and then eventually come to love Season Two. I mean there's dozens of posts across the internet about how people didn't like Season Two at first, then by the end of it thought it was one of their favorite seasons. I just really think reactors need to avoid reading peoples comments about movies and television shows on the internet, its usually not indicative of reality at all. I hope George and Simon didn't completely ruin the season for themselves by reading a bunch of stupid internet comments without getting the whole picture

Luxury Interior

Bodie is listening to A Prairie Home Companion on NPR.

BBF
>>98366203

That's a really important point about season 2. There was a legitimate concern at the time about the show abandoning its black roots. Michael K. Williams even confronted David Simon after reading the script. From todays perspective, it's a lot easier to see why this change of focus had to be done.

Astraeos
>>98386187

The hell are they talking about life stages of caterpillars for in A Prairie Home Companion lool

DinChild

It wasn't slower. It just featured the characters you're familiar with less, which made it feel like less happened. But once the new characters start to grow on you, and the new angle of Baltimore falls more into focus, it'll all gel :-) Only amazing stuff to look forward to!

PIG
>>98348381

Yeah I saw on Grand Designs that you can actually get this done. Structurally sound and inexpensive.

MacJake

I'm so happy to see this return. A series you should consider is Andor. I think it is the best Star Wars thing since the Disney acquisition, maybe even since Empire Strikes Back. It's fun of course to know all the extended lore but isn't necessary at all. Some complain that it isn't action heavy enough or is missing all the high fantasy Jedi space wizard stuff, which is all stuff I'm a dork for but this has more than enough strong writing and characters to make up for. Writing this down I'm wondering if it isn't dissimilar to The Wire in some ways; not at all in subject matter but in examining how institutions react and respond to external events. No spoilers but it's probably the best examination of how the Rebellion/Empire work beyond simple good/evil coding. The 12 eps could easily be divided up into 3-episode arcs if you want to spread it out, although I doubt you'd want to. Keep making videos, I'll keep watching: )