Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

The Wire 303-304 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-04-11 12:00:04
Imported:
2026-06
Tags:
haven't archived this post yet. have a subscription? use the importer!

Content

Go to this site: Cinebingers.ca for the unedited versions of all our content.

👉 https://cinebingers.ca/kACzk8Slc1 👈 for the full reaction where you do not need your own copy.

👉 https://cinebingers.ca/uxXNxZaTd2 👈for the full reaction where you need your own copy.

If you are on a phone/tablet, hold down the link above and press "open in browser", or go straight to Cinebingers.ca on your browser app.

Files

Previews only

The Wire: Season 3 - Episode 3 & 4 - Patreon Version

Comments

Jay Davis

George bought a hotel and now lives in it like the Monopoly guy??

JediLounger

Losing power for days sucks George, I’m sorry that happened. Hopefully you were able to deal with most of the food in your fridge before you left, and that you are back in your place when this video posted.

dom

hope george has his power back by now

mpd

I don't know of a reaction channel that is more committed to maintaining their release schedule no matter what the cost, through sickness, acts of god, etc.. I feel like if the internet did blow up (in a bad way), they would somehow find a way to release on time

JayF

Stuff like what happened to George (and his city) are why I've become a bit of a prepper in the last few years.

Jay

You might be wondering why a relatively minor character's funeral/wake was given such prominence. Cole was played by Robert F. Colesberry, the name probably rings a bell because it's the first to appear in the end credits of every episode so far. He was a producer, also directed the first 2 season finales and he died not long after season 2 finished. David Simon speaks very highly of him and his contributions to The Wire, so they wanted to acknowledge his death in the show. It's a really nice touch.

Stu84

You can start to see a running theme of The Wire, where optics matter more than effectiveness or progress. Its all a stats game, in the Mayors office, in the police force and in other areas in later seasons. Those who play that game get promoted for being "loyal". That mindset is then filtered all the way down and becomes the norm. The writers of the show were all part of this and saw it first hand. Season 3 is where the Wire really kicks on from a cop show and becomes more of a social commentary and the main character becomes the city of Baltimore itself.

Ben

Unrelated to The Wire, but just commenting because it's your most recent video... Have you guys seen 'Stand By Me' (1986) ?, I'm honestly surprised not to see it in your reactions as I feel like you would have at some point, so if you haven't already maybe you've seen it in your own time? If not I'd love to see your reaction to it, you've enjoyed all of the other Stephen King adaptations so I imagine you would enjoy this one as well.

John Richards

Ray Cole was the detective in season 2 originally assigned to investigate the floater and then the girls in shipping container, and then later screwed up interrogating Bodie about the bag of guns. The reason a minor character got a large send off was that he was played by one of the original producers of the show, Robert Colesberry, who had passed away between seasons. All of Ray Cole's successful cases mentioned by Landsman while eulogizing the deceased detective were references to movies and shows Robert Colesberry produced: The Corner, Mississippi Burning and After Hours. Cole's wake in the show was simply to honor a friend and coworker.

Jeff K
>>106113329

On that note: I highly, highly recommend they check out Mississippi Burning. What a great movie.

Ken Quick

Methinks you might be projecting too much Littlefinger onto Tommy Carcetti, I'll just leave it at that.

John Richards

Another bit of Wire meets reality trivia ... the woman that silences the gym full of kids for Colvin is not an actor, she was an actual junior high school principal in Baltimore at the time of filming. Oh, BTW, dress left or dress right refers to the way a man arranges himself in his pants...

Big.Bad.Mr.Mustard

Dressing left or right refers to which pants leg a man lets his penis and testicles naturally hang. On a custom suit, the tailor will actually weave in extra fabric so the outline of the wearer’s privates are minimized.

Jeff K
>>106109357

And he’s renaming it the CineInn. We’re all invited to visit at discounted, Patreon exclusive rates!

Patrick Evans

I won't say anything else other than Cutty does not have the cops gun. He's given a Sig Sauer and Bunk was looking for a Glock.

John Richards
>>106110871

All of Ray Cole's successful cases mentioned by Landsman while eulogizing the deceased detective were references to movies and shows Robert Colesberry produced: The Corner, Mississippi Burning and After Hours.

Jeff K

Well, we have reached the point of the season where I think I need to start wearing my Hamsterdam tshirt every Tuesday for the next month.

Jeff K

“Awww $20, I wanted a peanut!” “$20 can buy many peanuts.” “Explain how.” “Money can be exchanged for goods and services!”

Danika Silva

Are you going to be putting "Burn after Reading " on one of your polls??

Tenn Seven

Laying the body out in the bar is an old-school Irish wake. So-named because every once in awhile a person would have some disease they didn't know too much about (they didn't have a lot of medical science back then), and the so-called body would end up waking up in the middle of all the drinking!

PIG

I forgot it was Tuesday. Now I know.

Pam Nail

"The worst you'll see is rape" makes me physically ill. And distinguishing it from date rape, as if that's somehow not as bad, is the icing on the cake. I feel bad when reactors feel pressured to feel a certain way about characters or storylines. Having said that, I do love Daniels and Pearlman, though I think when I watched the show for the first time I was already spoiled on that. I love how, as soon as she calls him Cedric, Jimmy definitely notices -- which is why it's odd to me that he's surprised she's "occupied" later in the episode.

Joe Williams

McNulty is such a wonderfully rich character. Self-destructive but oddly competent. Prideful, egotistical but so lonely too. The strength of the show really is in the characters.

Richard Copping

“I see you dress left” means she was checking out his junk.

Skinny_Obelix

George was talking about the people living in the there know the numbers don't really go down, the problem is that they're not the ones who vote, or fund the campaigns...

Brian Harris

Cole’s wake is one of the best scenes on the show. Delaney Williams, who played Landsman, brings me to tears with that speech almost every time. Just when he’s spent all three episodes of the season reminding you what a shit Landsman is, he humanizes him and even ennobles him in about thirty seconds. It’s easy to get frustrated with guys like Landsman because they seem not to give a shit, but the truth is they’re dealing with a corrupt police department in a city that’s rotting from the top down, and there are functionally no resources to deal with it. Cole spent his adult life in service to a broken machine, and he did his best with what he had. As did Landsman, as did they all. That’s the unspoken tragedy in that scene. No one needs to say it because they all know it.

Ron Corleone

At the meeting the the cops and the people of the neighborhood when the one cop is telling the citizens that they're going to need their help, one guys mentions how his cousin Willie Gant tried to help, he even testified and now he deader than Tupac. Willie aka William Gant was the maintenance man from the first season that testifies against D'Angelo in the first episode of the show.

Haye Zeus

The Wire is known for being subdued and “realistic” with their narrative. So they’re not gonna do the whole thing with characters giving each other the googly eyes if they have attraction to each other. I think knowing that characters have had chemistry, and as Daniels said “it just happened” is really all that’s needed for the way the storytelling is shown. Now it could also be the fact that the writers just decided out of the blue to put Ronda and Daniels together. But they are smart enough to know it wouldn’t have come out total nowhere. Sometimes people that have known each other platonically do hookup all of the sudden. It’s not planned. It just happens.

redddfer44

My take on the Rhonda & Cedric situation: it's minimalistic storytelling that suits Cedric's understated character (and the ensemble show that can't focus on relationships anyway). In S2, one devastating comment from Marla was enough to tell us where their marriage is at. Then, a scene where Cedric isn't sleeping in his bedroom any longer. Then, a few months pass between seasons and this is where we start. Now we'll see where it leads. That sort of storytelling can sink or swim, depending on how impressive the scenes are. I'm thinking the actors do a mighty good job of convincing us why their character click. The beginning of episode 4 is really satisfying, when they're just calling the bullshit of the numbers game. I've worked in organizations that are run by numbers and where the higher ups imagine that if they just measure X as a statistic, they'll get pure, uncorrupted X as a result. But people working the job know that that isn't how the world works. Bunny got fed up of interpreting real crimes as lesser crimes just to juke the stats.

Blacky
>>106177085

I've always assumed that the first move we see in the show, is the actual first move Rhonda makes. It's the start of the relationship. There was some chemistry before, but now Rhonda has realized it's going nowhere with McNulty, and Cedric is visibly alone, so she makes a move. Nothing weird or especially sudden about it, at least for me.

Blacky
>>106137152

The comment is not making a moral or philosophical commentary about the state of evilness. It's about the job. Investigating a rape, most of the time, is less grueling than dealing with decomposing bodies, carnage with body parts everywhere, murdered children (which should happen quite often in a violent drug riddled city), and so on.

Śéáń
>>106177085

Mad Men leans into this style of storytelling quite a bit. Weeks pass between episodes with very little cues, and months between seasons. A character could be pregnant in one episode, only for the baby to be in the background 2 episodes later with little discussion about it. I really appreciate it, but I understand why it can feel too hurried depending on the context.

Ana Fox
>>106177085

Exactly. After Rhonda's fight with McNulty, there's an episode where he looks at her as if to ask whether she was leaving too, and she looks away and stays in the room with Daniels (and others). I don't remember the specific episode, but that was the first clue for me. She's never affected by McNulty's shenanigans after that and she's working closely with the team (at the same time, Cedric's marriage is collapsing).

Joaquin Stick

It sounds ridiculous, but "I see you dress left" refers to which pant leg your balls hang down. It is a real thing that tailors ask when fitting suits.

Foodassassin4life

Please watch another animated series like Gravity Falls or Cowboy Bebop the anime in English dub not the shitty Netflix adaptation

Tom H
>>106250057

Not your balls man, your shaft. I do hope your balls aren't hanging lower than the other bit!

Rollo Tomassi

It’s disrespectful how little George was paying attention. He stared at his phone like he was bored 50% of the time. There’s no weather situation you were in that required such monitoring and if there was you should have just not made these videos until you could pay full attention. Please don’t take our participation for granted. Be present my guy.

djKENTO

Dressing left is in response to which way his slacks let his junk hang. When you were tighter slacks especially when they’re tailored you have the option for a little space to the left or right depending on how you hang your tackle. She’s basically saying “I can tell you’re erect and it’s to the left”

Sumner Hayes

Now I need to set up sound clips on my laptop when I connect/disconnect from WiFi, just to hear Simone yelling “There's so much Internet!”, and “There's no Internet!”.

Adam

If you didn't look it up, the reason they don't show his face is that Detective Cole was played by Robert Colesberry, the producer at the start of the credits, who actually passed away during production, so they worked it into an episode.

D

Please put this on YouTube or put the real reaction in please!

Hexon66
>>106174005

I think just the opposite. And S&G have commented on this on a number of occasions in the past about lingering shots. (Chattering so much as to miss other points which would have helped avoid confusion!) It's a good show, but it does tend to be quite unoriginal in telegraphing intent, particularly that of a romantic nature.

Hexon66

'Down the O-cean' was Dominic West finally trying to sound like the character's from Baltimore (or perhaps an inside joke that the accent he normally uses is so insufficient). 'Down the ShOre' (over enunciating the O) would be more common to say. The Lieutenant under Bunny Colvin has a more natural Bawl'mer accent.

Pierce

you guys talked almost every joke :( how lol

Pierce

yes, Pearlman and Daniels came out of nowhere.. they kind of had a moment earlier but it wasnt obvious unless on re-watch. this is how romances tend to happen irl guys too lol

Angela D. Mitchell

As several people mentioned producer Robert F. Colesberry (who played Cole) passed away so he was honored this episode. One story that stays with me is that while he was on his deathbed in the hospital, he asked for David Simon to put on some music. Simon asked him what he wanted to hear, and he said he wanted to hear some of those good old blues. So Simon ran down to his car and grabbed the season 1 soundtrack and put it on, and Colesberry smiled the moment the theme began to play, and said what good music it was. I love that story. He was so proud of his work with Simon, and specifically of his work on the show.

michael murray

Hey, fyi the cinebingers link above goes to episodes 7&8. It's actually a different link than the one in the episode 7&8 post, but both have the same video.

JoeE

The forcible rape designation is a legal expression to differentiate from statutory rape. Police can sometimes use a justification defense if they use deadly physical force in trying to stop the former but not the latter