But Comstat, as The Wire well showed, also created unhealthy strains and subtly encouraged officers to twist the numbers. Why did Major Bunny Colvin feel pressure to create the drug sanctuary Hamsterdam? Comstat's circus combined with senseless approaches to drugs motivated Colvin to go rogue. Similar historical pressures push teachers in season 4 as President George Bush's No Child Left Behind education plan casts a real-life shadow.
When a new city teacher, formerly of the Baltimore police, hears how his school will teach test questions, the young man immediately recognizes the dilemma: "Juking the stats Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels. I've been here before. David Simon brings a historian's sword in his analysis of urban decay, and the blade is very much one that befits the years to The era carried a specificity to its history that is worth noting and is memorialized in this iconic HBO show.
The drama was a portrait of its time in the same way a show like AMC's Mad Men strives to capture the s. It premiered on June 23, The episode was written by David Simon and directed by Clement Virgo. Bodie wakes up from his injuries in a Washington, D. Avon discusses the loss of the pit's stash with his enforcers and marks Omar and his crew for death. McNulty and his partner from homicide Bunk Moreland investigate an old murder that may be related to D'Angelo. McNulty and Bunk reinvestigate the homicide of Deirdre Kresson.
After McNulty returns Bubbles to the low-rise housing projects after visiting suburbia, Bubbles remarks upon the small distance between the affluent and the impoverished, embodied by the small physical distance between the projects and suburbia.
Kima Greggs and McNulty attend a court hearing for Marvin Browning — a Barksdale dealer they pulled in on a hand-to-hand. Hoping he will give them information about Avon Barksdale and his organization, they push ASA Dawkins to pursue the maximum sentence five years, due to his prior arrests , but Browning refuses their offer of a deal, electing instead to do the time. Polk visits Mahone in the hospital, where he learns that Mahone will be getting an early retirement and a bump in his pension due to his injury.
Mahone tells Polk that he could follow him by deliberately injuring himself, which Polk reluctantly considers. Herc and Carver drive out to the "Boy's sic Village" [1] , planning to interrogate Bodie Broadus , only to find that he has escaped from the low-security facility.
They burst into Bodie's home, but find only his grandmother. Embarrassed by his strong-arm tactics, Herc speaks respectfully to Bodie's grandmother and leaves his card. Bunk Moreland and McNulty review old homicide cases and try to match them to the Barksdale organization. Their sergeant, Jay Landsman , insists they review the case of Deirdre Kresson , a college girl murdered far from the west side, with a "D" listed as a possible suspect.
The cops were standing around drinking coffee. It was another day at the office for these guys, but our eyes were popping out of our heads. It put them on a stage where they could be seen. It dared to slow down and stretch out, demanding unusual patience and attention from viewers.
To get it, you had to watch and listen, and there was a risk that people might not have bothered, but they did. Each season introduced characters while expanding or contracting the roles of existing ones without warning. You can catch a bullet filling up your car with gas. It was quite a ride. He wanted to show the connecting thread — the wire — that ran between seemingly different organisations and the people who worked in them.
Whether he was exploring police departments, drug cartels, labour unions, the school system, newspapers or city hall, Simon was interested in how the machine worked, or failed to work. If he could explain Baltimore, then he could explain the US. For viewers who embraced the first season as a gritty crime drama with a predominantly black cast, however, the pivot in season two to the travails of white dockworkers was a jolt, even as it pulled in new viewers.
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Watch options. Storyline Edit. Seen not only through the eyes of a few policemen and drug gang members but also the people who influence and inhabit their world - politicians, the media, drug addicts and everyday citizens. A new case begins Did you know Edit. Trivia While filming, Andre Royo was once approached by a Baltimore resident, who handed him a package of heroin and said he looked like he needed a fix.
Royo calls this his "street Oscar. Goofs Throughout the last two seasons, Carcetti repeatedly refers to a possible gubernatorial challenge in , after serving two years as Baltimore mayor. But Maryland holds gubernatorial elections in off years - , , etc. The new governor would have been elected the same year that Carcetti was elected mayor - - and up for re-election in four years, not two.
Quotes Freamon : A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? Crazy credits In every episode, after the opening credits a quote appears on the screen that will be spoken by a character in that episode. User reviews Review. Top review. Millennials will laugh at this time capsule of the 00's; Pay phones, pagers, the 00's cars, tiny flip-phones, cathode ray televisions Excellent cast and production, story lines that are timeless, and still revelant.
Great stuff! FAQ Why did Bunk cut off his colleague's necktie?
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