 
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 1025
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 11:50 am: |    |
Anyone notice the similarities between what was shown of Baltimore in the Wire (HBO series) and Detroit?
Clarence Page and Barack Obama say it is their favorite show. It definitely shows a bleak inner city and the struggles of city leaders and police to
combat all the problems inherent with the situation. |
Django
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Username: Django
Post Number: 420
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 12:23 pm: | |
All I know is I love that show, I just ordered it through netflix last nite.
Just realized this is post #420, sounds like cause to celebrate.
(Message edited by Django on May 18, 2008) |
Lodgedodger
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Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 25
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 12:49 pm: | |
I love that show. Interesting thing to note--at the City Building last week, waiting for the City Council's Closed Session to end, this Kilpatrick supporter was giving me hell. He looked just like Senator Clay Davis.
Best show on television--ever! |
Django
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Username: Django
Post Number: 421
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 12:53 pm: | |
Are you also familiar with the show,"the corner" I think its called. Same writers. |
Living_in_the_d
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Username: Living_in_the_d
Post Number: 223
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 2:31 pm: | |
Yeah, Just saw the show depicting the trial and an exact copy of one of Detroit's most prominent and unique lawyers, Think pony-tail. |
Mclark
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Username: Mclark
Post Number: 16
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 2:53 pm: | |
Django, The Corner is the same guys, based on a book they wrote where they followed a family in which both adults are addicts and their son is a dealer. Great mini-series. Check it out. They also have a new project (Ed Burns and David Simon) called Generation Kill, about the Iraq war.
The Wire is far and away the best show ever in my opinion. I just finished the final season and I already miss Bubbles. |
Buyamerican
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Username: Buyamerican
Post Number: 597
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 3:09 pm: | |
A previous thread from February, 2008 HBO The Wire is here somewhere. |
Hornist9
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Username: Hornist9
Post Number: 129
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 10:01 am: | |
Shiiiiiit! as Clay Davis would say. Is Kwame going to be a slick as Clay and beat the rap? Only time will tell us...
Emma Bully Cummings a Valvechek if I ever saw one... |