Pages tagged “the wire”

The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #1 Omar Little

The world's most quotable stick-up man terrorizes hardened thugs with an arsenal of guns and a vocabulary that fuses streetwise slang with Shakespearean flair.  read more

Found in: TV, Features

High Definition: When Every Channel is the Travel Channel

Last week, I visited Miami before the Cayamo cruise with Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle. I haven’t spent much time there, but as we drove around the city and walked the streets of South Beach, I couldn’t help but think of Dexter, Showtime’s eponymous serial killer, and his slow steps towards redemption. Setting is key to good television, and the best series make you feel like you’re becoming as attached to the place as to the characters....  read more

Found in: TV, Columns

The Wire's Dominic West to Direct Daytime Drama Episode

He appeared in front of the camera as Jimmy McNulty, the tough cop with a drinking problem in The Wire, but Dominic West does some time behind the lens as well. West, who directed an episode of The Wire’s fifth and final season, will be calling the shots for an upcoming episode of Moving On, a BBC daytime drama....  read more

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David Simon's Treme Gets April 11 Premiere Date, Trailer

Writer David Simon wants to make this clear: His new HBO drama, Treme, is not another version of The Wire. (Also, “Treme” doesn’t rhyme with “theme”—the show is named for the musically historic area of New Orleans and is pronounced “truh-MAY.”) The show is scheduled to kick off on April 11, and now has a trailer, which you can watch below. But don’t expect to learn too much about the actual plot or premise. In fact, to quote The Onion’s A.V. Club, where we came across the clip, you should “Check out the Treme trailer to learn nothing about Treme.”...  read more

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The 15 Best Davids

David is a Hebrew name that means “beloved.” These Davids are surely beloved:...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire to Tap into Seedy, 1920s Atlantic City

Martin Scorsese is moving forward with his new series for HBO. The network has bought 12 episodes of Boardwalk Empire including the pilot, and Scorsese and his crew were seen filming recently in Brooklyn....  read more

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The Five Best Drug Dealers On TV

Some of the best shows on television are about the dirty drug world. Whether they’re selling pot, meth, heroin or vampire blood, drug dealers make for fascinating characters. Enjoy this list, but first, a public-service announcement from Paste: Don’t deal drugs. You’ll either end up dead, in jail, pregnant, in Mexico, or pregnant in Mexico....  read more

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HBO, The Wire Producers to Adapt Rolling Stone Writer's Appetite for Self-Destruction

Producers of The Wire will soon focus on the downfalls and digital downloads characterizing today’s music industry....  read more

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New Orleans Gets Wired: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy

On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias were burning through a scorching set of percussive funk. “From the outside, it was like some kind of Tex Avery cartoon,” Simon says, “where the house is dancing and the window shutters are popping out to the beat.”...  read more

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"100 Greatest Quotes From the Wire" Video (Awesome of the Day)

Oh, the glories of the YouTube. Thank you, user hh1edits for lovingly compiling 100 clips from the second best TV show of the decade into one 10-minute-long video. Thanks to Pajiba.com for originally publishing it. And thanks to indie rock blog ElectricMustache.com for alerting us to it....  read more

Found in: Blogs, High Gravity