The 20 Best Fictional Crime Bosses
Two episodes in, and Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Johnson (Steve Buscemi) seems destined to become one of the all-time great fictional crime bosses. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day7 Great Non-musical Moments From Hall Of Fame Nominee Tom Waits
Tom Waits has finally been nominated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Paste’s top 5 songwriter certainly deserves induction for his long string of brilliant explorations of the underbelly of the human psyche and society in general. He’s also turned in some great turns on the big screen. Here are 7 of our favorite non-musical moments from the musical legend.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 10 Best TV Dramas for Marathon Viewing
We're talking more than a fun afternoon of House or Law and Order reruns on Bravo or TNT. These dramas will compel you to call-in sick to work just so you can find out what happens next. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 10 Best TV Title Sequences
It's no stretch to say that a TV program's title sequence can be the most memorable part of the show... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayTV's 10 Greatest Geeky Sidekicks
I’ve been completing my ‘90s TV education lately by burning through old episodes of Buffy. Three seasons in, I can’t help but love that red-haired, Net-surfing (back when that was a thing) witch-wannabe Willow. Alyson Hannigan’s character got me thinking—the geeky sidekick has become a TV trope. Of course, the Sancho Panza’s have been around forever, loyally assisting their hero-partners in the small day-to-days of being a superstar. But with the advent of Internet culture and the subsequent coolification of Geek, the nerdy, lovable, library-dwelling assistant became even more visible in pop-culture, making for a delightful assortment of sidelines-characters we... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayToy Story + The Wire = Pure Joy
This mash-up is further theological proof that the Internet loves you and wants you to be happy. Woody as McNulty? Buzz Lightyear as Stringer Bell? And the dachshund with a cameo as Senator Clay Davis? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Give us a full episode, pretty please. (via Austin L. Ray via Videogum via Kottke via however they found it)... read more
Found in: Blogs, High GravityAwesome of the Day: Play Paintball With the Cast of The Wire
Live in New York? Have a few hundred bucks of disposable income? Then you could have the opportunity to live out one of the Paste Staff’s all-time dreams.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayWill the Lost Series Finale Take its Place in the Pantheon of Serialized Dramas?
Lost airs its final episode tonight, and three of its high-profile contemporaries, The Sopranos, The Wire and Battlestar Galactica have also aired their finales to much praise and fanfare. Their respective creators have run the press gamut elucidating—and sometimes defending—their work. Lost, however, presents the most daunting challenge as showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have created a complex web of characters and thematic threads, all while bending not just narrative conventions but even our perception of time and space. As such, we’re taking a look at what these finales did right. Warning: The following pages contain spoilers pertaining to... read more
Found in: TV, FeaturesOur Favorite #thewirebands Tweets So Far
You don’t have to visit this website very often to know we love music, The Wire and Twitter. Knowing this, you can imagine how pleased we were a few minutes ago when we discovered the #thewirebands hashtag. So pleased were we, in fact, that we screengrabbed a few of our favorites. The hashtag seems to have tapered off a bit, so we suggest you, reader, use your clever brain to get it moving again. Here’s the tweet that started it all, from the hilarious John Moe:... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsHigh Definition: Treme Hits the Right Notes
Before the flood, I’d only spent a day in New Orleans. My friend Stephanie was working with Desire Street Ministries, and she showed me where she lived and worked in the 8th and 9th Wards. It was the best and worst of America in one place. It was the week of Mardi Gras, and I saw communities readying their immaculate floats among the stark poverty of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. The grandness of the funeral processions was only matched by their sobering frequency, as the children she worked with grew accustomed to sounds of gunfire at a young age.... read more
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