Slog - Comments on File Under "Pizza is Delicious" http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious Oh my God, you guys, there's this show on HBO called The Wire, and it's totally fucking awesome. Why don't more people know about this?!? Just kidding, clearly I'm an idiot for waiting this long to expose myself to David Simon's immaculate conception of a cop show, but better late than never, plus now I get to watch the entire series as fast as I want to on DVD. Right now I'm up to episode six of season one, and I'm obsessed. Netflix can't come fast enough. In addition to being incredibly intricate and humane and fascinating, the show... Copyright 2008 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:15:30 -0800 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:09:18 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by cml Damn you, Schmader...you're the one who's making me have to wait to get those Netflix discs! Way-behind -the-curve is the new bleeding edge!

]]> cml http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972802 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972802 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:17:16 -0800 Comment by Hooty Sapperticker Herc? Herc?!

]]> Hooty Sapperticker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972815 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:44 -0800 Comment by mrgakak I've made my way up to Season 4 since starting the series in January. I've been desperate for others on the same cycle to talk to about the show — one of the drawbacks of asynchronous viewing habits, especially of great shows.

McNulty is hot, of course. But Herc? Really? I've got a crush on Cutty (3rd season). And was just treated to nice full-frontal of Omar in an early fourth season episode.

It just keeps getting better & better...

]]> mrgakak http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972816 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:49 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt (soon to be Baltimatt) We just finished watching episode 6, too. Awesome. And you're right. That guy in the picture's cute.

]]> Michigan Matt (soon to be Baltimatt) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972833 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:43:54 -0800 Comment by bailee. My crushes range from season to season. Carver's pretty dreamy right now, but McNulty is the only constant.

Your infatuation with Herc will wane as the series progresses, trust.

]]> bailee. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972836 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:46:44 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle News flash - torture doesn't really work.

Just thought you might like to know that.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972840 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972840 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:53:56 -0800 Comment by bro Only in Seattle do you get a columnist drooling over the lily white portion of a cast that includes J.D. Williams and Kwame Patterson.

]]> bro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972846 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972846 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:58:06 -0800 Comment by come again? I'm also up to season 4 and want to issue a warning to be careful of privileged and ignorant journalists who seem to think that all viewers watch in real time and insist (twice, that I've seen) on revealing the fate of favorite characters in the final season. Once the detail wasn't buried in a review, but prominently pictured as an obituary. FUCK!And what about Bunk, maybe not hot - but pretty damn funny.

]]> come again? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972849 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972849 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:59:18 -0800 Comment by el Rutherford West also plays the scarred face assasin Jigsaw in the new Punisher:War Zone movie with the dude from ROME out this fall! It is directed by a woman who is the German Karate champ. Boo-ya!

]]> el Rutherford http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972854 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:01:25 -0800 Comment by white too http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/

]]> white too http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972892 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:27:55 -0800 Comment by laterite Amy Ryan is a stone fox.


Herc definitely starts packin' a sizeable butterball around mid-season 3.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972895 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:29:12 -0800 Comment by David Schmader 11: Yeah, trolling around for Herc pics I found some that portend a less-attractive future.

But in Season One, he's a Sluggo-tastic dreamboat....

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972901 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972901 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:34:23 -0800 Comment by Preston Fuck The Sopranos, The Wire FTW! Cienna and I are halfway through Season 3 and hooked like corner prowling junkies! Excellent writing, great characters, and a deeply political scene; all in a show that (refreshingly) assumes its audience isn't completely retarded. respect.

Our votes for Wire Sexpots: McNulty, Lt. Daniels, Lester, Kiema (sp?), and O-(is that scar for fucking real!?)-mar.

]]> Preston http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972914 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972914 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:42:41 -0800 Comment by chubby chaser I'd do Sgt. Landsman.

]]> chubby chaser http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972916 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:44:47 -0800 Comment by w7ngman Yep, good show. And they didn't even really jump the shark until season 5.

McNulty is a douchebag, though.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972988 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c972988 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:34:15 -0800 Comment by Paul In SF McNulty hot? What, Omar hasn't shown up in the episodes that you have watched yet?

]]> Paul In SF http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973087 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973087 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:32:33 -0800 Comment by come again? @13
the scar IS for real...

]]> come again? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973213 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973213 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:45:01 -0800 Comment by Emma Carver is the super-hot one on that force! And he just gets better and better ...I cannot wait until Season 5 comes out on DVD.

http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/castcrew/character_season04/elliscarver.jpg

]]> Emma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973251 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973251 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:47:50 -0800 Comment by ziptag @11: Damn it, you beat me to it!

]]> ziptag http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973271 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973271 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:30:28 -0800 Comment by ziptag Damn it, I meant @10!

]]> ziptag http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973272 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:31:08 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave You're all fucking high.

Stringer Bell is the most attractive man on that show. further the show has gone out of it's way to cast people that aren't overtly attractive and yet all of yall are putting the characters on that pedestal anyway.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973280 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:00:32 -0800 Comment by laterite Also, Schmader, I don't know if Oz ever floated your boat, but a whole bunch of The Wire cast passed through that show, Herc included.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973296 TV Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:46:31 -0800 Comment by nomi malone i won't let my boyfriend rent the latest season of the wire, though he desperately wants to, because i'm in school. if we rent it while i'm in school, there will be no way i will finish my important, expensive undergraduate degree. my good friend jane and i decided this show was The. Best. Cop. Show. EVER. in the episode where mcnulty and bunk spend a good ten minutes communicating using only variations of the word 'fuck'. also, fun facts: not only is michael k. 'omar' williams an alum of the unintentionally genius 'trapped in the closet' hip-hop opera, he's also the brother of one mr. saul 'slam' williams. so there you go.

]]> nomi malone http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973354 TV Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:25:17 -0800 Comment by kathotdog McNulty's delivery of "What the fuck did I do?" is one of many favorites of the series - it is just an awesome show.
Herc? No. Carver? cute but dumb.
Stringer Bell? OK.
But Lt. Daniels is is the big surprise!

]]> kathotdog http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973447 TV Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:49:55 -0800 Comment by K X One
Word to #7

LOTS of awesome (and beautiful) brothers on that show.

My girlfriend and I have been making our way through the seasons. Sadly our DVD player died last week as we were in season 3. Needless to say we are bereft.

If y'all love the Wire, I highly recommend Homicide. I've alwys said that Homicide was the best program ever made for television. It's not quite the Wire but its top notch, from some of the same people, features Baltimore and has some of the same actors in it (albeit in different roles).

]]> K X One http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973620 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/file_under_pizza_is_delicious#c973620 TV Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:09:18 -0800