Anyone like the Wire?

[KeithHernandez]

fuck*ng awesome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treme_%28TV_series%29

[Drygioni]

My friends love the Wire. My dad loves the Wire. Every media outlet in the world loves the Wire.

Yet I have never seen the Wire.

Someday soon...

Generation Kill was good.

[pmcd9]

I heard it was good.  I don't have cable.

[KeithHernandez]

Yeah, me neither.  You have the internet though.

[AugustWest]

My friends love the Wire. My dad loves the Wire. Every media outlet in the world loves the Wire.

Yet I have never seen the Wire.

Someday soon...

Yeah, same for me.

It's by the Homicide/Oz/Sopranos guys, right?  That's a pretty damn good recommendation.

[KeithHernandez]

I think just Homicide.  I know they didn't do Sopranos, no idea about Oz.

The Wire is huge though, more season to season with a brilliant ability to make it interesting and (fuck, what is it called when it like ends and you want to see the next episode to find out what happens?) without being corny or making the overall story seem stupid.  The most honest thing that has ever been on TV.

Oh, except I watched it for the second time recently and noticed a lot of dorito and pepsi placement.  I can't tell if they just had to do it all the time or were making fun of themselves for having the in scene advertising, thats how bad it was.  I guess a lot of people, especially cops with desk jobs, drink soda and eat chips though, so still honest.

[Choop]

i loved the wire. watched all five seasons in about three weeks, after it had finished.

also i don't care about product placement. if it helps get a show made that i like, i know it won't sway my opinions on products if i see mcnulty drinking a pepsi or marlo throw an empty bag of doritos on the ground.

[KeithHernandez]

Oh, it didn't really bug me either, but if the show was worse it would have.  Mainly though, I was just saying there was so much of it, and it was so ridiculous compared to the other aspects of that show, and it was really, really obvious that I didn't know if they were doing it that way on purpose to make fun of themselves or if they just had to put a shit load of it in.  It was right on that edge.

[wombat]

I can't imagine David Simon having product placement in a series.  He is the sort of person who goes on and on like this about advertising. One critic even points out a joke about product placement in one episode.

I spent a little time searching this because I figured if he'd even been quoted ranting about this it would probably be amusing. I didn't find anything before I decided I better get back to work, but here's something on the question from Generation Kill, explaining that a Subway sign was there because the place in real life had a Subway:
http://www.hbo.com/generation-kill/parts/0/1-get-some/article/inside-generation-kill.html

So if they eat a lot of Doritos on The Wire it's probably that there was a machine that had only Doritos in the real Baltimore police office that they modelled it on. They are just those kinds of guys, to an extent that is either entertaining or bordering on holier-than-thou depending on my mood.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I have numerous friends who love The Wire.  Several of them live in Baltimore.

I haven't watched it, but would like to.  I'm just not in the habit of renting TV season DVDs and knocking them out, though.  Someday.

[pmcd9]

Maybe it's just a thing.  Like the people on twin peaks were drinking coffee all the damn time.  On the wire they eat doritos all the damn time.

[KeithHernandez]

I can't imagine David Simon having product placement in a series.  He is the sort of person who goes on and on like this about advertising. One critic even points out a joke about product placement in one episode.

I spent a little time searching this because I figured if he'd even been quoted ranting about this it would probably be amusing. I didn't find anything before I decided I better get back to work, but here's something on the question from Generation Kill, explaining that a Subway sign was there because the place in real life had a Subway:
http://www.hbo.com/generation-kill/parts/0/1-get-some/article/inside-generation-kill.html

So if they eat a lot of Doritos on The Wire it's probably that there was a machine that had only Doritos in the real Baltimore police office that they modelled it on. They are just those kinds of guys, to an extent that is either entertaining or bordering on holier-than-thou depending on my mood.

See that's kinda the thing- it should not be there but it most definitely is.

[wombat]

Another possibility is that it is an inside joke - some writer or someone on the crew who eats Doritos all the time or ate them in college or one night ended up in jail for getting drunk while eating Doritos.  I realized that you know what I really miss about the Wire? It's that when it was on, I found a couple of other places on the internet aside from this one where people weren't stupid - blogs and forums where people discussed this show intelligently (NOT the HBO forums, about which the less said the better). I was so tempted to find them and re-read them all and see if anyone talked about Doritos so I could relive the glory.

[KeithHernandez]

Pepsi products too.  You should though, I would be interested in what those people thought.  There are only like 4 scenes, but they are all really overboard.

[wombat]

Keith is a bad influence.

If I get enough work done today, and if you all are posting here as little over the weekend as you have been lately... I will consider it.