Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> I mean, the world is fucked, you're screwed, and
everything goes to
> hell. Then next week, same noir time, same noir
channel, the same
> characters do it all again? Huh?
BaxDeal@aol.com responded:
> In a message dated 4/1/05 6:00:06 PM,
winter_writes@earthlink.net writes:
>>THE WIRE is noir. It's a series. And it
works.
> brilliantly, I might add
I have to agree. To bring it back to Kevin's comment though,
In THE WIRE, there are enough characters to have a round
robin of 'screwed, and everything goes to hell' for one or
two characters every episode. They don't all have to get
screwed every episode, but given a few episodes, it's hard to
find a character that got away clean.
I've been watching season two on DVD, and the intro to
episode eight has
the main Irish cop character on a bender. The
episode was written by Pelecanos, and the bender, in
abreviated form, is straight out of Pelecanos' own DOWN BY
THE RIVER WHERE THE DEAD MEN GO. The main difference was that
even HBO shied away from the original Nick Stefanos bender
"pearl necklace" ending, chosing instead a more traditional
straight sex conclusion.
In another season two Pelecanos wink, a short order cook
behind a Greek lunch bar is identified as 'Stefanos'.
Cheers,
--Stewart
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