Reminder for all the fans in the comment too keep quiet and avoid directing Elite's thoughts in spoilery ways as much as possible until he reaches the season's end.

Curious how Spider's line "You ain't my fucking father" was subtitled as "Leave me the fuck alone". There's quite a distinction!

Cutty and Spider first met when Cutty went into Hamsterdam to look for kids to join his gym. He gave Spider a little boxing demonstration, but Spider was apprehensive at first. Cutty told him: "Don't worry, i'm not going to hurt you", but then he ends up sleeping with Spider's mom, hurting him in a whole different way.

I’ve seen this series 10+ times and I don’t think I ever noticed Slim and Snoop casually chatting in the background in that park scene

Tommy's conversation with the ex-mayor always makes me think about how he was born "in the game" as well. Here is this guy who saw the writing on the wall, telling Tommy about how he's about to eat shit for 4 years, but Carcetti is still young and hungry. His dad was in politics, everyone he knows is in politics, he's ambitious and handsome, he's on that train as long as it goes.

I dont know if you noticed or not, but the boy who was beating on Namond outside the gym was Sherrod.

Yes, Herc was supposed to take Randy to see the Bunk after questioning.

The thing with the girl in the bathroom was wrong on all angles, but ultimately it was not a crime. The guys used her, she felt like dirt and lashed out, and Randy ended up getting squeezed for it. Like everything else in this show, it's all about how the smallest of things can have the biggest of consequences, like that guy sadly caught with a stray bullet ending up turning into the wedge Carcetti uses to win the election. It's also part of what makes the show so rewatchable. Next time you see it, it's probably even better, because you see just how meticulous it is in setting everything up, many times whole seasons in advance.

36:42 Btw, Kenard is one of the kids who was cosplaying as Omar ("It's my turn to be Omar!") in the aftermath of the shootout which killed one of Omar's crew. I remember you paused and reflected on that moment.

Without Stringer, Avon, and not even much of McNulty, it might have hurt another show, BUT not for the Wire because the City of Baltimore is the Main Character not the Casts, and sometimes all you need is a fantastic story & script with talented actors to make GREAT Television💯

The kids are why season 4 is my favorite. Amazing, organic performances from all of them.

About the situation with all the extra materials in the school: 1. the computers: This is early 2000s. The school might have gotten the computers as a donation or through funding but they may not even have a teacher who would know what to do with them in the context of his curriculum let alone set it up. It's not like these schools have an IT department and it's ot likely the janitor has the knowledge to set it up either. 2. the newer edition text books: most schools wouldn't get every single edition of a text book or at least not get it when it came out. They're usually using up the old editions until most of them are unusable before they switch to the new ones just because they don't know when they will be getting new ones or want to postpone having to buy new ones for as long as possible. I remember being in school in the mid nineties working with books from the 80s mostly and I knew someone from another class had some newer books in math and we had some newer books in english. It's not like these newer editions are vastly different most of the time.

Prop Joe (real aka)coached Snoop too. RIP Joe Stewart...passed a yr aftr real Omar

"fuck you kenard" should've been the quote of this episode

The thing with the school system, if you noticed they were only able to have a peaceful moment to be able to find all that new stuff available to them once the more bad kids (distractions) were removed.

The touchy topic: When she met the two boys in the hallway (a) day(s) later - she said "hi...." to them, wanted their attention but they ignored her and called her names. Thats when Namond makes the rude comment. (your reaction s4e6 at 16:24) Thats when she realized she was nothing more than .... for them. When word got around and the principal questions her she couldn´t admit to herself, what they had made her become... she is a victim making victims - nobody wins, some just lose a little slower than the others.

Not sure if you picked up on it, but Prez says "Welcome back Mr. Wagstaff" to Randy. That's a name we've heard before.

Not sure if you’ve done extensive research into David Simon and how he wrote the show, but Simon was a journalist with the Baltimore sun. He worked crime for years. Most of the characters and situations are 100% true. He wrote this show after years and years of compiling stories about his city. It’s a genuine reflection. It’s hard for us to comprehend how real it is because it’s so intense, dramatic and tragic. But it isn’t really dramatised at all. So sad man

Statistics...those damn statistics. Kids in the school. The police with the homicide rates. All about the statistics. You've noticed that this show likes to run parallels between the different groups, this is yet another one.

With the books, computer, etc in the school, it’s not about not trusting the kids and it’s not anything sinister, it’s probably just that everyone genuinely forgot about them. The system is broken…like you said, nobody had been down there in months. They probably were ordered based on some government grant, one person threw them in the basement, forgot to tell anyone else or got too overworked with other stuff, and they’ve been there ever since. Remember when Fitz had to tell McNulty the BPD already had that machine that pulls cell phone numbers and even the guy working the room where it was stored didn’t know anything about it? Same deal here

Hoping for Fargo soon.

this is the season where carv went one way.. ..and herc went another.. they used to be both bozos, but Colvin wisdom got to carver (szn 3)

Love this season

It’s on!

Nah Norris ain't the salty type; he's the best in the unit besides Bunk (pre lester and kima). He's decent ppl in The Cost in season one.

Lol you can definitely look around at all the graffiti and busted out buildings that those computer wouldnt last too long.

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Ronda was working so scared of people, but being with Lester and McNulty Helped her scared ass get a better position. Do the job and whatever comes Accept it, as long as you've done your job.

yooo SPOILERS- ELIE DO NOT READ THIS UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE SHOW (or at least most of season 5) I never noticed this before- when Carcetti is doing the nighttime ride-along and the cop (half)-jokingly says that they should be dropping white phosphorous on West Baltimore to fix it (because his brother was a vet and saw how effective it was in urban combat in Fallujah), it's the same actor who plays the homeless vet in Season 5 who accuses Templeton of making up the story about his experience in Iraq. Either this is a continuity error- the Wire has had some other obscure ones, like the actor for Marlo being an extra who is playing a bit role in one scene as a prisoner in Season 1 or 2 (can't remember the exact season)- OR it's a super obscure reference/clever use of the same actor to use him as the homeless vet and imply that it's the cop's brother because they look the same. It's this kind of stuff that really sets the Wire apart from so much other media. I have re-watched this show in full like 5+ times. I have re-watched parts of this show DOZENS of times via reactions on youtube. In almost every single re-watch, in all those dozens+ times watching the same damn show, I have noticed new things, observed new parallels (some I wouldn't have ever noticed by myself and people like Elie point them out), new layers of nuance, new messages. If you watch this show at different stages of your life and development/growth, it will take on completely new meanings, whether garnering hope or reaffirming hopelessness. It's satirical, but also grounded in truth and reality. It's social commentary, but also philosophical commentary about the cyclical nature of history. It's psychological and solutions are epistemically unknowable, but it's also viscerally tangible and suggesting the solutions are within reach. It's at once a broad indictment of the systems and institutional decay of America, a massive sweeping meta-analysis of Baltimore (a preview of what's to come in all of inner-city America), but at the same time, it's also a personal case-study, and illustrative of the individual- it's rich characters are the epitome of American individualism. Its both a fine, classic novel about everything Baltimore (and Americana) and also a grand, sweeping television show about cops and drug dealers. It's has some of the funniest comedic moments, some of the greatest characters (and characters arcs), some of the saddest moments...it has everything that makes the medium of film great, while also defying all conventional tropes and opting instead to be paced like a novel (also bringing to life the best aspects of that medium). Jesus i love this show.