You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of 'The Wire' than me. The writing was superlative; amongst the very best ever. Having said that, I always struggled
In Season 1, Episode 7, there is funny, heart-warming bar scene between McNulty and Bunk. They're both drunk and McNulty's laying on all kinds of compliments.
"The Greek" managed to board a plane with Vondas at the end of season 2 therefore avoiding being arrested. I remember a scene in season 5 where Marlo meets Von
In the intro of season 1, episode 1 of The Wire, detective McNulty and some random dude talk about the Snot Boogie being murdered because of a craps game. What'
Now that I am rewatching the whole series, I don't recall that I ever fully understood what Cedric Daniels in "The Wire" did while working in the Eastern Distri
In S01E05 the police finally gets all the paperwork to clone Dee's pager. I'm wondering how exactly they cloned the pager, as they had him in earlier episodes
In S01E05 of The Wire, why did they need to crack the code the way they did? Freamon said they got the pages and the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls of
When the high command is about to shut down the Season 1 case on Avon Barksdale, McNulty comes up with taking the case to the FBI and he goes to them along with
I missed this part of the plot: the major incriminating thing the police got on String was talk about "two hitters", which the got on wiretap. I assume these hi
In The Wire, Bubbles was a drug addict who was a grass for Detective Greggs and other Balitmore cops. He was instrumental in providing evidence to help convict
The two shows are often compared, and it's easy to see why. They have some common themes. They're both about the drug trade. They both deal with failing institu
In The Wire Wallace takes care of quite a few children. When he returns to the house at the end of series 1, they're all gone. Where? Poot and Bodie didn't kil
In The Wire, Season 1, Episode 13 (The Sentencing), there's a scene where D'Angelo (Dee) is in the interview room with his own lawyer (not Levy) about 19 mins i
In The Wire Season 2 Episode 7 "Backwash." in Frank's office there is a dart board with a black and white photo of someone. This implies the photo is someone t
In the tv show, The Wire, people live in apartments with barricaded doors and broken windows. One example is shown below: Are those apartments abandoned or s
Nick Sobotka is a major character in the second season of The Wire. In many scenes we can see that he has a very large letter pi (π) tattooed on the back of
I've started watching For All Mankind and was pleased to see Chris Bauer in a strong supporting role playing Deke Slayton. I hadn't seen him in anything since h
In The Wire, I noticed there was an attachment on the telephone set. What is it? I encircled it with a polygon.
I'm referring to the intro of Season 3. Did they actually collapse an old building for the sake of the series? Or did they film the collapse of a different buil
This is a version of a question I asked on Security.SE, this time with a focus on the TV side of it. In S01E05 of The Wire, at around the 45:00 mark, it's revea