"It's essentially a six hour lecture on zoning regulations" - David Simon's Show Me A Hero

also i liked the scene between the dominican mom and her boss's wife

yeah dominican mom gets to me, such a rough life

and she looks like coco from fame <3

finally got to ep 3 and def think it's getting better

goddamnit I knew right away it was a bad idea to leak the poll numbers!

I was psyched to hear a snatch of Rollin With Kid n Play in one of the project scenes

kid w/ poodle lady scene was v nice

so sad. Nay is the cutest

y'all spot Orlando from the wire?

I feel like aside from actors there has kinda been some wire fan bait in this show -- the pager in the opening sequence, and then "re-up" and "fucked up the count" turning up early in the first ep. I don't know if that's some kind of hackneyed, meta statement about the game not changing from place to place and time to time, but it's dumb.

...i think the pager is bc its the 80s and the slang is because that slang (maybe not reup specifically but definitely "the count") is bc its the 80s

Lotta hackneyed dialogue in the final two. Felt especially lecture-y. Still liked the series overall, but my wife and I were giving each other "we get it" looks all through the episode.

i havent read the book, but i get the impression that the story a book is able to tell--the level of detail and digression and backstory--makes for a much richer experience than the condensed, yes rather lecture-y but even worse sorta dramatically inert, narrative television show that this became.

I don't like Paul Haggis but I also think the story just doesn't make great drama without a lot of license being taken, and I do think they do a good job of trying to stick to a fair and factual retelling of what happened. The project character narratives get a little more interesting than they start out, but still have a b-level TV movie feel to them. Telling the story of a housing ordinance is kind of a novel idea, but telling the story of the struggles of certain poor and working class people as a mere vehicle for showing what the purpose of the housing was is kind of flat. Immigrant mother not sure whether it's better here or back in DR, daughter from good parents struggling with drug addiction to disappointment of dad, etc., all stories told many times, not that they can't be told richly, like any one of the characters could be the subject of a well-done movie, but here they don't develop too far beyond being types.

I enjoy the way each successive mayor gets elected by promising the same thing and then gets voted out for failing to deliver the same promised thing (I haven't watched the end yet, but Spallone was also a one-term mayor for the same reason as his predecessors).

this was outstanding

I watched pt 5 last night, will finish pt 6 tonight

Guys, I know it's a bit heavy handed & corny in places but I love this. I loved the lottery and the bus ride to see the new houses & just...idk....these pencil sketches of people's lives, it's really moving

When the crack mom starts her first tenant's meeting with her dream of daycare and the young woman goes in hard about her drain being clogged and she just dies a little on the spot...it was so small but it just felt so true & real

and the blind woman "look what you've done with your meddling"

these pencil sketches of people's lives, it's really moving

otm

finished it yday...ultimately think it's pretty great, possibly the best non-wire david simon project altho neck and neck w/ generation kill for that honor

VG idk if you know historically what the ending is but if not, steel yrself its rough

(i didnt know bc i was six weeks to six years old during the 87-93 time span of this series, deliberately avoided wikipedia-ing)

i already knew going in :(

9/11 happens at the end

unorthodox rezoning technique

it's what happens when the liberals win, truly tragic

thats what reagan warned us about isnt it, shit

Also Omar shows up, and then dies.

Then Longo has several councilmen killed off, dissolves the municipal government, and crowns himself emperor, presiding over 30 years of darkness.

nulty faked the whole thing

this is still sitting on my dvr but there was a good men in blazers w/ simon this week

great final ep but ughhhhhhh so sad

wasicsko's sobbing breakdown :/

i thought for a moment they wouldnt show it but then

i cried for 20 solid minutes

yeah it was rough :(

Slayed me.

can we get Oscar an Emmy plz thx

i hadnt really thought about it til now but those hallucinations of nick's dad leaning against the tree made him look kinda distant & disapproving...even though nick clearly idolized him maybe that was the empty hole that he was trying to fill with votes/approval etc

i am still really sad about nick waciscko

this show ruined my life, basically

otm

this thread is now for holding hands quietly staring out a window & sighing

*sigh*

i turned to my husband this morning and was like, "i'm so sad about nick waciscko" and he was like, "still?" he has no soul.

oscar isaac is really something

and he really did kill himself in the cemetery, i thought it was maybe a dramatic element but ughhhhhh

so sad

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/show-me-a-hero/homepage/2015/august/150824-ep04-nick-outside-1024.jpg

;_;

I think an emmy nom has to be a given for isaac

lonely guy just thinking baout hings

isaac will def get an emmy nom

holy shit I've been trying to figure out all this time who his gf reminded me of, and I just realized it's Janet from Three's Company

lol not bad, she does have that relatable look & actually like this girl ive been hanging out w/ a lot recently

i wonder now if im going to see janet from threes co. in this gal friend hm idk

she is v easy on the eyes