harry's an interested character, like you can see him morph over the seasons from this somewhat put-upon nice guy to this careerist slickster who at his core remains a nice guy, but he's covering it up with this strained douchebaggery, like this effort at being a don or a roger but only copying their worst surface qualities that he's learned from their nights out or something, but never developing as he's aged their genuinely decent qualities. and i like how his success is happening in the background and everyone is missing the boat he seems to have caught. he's basically the type of guy who runs listicle sites in the 21st century.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
he's not a nice guy
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
well he started off as one but the thing is that core of a nice guy is shrinking rapidly with every season and now he's becoming more and more this empty douchebag, but in the first season or two he was a "nice guy" but in the way we talk about those creepy indie rock nice guys who end up being assholes. seems to me he wasn't exactly a natural asshole, he has decided to become one.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
creepy indie rock nice guys who end up being assholes
haha yeah this sounds about right
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Shakey's rabidly anti-Harry stance still bemuses and delights me
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
it's true, I want to see him run over by a bus full of hippies or something
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
just recalling that Wire-style montage at the end of Season 5; that was great. actually i wonder if it's fair to say The Wire 'invented' that particular style of montage at the end of seasons of TV, sorta feels like they did.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
"Butchie's Tune" is an old favorite that I didn't realize anyone else cared about, it put that episode over the top for me, totally devastating.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I go back and forth on Harry. He's been rotten at times, other times an okay guy just trying to do his job.
I was playing "Butchie's Tune" in class, found the whole scene posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUyhEr8dFk
Glen really deserves a spin-off show. Once an episode at a key moment, he'll turn to the camera, smile, and deliver his beloved "See? It all turns to crap" catchphrase.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
ugh I hate that recap montage style - surely other cop shows did that before the Wire?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
"Butchie's Tune" previous fit of exposure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ArHxmELYg
Antonioni had some English session guys do these two Spoonful covers.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Didn't Sopranos do a similar style of montage at the beginning/end of a coupla seasons?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
def
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
this thread is really funny
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
like I was just scanning it because I've been rewatching s5 and there are a lot of genuine lolz
my posting style 6 years ago is kinda setting my teeth on edge
― devops mom (silby), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
I saw a post from 15 years ago saying I loved potlucks. I fucking hate potlucks.
― Yerac, Monday, 6 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
so, is it me or does this show skip almost the entirety of 1967?
Season 5 ends a few months after Christmas 1966 - Lane forges the check around Xmas and then a couple episodes later he's dead. The last episode seems to take place in maybe spring of '67?
And then when season 6 starts I think we're already in 1968?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah. IIRC, they completely skip over the Summer of Love. Cagey.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
The way the finale drew Don into real-life events, they could have started that in 1967: Don goes back to see Anna's niece, she drags him to Monterey, clip of Janis Joplin singing "Ball and Chain," and instead of a stunned Mama Cass, you instead cut to a stunned Don Draper.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
...and then he hooks up with her.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
Won't try to open this whole thread to see if there's a similar post, but beautiful images near the end of "Tea Leaves" where the kids chase fireflies on the front lawn.
https://mindlessones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fireflies1.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iw0euc4qDk
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link