Countdown to Season Five
Good news! HBO is again offering "The Wire" a week early On-Demand.
While there seems to be some debate about why HBO is doing this, my attitude is "who cares?" The Fifth Season should premiere on Monday, Dec. 31, so we're only 30 days away.
I am a little surprised and let down that HBO has only released that teaser where you follow a typewriter writing about Baltimore - not a lot of suspense building. But the show is wrapped and is a dead duck so it's not like they're trying to win over a new audience. Very unlike "Tell Me You Love Me" where they launched a big marketing campaign to win over new viewers.
- The writers of the excellent book "Freakonomics" have an interesting post about the realities of life in a street gang. There's a chapter in the book titled, "Why Crack Dealers Live with Their Mothers" which is a great companion piece to watching "The Wire." Anyways, the man responsible for the research for that chapter talks about how much he admires the show.
- Heres Andre Royo talking about the character of Bubbles and how's clean in Season Five. "What does he do with himself now that he's clean?" Royo asks. As Waylon says to him in Season Five, "Now comes life."
Good news! HBO is again offering "The Wire" a week early On-Demand.
While there seems to be some debate about why HBO is doing this, my attitude is "who cares?" The Fifth Season should premiere on Monday, Dec. 31, so we're only 30 days away.
I am a little surprised and let down that HBO has only released that teaser where you follow a typewriter writing about Baltimore - not a lot of suspense building. But the show is wrapped and is a dead duck so it's not like they're trying to win over a new audience. Very unlike "Tell Me You Love Me" where they launched a big marketing campaign to win over new viewers.
- The writers of the excellent book "Freakonomics" have an interesting post about the realities of life in a street gang. There's a chapter in the book titled, "Why Crack Dealers Live with Their Mothers" which is a great companion piece to watching "The Wire." Anyways, the man responsible for the research for that chapter talks about how much he admires the show.
- Heres Andre Royo talking about the character of Bubbles and how's clean in Season Five. "What does he do with himself now that he's clean?" Royo asks. As Waylon says to him in Season Five, "Now comes life."
posted by Andy Sywak at 9:43 AM
4 Comments:
I think that's season 2 where Waylon says that, not 5!
Did you see these:
http://bigscreenlittlescreen.net/2007/11/29/the-wire-hbo-drops-premiere-date-16-early-on-demand-5-promos/
Other promos are up on YouTube.
The ones with McNulty and Marlo will mess you up.
Does anyone know the name of the song that plays at the end of that typewriter teaser? There's that song with a turntable scratching the words "where he at?" or something.
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