Michael turning cold, then popping Snoop shocked me. Wee Bey's son beat the odds, thanks to Bunny adopting him. They didn't let many of those kids win, but that's how it is for real, so the show was smart to reflect that sad reality. I HATED the newspaper focus for Season 5. He had to pay for ordering D' Angelo's death, but I didn't expect it to go down like it did. His character was one of the most popular and introduced Idris' sexy ass to an American audience in a real way.
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I was shocked that they killed off Stringer Bell in the middle of the series run.
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It was as real as tv could get and I miss that show. What I loved about the show is how they didn't filter the street/cop/politician life. He isn't someone who will change the system but he's someone who works well within the system and does well like Bunk.Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish! You gave me a flashback with that shit (I found one of my neighbors' cat dead in my yard when I got home from work last week, poor baby.) :bawling::bawling::bawling: It's just that we usually see him from the POV of guys he's an obstacle to and the system itself sucks. He has been amazing at every position he's worked at.
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The only reason why he isn't able to become a full time commissioner is because he's white. While you can tell he's new to politics and didn't have the connections of Burrell, he plays the game well enough to outlast Burrell. Meanwhile, as a deputy, he was himself under serious pressure in the city hall. And clearly, he was doing well enough to get promoted despite his subordinate running wild, circumventing the chain of command. Rawls had to be who he was to keep his head afloat. These majors were getting destroyed in the comstat meetings. When we see him as a deputy in season 3, we see him be antagonistic towards Colvin and other district commanders but the beauty of the show is that it helps us relate to what kind of pressures Rawls must be facing as a major earlier. He clears the area for the forensic teams to do their work, he tells the DEA guy to STFU about money for the moment, handles an emotional McNulty in the most brilliant way possible (no fake pleasantries but separating his emotions from reason) and even instantly recognizes that the road signs have been switched. He is seen as a cockblocking, asshole politician than only cares about stats instead of real police work.īut we see when Kima is shot and the whole scene is a chaotic mess, how he comes in and takes control of the situation like a true leader. In the first few seasons, we see him as a roadblock to McNulty and Daniels. This might be unpopular but Rawls is actually amazing police and one of the most competent people on the show. There are some differences, but mainly for dramatic effect and brevity. When you read the book, you can parallel some of the characters of the police department to the people depicted in the book, same as with the old NBC show Homicide: Life on the Streets.
He was a sergeant before he went to homicide, but most of his career was in CID rather than patrol. Landsman was a sergeant for one of them (the actual guy, not the actor) and was regarded as one of the best death investigators in the city. Three work day shift, two work evening shift, and one works overnight shift, and they rotate every two weeks. In the book, there were six squads of five detectives and a sergeant for each one. I think they just focused in on what would be Landsman's squad rather than the whole unit (Bunk, McNulty, Santangelo, Cole and one other at the beginning, then as Cole died and Santangelo was back in uniform, Freemon and Kima joined up). It's the source material for the police in the Wire. Read Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The Baltimore homicide unit had six sergeants and thirty detectives. A homicide detective might not be all that great and might have gotten there in other ways (I'm not saying Santangelo or Cole are bad but.) but a sergeant? I'm going to go so far as to say that even in the Baltimore Police Department, you don't get to be a sergeant in homicide without at least some talent or skill.