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Inspiration from Kind Strangers
Inspired by an anthology of short stories, Alex Court shares a story of his own...…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 10): The Cost – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“Whether you’re a corner boy in West Baltimore, or a cop who knows his beat, or an Eastern European brought here for sex, your life is worthless. It’s the triumph…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 9): Game Day – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“If people didn’t realise after this many seasons of The Wire that they were watching a Greek tragedy, writ across a modern American city… And if they thought that there…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 8): Lessons – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“I think [The Wire] will hold up, and I think it’ll hold up as a unified 60 episodes. But I could be wrong. Is anything really a masterpiece? Shit’s never…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 7): One Arrest – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“One of the themes of The Wire really was that statistics will always lie. That I mean statistics can be made to say anything… Anything that is a stat can…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 6): The Wire – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 5): The Pager – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“The first season of The Wire was a training exercise. We were training you to watch television different.” David Simon’s sentiments are especially evident in “The Pager”. Over the course…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 4): Old Cases – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“Less is more in television,” says David Simon. “It’s not theatre. We’re looking for the nuance of real life.” This is yet another summation of why The Wire is so…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 3): The Buys – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“There are moments where (the characters) become essentially human in all facets. We were very conscious of doing that – giving them moments where they show that, aside from their…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 2): The Detail – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“For a good detective, it usually requires an act of professional vanity. He says: ‘I’m not gonna let (the criminal) beat me…’ It’s none of this protect and serve nonsense…
The Wire (Season 1, Episode 1): The Target – Warning: Contains Spoilers
“It seems to be a cop show, but we were actually trying to mask something different… The show is about the American city and how we live together. It’s…
Dublin Casinos: Worth the Wallet?
Want to try out a casino? Read this first!…
Introduction: (500) Days of Wire – Warning: Contains Spoilers
Yes, I have agreed to write a blog in which I review all 60 episodes of The Wire individually. Am I crazy? Quite possibly. Will there be sloppily constructed sentences,…
Candy In My Heels, Talulah Does The Hula, and Cowboy X
This Otwo journalist apologises for her long silence, but would like to reassure her adoring fans that she has not been idle.…
Stuck in a rut?
The evening before my last exam sees me not diligently cramming my already fact-bloated grey matter with facts, but procrastinating on my laptop instead.…
NOFX Gig
O-Two's Alison Lee checks out NOFX at the Olympia…
Premature Exasperation – The Films of the Year (So Far)
Yes, I realise its March, but my obsession with lists has prevailed. Plus, I saw Let The Right One In yesterday and felt the need to pay homage to it.…