Wednesday, February 29, 2012

LOOK THE PART, BE THE PART:  If someone had told me sooner that The Wire involved researching campaign finance records in the days before OpenSecrets.org, I'd have started watching it much sooner.

It is Game Day in Baltimore for everyone. We've got a basketball game against Proposition Joe's squad; Omar's upping his game while Lester Freamon is upping the police's investigative game; Poot's getting some game over the phone; and Bubbs and Wallace may want out of the game altogether. (As to the latter, Tara Ariano notes: "D'Angelo looks at him wistfully, like he wishes he could quit the game and go back to the ninth grade himself. It's probably been ages since he diagrammed a good sentence.")  A more action-packed and plot-filled episode than most, and entertaining as hell.  Quote of the week goes to Lester:
In this country? Somebody's name has got to be on a piece of paper. A cousin, a girlfriend, a grandmother, a lieutenant he can trust...somebody's name is on a piece of paper. And here's the rub: You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where the fuck it's going to take you.