Comments on: Emmy again gives thumbs down to “The Wire”. What’s Up?

By: roli

roli — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:08:26 +0000

*clap clap*
To mr. mccormick, (in complete opposite to your prose) Best Comment Evar.

Even more so coming from a Guiliani-era veteran cop, it was great to hear. One thing is for certain, the thing you pointed out: multiple layers and threads must be assessed to answer even the simplest of questions - is what I took from the show as well. It simply is never just “one-thing” and it has been screamed, shouted and stated for years and years in all forms of pop-culture. music, movies, books, and the web. And the wire captured it, with style, humor and emotion.

anyhoo, great comment if i ever saw one mr. m.

By: puddyfudge

puddyfudge — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:16:24 +0000

Jeeze people. The Wires cast was shunned because they are B-L-A-C-K!!!! I’ve read all the articles about the Wire getting snubbed by the Emmys and NONE of you writers write about the obvious!!! Damn! Just tell the truth. It’s not the drugs or violence, the Soprannos were GANGSTERS people! Sex in the City delt with…..SEX. The Emmys gave those guy awards. What I think is sad and wrong is the fact the the Emmys noninated the white writers and ignored the cast. (shakes head and rolls eyes)

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:31:57 +0000

In response to Russell, I think Tourtellotte was referring to Idris Elba rather than Dominic West.

By: Russell Farmarco

Russell Farmarco — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:33:35 +0000

Amen to what Daniel said. I could not have put it any better. This is easily the best television show I’ve ever seen. One small quibble, however, with Bob Tourtellotte in this article. Dominic West was very good as McNulty but his American accent was weak and his Baltimore accent was non-existent. David Simon, Dominic West and others have even testified to this on numerous occasions. They did not want the ostensible main character to have that strange and unique accent. As someone who lived in Baltimore for 12 years I can tell that you could not recognize the accent if your life depended on it. Sorry

By: daniel mccormick

daniel mccormick — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:57:04 +0000

I think; no, I voice and thoroughly object violently to the revoltingly vacant dismissal of this unique and dare I say, vital program that has had it’s say and said it better than all catatonic instant gratification idiocy that passes for television programming today. What is with the Emmy commitee? Can they be as vapid as the population they’re obviously playing to?

I was a policeman for 20 years in NYC and throughout people would always ask me what in the media accurately reflected the peculiar police subculture, at least in a big city. For years, with exception of the occasional Joseph Wambaugh novel, I was at a loss for answers until “the Wire” was broadcast.

What was great about “the Wire”, if not phenomenal, was that it didn’t just concentrate on the limited world of the cops and thugs. Simon and Burns had an intuitive genius to realize that you had to follow ALL the loose ends of that world to provide if not an accurate explanation then at least an reasonable analysis of the questions that are ultimately raised and not addressed by the typical “lock ‘em up and throw away the key” reflexive types.

For the duration of my time as a cop I always said that the drug war was nonsense, just more “make work” for law enforcement to show some sort of results that ultimately fail and don’t solve anything. Likewise Guiliani’s incarceration at any price policies that callously were really employed to simply generate revenue for a fiscally insatiable city. I always raised unpopular issues with unorthodox solutions being dismissed by law and order types who unfortunately for our society at large, are in control due to the forfeit of reason by people of good will.

“The Wire” addressed and dug at the questions that many were afraid to ask. I am saddened and dismayed by this apparent and deliberate indifference.