Anyone can answer a question about the first season of The Wire?

[EachandEveryone]

I've finally got into it. Hard slog but now I'm hooked. I just need to know why the senior officers/mayor or whoever the blokes in suits are hate McNulty so much? They blame him for everything and he seems to hate himself. Is it something that happened before it started or is it just that it's taken me all this time to actually understand what they are saying that I've missed a crucial part? I'm up to episode 11 so it's nearly finished.

It's because he's an arrogant prick who hates authority and breaks the rules and doesn't respect the chain of command.

I love McNulty.

Cool. So nothing specific then I thought I'd missed something.

I wonder what the real Balitimore politicians police force thought of it?

It's part of its brilliance throughout that things like this are not explained in detail. No one hardly anyone in it is good or bad all the time. Make your own deductions.

Yeah it's not because of any one event. Just the fact that he doesn't play by the rules.

The Wire is great but it also left me somewhat unfulfilled and pissed off. It's a real mixed bag.

I had to watch series one at least twice and possibly three times with the last time using subtitles.

Once I got into it I was hooked!

McNulty is just the station bad boy. A drunken prick. But an effective drunken prick - the worst kind.

I loved the season about the education system.

I still think about some of the story lines.

I put subtitles on when watching this.

You can't on playback though. The acting is brilliant I wonder if they are all professional actors?

Snoop wasn't. I think a fair number of the young drug crews were not actors

The bosses hate him because he has no respect for keeping the murder list low - he'd rather try and solve the hopeless ones rather than shove them off onto another division, which bumps up the unsolved and gets them in the shit.

Giving a fuck when it isn't his turn.

I loved the season about schools too. So sad, in parts

Ok. Before I finish the first one how come suspects/witnesses/grasses are allowed to go into their investigation office and drink coffee eat sweets and generally see the wire contraption and their notice board with all the suspects on? It doesn't look very official!

For some of them they don't care what they see(?), some it's used as an unofficial aide-memoir and others it's a threat to show how much they know. IMO.

Oh thank you! One more question when this season finishes and the story changes do we see the lovely Idris again or is it all new?

I'm worried about Wallace

Idris is back

Oh yeah Idris is in season 2 alright!

So do you have favourites yet EachAnd? Can you tell who mine is

Sheeeeeeeeeet - Just noticed the bloody iPhone autocorrect in my name above

God it's awful to lust after gangsters. I was exactly the same with Tony Soprano. I need therapy.

I'm nearly at the end of Season 2, very late to the table though I have tried twice before to get into it and couldn't. Loving it now though. I like Omar and Stringer.

I'm tempted to try and get the set off eBay and watch it with subtitles unless it gets easier after the 1st?

I love The Wire., it's my absolute favourite series. I see the cracking " give a fuck " line has already been mentioned. I have bandied that one about it work on more than one occasion!

I also love the theme music and that each season is a variation on the same tune. But my absolute love is reserved for Bubbles and the redemption in his story, followed closely by Omar and his big coats

Each it does get easier after the first season. Your ear gets tuned in!

Omar's comin'! Omar's comin'!

"Come at the king , you best not miss"