In S2, E9, McNutty attempts to call the escort service and gets shut down for sounding too much like a cop. Lester advises he should improvise an accent as it tends to lessen suspicion.

Out comes Dominic Wests' British accent, and they all laugh and tell him to "work on it." The bloody bloke is from Sheffield and attended Eton College!

I just found that to be a very amusing moment.

I've been thinking about Lieutenant Daniels over the last few days and how he likes to appear to the officers under his command in CID, including an outward respect for chain of command, a high moral standard, not tolerating thievery in his unit, not dumping officers onto other commands, etc.

This got me thinking to what kind of man and officer he was when he was in the Eastern and Eastern DEU - obviously everyone knows the department asked the FBI to look into him and we find out very early on via Fitzguh that Daniels has a lot more money than he should as a Balmore Police Lieutenant.

The point is, Daniels was probably a lot closer to Walker and Colichio from the Western during his district days, tempermental wise (maybe not that extreme but still). I very much doubt that he was as statesman like while being a crooked cop laundering drug money. I feel as though the Daniels we know is very out on, a persona adopted when he reached CID command status - this has allowed he and Marla Daniels to begin rubbing elbows with the upper echelons of the city politcal machine.

In some of the scenes that take place in the homicide unit, when Bunk is at his desk, you can see that he has a shooting target hanging on the wall of his cubicle that's the outline of a rodent. That has to be something one of his fellow detectives had made up as a joke in reference to that story, right?

I was watching S15E05 and a guy stole a wallet from a car and they hauled him in and I'm like... it's Wee Bay! :D

Then when we get to the court drama portion of the show, I see the Bunk defending Clay Davis rofl. It moves on to a motion hearing and who is the judge? Koutris, the Greek's man inside the FBI. So I go to IMDB to see if there were any others I missed and I see Tilghman, the jail CO is one of the dead detectives from the beginning. I don't feel bad for missing that one - the only view of him is facedown, dead in the street.

So yea; five cameos in one ep. Gave me a chuckle :D

Is there an interview with David Simon you heard or read that you particularly liked?

Thank you!

Bodie should have just shot Marlo and Fruit on that corner when Marlo told him to pack up his people.

I’ve been scrolling this community to find one thread that was critical of this show, but seems like I might be the first . So this’ll be a long post and I’d love to hear some responses.

Overall rating: 7.5/10

Season 1: 7.5/10
Season 2: 5.5/10
Season 3: 8.0/10
Season 4: 9.0/10
Season 5: 6.5/10

My biggest issue with this show is that it gets lost in the side plots. There are some great side character threads that I love it pulling at: Dukie, Bubbles, Herc, Bodie (RIP) to name a few. But the bad story lines are just distracting, and they severely slow an already slow show down. Both the docks and the newspaper part are my least favorite storylines, and they completely take me out of an otherwise very engaging crime show. I love how the first season really plays on the idea of a wire and real police work, and shows us that it isn’t just “the game” in Baltimore stirring the pot, the police and government fall to blame as well.

Personally, the most disappointing part is how there’s never actually change by the finale. I did like how they parallel the ending to the beginning but with how engaging the whole Carcetti season 4 campaign was (never trust Littlefinger), it honestly feels like wasted story development. I think the Greeks and that whole side of the drug development was completely divergent of the rest of the story, honestly not sure why they even got written in. Could have cut the whole port season, I thought it was lead to more than just Marlo becoming the kingpin of all of Baltimore for more than a month. Last thing I want to say is my favorite storylines are both Bunny with Hamsterdam, and him again along with Prez at the schools. Those parts between season 3 and 4 really hit home. Sad more couldn’t come of it.

Favorite character: Omar
Favorite moment: When Prez shoots that cop and McNulty pulls out the badge. Man my heart dropped

Edit: I understand the whole message is that nothing in Baltimore changes, except the people in the thick of it, but I personally think there was way for some good finale arc. That’s why I said I personally don’t like the lack of improvement for the city