Review of The Wire

The Wire: The Wire (2002)
Season 1, Episode 6
10/10
"Omar don't scare"
29 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The very first minutes before the opening shows Wallace and Poot seeing what they didn't do directly but what they should have imagine was going to happen after they did the calls during the last 5 minutes of "The Pager" but certainly is not the same to imagine things that to see them right in front of you. Another message was send by putting the body of Omar's boyfriend Brandon at the sight of everyone.

Here the wire is finally on so a new stage of work begins, the detectives must say on the roofs to see when the targets are using the payphones, and Prez and Lester are the ones doing the office work. This is one of the finest hours and scenes like the one in which we see Levy in action again are really great showing how, in the words of the criminal who hit a police man and who is now free in the street, "the juvenile system in this city is f***** up, it's a big-ass f****** joke". And yes Bodie was the one who hit one of the incompetent detectives and after that Bodie became more or less a personal target of both Herc and Carver. In this episode we have Levy on fire and it continues the stuff with Herc and Carver however this time Bodie didn't walk away but mainly this hour has in Rawls the main f****** enemy, Rawls is the protagonist of the first scene that is one of the most hilarious scenes of Season 1 ("you're reasonable…theoretical and reasonable, sir") and that scene is Rawls begin reasonable with Jay confirming all the time that and McNulty hearing all the bullsh*t. The point is that McNulty brings some cases and Rawls after checking them is like "three murders, same gun, we got this Barksdale kid right at the scene on the one" but Daniels is like "we're up on a wire, we're starting to pull good information, you charge these prematurely and Barksdale will change up on us". Daniels is fine now, Daniels is fighting and when both Daniels and Rawls are with the Deputy is anther great scene, Rawls is like "we go home like good old-fashioned cops and pound some Budweiser" and of course Daniels is like "THIS IS BULLSH*T", Daniels will have the enough points to stop Rawls so now is Rawls totally on trying to f*** McNulty. Omar is also memorable here, certainly difficult scenes and really superb acting from Michael K. Williams.
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