{"id":4114,"date":"2010-02-08T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2010-02-08T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:12:36","slug":"the-wire-season-3-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4114","title":{"rendered":"The Wire season 3 (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On one hand I&#8217;m proud of myself for burning through half a season in three weeks.  That&#8217;s an unusually productive period of TV watching for me.  On the other hand if you take the entire 12-episode season into account, I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2996\">season 2<\/a> in August and <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1392\">season 1<\/a> a year ago, so bragging is not in order.<\/p>\n<p>The usual stable of directors is joined by TV&#8217;s Leslie Libman, oscar-nominated filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, Alex Zakrzewski (lead cinematographer on <em>Homicide: Life on the Street<\/em>) and first-timer Christine Moore (who&#8217;d later work on <em>CSI<\/em> episodes).  That&#8217;s twenty directors!  The hardcore auteurists must go mad trying to figure this out.<\/p>\n<p>Dead Men and Women:<br \/>\nOmar&#8217;s gang member Tosha: Edwina Findley, who went soap opera before landing in a new movie co-written by George Lucas.  Main man Stringer Bell: the great Idris Elba, soon to appear in <em>The Losers<\/em> and Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s <em>Thor<\/em>.  And Johnny, Bubbles&#8217; junkie friend, in the least-surprising development in the entire series so far, dies of a drug overdose: Leo Fitzpatrick, who I didn&#8217;t recognize as Telly, lead character in <em>Kids<\/em>.  Since The Wire he&#8217;s been in Hal Hartley&#8217;s <em>Fay Grim<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one hand I&#8217;m proud of myself for burning through half a season in three weeks. That&#8217;s an unusually productive period of TV watching for me. On the other hand if you take the entire 12-episode season into account, I finished season 2 in August and season 1 a year ago, so bragging is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}