Sure the mid-east is burning, the mid west is flooding, there's high ranking French politicians raping hotel maids, and crazy English guys chopping off women's heads in supermarkets, but all that's on my mind this rainy, pre-armageddon, Sunday afternoon is how I really, really wish they'd made more seasons of The Wire. Man what a good show.
Of all those great characters and amazing actors, my favorite (other than Omar played by Michael Kenneth Williams who stole the show) was Stringer Bell, brought to life by Idris Elba. He was close to James Gandolfini-Tony Soprano good. Elba is in Thor right now. I'm sure he's good in it, but I have absolutely no intention of confirming that hypothesis.
If I wanted to waste my time and money I'd go see Prom. Aimee Teegarden is just adorable isn't she? Sarcasm in that last sentence? Probably not as much as there should be. Anyway Elba also stars on BBC America's Luther right now. Yeah he's great in it and the show is worth watching because of him and a decent supporting cast, but the story lines are so absurd they make stupid American cop shows like CSI (where inexplicably all of these bankrupt municipalities are able to spend between 10 and 15 million dollars per murder investigation) look like, well like The Wire. If the quality of police work in England is even 1 percent as half-a**ed as it appears on Luther, than anyone looking for an entrepreneurial opportunity should move to London and start a crime syndicate.
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