It’s been a little busy around here this past week. Spouse and I were away the week before last attending a funeral in Northern Ontario. We got snowed in up there and missed an extra day of work as a result. When we got back to work, a couple of days went by and Spouse came down with a wicked cold and, as we later learned, a sinus infection. This thing has pretty much knocked her on her ass for three or four days, and I’ve been covering some of her work commitments as a result. Add a couple of snowstorms into the mix (with all the attendant shovelling required) and there has unfortunately not been either time or energy for me to blather on teh Intarwebs.
That is, until yesterday. Determined to chill a bit and get back some much needed energy, Spouse and I planted ourselves in front of the tube. What I am saying is that I spent the time I could have spent with y’all perched on my couch and drinking in the entertainment from my TV set. We had watched the first couple of episodes of The Wire Season One a few days ago; on Saturday, we put that baby to bed. We watched about eight episodes of the series, right up to the end of the first season. What an amazing bit of television. This show follows a major drug and homicide investigation into the Baltimore Projects subculture. It tells the story on both sides of the wire. It features some of the greatest characters ever invented on television – on the street side Bubs, Wallace and D’Angelo; on the law side Jimmy McNulty, Bunk, Lester Freamon, Kima, and Sgt. Jay Landesman. There’s also one of the great all time villains, Omar. The acting on this show is absolutely top notch, especially Larry Gilliard Jr., the guy who plays D’Angelo Barkesdale (a lieutenant in the drug-dealing organization) and Bubs, played by Andre Royo.
We loved this show so much, I was in the car this morning and off to the mall to get seasons two, three and four. I understand that season five, the final season of the show, is playing out on HBO right now. Writer’s strike aside, why can’t network TV produce anything half this good?
Thank you for looking after me this week, sweetsie-p!
It was in the vows, I think.