This is a Donut appreciation post. Donut was brilliantly cast & such a brilliant role player type character. A lot of us grew up having a friend like Donut - that dude who was a little wild, but had zero haters and everybody liked. He completed the Boys of Summer crew
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@melanatedvibes_
I grew up listening to Pac. Looking at the totality of his body of work, knowing he died at 25!
To accomplish all that he did in such a short time…
There is a quality, a dignity, a presence about Wendell Pierce that he brings to every single role that is truly unique. There is a power in his acting… where every time he smiled in a scene I found myself smiling too.
In the spirit of
@Ziggys_Duck
sharing his favorite scenes (a difficult task) leading up to the 21st Anniv of
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I’d like to set this scene here, 1 of my favorites, which is squeezed b/w the intro of Zig’s duck & Fuzzy Dunlop
#LetsTalkAboutIt
#DuckAndCover
This is
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20th anniversary (2022) calendar put out by HBO. I definitely would make a couple changes re which characters got a month. Wire fans, which 12 characters would you give a month to? Boys of Summer can all be on 1 month
@Ziggys_Duck
@RewiredPodcast
@TheWireStripped
Avon summed up Stringer so brilliantly, so succinctly…. he pierced String’s ego to the point that String broke down & confessed to something that he previously didn’t want in Avon’s ear at all. 1 of my favorite scenes! Ep written by DS & the great Richard Price. S3E8
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Really enjoying this wonderful, beautifully told story/memoir by my favorite actor, the incomparable
@WendellPierce
. And of course I’m listening to the audiobook!
Jim Brown has a pretty solid argument as the greatest football player of all-time. Amazingly, he has even better claim on being the greatest lacrosse player of all-time. He was actually so fucking good at lacrosse they changed the rules of the goddamn game.
I’m super late but I just now realized that the cop who plays Oscar Requer on
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is Roscoe Orman, who plays Gordon from Sesame Street, among other roles. I was sleeping on this til the light hit me.
Go away, I’m on my lunch break.
#TheBunk
@jelani9
Jesus and the Disinherited is one of my favorites. Along with Night. These also: fire next time, the prophetic imagination, the hidden wound, the luminous darkness
@Ziggys_Duck
Avon & String scenes are the best.
“Now there’s got to be a middle ground here that we have yet to find.”
No middle ground for Hamsterdam. No middle ground for String.
Middle Ground is epic television.
Love how they made us sit w/Avon here. Avon bled red.
#Us
@NathaneCorbett
My favorite Donut scene. Textbook scene stealing. Brief moment of subtle tv genius to have Your character role through and have everyone stop and look. 😂
Me trying to decide my favorite Twitter follows this year. I have several, but for now I’ll start with
@Ziggys_Duck
.
Thanks for daily bringing
#TheWire
content and creating maybe the best The Wire community on this app. Don’t forget to cancel your car insurance.
Rest well 💔. This is a gut punch. An incredible actor. I know he was much more than his work on
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but I’ve been living with his character on this show for 20 yrs. His character was a consistent & and grounding presence. An incredible loss.
@BeeLibertad
@Ziggys_Duck
Lieutenant, ya know, as bosses go, you’re better than most… and I know you went outta your way to get me off that boat, I know that.
@Ziggys_Duck
When you see how long the camera stays w/Mike - The Wire made you sit with these characters for real. They didn’t rush anything. Brilliant.
Also, if I see Chris & Snoop staring at me & one of them is holding a weaved basket holding a power tool and a 5 gal bucket…
@Ziggys_Duck
Winters kill off the weaker varieties of caterpillars. And leave a caterpillar that’s of an entirely different breed from what you’ll ever find out here…
That’s prob a DS metaphor for the whole season.. unencumbered capitalism killing off the working class. Prob the streets too
@TravelingNun
Thank you! I read through Chris Wright’s book, To The Cross, every Holy Week and read this today: “Never separate the Father and the Son in your understanding of the cross. They were as one in Christ’s death as they were one in his life.”