Gotta Love Those Baltimore Murder PoliceFinished up season four of Homicide tonight. Wow.
If in earlier seasons I liked to compare myself to Frank Pembleton, this season early on I identified with Tim Bayliss - he of the bad back. I think I tweaked my bad back tonight messing around with my bicycle. (It shouldn't be that difficult to carry it a half-dozen steps down to my building's basement and storage space.)
Season four also saw the fleshing out of Meldrick Lewis's character, who said some great words regarding marriage: "This is like a life sentence here. You're talkin' about PTA meetins and changin' diapers or mowin' lawns." Lewis is played by the funny and likeable Clark Johnson. (Never met him, but from the first scene he appeared in The Wire, I liked him.)
Speaking of The Wire, there was a Homicide episode today that was like a prequel to The Wire: Drug dealing in the towers? Check. Black Muslim? Check. Higher-up brass making life miserable for the lieutenant because of politics? Check. Leaks to the Baltimore Sun? Check. It even had the actor who portrayed McNulty's judge buddy!
3 Comments:
At 10:45 AM,
keith said…
I've kind of wanted to check out Homicide after getting into The Wire and reading Simon's Homicide book... but I kind of worry about seeing a bunch of the same stuff from a slightly different angle. Is there a lot of direct overlap, or is it just sort-of-related?
At 5:59 PM,
Bill Tuomala said…
I would say that Homicide and The Wire are more sort-of related, due to having some of the same source material and both dealing with Baltimore cops. The episode I mentioned just had so many similarities.
Also the first season or two take some storylines/cases straight from the book but I didn't find the usual "book is better than the show" symptoms.
If you watch it, just try not to compare it to the awesomeness of The Wire. It's highest-quality stuff for network TV though.
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