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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Excellent interview with David Simon here. One of the things I love about the show is how the writers didn’t feel the need to pull on every string. In this interview, Simon talks about one of my favorite scenes in the entire series—in season two (?), where we get a brief, fleeting glance of Rawls at a gay bar. The show never went back to Rawls’ closeted sexuality. It was just this wonderful little moment of zen that that they left alone.
Here’s something I hadn’t thought of:
To me, the great irony is that Marlo ends up being granted what Stringer wanted — and he has no use for it. To me, to a guy like Marlo Stanfield, hell is a business meeting with a bunch of developers. For Stringer, it was all he wanted.
Also, Randy Wagstaff is Cheese Wagstaff’s son? I hadn’t made the connection. And it was never really advertised in the show.
Finally, be sure to read Jesse Walker’s insightful take on the show’s fifth-season plot with the Baltimore Sun.
I had a feeling they were never going to address the Rawls being gay thing. One of my theories is that he and Landsman had a ’special’ relationship. My reasoning is that Landsman was almost always looking at hetero pr0n mags in the office when on camera. Why do that with such a brazen attitude unless he were covering up something? No one else did that. The Rawls connection? There’s an episode when Rawls is in the tubby Sgt.’s office and he picks up one of the aforementioned periodicals, looks through it approvingly and he gives Jay ‘a look’. I dunno. Just a thought.
the randy cheese connection, if i remember correctly, was revealed on the hbo.com character pages.
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/characters/randy_wagstaff.shtml
There’s a YouTube video here of an interview with the kids who play Kenard and Bug. So disorienting to see Kenard as a cheerful and wholesome boy who only recently became aware there is a drug trade in Baltimore.