Yes, I'm a little behind the times when it comes to "The Wire" (almost through Season 3). A certain pegleg sent me the dvds at Xmas and I've been slowly, deliberately working my way through the series. And I love it.
Somewhere along the way, I fell in love with Stringer Bell. Or String, as I call him. I'm down like that. Drug dealer, real estate developer, economics major, String was smart but ruthless. He had a head for business and a vision of building a legitimate empire. He had men killed, including D'Angelo Barksdale ... but that was most likely a good call. He then slept with his ex. Oh well. He could always be counted on to look good in a natty suit. Yeah, he looked real good. And he also ran a copy shop. Huh, go figure. He and Avon betrayed each other and Stringer Bell paid. Gunned down in a hail of bullets at the hands of Brother Mouzone and Omar Little, two of the most outrageous and merciless characters to appear on tv ... and yet so likeable somehow, especially Omar. What is it with this show?
Don't tell me what happens. I watched Stringer Bell's shooting last night and I'm still hoping that he doesn't die (couldn't he pull through like Kima?). But it doesn't look good. Bastards! And I'm worried now that some important element in the show's dynamism will also have died.
If you aren't already keen on "The Wire" (and almost everyone is, it seems) let me say that Stringer Bell, drug kingpin, leading a meeting of his ramshackle street underlings by Robert's Rules of Order is one of the greatest moments in tv history. The scene made me positively giddy.
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I also grew to have a lot of love for Stringer Bell. & I'm also running behind, stuck on early Season 4.
Did you know the actor who plays Stringer is English? That blew my mind.
I read that in his bio. I'll have to double check to see if he's single ...
I'm glad that you learned to love the show and all of it's characters. I'm going to spoil it for you now and let you know that he is, in fact, dead. But, that's the beauty of the best television show ever produced: Nobody is above the show, no character, no matter how beloved, is above the overarching theme(s.)
The only thing that matters is staying true to the narrative and the artists' vision.
FYI, season four is almost as good as season one.
Yes, Stringer is dead. I know it know. Damnit.
Just started Four. I could tell immediately by the theme song that things were gonna be good. I may like it even more than the version from Season One ...
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