The Washington Post takes a look at the final days of shooting on The Wire and reveals a little bit of irony: "For the past two years, a good chunk of "The Wire," the HBO show that critics have praised for the grittiness of its inner-city vérité, has been filmed in an anonymous soundstage in the burbs -- a soundstage that reportedly will be turned into a massive Wegmans Food Market."
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The End of The Wire
04 Sep 2007 08:54 am
Comments (8)
Wegmans rocks
Hey Alanis, go look up "vérité" and "irony."
Aargh -- okay, this is nit-picking, but you might expect that the writer of a piece like this might actually be a regular watcher of the show:
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who did time as a teenager for killing a 16-year-old girl, made her acting debut last season, playing an assassin.
BTW, Matt, have you read William Gibson's new book? It's pretty good, and bits of it suggested that he's a Wire fan, which he seems to let slip in a recent Onion interview.
BTW did you know that Deadwood wasn't really shot in the 19th century? or in Deadwood? And the reason the sound stage is in Howard County instead of Baltimore County or City is due to lease trouble during the debate about whther the show would even survive. Talk about irony.
Oh man. I got choked up.
oh the humanity, the make-your-own-reality-based machinations of the Bush regime have even invaded fiction now!
P.S. ain't Pomo fun?
and ts,
You can do something with that grief! don't let it fester, instead volunteer your own neighborhood for a movie shoot! It can be such a wonderful experience, involving oneself in such tasks as taping yellow leaves to trees in summer to make it look like fall.
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Heads in the Sand
Why is that ironic? It's a fucking TV show.
Posted by ed | September 4, 2007 11:07 AM