The Wire Season 3

[MrFoxah]

2:23 Frankie!!

[MGSFan22]

Best show of all time, a perfect masterpiece.

[bloodskid]

1. Season 3

2. Season 4

3. Seasons 1,2,5.

I've watched the entire series multiple times...there isn't a single other TV show that matches it in its greatness. However, there are a few other great ones: Deadwood; Breaking Bad; Generation Kill; The Corner, etc..

[SuperBMan3000]

Wait, is that the first time Avon ever sees Marlo?

[leobenckn]

While it's debatable which season was the best, this montage was by far the best of the series.

[americanmotherland]

Fruit looks like a fucking retard

[WiseGuy5674]

LOL!...Fuckin' Bunk! 2:00

[ichater]

I really like that tense little scene with Cutty and Fruit. I can't imagine Fruits Phycology to it.

'I ripped you off and pointed a gun at you and a couple of weeks later you could have wasted me but you didn't.'

[drktigger]

@ichater Yeah that was pretty weird to me when I first saw it. I thought Fruit was going to try to kill Cutty but then he just looked intimidated.

[jcemil]

rest in peace Solomon Burke

[SuperBMan3000]

@jcemil amazing song

[mgreen312]

RIP Solomon...fucking great song.

[chalkitdowm]

RIP Solomon Burke :(

[ElTresDeMayo1808]

There should be a "The Wire Award" because everything else seems poor now.

[ltsmash1200]

@ElTresDeMayo1808 I can't watch any serious TV programming now without comparing it to the Wire. Nothing comes close.

[toddyfex]

season 3 was too unrealistic season 4 was more down to earth but the first season was some real shit

[Maniac50AE]

@toddyfex the only part i felt that was unrealistic was Hamsterdam, three open air drug zones and it took so long for people to find out. but the drug war really did happen in early 90's

[toddyfex]

@Maniac50AE thats what i was refering to



[jpom29]

I love the way Pearlman saya 'Puddin'.

[Bananarepublicboy]

I bought all dvds from uk amazon, here in germany they don't know how to make good TV.

The Wire, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, The Shield, The Office, man I love USA/UK TV and I love HBO!

[pudseypumper]

Best series of all imo. This montage made me cry first time around.

[davydmx]

That last scene with Colvin and Bubbles pretty much summed up what happened in season 3. Colvin (allowed drug dealers to ply their trade in "Hamsterdam" with the intention of busting them all in due time), Stringer Bell (his double dealing eventually caught up with him as Omar and Brother Mouzone killed him for his past transgressions, and McNulty (Had to settle for busting Avon instead of Stringer because of his death). All had lofty ambitions cut short by time and circumstance.

[JackMoranRain]

@davydmx Bunny had no intention of busting them all in due time, that wasn't what Hampsterdam was about.

[XUnrealpkI]

Fuck i never wanted stringer to die, guy was a beast.

[osubuxrnum1]

The best season ending montage of the best show in the history of Television. Pure Genius.

[LADYDAWN41]

This was the best season my daughter was in it I don't know why they ended this show cause it told the truth about b-more

[lyfe1zruff]

there was a slight exaggeration..it is a bad neighborhood but still

[Bananarepublicboy]

What's with his hands? 1:43

I loved season 3 BUT it's like the actor of String tells in the DVD extras... Stringer had to die but his death came a little short.

But hey, this is The Wire... Everything realistic, even death.

I miss Zabotka, D, Wallace even String tho.

[rocafella2008]

his thumbs are tucked in his pockets.. looks weird i know.. greatest show ever!!

[thegreenblazer1]

cuttys all like " I COULDA KILLED YA"!

thats gotta be playing mind games with fruit

[lildwayne21]

I can never get enough of Season 3. I'm addicted to it

[lildwayne21]

Season 3 is the bomb

[cs00024]

greatest ending to the greatest season of the greatest show of all time

[lildwayne21]

I agree

[thefucingchamp]

Hard to argue with that

[barneycoles]

did anyone else notice the ''re-elect frank sobotka'' flyers at 2:24

[eamundo19]

Yeah, its little touches like that which add to the realism. Love this show, so many layers....great music too

[jontray87]

this is my favorite ending.

[jete121991]

If you all listen close at the very end Bubbles says, "Oh shit. There's a dollar here. That's a seed." 6:48

This is a very ambiguous statement.

Even though economically a dollar means almost nothing to most Americans, it still sustains Bubbles. Meaning that no matter how financially low a person lives, his life still matters. A dollar is still a seed. A poor person should still be valued. On a different note, Bubbles equates a dollar with a seed. Which shows how little people value life.

[jete121991]

6:38 actually, sorry

[Petey123123]

thats an excellent obseravtion i didnt even notice

[jete121991]

"See in these modern times, a man gotta keep one eye on the ground, pick up what he finds. There's money to be made if you know where to look." -Bubbles, 5:21

Even on the ground, in the poorest of places, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are people that need to be picked up. Even in the darkest of places and in the places that have been ignored where people are stepped on...even there, the people have value.

Even though Bubs is broke and a fiend, he's still a poet and his word matters.

[cs00024]

Season 3 was the best followed by 2,4,1,5

[beakerneil]

love this song, love the wire

[slickshapiro]

season 2 was the best because it showed the behind the scenes power of the men /organizations that really make it happen for the barksdales/ prop joe/ etc drug organizations. Fat fucks union guys like frank sobotka and the longshoremen union bring the shit in in every port city. In my city its a major outlaw motorcycle club that runs the docks and everyone including the police know it. Their 'names dont ring out' but they are the true power.

[Bhodisatvas]

sobotka was just a working man who was muscled into doing the Greek's smuggling and offered huge money that he needed for his union to push for regeneration of the dock area...he had no real power. The people with power can be seen in season 5 when Marlo meets with all the property developers and investers...remember Clay Davis and the goose with the golden egg stunt he pulled on stringer. These people ripped off drug dealers, just like Omar did.

[woodwyrm]

@Bhodisatvas

truth, goddamn truth here.

[ThePintsizeslasher]

@Bhodisatvas

Indeed, if not for those politicians and property developers, Frank would not have had to do business with the Greeks to make money to bribe politicians to buy back a derelict, unused grain pier. With the increased shipping from that the union could have organized political pressure alone to get the canal dredged. It astounds me that people in urban America put up with developers who "own" vast tracks of their city, simply letting it rot, waiting for prices to increase.

[Maniac50AE]

@ThePintsizeslasher thats what everyone forgot. Freedom doesnt mean easy or simple, it means responsibility and people are too lazy to read, to be active, to push back, to go the hard road, to stand up to corrupt politicians and big corporations. They no this, thats why our liberties are constantly being treaded on. You only have the rights that your willing to fight and die for.

[thecheteam]

@slickshapiro whats your city

[slickshapiro]

@thecheteam vancouver bc. Bikers are in key positions in the unions and at the docks. I would rather not name the group but they originated in california and were most famous in oakland. In 2009 there was a huge turf war for control of the streets over here that left at least 30 murdered. The bikers (much like the greeks) sat back and sold to all sides of this war. if youre more interested google 'vancouver gang war 2009'

[TubeGuest5178]

@slickshapiro THANKS! I missed Season 2 as in I didn't get it but thanks for breakin dat down because people love to make it seem like only HISPANICS AND BLACKS in the drug game, but no SOMEBODY HAS TO HAS THE PULL AND THE STRINGS AND THE MUSCLE TO get that shydz in the country. I found out on the web that the Bush and Clintons are at the top of the ladder of the drug game. The bush family made 25% of they millions from the drug game just as Noriega...rofl...the other 75% via the holocaust.

[Maniac50AE]

@TubeGuest5178 yeah the Bush is part the Bristish Royal family, atleast 36 of the last presidents were, even Obama. Thats why after the WWII the house of Windsor changed their name. they were recieving a lot of criticisms. there is such a conspiracy going on it would blow the socks off any movie or book unless the book is about the same conspiracy. Watch Esoteric Agenda that will outline everything for you but theres way more then what was put into that movie remember, its an outline.

[TheGuyWithDaFace]

Haha poot was on the bench going to jail, I wish i could say the same for bodie..

[BlueMike10]

Brilliant song brilliant show ... Series 3 is the best of a brilliant bunch

[Stobo718]

season 3 tale of 2 brothers no mater what its always business

[candelise]

Just like The Sopranos!

[KoolDa1]

His name says it all,Fruit!!!

[TubeFightFan12]

one thing that killed me about the last season was that we never got to see what happened to randy really. they showed him the one time and he was a real hardass but he was such a great kid

[TubeFightFan12]

season 4 is by far the best season. everything turns in season 3, season 2 is widely considered the worst but it is also great. season 1 may have actually been my least favorite season. every season strarts off slow but they set you up perfectly for those last two or three episodes which never disappoint. greatest show of all time.

[itsallreal]

Season 3 ftw!

[sexxyladychick]

lol poor bodie he was by his self wit kno package on em broke as hell just that lil scene at 2:58 made me feel bad cuz look bodie head was all onna wall he was lookin soo said i feel bad..

[sexxyladychick]

hell yea fruit was scared as hell he coulda killed fruit

[HoganHassan]

Cutty scared Fruit's punk ass.

[cs00024]

this was the best of the 5 montages

[bigg130]

just finished season 3. Unprecedented masterpiece, never again will a television series come close to competing with how incredible this was.

[Bhodisatvas]

Season 3 imo is the best but season 4 is a very close 2nd...enjoy whats to come because it all hits the fan :)

[koshercrab]

Now that you have seen The Wire, every other drama is ruined for you :)

[SMoldie]

It gets better (it just takes time). And remember the club is small yet beautifully formed one, we don't need the stinking majority (insert relevent accent). Enjoy the rest of the narrative wonderland:D

[PurpleGiraffePG]

@koshercrab too fucking true

[Reqrezentin]

@koshercrab

Try Breaking Bad, it's the greatest show since The Wire.

[jete121991]

Stay away from searching the "wire" videos on youtube because there are a lot of spoilers on the titles of videos that can ruin it for you.

Enjoy season 4 which in my opinion is narrowly better because its very political.

[cs00024]

Television has peaked

[alucardlubu]

are you sure it isn't van morrison and not solomon burke??

[Bhodisatvas]

'most def' solomon burke..I have the wire soundtrack, same song is on that :)

[cs00024]

this is solomon burke covering van morrisons fast train

[eksteelman]

the wire is quite simply the best tv show i,ve ever seen.

[hdtwoodsman]

Simon hoped the Hamsterdam plot would inspire discussion, but no politician wants to really address the issue. You can see the frustration in Bunny's face.

[Jumpstart01ELP]

This show ended television for me. Never will there be a show as good as this.

[Bhodisatvas]

Very true..my friend recommended Homicide: Life on the streets to me a few weeks ago, watched about 25 mins of the first episode and turned it off...it just seemed so fake and scripted. It just wasn't the wire.

[Autumn82]

Homicide was a great show. I recommend Seasons 5 and 6.

[kcchia80]

Homicide was good ... but The Wire was excellent. Homicide was burdened by the demands of NBC (female cops, happier story lines, etc.). HBO had no such limitations on The Wire, the show Homicide could have been.

[airkanada]

exactly what i love about hbo shows

[ted1311]

I completely agree.

[bigfilmhat]

Watching TV after the The Wire is like going to a singles bar after having dated an angel.

[Jumpstart01ELP]

mos def.

[kirbyy]

indeed

[Jumpstart01ELP]

What about the miniseries, "The Corner"? I can't seem to get a hold of it anywhere.

[grrranger175]

the corner is good, but its kinda harder to watch since it deals with mostly drug users. you might enjoy several other hbo series like the sopranos and oz too. movies are another way to go. two movies that deal with kind of the same themes as the wire that i recommend are city of god and menace II society. both are very good. you just gotta keep looking but youll find some things out there to satisfy your thirst.

[candelise]

Do you remember the John Sayles movie'City of Hope'? Also along the same lines.

[KoolDa1]

Hahahahahahahahaha you're right haahahha

[panger211]

one of the most powerful clips from the best television show of all-time.

[cs00024]

Not a better show out there past, present and most likely future....and this proves it

[bigfilmhat]

I love The Wire, probably Season 3 the most, and this montage is my absolute favorite great song too! Especially the "on your own" part when Avon looks back and Brianna's gone. Then "going no where fast" Marlo & Chris are there as power shifts from Avon-Marlo and Marlo shows respect to the old king. Closure for Omar, dispair for Donette, new start for McNulty, hope for Cutty, and Bunny's ruined police career and Hamsterdam's rubble. So much changes and yet so much stays the same.

[FUNKEYED]

I love the look on Fruit's face when he sees Cutty.

[dgoneisme]

when i first watched this montage i was absolutely addicted to this song, i still think this deserves five stars but i wished the last part with marlo and avon weren't so long and they could squeeze some more footage in there.

[PuffyCatTail]

Omar coming......Omar

[PuffyCatTail]

"the wire" is great. great song, too

[mikecop87]

Fruit got killed by lex in the next episode

[rollingdise423]

isn't there a mcnulty/beadie scene after this?

[Bhodisatvas]

After bubs and bunny have that conversation its the end credits.

[Hibbs4Prez]

No. Bunny and Bubbles' scene follows this montage and the episode ends. The McNulty-Beadie exchange occurred earlier.