The Wire Season 2 Opening & Intro

[suziecreamchease]

warning on cover of DVD says something about "strong sex, violence and language and drug references"..

but what i found more horrorfying later in this season was facile middle class english actor playing a hardnosed eastcoast detective trying to do an english accent and falling in a silly area between upper class a cockney...

[Reinos18]

best intro imo

[LethalAnesthetics]

Why the hell do I love this show SO FUCKING MUCH ?!

[pokermel]

I live in the area that this intro was filmed. It's definitely a very gritty and depressing place. I cross the bridge in this scene every day, sometimes when a cruise ship is passing underneath the bridge I dream about stopping my car and jumping off the bridge on to the top of the ship and never coming back. The poverty, drug abuse, government freeloaders and neglected children are haunting. You have hard working blue collar workers mixed with people who have absolutely no ambition in life.

[PitchfordStache]

This is no doubt the best version of the song.

[Eradicus]

Couldn't have the Wire WITHOUT season 2. You take away an industry, strip an entire city of it's means for employment and you are left with deep depression, unemployment, social unrest and worst of all, drugs. Drugs, both consumption and sale, fill the void that such depression leaves, and it's colour blind. Black or white it doesn't matter, the city dies for both colours, for everyone.

[wu4533]

my favorite intro of the series

[OdiseyThe]

mcnulty isnt that good of a cop. taking bribes

[nonnynay]

@OdiseyThe He's better than half the other cops on the force. I mean he took a bribe... to tow someones boat. It's not exactly Vic Mackey level corruption.

[TheReasonableLogic]

Best intro song of all seasons in my opinion.

[Mount4inD00]

TOM WAITS

[TubeGuest5178]

Funny how with the bluebloods that as soon as there's trouble they dump the women just ask Ted Kennedy.

[TubeGuest5178]

hahaaa @ mcnultiy lookin like a whiney bioooootch....See him @ :19...

[PERFECTCOMMENT]

Iknew it ,, mcnulty your a Bad cop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nightavenger2]

It's hard to say that The Sopranos, The Practice, etc is the greatest tv show because to begin with what consist's of the greatest besides the obvious of being successful through not getting cancelled, lot's of viewers, etc.

[DeadlyPoisonedCandy]

Just finished season 1 and I'm buuying season 2 first thing tomorrow!!! I love this show

[FernardoTorres9]

The most insightful series in the Wire tale. Anything that comes on land from aboard will filter down through society. In Miami for years the CIA were drug running so to pay for their wars.

The Wire is so good I find myself turning off the rest of t.v dramas have to offer.

[Bananarepublicboy]

The Wire is NOT the greatest TV Show....

I think The Wire was the best thing ever recorded since the Lumière brothers "invented" cinema.

Thanks HBO!

[mj4lyfe2009]

this guys voice is SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCKKKKKKK­KK

[FernardoTorres9]

@mj4lyfe2009 Agreed

[purp]

this was my favorite season on the wire. they came up with some pretty creative characters.

ziggy for life...

[MrJamesCav]

¿Alguien me puede explicar esta parte?. Según lo que le dice el dueño del barco a Mcnulty es que no remuelque su bote porque tiene una fiesta y le da dinero. ¿Pero que hay de interesante en todo esto?. ¿Alguien expliqueme por favor?

[brwhizz]

De-industrialisation and 'white flight' from US inner cities (Thanks for the definition Wikipedia) are vital elements in the War on Drugs story.

[akizeta]

"I don't know the aft from the stern." Lolz

[matthouse078]

season 2 my shit, when they wake up and drink them beers

[lfm091]

Mcnulty corrupt, lol

[Hipsterrunoff]

shut the fuck up

[Zoroasterrrr]

The officers name on the right that said " im freezing my balls off at 00:10 is now "Ice balls" and there is nothing he can do about it :p

[flexi712]

"Jimmy Ice Balls McNulty"... has a nice ring

[reneeredd1]

season 4 theme music is the best of all

[ndlax30]

McNulty is the best

[Gradey3]

the season 1 version of the wires theme song is so much better

[beatbox445]

this is one of the all time greats of dramatic shows along the lines of OZ and Sopranos.

[sweetness111983]

this show used the sopranos as toilet paper

[dickin585]

Awesome mind-fuck of an intro.

[chokujou]

"I can't tell the aft from the stern..." Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they the same thing?  Guess McNulty really hated that boat.

[Tradermike2005]

when I was a kid I lived outside Baltimore and kids I hung out with had parents working for Bethlehem Steel.

[EuropeanAlder]

in the main part the world

[jete121991]

Question for Wire fans.

Every season opening is an allegory but I do not see the allegory in this opening. What is this symbolic of?

[Primordeum]

As both officers discuss their parents being laid off as industrialization ceased and the decay is shown onscreen, the biggest concern for those above "Capital Gains" was that "the party went on". It shows how detatched, aloof and quite literally adrift the rich are from the plight of the poor and working class. At the end where the police boat manned by McNulty and Diggins is towing the boat it shows how reliant the rich are on the mule work of the poor and how they profit off the back of it.

[chokujou]

That's deep.

[elweffa]

True that man, that snooty rich cocksucker said "I don't want to cancel my party becuase of engine trouble".

[Petey123123]

thats an excellent response to this scene

[kt92aim]

@Primordeum that's exact how baltimore really is

[Gwynnbleid030]

@Primordeum Damn man,never rly thout about that,i just stared like a mule at that scene...excelent answer and great point!Another thumbs up from me.

[Primordeum]

At least, that's my interpretation of it. Not very complex but then not a lot of season 2 was allegorical, most of it was "what you see is what you get" a kind of honesty reflected by the working men of 1514!

[jete121991]

Thanks a lot man

[GoldeneyePwner]

@Primordeum I'm not really sure that anyone on this planet could have put it better. Thank you.

[oscarxp25]

@Primordeum Dude, that was fucking amazing...I never thought of that when I watched it, but it makes total sense. I started watching the wire a couple months ago and about to finish up the series. It is classic.

[sweetness111983]

@jete121991 they past the tombs of industrialization. No more no experince good jobs in this day and age

[sweetness111983]

@jete121991 they past the tombs of industrialization. No more no experience good jobs in this day and age

[thebudgetgamer]

@jete121991 my thought is it shows what was once a beutiful bustling harbor is falling to pieces.

[godanselmo]

Season 2 is the best out of the first 3 seasons. Season 1 was amazing but season 3 was a little slow for me, but it was still great.

[78left]

i thinks season 4 has the best opening creds

[BeautelligentDiva79]

Man, I miss watching this and Def Poetry Jams. I'm also feeling the version of this song! Very edgy!

[kolst8406]

McNulty f'd up in the first season when he gave an honest answer about where he'd absolutely hate to land.

[Primordeum]

It was actually Landsman that told Rawls, although he thought Rawls actually wanted to see McNulty land okay. Big mistake!

[kolst8406]

Why did he think Rawls wasn't going to screw McNulty? Because of Kima?

[Primordeum]

I don't think Landsman realised how royally pissed off Rawls was with McNulty, odds are he told him that he wanted to see Jimmy "land right" and Landsman bought it. I know Jay can be sadistic at times but he does seem to care about the guys in his unit so I can't see him getting Jimmy on the boat out of malice.

Even if he did have $10 riding on it!

Though he also said it's all about self-preservation, so I could be wrong.

[kolst8406]

Landsman seems decent enough but also saavy enough to know that McNulty was done for. The same thing had already happened to Lester before he was rehabilitated, if I remember right.

[gangstaNewJack]

@Primordeum I think jimmy put himself on the boat he told landsman where he didnt wanna go he knows the drill jimmy is an asshole he will go to the boat to get avon and string problem was he half got avon and didnt get stringer at all

[JohnAndrewFalcon]

I know I am in the few, but this is my favorite season.

[grenzman]

The death of work, the decline of unions, these are all important issues in America. I'm glad the Wire had the courage to take this on so poignantly. Definitely the best season.

[salarfili1]

does any1 know the intro song's name?

[Primordeum]

Way Down in the Hole by Tom Waits

[TheSultrySalesman]

I'm only through season 4, but this is my favorite intro. Tom Waits has a beautiful desperation to his voice. His voice really encapsulates the sadness of the dying city of Baltimore. While the second season wasn't my favorite simply because all the principle characters came and went, I still enjoyed it.

[ace11rothstein]

I think each intro fits the specific season. Season 1 had the best version of the song IMO but Season 4 had the best combo of credit sequence editing and song. But Waits' version fits this season's theme of the docks like a glove.

[Zwartekaka]

I only saw two so far. But liked second season a lot. All those cool characters. JUst plain working class good folks actually. Ziggy, his father his nephew I really cared for those guys. Felt very bad for Sobotka when he was walking under that bridge for his last meeting with the greek. So fucking sad and horrible.

[stjuice1160]

Your heart will break when you watch Season 4... It, in my opinion, is the best season by far.

[oa666]

season 2 was essential to the overall story they are telling of this country.

where did the boys in season 4 all hang out? abandoned factories.

all the pieces matter

[Primordeum]

Excellent observation, I didn't actually think about that. Although I've only seen season 4 once I'm ashamed to say!

[USCHoodman]

I have to agree with Primordeum I didn't notice that either props oa666 makes me like the Wire even more

[5starsnitskymatch]

I have only seen the first 3 seasons. 1 and 2 were great, I didnt think Season 3 was so great. It was good but not amazing.

[youngprince21]

what do you expect out of BET theyre racist and in the second season they caught out most of the plot for the ports which was the main plot but they still left the plot for the street. i like the wire all around from the streets to the police to the ports and to the schools.Cant wait for season 5 and fuck BET I'll go and cop the dvds

[wize1]

@Freepablo lets remember that BET is not really owned by Black people concerned about fairly representing Black people. BET is a a network of VIACOM. VIACOM owns and run almost every channel - theres no real independence. all corporate media. corporate profits. if you simple it down - much of the mainstream media globally is run by rich, old, white MEN.

[CertifiedGooner729]

@Freepablo Are you fucking serious? That's ridiculous man.

[protomanhasballs]

they cut this out of the BET version.

[Gneo25]

It was probably cut because there wasn't a rapper or a black woman shaking her ass in the scene. Fcuk BET, Blaxplotiation TV.

[USCHoodman]

word up I hate that channel

[avonbarksdalewife]

I know I'm late on this topic. But your correct. I remeber watching an episode of season of The Wire. And I was telling my friend this the most slept on season. And we were talking about what we thought was gonna happen in season 5. Then we notice they cut so much of the Port scene out and we never watch The Wire on BET again. I think that was some racist shit plus it cheated the fans. I really hope The Wire not being shown on BET anymore.

[bigstackondeck]

season 1 was the best

[bmore808]

i dunno wut yall are talkin about. season 2 did not suck. it just focused on a different part of b-more. i like it cuz it shows how corrupt and careless the FBI department can be.

[snipet19]

most def, i luved this season cuz it introduced us to brother mouzone. can someone pls upload the clip of him shooting cheese in the shoulder?

[thesh1tin]

A guy in the UK called Charlie Brooker presents a programme called 'Screenwipe'. On his show he talked about 'The Wire'. Thank GOD i watched that episode. I AM HOOKED!!!

[xdawg1103]

Tom Waits wrote "Down In The Hole" and performed it on Season 2 of the best television show in the history of television

[virgo2cutie6]

da best show ever but season 4 was da best

[mastarks]

season 2 sucked

[DygitalNinja]

Season 2 was didn't suck, it was just the least awesome season...S4 is the s**** though

[nickzzz78]

is that Tom Waites?

[Primordeum]

It is indeed, well spotted :)

[Musicalheart]

I wish i had HBO so i could watch this.

[mudbud]

I rented it at my local video store...it really is worth it, it's an amazing show

[deonh79]

the BEST show on TV!!