Homicide: Life on the Street - Gone for Goode

Pembleton gives Bayliss a lesson on how it's done in the box.

Very interesting ethical & even possibly Constitutional/legal questions raised in this segment, with Bayliss' rookie idealism pitted against Pembleton's seasoned pragmatism.

They didn't call Homicide "the best damn show on TV" for nothing.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Homicide
• Life
• Street
• Pembleton
• Bayliss

[Celestion321]

This is good, but there's a lack of subtlety. The Wire nails a balance between performance and believability that's lacking here.

[serotone9]

@Celestion321 Thanks for sharing your opinion. It doesn't get much more genuine than Homicide, however. The entire premise of the Wire is not very credible - to say the least - and much of the series is flat out laughable, including the idea that the police would virtually section off an entire portion of a city to allow drug sales. Homicide remains the gold standard for cop shows.

[tanquantwal]

I love Pembleton. When he left the show went from an A to a D

[GOP71]

Pembleton is a baaaaaaad man! Love him and miss the whole show.

[suziecreamchease]

@Celestion321

david simon would agree with you.

this technique and most of these words are taken from his "homicide" book. But it is applied with the suspect desperately imagining "the out". the image of the way over the wall is not spelt out by the cop.. instead it is implied that if he confesses to what he has done it can be written up as something other than muder.

and of course.. no detective this naive and idealistic - not even as a rookie - would ever be aloud into a homicide unit..

[HipHopHoarder]

@serotone9 "the police would virtually section off an entire portion of a city to allow drug sales" --> that actually DOES happen. It's not as prevailing these days but it was especially from the late 70s to early 90s in communities in South Bronx, and other racially segregated areas in LA..etc

[MrLunitunz]

They called Homicide 'The Best Damn Show on TV- That you motherfuckers never watched' for a reason.

[carsrule78]

t ey dont make em like t is anymore,best dammn cop s ow ever

[MediaWhorz]

@serotone9 Actually, I feel that it's the other way around. While Homicide helped set the seed of a realistic crime drama (in part due to the source material written by Wire creator David Simon) it still relied a little too much on artistic flourishes and unrealistic plot elements. The Wire may have had plot elements that seem unrealistic when isolated, but when they were implemented they flowed naturally and seemed more than plausible. But hell, both are excellent.

[serotone9]

@codename617 haha, okay - best to be careful, then.

[codename617]

@serotone9 Yeah... about that. NBC finds out very quickly. I put up some clips of Law & Order and one of SVU and the bastards took them down.

[serotone9]

@codename617 Upload it!

[codename617]

@serotone9 Well i meant on youtube. I already have the episode plus the Homicide episode in my season 6 Law & Order dvd. I'd just like to see that clip sometimes. They shouldn't have let the detectives interrogate him in the first place and they should've stopped them right away.