The Wire Season 2 Opening & Intro

The opening and intro to the second season of the excellent HBO show "The Wire", where Jimmy takes up his new post at the harbor.

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[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.

[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!

[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.

[sweetness111983]

this show used the sopranos as toilet paper

[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 ?!

[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.

[CertifiedGooner729]

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

[thebudgetgamer]

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

[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.

[sweetness111983]

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