Prison Blues

D'Angelo becomes the next victim of the Wire holding no reverence for your favourite characters and just killing them off!

We should have known when we saw him in the library that he was just too good to be true. Everyone's favourite prison film, The Shawshank Redemption, of course has the loveable Brooks manning the library, to be joined by our main man Andy Dufraine. Brooks and Dufraine are both quiet contemplative types, much in the same vain as D'Angelo. D would often be seen not responding when people talked to him, either becuase he was deep in thought or (more likely) that he was just utterly bemused all the time. Brooks died by hanging himself, whereas D'Angelo was framed to look like he hung himself. And he didn't carry a bird in his pocket.

I'm sad to see D'Angelo go, he was your concience, much like his fellow deceased dealer Wallace, the ones you could count on to be rational. His death was a understated affair, clinical and cold. It's funny that Stringer is going behind Avons back with business in the projects, whilst Avon is doing the same to Stringer inside.

I think the death of Wallace affected me more, it happened in dramatic style and he was finished off by his best friend. D'Angelo should have known better than to push away Avon, his stubboness was always going to be his undoing.

Series Two: First 2 episodes.

Soo we've moved down to the docks,
Bunk and McNulty feast on crab and the dockers are putting eggs in their beer. Why would you do that? I've heard of putting eggs in your bloody mary, but in your beer? way to spooil a lager. Clearly we are being shown that the dockers like to drink a lot, but in addition there are many questions we have about them. They have their own customs, their own ways of which we have much to learn!

On the other hand, why is Bunk so keen on eating crab guts and McNulty can't handle it. The crab symbolises McNulty's move to the water. His life is with boats: seafood. Him and bunk are unsophisticated, hands-on guys; they eat crab straight from the shell.

In prison they're eating KFC - continuity with their old life. we are being shown that although their in The Can they can still carry on much as before. Avon and D'angelo are up to no good. Wicked.

So far series two is bleaker, more industrial. Our friends from series one have been scattered to the wind, but you can see the forces pulling them back together. It's sick how 14 murders are seen as a game by the cops, they are offloading them like cargo between departments. Each ife is worth a shot of Jamesons for McNulty. At no point are they described as people: bodies, whores, illegals, J. Does... but never people, these poor, exploited women are dehumanised. Once again The Wire is showing us how similar the worlds of crime and law are.