The season is ramping up for real, baby. I wish we’d get a full 13 episodes instead of 10, but having 10 means we got lots of action. We’re not going to get some of the fun character development and humorous asides we’ve gotten before, but oh well. This week was the heat.
1. Marlo is the most ignorant man in Baltimore. That’s saying a lot, but that’s the truth. He just doesn’t know. I took particular humor in his belief that the solution to a language barrier is to speak English so hard that the barrier gets broken down. This fool actually wanted to see his money, like them folks in the island have a storage locker just for Marlo Stanfield’s money.
2. Butchie is the most gangster character so far. Worth noting–the two characters that stood the tallest in death were Brandon and Butchie, and they both did so in protection of Omar. Says a lot about Omar, doesn’t it? Trust–Chris and Snoop are gonna wish they’d have let Butchie go easy. Speaking of which…
3. Omar’s on the way! I laughed at the sight of that carton of Newports Omar brought back from the store on whatever island he’s on. I’ll say this, though…if Marlo goes at Omar’s current light-skinnded boopiece, Omar may be in trouble. This one seems to be more Dante than Brandon.
4. Firing Burrell isn’t going to be a good idea. He knows where all the bodies are buried. That’s a man you treat kindly.
5. Cheese has signed his death certificate. That moron can’t possibly think being connected to this Butchie thing is good for him, can he? Omar put a gun to his face. How bout doing the same? Or is the fool just not hard enough to do it for himself? Yeah, the latter sounds about right.
6. Marlo has signed his death certificate. So you want to kill Omar yourself? Ever ask yourself why no one else has pulled that off? Then again, there has yet to be a challenge that Marlo hasn’t taken and succeeded with. We can’t underestimate the dude at any point. I hope someone lights him on fire, though.
7. Don’t think Michael’s cut out for The Game. Dude’s too honorable. Dude also just isn’t mature enough for the responsibility he has. However, the cats on the corner wasn’t gonna mess up his count. Count was gonna be right.
8. Duke and Mike’s trip to Six Flags came with one piece of great humor. Every man can relate to waiting until the girls turn around before dapping each other up. On one hand, you’re congratulating your man on a job well done. On another, you’re thanking your man for not messing things up for everybody with no lame game. If your boy comes out the gate asking a girl her middle name, the party’s over for everybody in many cases. Also–it’s hysterical that those girls thought it was so cool that these dudes had their own place, like a couple of 14 year-old’s living alone isn’t a serious fucking problem.
9. Lester, we hardly knew ye. Freamon’s down with Jimmy’s plan? I guess that lowers the possibility that it’ll get messed up.
10. Daniels beginning could be his end. He’s one step closer to the throne. That’s one step closer to being outed as a thief. Bad news for the man.
11. Nice dolphin, nigga. That’ll never stop being funny.
10 Comments
by Stephanie E.
That truly was the line of the episode. No matter how great things seem to be going for Dukie, someone, somehow always manages to rain on his parade. That convo between the former Mr. and Mrs. Daniels was so incredibly interesting. It was a soft, quiet moment in an episode filled with many loud, sledgehammer ones. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
by strong
The way you guys talk about this show, I really wish I liked it too.
by Jarrett
Michael is going to be critical at the end of the show. Have a good feeling something bad is gonna happen to dude.
by javaman
Prop Joe does not have much respect for Marlo on the business side of the game.
by RHH
How about that look on Omar’s face at the end? That’s love, man…
by Krista
Beg to differ on a few points:
1. Marlo is ghetto, but not stupid. He’s the fox putting himself in Prop Joe’s henhouse. Learning the system while playing dumb. Then he picks off Prop Joe.But he IS THE dead man walking – oh trust and believe that. And hold two more plots for Chris and Snoop, mane yaherdme?
2. I’d say the other person who stood tallest in death besides Butchie was Bodie; he went out like the solidier McNulty said he was. Why’d they have to kill Butchie though?
by Tim
Krista — They killed Butchie to bring Omar back in town… with a vengeance.
Stringer’s last words were hard — “Ya’ll gonna do this or WHA…?” bam. bam. you’s dead. …granted, the tried to offer $$ to avoid it all… eh.
Michael’s been groomed but, like you said, is too honorable to be big in the game… that is unless something happens to his little brother…
Do any of us really think we’ll get our perfect ending of choice with so few shows and so much left for David Simon and Ed Burns to do/say?
by Marrs
Read the Indianpolis newspapers (the Star and the Recorder)over the last couple of weeks and the next couple. From the Struggle for power between the Police and the New Mayor, to the drug related murders, to the local political corruption: Its all rght there, baby. I’m sure thats the case in any good sized city but its all happening at once right now.
by Allan
See here’s the thing with Marlo – he’s a pure product. He may not have the wordliness or dreams of grandeur of Stringer and Prop Joe, but the boy knows what he wants and knows how to go about getting it. He recognizes the Game for what it is (game recognize game, right?) and doesn’t try to overthink thinks. That was Stringer’s undoing. He tried to make the Game something it wasn’t, tried to make it bend to his will. McNulty’s guilty of the same thing – it’s a stubborn belief that your way is the right way.
Marlo, as much as he’s despised, knows there can only be one way in the drug trade. And he knows that getting to the top can only end with death or jail. He’s gunning for the top, and he will get there – but once he does, he’ll also become someone else’s target. Unless, of course, Omar gets to him first.
by Jake
Prop Joe is extended too much to Marlo. Marlo is just like Avon, a gangsta through and through. He’s more about the power of the drug game than the money. C’mon Bomani episode 4 just went off.