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In season 1 do they ever hint at Wee Bey's family? I remember him running choo choo on the chick that OD'd and picking D up to feed his fish in his apartment.

I guess a hitter like Bey would probably have his own little side place to get away from Yolanda but I wonder if they just liked the actor and Namond's dad was originally supposed to Bird or Stink or another less charismatic Barksdale lifer

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I’m rewatching and I forgot how amazing season 2 is! Ziggy gets annoying but Frank and Nicky truly play amazing parts! And I’m still sticking to an unfavorable opinion that Omar is just flat out overrated, albeit he’s an amazing actor himself. 

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1 minute ago, hundredTT said:

I’m rewatching and I forgot how amazing season 2 is! Ziggy gets annoying but Frank and Nicky truly play amazing parts! And I’m still sticking to an unfavorable opinion that Omar is just flat out overrated, albeit he’s an amazing actor himself. 

Season 2 is just fantastic all around.  Just such a switch from Season 1.

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I'm on to season 4 in the latest rewatch.

I was in my twenties when I first watched this and thought that Stringer was super smart. And, he's not a moron, but with a bit more seasoning it's interesting watching again and realizing how much fo a dipshit he still is (how self satisfied he is with his assessment of cell phone market saturation, his stupid roberts rules of order, him just taking Clay Davis' bait every time. And every single misstep he makes sealing his fate because he thinks he's the smartest motherfucker around. He would have been fucked anyways - i missed it before, but there's a phone call right at the end of season three that indicates he contracted some hitters (to hit Clay Davis). There's no way that whatever plan he had would have stood up to the scrutiny that would have come down with a hit on a politician. Avon was the smarter one out of the two of them, and he was a trillion percent correct with his assessment of Stringer being not hard enough for this right here and not smart enough for that out there.

Another cool thing I've noticed a few times that I missed in previous viewings is the trick they'll do with the sound editing where you'll here some background noise and it will continue into the next scene at a different location. In season 2, they throw the guns that land on the boat, the boat's horn blows, and then it cuts to the Greek in the diner and the horn is blowing farther off in the background. Same at the end of episode 1 or 2 of season 4 when Carcetti is drunk on the park bench being told to move it along by a cop, and there's a police siren far off in the background, and then you're with Randy sitting on his stoop and the same siren is still going, much closer.

 

On 7/12/2025 at 3:23 AM, cmontexas said:

In season 1 do they ever hint at Wee Bey's family? I remember him running choo choo on the chick that OD'd and picking D up to feed his fish in his apartment.

I guess a hitter like Bey would probably have his own little side place to get away from Yolanda but I wonder if they just liked the actor and Namond's dad was originally supposed to Bird or Stink or another less charismatic Barksdale lifer

 

I always took it as Wee Bey is a free agent but he recognizes Namond as his child and at the very least, he takes care of his baby mama and Namond and perhaps even as a member of the family in a sometimes conventional way. While also having his own crib and drug-fucking shorties to death and etc.

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18 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I'm on to season 4 in the latest rewatch.

I was in my twenties when I first watched this and thought that Stringer was super smart. And, he's not a moron, but with a bit more seasoning it's interesting watching again and realizing how much fo a dipshit he still is (how self satisfied he is with his assessment of cell phone market saturation, his stupid roberts rules of order, him just taking Clay Davis' bait every time. And every single misstep he makes sealing his fate because he thinks he's the smartest motherfucker around. He would have been fucked anyways - i missed it before, but there's a phone call right at the end of season three that indicates he contracted some hitters (to hit Clay Davis). There's no way that whatever plan he had would have stood up to the scrutiny that would have come down with a hit on a politician. Avon was the smarter one out of the two of them, and he was a trillion percent correct with his assessment of Stringer being not hard enough for this right here and not smart enough for that out there.

Another cool thing I've noticed a few times that I missed in previous viewings is the trick they'll do with the sound editing where you'll here some background noise and it will continue into the next scene at a different location. In season 2, they throw the guns that land on the boat, the boat's horn blows, and then it cuts to the Greek in the diner and the horn is blowing farther off in the background. Same at the end of episode 1 or 2 of season 4 when Carcetti is drunk on the park bench being told to move it along by a cop, and there's a police siren far off in the background, and then you're with Randy sitting on his stoop and the same siren is still going, much closer.

 

 

I always took it as Wee Bey is a free agent but he recognizes Namond as his child and at the very least, he takes care of his baby mama and Namond and perhaps even as a member of the family in a sometimes conventional way. While also having his own crib and drug-fucking shorties to death and etc.

That’s my reading on Wee Bay’s “family“ dynamic as well. The scene where Wee Bay tells De’Londa to let Namond go remains one of the best in the series.

Question for the thread, why does De‘Londa need Namond grinding on the corners? Couldn’t she become a hustler herself and wholesale packages? 

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