"Ebb Tide"

'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jemele Hill and Van Lathan kick off Season 2 of ‘The Wire’ by looking at why the show focused on the Port of Baltimore (02:00), the introduction of the Sobotka family (10:45), Bodie’s new role in the Barksdale organization (25:15), Major Valchek’s vendetta (35:00), some casting trivia (58:30), and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Alyssa Breznak and over the past year I've spoken with founders and fans, investors
0:06.3	and engineers, employees, celebrities, all to answer one question.
0:11.6	What happened to HQ Trivia?
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0:19.1	it wasn't.
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0:29.6	So we're in the controversial season now.
0:56.3	Season 2.
0:58.6	Don't meet people then hated this season.
1:03.2	When you first saw it, did you have those feelings initially and it's something that grew
1:07.6	on you over time or did you like it right away?
1:10.8	So when I first saw it now.
1:12.2	Yeah, same here.
1:14.0	When I first saw it, I'm not even alive, pretend like I enjoyed Season 2.
1:17.8	When I first saw it, it's not like I didn't enjoy it.
1:22.4	I never really gave Season 2 a chance.
1:26.6	When it first started coming on, it looked so much different.
1:29.3	It felt so much different that I wasn't really willing to give Season 2 of the Wire a chance.
1:34.7	That's really what happened.
1:36.3	And then something else happened on subsequent rewatches because I had downloaded all the seasons
1:41.2	of the Wire on this torn on my old, old, faithful, the silver lightning laptop of the mid
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