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'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jemele Hill and Van Lathan return to close out the fifth and final season of ‘The Wire.’ Jemele discusses why she thinks it’s the most disappointing season of the show (1:20) before the duo does a deep dive on a new character, newsroom editor Gus Haynes (14:30). Van jumps into a sidebar on a challenging newsroom experience (39:55) before crowning a winner of the episode (53:39). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of Way Down in the Hole,
0:02.0	we start the final season of the wire.
0:04.3	I discuss why it's the most disappointing season
0:07.1	in the show's history.
0:08.5	We also recap the best scenes from episode one
0:11.0	and tell you what things we saw that aged the best.
0:14.5	Shit, never fucking changes.
0:16.4	It didn't let me up and running when Marlow was on
0:18.8	the cell phones out of how to make a year ago.
0:21.2	See?
0:23.0	But they can't do the right thing and ain't in them.
0:26.2	Now, what back on Marlow's ass needs to be on it.
0:28.3	On 24-7, the motherfucker's got her overtime.
0:31.2	And they've shopped our best surveillance band.
0:33.6	Don't even think about trying to requisition
0:36.8	a new fucking digital camera.
0:39.0	Want to do it on the cheek.
0:44.2	It's a shit news town.
0:45.8	You think?
0:47.3	Those bodies in the houses last year,
0:49.0	they got a lot of play.
0:50.6	And they didn't even solve it, right?
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