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'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

"The Dickensian Aspect"

'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jemele Hill and Van Lathan push forward to the sixth episode of Season 5 of ‘The Wire’ with a character deep dive on detective Sydnor (14:00). Later, they recall some of their favorite scenes, including the surprise returns of some important characters (27:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up next on Way Down In The Hole, we recap Episode 6 and discuss some of the best scenes.

0:05.5

Plus, we also break down the reappearance of three of the most significant characters in the series.

0:11.2

All that and more on Way Down In The Hole.

0:41.2

You now streaming only on Netflix.

1:41.2

Alright, here we are at Episode 6 and when they first introduced this word, the Kinsey

2:05.5

in What is this story?

2:14.7

Selley,

2:21.4

came up with some alternative words like Mary J. Blygian and all those kind of things.

2:26.0

But that sounds way better than Dickensian.

2:28.7

But that's the name of this episode titled The Dickensian Aspect, you know, playing off

2:32.8

something one of the editors at the Baltimore Sunset a few episodes ago when they were

2:38.2

interested in a school project and their priorities have kind of shifted now about bringing

2:42.6

out I guess the heartwarming or the personal aspect, I guess that's what it's supposed

2:47.9

to mean, you know, since Charles Dickens is a bit of a, not rags to riches, I'm trying

2:52.5

to think of the best way to describe his stories.

2:54.8

But it's a lot about kids, poppers and people like that.

2:58.3

Yeah, it's about the most vulnerable in many respects.

3:02.0

So that is what is supposed to be kind of the theme of this particular episode.

3:08.8

But you know, I would say one of the big takeaways that I had from episode six is that, you

3:16.0

know, I think, you know, right now, much like episode five, that it's starting, you're

3:21.4

feeling the closure.

3:22.5

Like, it's that it's coming.

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