Generation Kill is the new mini-series by David Simon and Ed Burns, co-creators of HBO’s hit “The Wire.” The show is set in Iraq, and centers around a Rolling Stone reporter trying to cover the war. If it is anything like its predecessor, it will be the best thing on TV until the day it is over.
Read more about the new show here and get more info from HBO’s website.
The hype is building. Its gotten so crazy that now even Bill Simmons is on David Simon’s tit. The finale won’t air a week early on HBO On Demand, so we’ll all be sitting on our hands for a while. (scratch that, it leaked online)
Notes that will be randomly updated:
Some final thoughts on the show, in a newer post.
The finale leaked. I found it through a friendly link on the blogroll, but I get the feeling I shouldn’t be bandying it about. How about this instead: there’s no question it will be up on the torrents relatively soon, but if you can’t figure it out, leave a comment and maybe someone else will have the scoop.
I miss Randy. I hope we see him again in some way. This season Cheese has been referred to as Cheese Wagstaff, which is not a coincidence. Cheese is Randy’s dad!
“how my hair look?” well definitely go down as one of the show’s most intense moments.
Levy is in the new Wendy’s commercial, peep it here.
Read this before you do anything else:
Margaret Talbot’s New Yorker Piece on David Simon
HBO’s The Wire is airing tonight, Episode 6 of Season 5.
At The Smoking Section, Matthew Mundy wrote a great piece about the show, its creator David Simon, and its fifth and final season. Mundy levies this criticism against David Simon:
The ghosts of Simon’s newspaper past also haunt and it’s here that the show has, however briefly, lost sight of the forest for the trees. The contempt Simon holds for his former editors at the Sun, John Carroll and Bill Marimow, a disdain by now legendary, permeates every scene in the newsroom. His scorn for them, which he claims results from their misplaced ardor for prizes at the expense of good journalism, threatens to overwhelm. We’re often left with one-dimensional caricatures of these editors, rather than the full-bodied complexity of the rest of the show’s cast. This is a minor gripe though, as the rest of the season – as per usual – has been superlative.
I’m not accustomed to watching it on weekly basis, but until episodes 8-10 leak online, I’ll be forced to endure seemingly endless pauses. That being said, Mundy’s article is a great way to get back in the mindset of the show.
The Wire not only returns January 6th (trailer), but it will be accompanied by a soundtrack, with versions of the theme song, clips of dialogue from the show, and Baltimore-centric music some of which was also featured on the show. Through Nonesuch Records, link to Amazon.com page.
The greatest show on television returns January 6th:
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