Craig and Brad Schlesinger celebrate 20 years of The Wire with ReWired Podcast. Special cameo from Tray Chaney, check out his tribute video now available on YouTube! Follow them on Twitter: @PSYCCorp @PsychedelicCraig
Angel Graham joins Bailey and Kelly to discuss the role of women in The Wire, as well as how Angel's advanced degree in forensic science changed her perception of the show. Follow Angel on Twitter: @successfulangel
This week we're joined by Craig Schlesinger, superfan of The Wire. We discuss political easter eggs, the Sopranos nexus, and why this show gets better and better with repeat viewings. Find Craig on Twitter: @psychedelicraig Visit his website: www.psychedelicspotlight.com (And apologies for the editing everyone! Bailey is the expert and Kelly is still learning.)
What if I told you John Wick is a near-future continuation of The Wire, taking the various themes of the HBO series to their logical extremes? Kelly discusses her fan theory. With quotes from the John Wick wiki
Bailey is back! She and Kelly discuss The Wire as a piece of Southern Gothic literature, specifically as it compares to John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." References: What counts as the "South" in the US? Southern Gothic tropes City of Baltimore restoration project...
Melvin Jackson Jr. joins Rewired Podcast to talk about his experience playing Bernard, how he delivered one of the show's iconic lines, what he's working on now, and more. Follow Melvin on social media @melvinjacksonjr or visit his website www.melvinjacksonjr.com .
Jill Redding, known as Delores on The Wire, describes how she got cast, what her experience filming was like, her favourite character and season, and much more!
We revisit some of the best Omar scenes in honour of Michael K. Williams. If you would like to donate to the non-profit organization that Michael K. Williams started to combat gun violence amongst kids, you can do so right here (h/t @gods_save podcast): http://makingkidswin.com/donate.html
We analyze David Simon's "Generation Kill" miniseries in the context of The Wire . Joined by the hosts of The Gods Will Not Save You podcast, William Romano-Pugh and Jacob Van der Wilk. Follow TGWNSY podcast on Twitter @gods_save and listen to their episodes through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts and beyond!
Eric Jones, superfan of The Wire, joins Rewired Podcast for a deep dive into S03E11 "Middle Ground." We discuss Marxism, playing games, and the incomparable Stringer Bell! Follow Eric Jones on Twitter @deacon05oc.
Rewired welcomes John Orlando of PVDCast! We discuss Bill Rawls as a company man, why he's a source of comic relief, and the mystery of Rawls in the gay bar. Follow John Orlando on Twitter @PVDMVP and vote for PVDCast in the Columbus Podcast Awards! columbuspodcastawards.com/nominations
Dan Metcalfe, artist and fan of The Wire, sits down with Kelly. Follow Dan on Instagram @thehigherups and visit his website: www.danmetcalfedesign.com
In this episode, Kelly explains how Game Theory manifests in The Wire, with a focus on Tommy Carcetti. Works Cited: “Game theory is a theoretical framework for conceiving social situations among competing players. In some respects, game theory is the science of strategy, or at least the optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting.” - Investopedia “Some literary work can correctly (and non-metaphorically) be denominated a game if a) it is a game which the re...
In this episode, Kelly chats with Jonathan Buckingham about The Wire and Moby Dick, plus all the best scenes in The Wire. Follow us on social: @RewiredPodcast on Twitter and Instagram Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @AnalogSyndicate
In this episode, Kelly and Bailey chat with Julito McCallum, who played Namond Brice in The Wire. Watch Julito's new project, "God Bless You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCH_RfeE28 Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @IamJulito. You can find info for the watch parties on Zoom on his socials. Follow us on Twitter at @RewiredPodcast! Theme music by Flö Flørg....
In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss the fifth episode of the final season of The Wire by looking at the literary themes of duplicity and the dialectic model. Works Cited: Theme of duplicity: “The idea of doubleness is at the core of duplicity . Duplicity comes from a Latin word meaning "double" or "twofold," and its original meaning in English has to do with a kind of deception in which you intentionally hide your true feelings or intentions behind false words or actions. If you are being ...
Works Cited: https://lithub.com/not-just-a-german-word-a-brief-history-of-schadenfreude/ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/the-state-of-zombie-literature-an-autopsy.html https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/31/13440402/zombie-political-history Find us on social: @rewiredpodcast or podcast.rewired@gmail.com Our theme music is by Flø Flørg on Soundcloud....
Works Cited: The False Protagonist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_protagonist http://www.artandpopularculture.com/False_protagonist Theory of Affect: https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-105 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/affect-theory-and-the-new-age-of-anxiety Find us on social: @rewiredpodcast or podcast.rewired@gmail.com Our theme music is by Flø Flørg on Soundcloud....
In this episode, Bailey and Kelly talk to Matthew from Entertainment Talk and continue the Breaking Bad vs. The Wire debate! Follow us on social: @rewiredpodcast @ETalkUK
Enjoy this next instalment of our Five Series as we discuss Season 3, Episode 5 "Straight and True". In this podcast, we have a special guest speaker, Al Maulding, and we discuss the themes of good vs. evil in this episode of The Wire. Find Al on Twitter: @MrMaulding Follow us on Twitter: @RewiredPodcast Send us an email: podcast.rewired@gmail.com
In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss to concept of "palimpsest" in The Wire's Season 2, ep 5. Works cited: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/palimpsest/ https://books.google.ca/books?id=jmxFl-fbmlwC&pg=PR14&lpg=PR14&dq=palimpsest+literary+metaphor&source=bl&ots=47u3ElyM9S&sig=ACfU3U3sNMxcIcTkfsooCJO3XFFj1cHq2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE363g9uLkAhXFo54KHVryCZY4ChDoATACegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=palimpsest%20literary%20metaphor&f=false ...
In this special series, Bailey and Kelly discuss the fifth episode of each season. In this episode, we discuss Season 1, Episode 5, "The Pager," as relating to the theme of games, play, and childhood.
We’ve compared The Wire to literature and to other television shows. Now let’s see how The Wire reflects or evolves conventions of theatre and drama. The Wire traces the evolution of the traditions of “Theatre of Cruelty” into “Theatre of the Absurd.” This is a useful way of thinking when we look at Season 5 as the bizarre outlier of the series. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Cruelty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/life-m...
Works cited: Key elements of a “Dickensian” poverty: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16184487 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/04/30/ditching-dickensian/ https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/faq/poor.html https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/charles-dickens-and-crime http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/ Key elements of a Marxist analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_criminology https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/crime-and-deviance/marxism-and-crime/ Marx's t...
In this episode, Kelly and Bailey review Foucault's theory of post-structuralism, and its relationship to discipline and punishment in The Wire. Reference text here: https://zulfahmed.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/disciplineandpunish.pdf
This episode was brought to us by a listener request, and we discuss how Marlo imapcts the storyline in The Wire.
In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss all the women as leads in The Wire and the role they play: virgin or whore?
In this episode, we discuss how techonology made it so that The Wire was able to exist in one certain time.
Was Season 5 of The Wire the worst? We discuss.
In this episode, Kelly and Bailey discuss the theory of Pascal's Wager, and ask, which characters in The Wire choose to believe in something bigger than the systems they're in? Also, it takes Bailey a few minutes to catch on! Show resources from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager Follow up on Twitter @rewiredpodcast or send us an email at podcast.rewired@gmai l.com....
