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* SpoilerOpening: Every opening contains clips from episodes later on in the season, but they don't make much sense until you see them in context.
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* SpoilerOpening: Every opening contains clips from episodes later on in the season, but they don't make much sense until you see them in context. Season 5 takes it the furthest by showing headlines about a SerialKiller that preys on the homeless. It doubles as BaitAndSwitchCredits given the [[IfItBleedsItLeads true nature]] of the killer.
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'''Judge Phelan:''' Ms. Pearlman, your professional demeanor and your overall competence stands in stark contrast, against the municipal backdrop of mediocrity and indifference. [...] I'd love to throw a fucking to her.\\
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'''Judge Phelan:''' Ms. Pearlman, your professional demeanor and your overall competence stands in stark contrast, against the municipal backdrop of mediocrity and indifference. [...] I'd love to throw a fucking to her.\\
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* VictorStealsInsignia: During season 4, Snoop is shown to want to take {{Creepy Souvenir}}s from people she and Chris kill, including a Yankee hat from a New York dealer, and the badge of a security guard, which she had already taken out of the house, when Chris takes it and throws it away.
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** Season 1 has the Barksdale Organization, which has the impenetrable Franklin Terrace towers where they do most of their business. They are widely known and feared in the West Baltimore streets, and their leader Avon cannot be tied to any police accessible databases besides being born in Baltimore. Avon's contacts in other cities allow him to easily call for more help or hide his soldiers when needed.
** Season 2 plays it straight with The Greeks, an [[TheSyndicate international smuggling ring]] that brings drugs and prostitutes into Baltimore. The Greeks are greater on the hierarchy than the Barksdales, who sell the drugs. Their leaders are even more of TheSpook than Avon, being foreign-born and no one knowing their names. Because their organization is too powerful for the Baltimore Police, the FBI have to get involved. [[spoiler:The Greeks's leadership end up being untouchable because they have an FBI handler that tips him off about police moves in exchange for information about their suppliers sometimes. No villain in the series reaches the status and power the Greeks have.]]
** Season 2 plays it straight with The Greeks, an [[TheSyndicate international smuggling ring]] that brings drugs and prostitutes into Baltimore. The Greeks are greater on the hierarchy than the Barksdales, who sell the drugs. Their leaders are even more of TheSpook than Avon, being foreign-born and no one knowing their names. Because their organization is too powerful for the Baltimore Police, the FBI have to get involved. [[spoiler:The Greeks's leadership end up being untouchable because they have an FBI handler that tips him off about police moves in exchange for information about their suppliers sometimes. No villain in the series reaches the status and power the Greeks have.]]
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** Season 1 has the Barksdale Organization, which has the impenetrable Franklin Terrace towers where they do most of their business. They are widely known and feared in the West Baltimore streets, and their leader Avon cannot be tied to any police accessible databases besides being born in Baltimore. Avon's criminal contacts in other cities allow him to easily call for more help or hide his soldiers when needed.
** Season 2 plays it straight with The Greeks, an [[TheSyndicate international smuggling ring]] that brings drugs and prostitutes into Baltimore. The Greeks are greater on the hierarchy than the Barksdales, who sell the drugs. Their leaders are even more of TheSpook than Avon, being foreign-born and no one knowing theirnames.names and they have contacts in law enforcement and international criminal organizations. Because their organization is too powerful for the Baltimore Police, the FBI have to get involved. [[spoiler:The Greeks's leadership end up being untouchable because they have an FBI handler that tips him off about police moves in exchange for information about their suppliers sometimes. No villain in the series reaches the status and power the Greeks have.]]
** Season 2 plays it straight with The Greeks, an [[TheSyndicate international smuggling ring]] that brings drugs and prostitutes into Baltimore. The Greeks are greater on the hierarchy than the Barksdales, who sell the drugs. Their leaders are even more of TheSpook than Avon, being foreign-born and no one knowing their
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** Season 4 and 5 focuses on the Stanfield Gang. They are comparable to the Barksdales, though lacking much in the way of legitimate businesses. However, in terms of morality, the Stanfield Gang is the [[VillainousEthicsDecay most heinous]] of all of the villainous organizations and make up for the lack of a complex organization with their extreme violence, killing over twenty-two people in a short period of time. They have no qualms about crossing lines the Barksdales never would, like killing civilians uninvolved in the game or their cases, and using ChildSoldiers for murder. Despite being the final antagonists of the series, it is repeatedly shown that their threat is drawn out at least partially [[BornLucky due to luck]], such as coming up at the time the Barksdales were moving away from violence, [[spoiler:Avon being arrested shortly before he was going to kill Marlo with military grade weaponry, the investigation into Marlo being sabotaged by Rawls in Season 4, and the Major Crimes Unit being defunded due to a huge budget hole in Season 5]]. Wee-Bey even mentions that back in the day Marlo would have been quickly killed. [[spoiler:Even at his most powerful, Marlo is still reliant on the Greek's organization. In the very end, Marlo's name is forgotten, while Avon holds onto influence in jail and Omar becomes a legendary figure.]]
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** Season 4 and 5 focuses on the Stanfield Gang. They are comparable in strength to the Barksdales, though lacking much in the way of legitimate businesses. However, in terms of morality, the Stanfield Gang is the [[VillainousEthicsDecay most heinous]] of all of the villainous organizations and make up for the lack of a complex organization with their extreme violence, killing responsible for over twenty-two people 30 murders in a short period of time. They have no qualms about crossing lines the Barksdales never would, like killing civilians uninvolved in the game or their cases, and using ChildSoldiers for murder. Despite being the final antagonists of the series, it is repeatedly shown that their threat is drawn out at least partially [[BornLucky due to luck]], such as coming up at the time the Barksdales were moving away from violence, [[spoiler:Avon being arrested shortly before he was going to kill Marlo with military grade weaponry, the investigation into Marlo being sabotaged by Rawls in Season 4, and the Major Crimes Unit being defunded due to a huge budget hole in Season 5]]. Wee-Bey even mentions that back in the day Marlo would have been quickly killed. [[spoiler:Even at his most powerful, Marlo is still reliant on the Greek's organization. In the very end, Marlo's Marlo is forced out of the game and his name is forgotten, while in contrast to his street rivals. Avon holds onto influence in jail and Omar becomes a legendary figure.figure in the streets posthumously.]]
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** Stringer has a copy shop where he parleys with [=McNulty=]. Subverted as Stringer wants it to be a serious business, not a mere front, and chides his lazy underlings --who don't understand a word of the business-studies jargon he starts throwing around--for their lack of professionalism.
** The Barksdales' well known headquarters are initially located at Orlando's bar, and more concealedly inside a funeral house later.
** Stringer has a copy shop where he parleys with [=McNulty=]. Subverted as Stringer wants it to be a serious business, not a mere front, and chides his lazy underlings --who don't understand a word of the business-studies jargon he starts throwing around--for their lack of professionalism.
** The Barksdales' well known headquarters are initially located at Orlando's bar, and more concealedly inside a funeral house later.
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** Stringer has a copy shop where he parleys with [=McNulty=]. Subverted as Stringer wants it to be a serious business, not a mere front, and chides his lazy underlings --who don't understand a word of the business-studies jargon he starts throwing around--for their lack of professionalism.
** The Barksdales' well known headquarters are initially located at Orlando's bar, and more concealedly inside a funeral house later.
** Stringer has a copy shop where he parleys with [=McNulty=]. Subverted as Stringer wants it to be a serious business, not a mere front, and chides his lazy underlings --who don't understand a word of the business-studies jargon he starts throwing around--for their lack of professionalism.
** The Barksdales' well known headquarters are initially located at Orlando's bar, and more concealedly inside a funeral house later.
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** Marlo's analysis on Omar's escape: "That's some Franchise/SpiderMan shit"
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** Marlo's analysis on Omar's escape: "That's some Franchise/SpiderMan ComicBook/SpiderMan shit"
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* WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: Inverted with Herc and Carver. While many of the Baltimore cops are dirty and brutalize suspects from time to time, Herc is worse than most; he also goes undercover with WhiteGangbangers in a working-class Polish neighborhood. Meanwhile, the black Carver increasingly becomes a ByTheBookCop over the course of the series.
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* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Played With overall.
** Season 1 has the Barksdale Organization, which has the impenetrable Franklin Terrace towers where they do most of their business. They are widely known and feared in the West Baltimore streets, and their leader Avon cannot be tied to any police accessible databases besides being born in Baltimore. Avon's contacts in other cities allow him to easily call for more help or hide his soldiers when needed.
** Season 2 plays it straight with The Greeks, an [[TheSyndicate international smuggling ring]] that brings drugs and prostitutes into Baltimore. The Greeks are greater on the hierarchy than the Barksdales, who sell the drugs. Their leaders are even more of TheSpook than Avon, being foreign-born and no one knowing their names. Because their organization is too powerful for the Baltimore Police, the FBI have to get involved. [[spoiler:The Greeks's leadership end up being untouchable because they have an FBI handler that tips him off about police moves in exchange for information about their suppliers sometimes. No villain in the series reaches the status and power the Greeks have.]]
** Season 3 subverts it as it sees the decay of the Barksdale Organization to [[AHouseDivided infighting in it's leadership]] (who want to take it in two radically different directions), the loss of the Franklin Terrace towers where they could safely deal, and losing a lot of it's muscle in the previous two seasons. This leads to a losing gang war with the more ruthless Stanfield Gang that the Barksdales, who had been moving away from violence, are not able to deal with.
** Season 4 and 5 focuses on the Stanfield Gang. They are comparable to the Barksdales, though lacking much in the way of legitimate businesses. However, in terms of morality, the Stanfield Gang is the [[VillainousEthicsDecay most heinous]] of all of the villainous organizations and make up for the lack of a complex organization with their extreme violence, killing over twenty-two people in a short period of time. They have no qualms about crossing lines the Barksdales never would, like killing civilians uninvolved in the game or their cases, and using ChildSoldiers for murder. Despite being the final antagonists of the series, it is repeatedly shown that their threat is drawn out at least partially [[BornLucky due to luck]], such as coming up at the time the Barksdales were moving away from violence, [[spoiler:Avon being arrested shortly before he was going to kill Marlo with military grade weaponry, the investigation into Marlo being sabotaged by Rawls in Season 4, and the Major Crimes Unit being defunded due to a huge budget hole in Season 5]]. Wee-Bey even mentions that back in the day Marlo would have been quickly killed. [[spoiler:Even at his most powerful, Marlo is still reliant on the Greek's organization. In the very end, Marlo's name is forgotten, while Avon holds onto influence in jail and Omar becomes a legendary figure.]]
** Season 1 has the Barksdale Organization, which has the impenetrable Franklin Terrace towers where they do most of their business. They are widely known and feared in the West Baltimore streets, and their leader Avon cannot be tied to any police accessible databases besides being born in Baltimore. Avon's contacts in other cities allow him to easily call for more help or hide his soldiers when needed.
** Season 2 plays it straight with The Greeks, an [[TheSyndicate international smuggling ring]] that brings drugs and prostitutes into Baltimore. The Greeks are greater on the hierarchy than the Barksdales, who sell the drugs. Their leaders are even more of TheSpook than Avon, being foreign-born and no one knowing their names. Because their organization is too powerful for the Baltimore Police, the FBI have to get involved. [[spoiler:The Greeks's leadership end up being untouchable because they have an FBI handler that tips him off about police moves in exchange for information about their suppliers sometimes. No villain in the series reaches the status and power the Greeks have.]]
** Season 3 subverts it as it sees the decay of the Barksdale Organization to [[AHouseDivided infighting in it's leadership]] (who want to take it in two radically different directions), the loss of the Franklin Terrace towers where they could safely deal, and losing a lot of it's muscle in the previous two seasons. This leads to a losing gang war with the more ruthless Stanfield Gang that the Barksdales, who had been moving away from violence, are not able to deal with.
** Season 4 and 5 focuses on the Stanfield Gang. They are comparable to the Barksdales, though lacking much in the way of legitimate businesses. However, in terms of morality, the Stanfield Gang is the [[VillainousEthicsDecay most heinous]] of all of the villainous organizations and make up for the lack of a complex organization with their extreme violence, killing over twenty-two people in a short period of time. They have no qualms about crossing lines the Barksdales never would, like killing civilians uninvolved in the game or their cases, and using ChildSoldiers for murder. Despite being the final antagonists of the series, it is repeatedly shown that their threat is drawn out at least partially [[BornLucky due to luck]], such as coming up at the time the Barksdales were moving away from violence, [[spoiler:Avon being arrested shortly before he was going to kill Marlo with military grade weaponry, the investigation into Marlo being sabotaged by Rawls in Season 4, and the Major Crimes Unit being defunded due to a huge budget hole in Season 5]]. Wee-Bey even mentions that back in the day Marlo would have been quickly killed. [[spoiler:Even at his most powerful, Marlo is still reliant on the Greek's organization. In the very end, Marlo's name is forgotten, while Avon holds onto influence in jail and Omar becomes a legendary figure.]]
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** To ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. Both were based on ''Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets'', with ''The Wire'' essentially using the plots and characters that went unused for ''Homicide''. Creator/DavidSimon, having greater control over ''The Wire'' as well as freedom from Network interference, was able to make a more honest crime drama. Munch did have a brief cameo, talking about his former bar, and one of Luther Mahoney's family was mentioned, along with being set in Baltimore, so it at least has some subtle hints of being a sequel even if it's merely set in the same version of Baltimore.
** Also to ''Series/{{Oz}}''. It's an epic crime drama with a huge cast of characters, it's known for blending gritty depictions of crime with philosophy and liberal social commentary, and it spends much of its running time discussing institutional dysfunction and the perils of government bureaucracy. The fact that a ''huge'' chunk of ''Oz'''s [[http://thewire.wikia.com/wiki/Oz cast is also]] in ''The Wire'' [[note]] Including John Doman (Edward "The Colonel" Galson in ''Oz'' and Major William Rawls in ''The Wire''), Lance Reddick (Detective Johnny Basil in ''Oz'' and Lieutenant Cedric Daniels in ''The Wire''), Frankie Faison (Cornelius Keane in ''Oz'' and Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell in ''The Wire''), Seth Gilliam (Clayton Hughes in ''Oz'' and Ellis Carver in ''The Wire''), Wood Harris (Officer Gordon Harris in ''Oz'' and Avon Barksdale in ''The Wire''), J.D. Williams (Kenny Wangler in ''Oz'' and Preston "Bodie" Broadus in ''The Wire''), Reg E. Cathey (Martin Querns in ''Oz'' and Norman Wilson in ''The Wire'') and Domenick Lombardozzi (Ralph Galino in ''Oz'' and Thomas "Herc" Hauk in ''The Wire'').[[/note]] just strengthens it.
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. Both were based on ''Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets'', with ''The Wire'' essentially using the plots and characters that went unused for ''Homicide''. Creator/DavidSimon, having greater control over ''The Wire'' as well as freedom from Network interference, was able to make a more honest crime drama. Munch did have a brief cameo, talking about his former bar, and one of Luther Mahoney's family was mentioned, along with being set in Baltimore, so it at least has some subtle hints of being a sequel even if it's merely set in the same version of Baltimore.
** Also to ''Series/{{Oz}}''. It's an epic crime drama with a huge cast of characters, it's known for blending gritty depictions of crime with philosophy and liberal social commentary, and it spends much of its running time discussing institutional dysfunction and the perils of government bureaucracy. The fact that a ''huge'' chunk of ''Oz'''s [[http://thewire.wikia.com/wiki/Oz cast is also]] in ''The Wire'' [[note]] Including John Doman (Edward "The Colonel" Galson in ''Oz'' and Major William Rawls in ''The Wire''), Lance Reddick (Detective Johnny Basil in ''Oz'' and Lieutenant Cedric Daniels in ''The Wire''), Frankie Faison (Cornelius Keane in ''Oz'' and Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell in ''The Wire''), Seth Gilliam (Clayton Hughes in ''Oz'' and Ellis Carver in ''The Wire''), Wood Harris (Officer Gordon Harris in ''Oz'' and Avon Barksdale in ''The Wire''), J.D. Williams (Kenny Wangler in ''Oz'' and Preston "Bodie" Broadus in ''The Wire''), Reg E. Cathey (Martin Querns in ''Oz'' and Norman Wilson in ''The Wire'') and Domenick Lombardozzi (Ralph Galino in ''Oz'' and Thomas "Herc" Hauk in ''The Wire'').[[/note]] just strengthens it.
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* UnionsSuck: The stevedore's union is corrupt, helping smugglers move their products in exchange for money that their boss Frank Sobotka is using to try and bribe officials to expand the docks, allowing them to bring in more [[CriminalCravesLegitimacy legitimate]] work.
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** The New Day Co-Op's sign at the Executive Inn has zeroes standing in place of several O's.
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* TwoTeacherSchool: Averted in the fourth season. Multiple scenes show teachers at an inner-city Baltimore school debating issues such as curriculums, test preparations, and overall teaching structures; we also see shots of teachers giving lectures to their classes. Played straight when it comes to actual class focus, however, focusing primarily on Prez's courses and the experimental learning environment that Colvin is involved in.
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** For the most part, however, this is averted: most applications seen on the show are plain [=Win32=] GDI apps running on Windows XP. The animations on the dock monitoring software in season 2 are a little unbelievable (a little truck drives away with the container?), and once a search for "suspects" was done using what appeared to be the Windows Explorer File Search (with a call to the contact done through the Windows Telephony dialog), but jaggy, aliased 2D polygons and unframed text boxes in clunky custom programs are far more believable on a city police computer than full-3D operating systems that [[MagicalComputer can enhance a 4 pixel area]].
** The dock's tracking software includes little animations of shipping containers moving from the docks to trucks.
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* WakeupMakeup: Averted when [=McNulty=] goes to Rhonda's house and wakes her up early the morning. She comes to the door in a bathrobe, with no makeup and her hair mussed.
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* WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: Averted: On the eve of the election, Royce distributes flyers near polling places that show Carcetti with a notorious slumlord. Even though they immediately determine them to be fake, Carcetti doesn't have the time to properly debunk them.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Averted. Nearly every one of the street thugs has a backstory and character development, and the deaths of even minor mooks are given dramatic weight. Bunk gets mad at Omar for saying his kills aren't taxpayers therefore no victims to speak of as it shows how bad Baltimore fell.
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* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Averted. The lesbian bar or bars where Kima hangs out aren't all that unusual[[note]]she even takes [=McNulty=] to one, although she has to remind him not to try [[TheCasanova picking a woman up]][[/note]], and the gay bar where Lamar seeks Omar is so vanilla, other than the slightly CampGay patrons and bartender, that [[spoiler:Rawls hangs out there]].
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** Hamsterdam itself is an example of this trope; see above under GoneHorriblyRight.
*** Among the drug dealers arrested when the police raid Hamsterdam is Bodie, [[spoiler:who manages to beat the charges simply by claiming that the police entrapped him.]]
** Stringer wants to have Clay Davis, a state senator, murdered for scamming him out of thousands of dollars. Avon then has to explain to him why that is a '''Very''' bad idea.
*** Among the drug dealers arrested when the police raid Hamsterdam is Bodie, [[spoiler:who manages to beat the charges simply by claiming that the police entrapped him.]]
** Stringer wants to have Clay Davis, a state senator, murdered for scamming him out of thousands of dollars. Avon then has to explain to him why that is a '''Very''' bad idea.
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** Hamsterdam itself is an example of this trope; see above under GoneHorriblyRight.
***Among the drug dealers arrested when the police raid Hamsterdam is Bodie, [[spoiler:who manages to beat the charges simply by claiming that the police entrapped him.]]
** Stringer wants to have Clay Davis, a state senator, murdered for scamming him out of thousands of dollars. Avon then has to explain to him why that is a'''Very''' very bad idea.
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** Stringer wants to have Clay Davis, a state senator, murdered for scamming him out of thousands of dollars. Avon then has to explain to him why that is a
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** [=McNulty=]'s sons name-drop the neo-psychedelic band Music/DeadMeadow as the music they're listened to. Out of touch, [=McNulty=] asks what's wrong with Music/TheRamones.
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** [=McNulty=]'s sons name-drop the neo-psychedelic band Music/DeadMeadow as the music they're listened to. Out of touch, [=McNulty=] asks what's wrong with Music/TheRamones. The band's vocalist is series co-creator David Simon's nephew.
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* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou:
** Exploited paired with LyingToThePerp when Bunk and [=McNulty=] try to elicit a confession out of D'Angelo over the William Gant murder.
** Played straight when Poot spits back [=McNulty's=] condolences over the death of Bodie, telling him Bodie was shot for talking to the police, and Poot wants Jimmy to leave him alone before he meets the same fate.
** Exploited paired with LyingToThePerp when Bunk and [=McNulty=] try to elicit a confession out of D'Angelo over the William Gant murder.
** Played straight when Poot spits back [=McNulty's=] condolences over the death of Bodie, telling him Bodie was shot for talking to the police, and Poot wants Jimmy to leave him alone before he meets the same fate.
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* ShortTeensTallAdults: D'Angelo is a head shorter than Avon and Stringer. He's supposed to be a generation younger than Avon and Stringer, but Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is only two years younger than Wood Harris and one year ''older'' than Idris Elba.
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* TeensAreShort: D'Angelo is a head shorter than Avon and Stringer. He's supposed to be a generation younger than Avon and Stringer, but Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is only two years younger than Wood Harris and one year ''older'' than Idris Elba.
