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* {{Anvilicious}}: Likely because of the miniseries' short length, David Simon just comes right out and has characters lecture each other about the points he wants to get across.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Likely because of the miniseries' short length, David Simon just comes right out and has characters lecture each other about the points he wants to get across. This is particularly prevalent in scenes with Steele.
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** The opening scene where Jenkins talks about effective policing and being a decent cop to a group of new police recruits, intercut with ominous scenes of increasingly brutal police arrests. Then it's [[{{Bookends}} revisited at the end]] except this time, [[spoiler:the police recruits are various people Jenkins worked with and who helped him (such as Hersl, Gondo, and Rayam but also including some of the apparently more innocent parties like Davis and Suiter),]] perfectly expressing the show's anti-police CentralTheme.
** The death of [[spoiler:Sean Suiter.]] Due to the mysterious nature of the death and how tense the entire part leading up to it is, it has been noted as one of the most memorable scenes in the show.
** The opening scene where Jenkins talks about effective policing and being a decent cop to a group of new police recruits, intercut with ominous scenes of increasingly brutal police arrests. Then it's [[{{Bookends}} revisited at the end]] except this time, [[spoiler:the police recruits are various people Jenkins worked with and who helped him (such as Hersl, Gondo, and Rayam but also including some of the apparently more innocent parties like Davis and Suiter),]] perfectly expressing the show's anti-police CentralTheme.
** The death of [[spoiler:Sean Suiter.]] Due to the mysterious nature of the death and how tense the entire part leading up to it is, it has been noted as one of the most memorable scenes in the show.
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* OneSceneWonder: Treat Williams has two scenes as Brian Grabler, a retired cop who talks at length and in detail about how the war on drugs, the militarization of police and "tough on crime" rhetoric from politicians has not helped anyone and has seriously damaged the public's trust in law enforcement and says the war was lost years ago, even if no one wants to admit it, and steals the series when he's on screen, perfectly nailing the theme of the series and turning what could have been just exposition or a lecture into a compelling scene.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: One complaint leveled at ''Series/TheWire'' is that hardly any of white characters sound like they're from Baltimore. In fact, it's easy to spot the characters played by local personalities rather than actors because they actually have a Baltimore accent. In this series, a lot more actors do make the attempt, most notably Jon Bernthal, who gives Jenkins a thick regional accent.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: Dagmara Domińczyk doesn't really move her fingers when purportedly playing the flute, making it very obvious that the music is just dubbed over.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: When Erika Jensen is purportedly playing the flute, her actress Dagmara Domińczyk doesn't really move her fingers when purportedly playing the flute, fingers, making it very obvious that the music is just dubbed over.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire'', another Baltimore-set series co-created by Creator/DavidSimon and Ed Burns that examines the same themes.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire'', another Baltimore-set series co-created by David Simon that examines the same themes.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire'', another Baltimore-set series co-created by David Simon Creator/DavidSimon and Ed Burns that examines the same themes.themes.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: Dagmara Domińczyk doesn't really move her fingers when purportedly playing the flute, making it very obvious that the music is just dubbed over.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: One complains complaint leveled at ''Series/TheWire'' is that hardly any of white characters sound like they're from Baltimore. In fact, it's easy to spot the characters played by local personalities rather than actors because they actually have a Baltimore accent. In this series, a lot more actors do make the attempt, most notably Jon Bernthal, who gives Jenkins a thick regional accent.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: One complains leveled at ''Series/TheWire'' is that hardly any of white characters sound like they're from Baltimore. In fact, it's easy to spot the characters played by local personalities rather than actors because they actually have a Baltimore accent. In this series, a lot more actors do make the attempt, most notably Jon Bernthal, who gives Jenkins a thick regional accent.accent.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire'', another Baltimore-set series co-created by David Simon that examines the same themes.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheWire'', another Baltimore-set series co-created by David Simon that examines the same themes.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: One complains leveled at ''Series/TheWire'' is that hardly any of white characters sound like they're from Baltimore. In fact, it's easy to spot the characters played by local personalities rather than actors because they actually have a Baltimore accent. In this series, a lot more actors do make the attempt, most notably Jon Bernthal, who gives Jenkins a thick regional accent.
