You mean actual history?

But The Greek wasn't even Greek!

Yeah, McNulty's at some function in DC, I think, to surprise that political consultant who was advising Carcetti at the time. The whole affair really helped to show how out of his depth he was, and how minor Baltimore is to the outside world.

Rust was definitely lying to Marty. He wanted to help out with the marriage, but only to a point.

I always say that when someone orders a Bushmills instead of Jameson. No one really gets the reference, but that's fine, it's fairly obscure even by Wire standards.

In my opinion that made the episode great.

Contrary to the review, I thought the episode was a ringing endorsement for Jameson. I could almost taste it as they chugged it.

As soon as that scene ended, hell even as it was unfolding, I thought, "Goddamn this is some next level Children of Men shit right here!"

He's in this one. Whedon mentioned giving him a storyline and apparently he was seen doing some pre-production work with Bettany.

My personal favorite shot is the one right after the leaving the church tent, Cohle and Hart standing on opposite ends of their car, each urinating as the camera rises and catches the refineries over the horizon. The guys behind the show know how to completely sell the setting and make it kind of beautiful. Kind of.

The montage of all the characters reminiscing about their civilian jobs, then we see him firing a shotgun at a couch in the woods, is one of my favorite moments in that movie.

They should have gone all the way with a cover of "In The Air Tonight" or at least something Phil Collins-esque.

It's what Guinness would have wanted.

My friend's mom, who's Armenian, once said her dad looked like Sharif when he was younger. So I guess there's something to that.

I gotta go work my way through Bill Holden's filmography one of these days. The Wild Bunch was probably the first time I was aware of him. Now there was a man's man.

Yeah, I love Lawrence of Arabia, but the brownface for everyone except Sharif is pretty distracting today. I understand why it was done at the time, but still.

To me that was the funniest scene of the episode, from the mere notion of Canadian gangsters to the Tim Horton backstory it was great.

Season 3 gets points for the Dewey Crowe "four kidneys" episode.

Quarles taking out those two people with the Taxi Driver gun bought him some goodwill before he rounded out. Then he started chewing Oxy and went on a whole 'nother level.

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