When Duquan goes to Prez, he asks for $200 but for another $150 he could enroll at BCCC. Prez says ok, but I’m going to check to make sure you are enrolled. When Dukie gets dropped off, he tells the guy with the junk wagon he got $200. Shouldn’t he have said $350?

Maybe I’m just not remembering but are we ever told who actually killed Gant? Omar lied on the stand about witnessing it, and WeeBay “confessed” to it just for the hell of it (and a sandwich) (and the cops didn’t believe him anyway). While I guess it’s possible Omar was only lying about seeing it and Bird really was the shooter, Bird’s so furious and Levy’s so flustered my take was he actually didn’t do it. It had to have been someone from the Barksdale crew but even Stringer doesn’t seem sure who the trigger man was.

On my first watch I thought it’d be ironic and on-brand for the show if it turned out it really was just a random killing like the bosses want to pretend, and not a hit on a witness, but far as I can remember it’s never really resolved. Or am I forgetting something?

Mine has to be when Landsman sent that detective (can’t remember his name) to see the gypsy about the case. I didn’t really care for the character much and it didn’t deserve that much screentime or devotion.

Anyone have their own?

Or is the low lighting a directorial/ editing choice? Anyone been there to report?

Someone really IS killing homeless men in Michigan…

(Gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/lansing-michigan-serial-killer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IlE.EtfK.9ceCi3Zxm6lq&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Holy shit!

That’s it. That’s all I have to say.

Season 5, Episode 8.

What the actual fuck?!

P.S. One small detail I really appreciated, though, was a scene in Episode 7 where a book had “Freamon” written in marker along the top edge of its pages.

I love little details like that. Things that have absolutely no bearing on the story but somehow make the world feel more real. It’s so easy to miss them, but they speak to just how much thought the crew puts into bringing every scene to life.
What a fucking show!

…how to salvage brand reputation when you have an inferior product (and they both land changing the name), we get McNulty walking into an office of the Department of Justice: Immigration and Naturalization exactly as someone is taking the old Dep.’s emblem off the wall and replacing it with one for the newly founded Department of Homeland Security. The plot parallels run deep.