Because I've Totally Lost Count...Saddest Deaths on Tv
Both from the Wire.
Stringer Bell has Wallace killed...this is sad because Wallace is a little-boy member of the Barksdale...uh, pharmaceutical empire. He is so young that sometimes he brings toy superheroes out to sling. This is the death that makes both Simon and Pelecanos saddest of all the billions of sad things they've written in careers full of the writing of sadness.
'Where Wallace at?, Stringer?"
The death of Ray Cole is another saddest, not because of the loss of Cole, who was played as the biggest schmuck detective since Medavoy on NYPD Blue, but because Cole was played by producer Robert Colesberry, who was not a schmuck, and who, much like David Mills this year, succumbed to a sudden heart ailment...the wake of Cole was a tribute to the real loss the Wire family suffered.
David Simon is probably beginning to feel like the Jessica Fletcher of the writers' room, but sir, if you find people worry about working with you,I'll have an EKG and take my chances...I wasn't supposed to live anyway.(Who says I can't write a cover letter, man?)
Stringer Bell has Wallace killed...this is sad because Wallace is a little-boy member of the Barksdale...uh, pharmaceutical empire. He is so young that sometimes he brings toy superheroes out to sling. This is the death that makes both Simon and Pelecanos saddest of all the billions of sad things they've written in careers full of the writing of sadness.
'Where Wallace at?, Stringer?"
The death of Ray Cole is another saddest, not because of the loss of Cole, who was played as the biggest schmuck detective since Medavoy on NYPD Blue, but because Cole was played by producer Robert Colesberry, who was not a schmuck, and who, much like David Mills this year, succumbed to a sudden heart ailment...the wake of Cole was a tribute to the real loss the Wire family suffered.
David Simon is probably beginning to feel like the Jessica Fletcher of the writers' room, but sir, if you find people worry about working with you,I'll have an EKG and take my chances...I wasn't supposed to live anyway.(Who says I can't write a cover letter, man?)
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