The Wire

[JazMerkin]

For the Brits it seems like I remember a fair amount of the actors are British are they not?

I know Stringer Bell is. Isn't McNulty Irish or something? I guess that's technically not being British. And Carcetti.

Nah, McNulty is posh British, Stringer Bell is ghetto British & Carcetti is Irish. There was someone else who apparently was, I think it might have been Freamon although I'm not sure

[Dark Lord Al]

my wife bought me the first boxset of the wire last christmas , we then bought all the others pretty sharpish , but personally i thought the last series was a bit to far fetched , as for BAND OF BROTHERS , i lost interest after the 640000 episode lol utter drivel.

[Zilla]

For the Brits it seems like I remember a fair amount of the actors are British are they not?

I know Stringer Bell is. Isn't McNulty Irish or something? I guess that's technically not being British. And Carcetti.

Nah, McNulty is posh British, Stringer Bell is ghetto British & Carcetti is Irish. There was someone else who apparently was, I think it might have been Freamon although I'm not sure

Sorry to resurrect this thread, just finished the last season. Freamon isn't British. He's American, but has lived in GB since the 70s. He's on the show Treme now.

[johnmaff36]

On the subject of british actors in these HBO shows, if anyone has seen the equally brilliant Oz, there are a number of british actors in it. One of the main men,forget the characters name (kareem?) but he was a bad-ass muslim leader and one of the main characters, was a guy called eamonn walker who,unbelievabely, played alf garnetts gay home-help in 'In sickness and in health'