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The Wire: McNulty Finds His Hamsterdam

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2008-01-14 10:35:01 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty? Even for regular viewers of a show that isn't afraid to show its characters at their worst, the sight of our beloved McNutty taking a swig from a flask, crossing himself, and strangling a corpse was a little hard to bear. The episode did its best to build McNulty's frustration showing his game attempts to get the FBI onboard the...
 
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The Wire: Jimmy McNulty Gets Profiled

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2008-02-26 10:15:26 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty to sign off on his lab work; Michael's stepfather's body yields a DNA match with Chris Partlow. Bunk is itching to serve the warrant but holds off for a few days to let Freamon make his case. Sydnor cracks the Stanfield cell-phone code, and Freamon realizes that with Cheese running one side of town and Marlo running the other,...
 
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The Wire: Jimmy McNulty Adds to His Rap Sheet

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2008-02-11 11:45:32 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty's bullshit, he punishes himself by going back to square one on every one of the bodies in the vacants. "You know why?" he asks a smirking McNulty. "Because I'm a murder police. I work murders. I don't fuck around with no made-up bullshit." The files lead him back to poor Randy Wagstaff, who's no more willing to share now that he's...
 
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The Wire: Burrell Bites the Dust; McNulty Takes a Bite Out of Crime

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2008-01-28 11:15:07 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty and Freamon are searching for another victim of their made-up serial killer. After a fruitless night spent questioning the homeless including everyone's favorite UCBT performer turned crazy guy in beloved HBO series Ptolemy Slocum they find their body, and Freamon pulls a set of teeth out of his pocket, the better to take a bite out...
 
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The Wire: One Last Long, Boozy Irish Wake for David Simons Accidental Masterpiece

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2008-03-10 08:00:36 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty's scheme), but the show's backgrounding of him. Where once Tommy Carcetti was a force in any room, now he recedes into his big leather chair while his chief of staff makes the earth move. We miss feisty old Tommy Carcetti; we'd liked to have seen that guy go mad with power, not be neutered by it In other news, David Simon is not...
 
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The Wire: Goodnight Moon

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2008-02-19 09:25:48 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty where she can go to get children's furniture. "Ikea," he says with a jaunty grin, but what starts as a 30 Rock esque plug turns into the most aggressive anti-product placement we've seen on television. Over the next hour we see Kima fighting the typically Ikean instructions to assemble a child's bed; at one point McNulty, in the...
 
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The Wire Takes a Vacation

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2008-01-23 10:00:50 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty's putting in actual overtime scraping together his cockamamy serial-killer scheme but is hamstrung by the laziness of his colleagues. He casually mentions to one of his Homicide buddies that he's starting to see a pattern in recent vagrant murders, only to have the detective respond with a resounding fart. Gus Haynes at the Sun is...
 
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The Wire: Omar Is Superman

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2008-02-04 11:00:42 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty has a whole city buying into his serial killer. And when Freamon gets Marlo's new cell number, he and McNulty launch a plan to set up a fake wiretap a plan that gets pushed helpfully along by budding fraud Jayson Scott Templeton when, addicted to the front-page play his serial-killer stories are getting, he fakes a phone call by the...
 
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The Wire: David Simon's Got a Brand-new Target

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2008-01-07 11:15:23 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...McNulty on the straight and narrow in Season Four, is apparently having problems keeping him there in Season Five. She puts in only a momentary appearance in this season's premiere, as a voice on the other end of the phone while McNulty, a drunk's drunk if ever there was one, unconvincingly claims he's working late. ("I always slur when I'm...
 
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