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[saavedra77]

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[delerium69.livejournal.com]

I just added you. My Twitter name is the same as here: delerium69.

I like your icon, btw.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Added you back!

Homicide fan? I've always liked it, but only ever saw occasional re-runs. Now I have the whole series, and I've been making steady progress through the whole thing, in order, start to finish. Sharp dialogue, interesting things to say about sex/death, dark sensibility (which is really how I roll, after all ...). I think that the show really anticipated the kinds of things that HBO would later do with the Sopranos, the Wire, even Deadwood, during the following decade.

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Aside from amazing writing and acting, it contains some personal meaning for me because I lived in Baltimore for 3 years, so much of the vibe that flowed through the stories resonated with me. Unlike many shows, where the location is incidental and are rarely filmed in the actual cities themselves, it was all about Baltimore. As with the films of John Waters, the city (and other parts of Maryland as well) became another character of the show. It was one of those programs that, even with mediocre scripts, was still better than the majority of television programming. Yes, it was dark, but it was as real to me as reading/watching the local news. It can be a violent and rough city, but it has character and passion and it's citizens are tenacious in their existence there and in their desires to make it a decent place to live. And I love how it's very neighborhood-oriented city.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

I've never been, but Baltimore sounds like a fascinating place--based on Homicide, the Wire, the work of John Waters, Barry Levison, etc. The filmic Baltimore reminds me a little bit of Philadelphia--another Midlantic city, the one in whose shadow I grew up: old for an American city, groaning under the weight of a lot of history, heavily working-class, a little dangerous. So it seemed familiar to me, too.

Speaking of incidental locations: It's really laughable how unrecognizable Seattle looks on TV and film. I think the last major motion pictures actually filmed on location here were Cameron Crowe's Say Anything and Singles. TV shows often make it look like NYC or Boston, which is pretty ridiculous. I don't think anyone's ever quite captured the feel of neighborhood life, here. But that's another story ...