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I can’t tell you how much I disliked it when it first aired. It took me away from Avon, from Stringer, from Omar. But it’s only when you look out and view that season as a whole that you can really come to appreciate it. David Simon was trying to show that you can’t trace the drug and crime epidemic through race, but by class.

I thought Jamie Hector played Marlo so well and with so much restraint. There’s a funny anecdote that Gbenga (Chris Partlow) told me that he and Jamie ran into Russell Simmons and Russell just kind of looked at them and took a step back. Gbenga said that he forgot about the impact he and Jamie can have in public together. But Marlo represented a detachment from the previous generation—one that played in the game, but also had a certain set of rules and decorum that they lived by. Marlo was the embodiment of someone who wanted pure, uncut power.

and it's all in the game, yo

“In his brilliance, he never touched it again… He just dropped that little seed in there." - John Doman about David Simon.

Favorite scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyvDRxK--o