"Which TV show repped your city best? Treme, Wire, Sopranos"
Only been to New Orleans once (a couple of days before Katrina), but how well / accurately does Treme depict NOLA?
I never really went to NJ like that, I feel like the Jersey you see on Sopranos is only representative of a very small corner of Jersey - it does it well, though. Right?
Of all the TV shows ever with a theme of A city, in your opinion - having watched and lived / stayed in said city, what series did the most believable and accurate portrayal of your town?
1. "Word is the Wire was originally going to be in Philly...." In response to Reply # 0
but our sucka mayor was concerned about how the show would reflect on the city. I always wonder if it had been how accurately it would have repped the 215.
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10. "That doesn't make any sense at all." In response to Reply # 1
The creators, who also made Homicide & The Corner, of The Wire made the series in relation to those two story arcs.
Further, State Property was shot in Philly in '01, why would John Street say yes to making of that and no to The Wire. Also, that's not how Greater Philadelphia Film Office works.
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28. "Not exactly how that story goes" In response to Reply # 1
My understanding is that some folks in Baltimore and Maryland started feeling uncomfortable with the depiction of the city after the first season, and then The Wire threatened to move production to Philly, cuz the cities look similar enough to have Philly stand in as Baltimore. So it was a threat to Baltimore and Maryland big wigs ("we'll just move production to Philly and CALL it Baltimore"). Bigwigs stopped complaining.
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3. "This Is Us, Friday Night Tykes Steel Country" In response to Reply # 0
I had a long list of movies.
Silence of the Lambs prolly reps the city best cause it’s gray as shit.
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8. "Dark times...sadly, still dark. " In response to Reply # 4
I've always toyed with the ideas of writing a 90s flip of growing up in Baltimore - sort of a Wonder Years type thing. A very unique time. I need to get back to it.
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21. "I'll never forget the first time I say Sunny In Philly" In response to Reply # 12
I lived in Center City at the time and was like "yo, I was just playing at that court the other day. I had no expectations but that shit had me rolling.
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13. "Veep" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Jan-12-18 11:09 AM by Walleye
Lots of cities are stuffed with venal dipshits, but only in DC do they think you should congratulate them for the higher calling of working for (or worse, not for but just in proximity-to) the federal government.
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Almost by default. It's on a very short list for apolitical scripted show set in Washington DC. Others that come to mind were The District and That's My Mama. As somebody who grew up in an apolitical family in and around DC, I appreciate that somebody else saw the value in making a show like that. I appreciate DC Cab for the same reasons.
17. "New York Undercover" In response to Reply # 0
lol
Nah i lived briefly as a baby in NYC in the 80's and then came back in 99, so i missed the golden era. but watching old ny undercover is beautiful man. Shots of the abandoned railroad tracks that is now 'The Highline', and an arcade in Times Square, some classic stuff.
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18. "L.A.: Insecure, South Central, Girlfriends" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Jan-12-18 12:22 PM by -DJ R-Tistic-
All in different ways.
Insecure - The late 20's, early 30's, professional, and shows the L.A. native "kinda, but not really hood" lifestyle more than anything we've seen
South Central - Very very short lived, and dark as hell, but it definitely felt like how South Central did at the time.
Girlfriends - Basically what Insecure would be if the characters were transplanted and more successful, and it def represented that time period. The neighborhood was that Mid Wilshire, Miracle Mile side, and that side is never really shown on TV because it's literally and figuratively "below Hollywood, and above the hood" location and economics wise.
And that's just me mentioning Black shows and the Black lifestyle. I wouldn't mention "Entourage" because that's like 0.5% of the population who's able to really live like that...but I've for sure had nights that resembled what they experienced.
25. "No great options...Nebraska and Election" In response to Reply # 0 Sat Jan-13-18 08:46 AM by Nodima
The problem with Nebraska, for me, is that it captures my state but not my town. Omaha is amazingly different from the rest of the state, including Lincoln. But Nebraska very much captures what this state is.
Election, I see a lot of people like those people and have memories of those sorts of teenagers when I was in school, but that’s not necessarily a man “Omaha” movie despite being set here. That said, considering the growth and change this city has experienced in the past 20 years, a lot of those location shots are incredible to see as a local now.
I will say that I’ve heard more than one person from out of town that’s visited, and is black, tell me they felt Snow on tha Bluff could’ve been filmed here and not lost much of its economic vibe. So there’s that. I haven’t met many non white, non local people that have anything nice to say about this city.
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40. "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" In response to Reply # 0
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