"THE WIRE": Your Favorite Characters from: THE LAW

The poll will be for the sub-group: **“THE LAW.” **These are characters who are involved with law enforcement side of things. We included ADA Rhonda Pearlman here because it seemed like the best fit for her. Beadie Russel was placed in the Miscellaneous poll as we felt she fit in a few difference places and would be best served there.

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Per the discussion of HBO’s “The Wire” in this thread, as well as the discussion in this threadregarding polling to find out who people’s favorite characters from the show are, here is the first poll of several that Zeldar and I will be posting in the near future.

The idea was to break the entire cast (over 300 people have appeared on the show) by sub-groups based on how they fit into the story. We then we narrowed those groups down a bit by cutting out characters that appeared in under 10 episodes.

Of course, there are many recognizable and unforgettable characters in that under-10 range (Brother Mouzone was only in seven episodes, for example) so we cherry picked the ones that we thought should be included in the poll. We were pretty liberal w/ the choices but if you feel we missed somebody, feel free to post your thoughts in the thread for the group that character belongs to.

We will be allowing EIGHT (8) votes per person for this poll. Once we find the favorites from each group, we’ll create a master poll to determine the final results.

Characters will only be included in a single sub-group each, based on our best judgement as to which groups/storylines their character best fit into.

Lastly, in case your memory is fuzzy (I know mine was when we started working on this) here is a Wiki pagethat will help refresh your memory on who somebody is.

Here are the characters that will be voted on in this poll. Please note that the character’s name appears first, followed by the actor’s name and the number of episodes they appeared in.

Det. William ‘Bunk’ Moreland - Wendell Pierce (60 episodes)
Det. Shakima ‘Kima’ Greggs - Sonja Sohn (60 episodes)
Asst. State’s Atty. Rhonda Pearlman - Deirdre Lovejoy (60 episodes)
Dep. Comm. for Operations William A. Rawls - John Doman (60 episodes)
Lt. Cedric Daniels - Lance Reddick (60 episodes)
Det. James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty - Dominic West (60 episodes)
Det. Thomas ‘Herc’ Hauk - Domenick Lombardozzi (60 episodes)
Sgt. Ellis Carver - Seth Gilliam (60 episodes)
Det. Lester Freamon - Clarke Peters (59 episodes)
Det. Roland ‘Prez’ Pryzbylewski - Jim True-Frost (50 episodes)
Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell - Frankie Faison (47 episodes)
Det. Leander Sydnor - Corey Parker Robinson (45 episodes)
Sgt. Jay Landsman - Delaney Williams (45 episodes)
Howard ‘Bunny’ Colvin - Robert Wisdom (27 episodes)
Off. Michael Santangelo - Michael Salconi (25 episodes)
Det. Edward Norris - Edward T. Norris (22 episodes)
Major Valchek - Al Brown (19 episodes)
Det. Vernon Holley - Brian Anthony Wilson (18 episodes)
Lt. Dennis Mello - Jay Landsman (18 episodes)
Benjamin Busch … Off. Anthony Colicchio (18 episodes)
Ryan Sands … Off. Lloyd ‘Truck’ Garrick (16 episodes)
Richard DeAngelis … Col. Raymond Foerster / … (15 episodes)
Off. Kenneth Dozerman - Rick Otto (14 episodes)
FBI Spec. Agent Terrance ‘Fitz’ Fitzhugh - Doug Olear (13 episodes)
Det. Ray Cole - Robert F. Colesberry (10 episodes)
Off. Bobby Brown - Bobby J. Brown (10 episodes)

Tough job selecting. Every poll has been that way. It just goes to prove what I knew: this show is all about characters that you can identify with and care about. HBO is good about that sort of thing.

Shit. I picked McNulty as one of my favorites and then saw that I’d missed Colvin.

I voted for Herc, Landsman, and Freamon. Herc was just so damn funny, always put upon, nobody listening to him. Loved Landsman’s grin and the way he delivered his lines – he had just the right attitude to get along with the brass and the detectives. Freamon was just badass, and smart.

ETA: Fuck! Just noticed that I could have voted for 8. Oh well. I think the only one I’d add would be Santangelo.

I couldn’t vote for just Herc without voting for Carver too–they were like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, PB&J, even when they went their own separate ways.

The Bunk is running away with this one–it’s not quite like Bubs, but damn close.

Fuck, picked McNulty but missed Lester.

Carver, Kima and Prez and are my favourites by far, though.

Jeez, now the whole world will know who my favorite Wire characters are. There goes any chance of public office.

Cool Lester Smooth FTW