The Wire’s Bunny Colvin & His Quest to Disrupt The System

[@thetake]

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[@seebothways9630]

If only Bunny could see the corruption of FBI

[@LaShondaFelton32083]

Good morning and afternoon @thetake, REQUEST: The untold truth of simon oakland and kenneth tobey

[@Afam_GodofWar]

Ive been waiting years for you guys to do Bodie and STILL you havent done him. Hes up there with Omar as one of the best characters of the show.

[@lukesta12]

Bunny seeing Namond succeeding in Student Debate in the last season brings the audience a well deserved smile.

[@MistaP13]

If it wasn’t for Bunny’s kindness and support Namond would have easily been a statistic!

[@ButtersCCookie]

What about Dukie and the other kids? As long as you save one? While everyone else dies?

[@noahmclaughlin7921]

@@ButtersCCookie Nobody's saying it's okay that Duke and the others suffer, the point is just that Namond getting out and being happy is an incredibly cathartic part of the story. Bunny tried systemic change and he was beaten to the ground for it. Carver, Prez, and Dennis tried to help the other boys and even they failed. They deserve saving as much as Namond and as much as the millions of kids living in poverty or dangerous places. We're just happy that at least one of the boys got a good ending.

[@renatocezar7831]

Man, I'm loving that you guys are coming back with those characters analysis! Please keep on the good work with other series (especially the older ones).

[@seebothways9630]

Ken's tried check up the program. And the speech seems like it applies to the Barbies when they had all the responsibility

[@iknowwhocybeleis]

Thanks ever so much for this video. Please please consider keeping The Wire character studies coming, they are too awesome, pretty much in line with what this show deserves! As for Bunny, I have always admired him and to what extent he managed to keep his integrity and not be deformed. When Hamsterdam was raided in the end, it made me so angry, still does every time I watch the series

[@sammeettelang6267]

Robert Wisdom who plays Bunny was also great as Jim Moss in the last two seasons of Barry, another great HBO show.

[@gabrielidusogie9189]

Just finished the Wire. What a series. So much to say, so much to analyze. Bunny, the only real good police

[@nickmonts]

It is easy to forget that bunny colvin was introduced to us when he came to the scene of when the kid was hit by the stray bullet

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

You could tell from how they shot his scenes that they were laying the foundation for the third season's storyline.

[@sterlingross919]

I think of Bunny and Hamsterdam (along with The Wire as a whole) as representing the futility of change in bureaucracy.

[@nekrataali]

It's one of the central themes of the show. It's about how laws and bureaucracy interfere with justice and morality.

[@annejohnson5875]

The Wire is one of my all time favorite shows and Bunny is absolutely one of my favorite characters on it, next to Bubbles and Slim Charles.

[@TheCybervoyeur]

Cant believe this video has so few views! Bunny Colvin is one of the most well-liked characters in The Wire. He's up there with Slim Charles.

[@LauraSomeNumber]

Honestly depressing how accurate this is and that politicians still don't get it. Our government keeps increasing policing in my neighborhood and my street gets worse every time.

[@smurfyday]

Because the dysfunction helps some people, and the costs accrue to the very community being policed, not that of most of the people who vote for it. There's also a huge racial aspect of these issues

[@juha-pekkaaaltonen8742]

Damn I've been waiting this for years

[@tamago2474]

Thanks for making this!

[@cinemanuggets24]

The episode Hamsterdam is probably my favourite TV episodes ever

[@theitalianalien8477]

this is the content i want from this channel

[@erics362]

My favorite character in The Wire, hands down.

[@christiemole4435]

I would love to see an analysis of Hamsterdam and if anything remotely similar has ever been tried and what the results were. It was so emotional watching that experiment unfold during the show - hope then despair.

[@madcena01]

It happened in Portugal when drugs were decriminalized

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

A section of a city being abandoned to drug use and crime brings you hope?

[@ormbunke]

@@equusquaggaquagga536 dude did you even watch the show?

[@Chiefteeth1]

@@equusquaggaquagga536yes. Whether you agree with hamsterdam or not, violent crime went down significantly because the dealers and buyers were isolated to one designated area. In a perfect world drug dealers shouldn’t exist but in the real world the best you can do is keep it to a minimum

[@MrQwertasd12345]

Love that there continuing the wire series I've been waiting forever

[@janaclara7045]

Amazing!!! Thanks for covering the wire. Please more of this!!!😍

[@lukesta12]

Finally more character Analysis!

[@todaystomsawyer]

It’s simple: I see The Wire - I smash the like button

[@adamadeyinka5753]

Do a character analysis on Bubbles next please

[@jo_jo_jo]

Oh gosh, I love this kind of character analyses. I'm still waiting one about Sansa from GoT, going from rook to queen.

[@tarman8568]

Beautiful done 🎯

[@thegirlabides6851]

"Car setty" had me laughing

[@louielyons9365]

❤❤❤❤ yes the wire love to see it!!! More please

[@King-wl6zj]

Do Bubbles, Micheal Lee or the Sobatkas next

[@youdontknowmegigna]

9:20 The funny thing about that consolation. . . Namond's trajectory is alluded to potentially be the Clay Davis path.

[@nekrataali]

I think Namond is more likely to turn into Bunk. He'll see what happens to his friends and want to change the status quo Bunny tried to do. (Michael -> Omar, Duke -> Bubbles, Randy -> Prop Joe)

[@pontiacGXPfan]

thank you, Robert Wisdom

[@CarlitoXSG]

You promised this video sooooo long ago and i'm happy that you delivered. In another video you have said that this show is so well written that maybe every character should have his own video essay such as this. You did an excellent work on McNulty, Omar, Stringer and Marlo, and there are several other characters that deserve a video like this such as D'Angelo Barksdale, Preston "Boadie" Brodus, Thomas Carcetti, William "Bunk" Moreland, Ervin H. Burrel, Ronald Pryzbylewski, Gus Haynes, but above all of these, if there is a character that REALLY deserve a take, it must be Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins. I would really really really like if you manage to do a take about him in that very insightful way that only you can. In my humble (MF with a big ass d***) opinion: "Bubbles" is the real soul of the entire show or, at least, the most spiritual character. Almost like a living incarnation of the city, he's so "sistematically" broken inside, with several unresolved issues that it's hard not to think that through him we are not just seeing the hardships of being a drug addict, but rather mirroring the entire city and his inability to heal itself. During the first 3 seasons we see him in a downward spiral, struggling with his addiction and he reaches his breaking point when accidentally kills Sherrod. The hopeful and spiritual part comes when, despite all of his pain and burden, he manages to be at peace with it and ready to move on to whatever next thing in life, or, in his own words: "...ain't no shame on holding on the grief, as long as you make room for other things too". When he says this phrase to the other addicts in the room he's showing he finally has redeem himself, but also through him the writers are giving us a hopeful answer for what Deputy Burrell states in season 3, which I only can interpret like this: "if "the gods will not save us", any possible redemption must come from within." I have the impression this character maybe conveys the hope that David Simon and Ed Burns still have to see their beloved city of Baltimore to find the inner strength to save themselves just like Bubbles did. I know that you girls have the skill to pay tribute to Bubbles (and also the magnificent portrayal by Andre Royo) in the only way the character, the actor, the creator and writers and utterly the city deserves (and probably needs). Today more than ever.

[@Gesuselsaviour]

Bunny is legit my role model and someone I aspire to be like.

[@theitalianalien8477]

very well written. Good job!!

[@alexknox814]

Guy built hell on earth with hampsterdamm nobody can deny that

[@erics362]

Clarification: Bunny didn’t lose his retirement (entirely). He agreed took a Lieutenant's retirement (instead of a Major's) to save his subordinate supervisors from the wrath of Rawls. There is a notable difference in the value of those 2 pensions, he didn’t lose his police pension altogether. He's still the most awesome character on The Wire.

[@erics362]

CarKetti (phonetically)

[@Lonesurvivor256]

Totally thought that was Captain Holt at a glance

[@n.kelati]

really great essay and novel observations-- relating bunny to namond in the way that you do--

[@TimesFM4532]

He shouldn’t have been a cop but run for office. The mayor should not be aiming for governor, improving Baltimore would be a great spring board to higher office in through the Democratic Party

[@aeropavore]

6:05 As cool as it is to see Bunny teach the next generation, this is just another instance of David Simon romanticizing pre-War-On-Drugs policing. Police were still going after the working class and ethnic minorities back then, and surveillance programs were used to target civil rights groups very aggressively.

[@nekrataali]

I always read that scene as Bunny and Bey being nostalgic for a time period that didn't really exist. D'Angelo was killed by his friends and family (the same crew Wee-Bey belonged to) despite honoring the so-called "code" to protect his uncle. They have on these rose-tinted glasses when in reality the game has always been the game.

[@admtpasi]

I love your wire content

[@AliceSnowstorm]

I love all your the wire episodes 💖

[@Natala00]

Please analyze Good Omens season 1 and season 2 (A show that comes across as a comedy but has surprisingly amount of depth and subtext that the fanbase is unable to describe it or agree on it. Not to mention the sad slow burner romance at the center.)

[@f4_frost]

The wire was a gem

[@phyarth8082]

Living by the book. Any book the only book is Bible :) Life became to complicated, book is guidance not the setting for life.

[@mortishacanniba]

I might watch the show now just to watch the character's expression of true morality. 🙏

[@TheMerovingienne]

Please make sure the narrator has watched the show/knows how to pronounce the ethnic characters' names (Italian, Jewish)...

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

Why do I hear the whistle from the Ed, Edd and Eddy theme song in the background sporadically?

[@giantkiller56]

Great video...except, I can't get passed you calling him "Car-set-ti."

[@sammeettelang6267]

Please do a take on Better Call Saul characters.

[@matthewso84]

“Carsetti”? Come on…

[@100d2h]

Carsetti

[@281m.wasiqwasim3]

Who tf is carsetti lmao

[@seebothways9630]

You started wirh oraise legalizing all drugs by not enforcing drugs lows then end on drug addiction is bad

[@Giggleypuff1]

Hamsterdam seems great until you’re living in the middle of it.

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

The scene of Bubs walking through it was nightmarish

[@seebothways9630]

Kens Tried F with the program and all problems ij thar speech seem to relate before when the Barbies had the responsibility

[@gabrielidusogie9189]

Here is the worst cop in The Wire. And that’s saying a lot since ya know McNulty exists