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@markangelou93682 ай бұрын
Bc Paulie told them to stay away from Port Newark
@Can_O_Crayola2 ай бұрын
Even on Sundays?!
@EddieBaileyTSMGАй бұрын
😂
@harborwolf222 ай бұрын
It'$ almo$t impo$$ible to figure out why criminal$ would want to continue doing crime in citie$ like Baltimore.
@BaronSaturday662 ай бұрын
They don't call it Charm City for nothing. Clearly they missed Baltimore so much they decided to return.
@treyfrm7262 ай бұрын
Because in cities like Baltimore where crime is rampant and there is more criminals than police the good criminals can and will last and live long successful lives
@Noscrapsinmyscrapbook2 ай бұрын
This guy has really run out of ideas for videos
@DSPHistoricalSociety2 ай бұрын
Who know$?
@shaneodwyer6132Ай бұрын
The spot must be an absolute goldmine
@kabooby02 ай бұрын
I've always interpreted the "I am not even Greek" to be more of tongue-in-cheek joke about them having various passports.
@cristristam90542 ай бұрын
Wouldn't he say "im not even only greek" ? Or you think his greek citizenship is revoked? But then he would still be greek ethnically and probably still see himself as greek.
@travisgames66082 ай бұрын
Tbf.. His accent wasn't Greek. So he was right. Prop Joe and his guys were just ignorant thugs. They didn't even know his fake alias name.
@mikelavine94522 ай бұрын
I always thought this too
@jonathanlynch50312 ай бұрын
I always figured they were from the Balkans when they said they weren't Greek
@jobuswayne93542 ай бұрын
He's a Turk
@sole__doubt2 ай бұрын
Because its a huge drug market that they had control over.
@koDaffi2 ай бұрын
Pretty much. It's always been the main hub for drugs coming into the country. Same reason NY sends all their stuff there. I live 1 state over and people always drive the 3 hours to Baltimore to score and bring it back. It's had the largest open air drug market since forever. It's never turned into a Kensington situation either which is more intriguing to me as to why. The city knows it's there and they can't stop it, it's almost like they all have a secret agreement.
@Livefromthewhytehouse2 ай бұрын
@@koDaffiprob bc the people running r real criminals n know how to run it, as compared to phili where it seems like even the dealers r on hard rugs too! No one is really in control lol
@smellsuperb12 ай бұрын
Because the Greek really is untouchable, and the people we know he has in his pocket probably aren't even a fraction of the people we don't know about that are also in his pocket. They operate with impunity. If they have an FBI agent on the payroll, that means they have FBI, DEA, ATF, and potentially federal level politicians.
@jonw82712 ай бұрын
'Business, always business'
@Cbart232 ай бұрын
They owned the city. Why wouldn’t they return ?
@madcapglass14542 ай бұрын
Because it's heavily implied that they "own" many cities, and Baltimore was getting hot AF.
@Jasonification22 ай бұрын
they would never have given up prop joe for freaking MARLOW
@Livefromthewhytehouse2 ай бұрын
Well not really bc they know time changes n w changing time is changing of environment; people like prop eventually would either die or retire if lucky, bc people n violence gets worse.. there’s always a upgrade in anything
@monadreher24282 ай бұрын
Spiros would've never. The Greek himself though...clearly on a different type of timing.
@DSPHistoricalSociety2 ай бұрын
It wasn't their choice
@Jasonification22 ай бұрын
@@Livefromthewhytehouse but it shows a lack of loyalty to a well-loved business associate
@Livefromthewhytehouse2 ай бұрын
@@Jasonification2 ure wrong tho they did give up Prop Joe, remember there was a point where they could’ve shut marlo down n they let him take out Prop.
@goodyeoman45342 ай бұрын
The Greeks returned to Baltimore because the show's writers understood that they were popular with fans.
@amirikiri41122 ай бұрын
Cute, fuck.
@NotableSavage22 ай бұрын
@@amirikiri4112Great use of the comma
@Handleyokandle2 ай бұрын
They had the most boring season tbh
@monadreher24282 ай бұрын
Lmaooo I'm dead. Personally I always thought basically what cine ranter said at the end. The Greek is essentially untouchable. People like him are the most successful criminals for a reason. I also always assumed that the diner guy would inform them when to come for meetings since we see Marlo make contact with Vondas through him. They probably would've involved The Greeks more into the season and plot if they had more episodes. Most likely would've still gotten away with everything in the end though either way since people like The Greek rarely if ever at all get caught. It was great seeing them again though (especially because I literally never expected to and had actually kind of forgotten about them myself tbh) in particular Spiros. I'd say it's poor writing but I enjoyed it so idc 😂😂😂
@goodyeoman45342 ай бұрын
If the Greeks were involved in gun running, we need to check what wars America was involved in around that time. As for Vondas's nationality, it could be anything and isn't the key bit of evidence. If he had a background in business or something he could have built up contacts in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East over time. If I had to guess I'd say he was Israeli.
@TheShahofBaltimore2 ай бұрын
We need more THE WIRE!!
@jimbozium2 ай бұрын
To get to the other side.
@bigghurt1872 ай бұрын
Thinking in real world situations. Baltimore was the perfect hub for them. Especially being there money maker is heiron. During the 90s and early 2000s crack was the main drug everywhere except Baltimore. The market is there and all there connections. Its not like now where opiates/heiron/fentanyl are in all major states back then it was a small market in most states except Baltimore
@apstrike2 ай бұрын
Because they have plot armor.
@jessejohnson942 ай бұрын
As well as the wire is wrote and is realistic in many aspects. I agree with your answer
@grahambuckerfield46402 ай бұрын
@@jessejohnson94 Watching in effect the follow up, ‘We Own This City’, based more heavily on more recent and some well publicized cases, nothing would surprise me about the Baltimore PD, in terms of incompetence, corruption and events, some based on reports even in the international press, that the writers of The Wire might have thought, ‘too much, not credible’.
@thelizardking30362 ай бұрын
because it’s just a very Greek thing to pretend to leave a city, and to then sneak back. Word to the wise, remember Troy!
@jpmnky2 ай бұрын
I always figured they were just that well connected to someone up high of this.
@kaganms2 ай бұрын
I always interpreted the line " And of course I'm not even Greek" not to mean that he wasn't from Greece but that the passport and whatever identity he was using was not Greek. As Vondas says "Many names, many passports... We can do many things"
@jobuswayne93542 ай бұрын
He's a Turk...them Islamic prayer beads gave it away
@Cbart232 ай бұрын
Cineranter you should upgrade your audio. Don’t compromise like Uncle Philly.
@dakf6602 ай бұрын
The audio was fine
@yads2k12 ай бұрын
I truly have a Wire topic that no one ever touched on, I really wanna say it but I want the channel person to know first. I'm telling you it's a real topic and I need someone to do video about it.
@lproof84722 ай бұрын
At the end of season 2 it was foretold that the port would be taken over by the feds. The Greek works with the feds. It makes sense they’d be back.
@shawnbbunbbbybbb39422 ай бұрын
I love that one scene where they called one of the Greeks guys asking if a body was theirs and he just said did he have a head? Yes Did he have hands? Yes Then it wasn’t us
@DrtyALGreen2 ай бұрын
I think a bigger example of poor writing is that Nikki is supposed to take his family to witness protection from the Feds. Then during the grain pier condo ribbon cutting Nikki is there with the rest of the union guys. In fact Nikki is being the loudest.
@Thestray1872 ай бұрын
I think maybe the cops wouldn't think they come back to the exact place they were before
@World0fWowcraft2 ай бұрын
It might be like in Bronx Tale's, availability. It’s a wise strategy against cutthroat competitors, and we saw they got connections to the Feds
@KingBluetooth662 ай бұрын
I think Baltimore was just one of the cities they had business in. They would travel around the country only staying in a city for a few weeks.
@shaneodwyer6132Ай бұрын
The Wire, The Sopranos & Breaking Bad really are the holy trinity of great TV... We'll never see anything to match any of them again. The fact videos are being made regularly about all 3 years later says it all about their genius and longevity.
@CBS682 ай бұрын
Are you ever gonna talk about "the shield"?It's a great show so underrated
@BaronSaturday662 ай бұрын
You recognize the same actor from both no doubt.
@fabianking9972 ай бұрын
It's repetitive
@MrN0where2 ай бұрын
Would definitely like to see him cover The Shield. An underrated show.
@steelydan4492 ай бұрын
It was better before Kurt Sutter got involved.
@koDaffi2 ай бұрын
@@steelydan449Kurt Sutter was writer since it first started...
@3einEye2 ай бұрын
How would anyone recognise him? He shaved his moustache
@erics3622 ай бұрын
Better question is HOW? They were already identified (not in name, but by appearance, locations, and associates) by local and federal law enforcement. Returning to Baltimore without raising police attention seems impossible.
@slothretaliation17522 ай бұрын
They must have gotten the info that the BPD is in dire straits and the feds arent pursuing the leads they had
@damnitfreddy39932 ай бұрын
Racism,it’s not explained but it’s implied multiple times thru out series,perfect point was season 2,when they were talking about the deal they gave white mike
@breadbread42262 ай бұрын
Known to like 5-10 people in the police force, mostly the same 5-10 that took some time to realise Avon was out of jail whilst they were investigating his organisation iirc.
@NikiK572 ай бұрын
Remember that the Wire setting is totally different from today. They have no facial recognition or anything around. Also remember how the police department is portrayed in the series - mismanaged, totally lacking manpower and proper training, leadership reassigning people to whatever makes them look better etc. How many times did Daniels, Mcnulty and others fcked themselves over just because they wanted to do real police work and do things properly till the end? Everyone hated them for that... Most of the cases in the series ended up pretty much flat compared to what they did...
@ra09292 ай бұрын
Not impossible with the number of names and passports they supposedly had access to. And they also had a mole in the FBI, that could presumably run counter to local law enforcement efforts. And they fly under the radar, never calling attention to themselves.
@seed2smoke2 ай бұрын
They never left
@jaycareaga99292 ай бұрын
We saw them leave but they left someone else in charge of the connection. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4bTmXeMaLWdrdksi=x36Rl74Zfi0TFuQx
@daveb3052 ай бұрын
Budget reasons?
@slthjawa5062gggghhjjjjjkkkk2 ай бұрын
Why did the Greeks come back ? ... maybe ... just maybe ... there's a high demand for their product, zero danger from law enforcement, so they cooked up this zany scheme to keep makeing money. Who needed it explained?
@monadreher24282 ай бұрын
I mean I never did 😂 That's clearly the route the show is taking for their story arc. I for one enjoyed seeing The Greek and Spiros again but I definitely don't think it's wrong for people to take criticism at their return. Personally I always thought that more episodes would've made everything involving The Greeks in Season 5 more sensible. Instead it's just passable at best and ridiculous at worst lml
@tad19802 ай бұрын
i don't actually remember this, but did they ever leave? like couldnt' they have been in the background during season 3?
@virgolife88322 ай бұрын
Still waiting on the big clearance from oz retrospective 😂😂😂😊
@asavelakuse6865Ай бұрын
Shipping and location. I noticed in one of the videos that even after the whole Sobotka thing cargo was still being unloaded at the docks while nothing was being loaded since moving drugs like heroin from Asia goes two ways Afghanistan and the golden triangle. The asians supply the south americans via Mexico thru going to Panama. While from the east herion goes thru central asia to Europe then America at the time Europeans were as concerned with drugs that much plus with old criminal organisations like the french connection and Italians losing power in their respective places by early 2000s corruption in occupied Afghanistan led to high levels of opium poppies being farmed globalisation taking root and only the war on terror ongoing before iraq insurgency. For the greeks having established routes for human trafficking meant having routes for drugs something that doesn't need oxygen to survive meant Baltimore was a good place to base themselves plus the didn't only supply in Baltimore. When you operate like the greeks usually it's transnational with other organisations involved Sergei a russian of working for a greek who is not greek who might be Albanian, Armenian or Balkan I'm taking it from the conversation he had with that Turk they killed bad history all in between. Transnational organisations operate with limited contact that means if you arrest a colombian who was supplying bikers who were supplying african americans then apart from getting another supplier these organisations couldn't depend on the other to survive as someone else will replace them.
@Georgious2 ай бұрын
Their FBI handler (who is Greek) has a backdoor into every local police department! As soon as trouble arises they learn almost emidiately! Also the Greek is a Greek no matter what his passport says. Vondas is Greek, the electronic store owner is Greek. The Greek tells the Turkish sailor; I don't hate the Turks thats the old world. That guy doesn't know him as "the Greek", he's a Turkish sailor not even from B-more. So two options: 1. fake identity. 2. Greek diaspora are legion! Hell there's a Cretan community in Syria lmfao! Dude is op top of things well informed and protected. We don't give Mcnulty and Freamon enough credit. No one else would've even gotten close!
@johnshooter47632 ай бұрын
Could he be from the Balkans?
@r.plante29162 ай бұрын
I was thinking he was Armenian from his reaction to the Turkish flag.
@johnshooter47632 ай бұрын
Do armenians look turkish? We have the Kardashian sisters forced on us 🤔
@zamplify2 ай бұрын
I'm not even Greek
@JeffTheHokie2 ай бұрын
How do you know it was the same exact restaurant? They could easily be working out of a different diner. Also how do you know they are even in Baltimore? Maybe Marlo just had to drive a little to get there.
@1bigstash2 ай бұрын
The Greeks never left. They changed their names. They said shipments would continue in a week. It business is continuing surely they would be close by
@RD-zj6vc2 ай бұрын
It just hit me that the Russian from the Sopranos must have decided to switch families and join the Greeks in Baltimore.
@paulgordon6949Ай бұрын
The greeks returned because they knew the investigation on them was over and they were home free. If it heated up again then they would just move on again. The only odd thing was that they set up shop again in thst same diner. In reality im sure they would find a new spot. But that was just because its fiction and the fans would recognise the old diner and it works for the purposes of the show.
@JK-gu3tlАй бұрын
Baltimore has a port.
@HabitualLine-StepperАй бұрын
Because the script is the script... Always.
@scs28502 ай бұрын
Who else will be the plug
@foggylungsАй бұрын
My name is not my name. That should always be a street code.
@benoitwaffle54392 ай бұрын
They did like Avon said when they waited for someone else "to stop a bullet" and the police moved onto other matters so they can get back to work. Wee-Bey went to Philly to lay low, but the plan wasn't for him to stay there. They took a break to wait for the heat to die down, and then returned. Port cities have a lot of value for smugglers. Rotterdam and Antwerp aren't centers of the European drug trade because there is something unique about those people. The location matters. You want to deal with a busy port to get lost in the crowd. I-95 runs right through the city, and takes you to all the major cities on the east coast. It makes no sense to do a real relocation. Also, the Greek might have been Cypriot or Albanian. If he wants an alias that is hard to track, that is one way to do it. If he speaks Greek, nobody is going to give a second thought to whether he is actually Greek or not. If the police start looking at visas of Greek nationals or whatnot to try to get a name, it is a deadend.
@JMJGrandson2 ай бұрын
Easiest answer, they weren’t scared😭😭
@Stevemontana19Ай бұрын
What about boris? How is he still alive? Wouldn’t the greeks know he ratted them out? Bein that they have so many connections?
@frankmurphy72342 ай бұрын
Correct me if I'm wrong but what does he like a government asset in some way or capacity if so the criminal justice system doesn't work the same for him as it does most people
@NateG2192 ай бұрын
They barely left, they were on a business trip
@gmac88522 ай бұрын
I thought that they came primarily because of the dead girls in the container.
@MyNameisMyName252 ай бұрын
Bmore was a gold mine
@justinbieber802816 күн бұрын
Why are all these videos full of editing errors
@CineRanter16 күн бұрын
Please see the pinned comment
@r.plante29162 ай бұрын
"Mary-Land"
@indiansummer5122Ай бұрын
Having a brutal monopoly is not a function of capitalism, it is manipulation of the system. Why we blame the system instead of the people who have corrupted it, is beyond me. Must be easier than contemplating nuance.
@ERRATAS070723 күн бұрын
Maaaaaan stop with your BS. This is the true depiction of absolute capitalism. Leaving morals out for maximum profit.
@indiansummer512222 күн бұрын
@ spoken like a true dolt. Take some responsibility and maybe you wouldn’t be in the situation you are in. Stop blaming people who are just genuinely better than you, make better decisions, and will have a far superior life. Grow up little one.
@Notslimy2 ай бұрын
My honest question is, why they didn't kill Nick? It was just because Vondas see him like a son?
@JMJGrandson2 ай бұрын
Maybe, he probably felt bad for the kid and wanted 2 give him a chance🤷🏾♂️
@lambrosk37902 ай бұрын
Kaltros is a Greek last name. Even the actor playing agent Kaltros looks Greek. Plus they all speak the language and The Greek looks like he could be the agent's father. I just assumed Kaltros was compromised and most likely had a personal relationship with the Greek. Especially when he got the call to check the shipment of coke. Kaltros had a "cat that ate the canary," look while on the phone. Then there's the diner. Sure a man who is an asset to the government might set up shop in the same location. But the fact that the Greek is intent on being there just seems to be a move a man who's used to cheating the system would do. Much like being framed in court can be more dangerous than being guilty, but, having a fair trial; having a corrupt agent can yield far more benefit than having to report to a legitimate one.
@KHLB5162 ай бұрын
Cus they r making money in Baltimore and their ports
@cococock24182 ай бұрын
The greeks just out of nowhere saying "ok, screw prop joe, we're gonna deal with marlow now" is such bad writing I'm sorry. They would have never done this.
@Therock007dmx2 ай бұрын
@cococock2418 The Greeks knew that Marlo was going to kill Prop Joe so why not be cool with the guy who was going to be king rather you liked it or not.
@Rupe_Singh2 ай бұрын
It actually fits well with the Greeks mantra of its business, it’s always business
@cristristam90542 ай бұрын
Maybe it is an IRAN-contra situation where they are authorized from the highest level of the government to sell drugs. In case of someone on the lower levels (police ,citizens etc) figures them out ,the higher-ups who authorized them have nothing to fear as the files get declassified WAAAY after they(higher-ups) are dead and in that case they get processed as regular criminals.
@taysmith93212 ай бұрын
You ever heard of hiding in plain sight thats what the greek did
@Bobbibouchersmumwasright2 ай бұрын
Balti-moor…. (Look into it .. start with Bunk MOOR-LAND) etc etc also “ we are not even Greek!” … there’s enough clues.
@DrtyALGreen2 ай бұрын
You Agamemnon not Agent Caltross 😂
@mikef60632 ай бұрын
Are any of them actually Greek? Whatever happened there
@mikef60632 ай бұрын
Except Vondas obviously
@johnshooter47632 ай бұрын
I wanted the greek gone, he was a government informant and was not a stand up guy! Had Jimmy pinched him, he would had got killed in prison yard to shut him up!
@spencerb99982 ай бұрын
Because who other than a Baltimore crew can move your shit off the docks, on time, and where it's supposed to go. All of it.
@jacobrathbun5570Ай бұрын
i think he was greek, he only said he wasn’t because he has passports that say he is from other places
@mRipX2 ай бұрын
to oversee the business they left someone else run while they hid for a bit
@rufusblue80442 ай бұрын
Did he have head? Did he have hand? Why is it always boris?
@scottboyd38382 ай бұрын
Cypriot I'd say
@mach1mustangguy9922 ай бұрын
I always wondered that myself. You think they woulda sent in underlings. But guess they figured they won. I mean they did have that FBI guy on their team. I don’t think he was a handler I think he was part of the team bro. They always got a man up in the govt. ask the mob. I know that for a fact.
@Thestray1872 ай бұрын
They came back because come on they had the world by the b+lls so why not come back and clean up they were doing great
@keez9942 ай бұрын
He’s too big to fail.
@drizzlemaan2 ай бұрын
Hey Cineranter. As a fan and someone who’s watched all of your videos, I’d love to see some of your takes on The Godfather of Harlem series. There’s actors from The Sopranos, The Wire, and more that create an awesome ‘gangster + social commentary’ show. Cheers and Va Fangool 🤌
@CineRanter2 ай бұрын
@@drizzlemaanThank you. I do plan to see it some day
@kemperboyd12092 ай бұрын
Bad writing is why.
@C.O-EDITS2 ай бұрын
One of the few moments where the wire was unrealistic
@JazJaz-su6nb2 ай бұрын
Never heard this take on some of them weak a** soprano episodes you glorify so much