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Mr. Jenkins has been tearing it up for years. He's good in everything he is in including the Manhattan Project. A movie in which he's chewing up scenery in left and right. Huzzah to him and Robert Downey Jr. Who made David Poland scream so loud this morning at Sundance. He caused an avalanche two counties over.

Melissa Leo had the most practical response when she basically said, "Hey, this should help me get more work."

If anyone watched Homicide. She would have had a lot of work already. Freakin people: not watch Homicide.

Watching Homicide, but FRANK PEMBLETON DESERVED BETTER! Munch at least is still working.

Homicide achieved TOTAL OWNAGE. Still does, actually -- every Christmas and birthday, I get another boxed set of DVDs from the long-suffering Mrs. L.

And I humbly suggest that the "Subway" episod is one of the finest dramatic hours in the history of TV.

Comment: And I humbly suggest that the "Subway" episod is one of the finest dramatic hours in the history of TV. >>>

You know Homicide is a pretty damn good show when at least a half-dozen other episodes -- Black and Blue, Three Men and Adena, Crosetti, Colors, Every Mother's Son, Bop Gun, etc. -- could be arguably be considered stronger Homicide episodes than the excellent Subway. :)

I though A. was Heath Ledger for sure.

Well, "Every Mother's Son" is pretty damn close, I admit.

I hate to interrupt the "Homicide" love (and man did I ever love that show until the final seasons), but I thought I'd point out that MCN is operating in such a diminished capacity with the crew off in Sundance that, ironically, they STILL haven't posted the Spirit Awards nominees, where many that got no love from the Academy did see some from Film Independent.

As long as we're talking about great Homicide episodes, I'll throw my love behind "The Gas Man" and "A Doll's Eyes."

As long as we're talking about great Homicide episodes, I'll throw my love behind "The Gas Man" and "A Doll's Eyes."

Fucking Typekey.

Damnit, I was hoping B was Mickey Rourke.

Homicide's "Every Mother's Son" has one of the greatest usages of music in ANY filmed sequence, television or movies, you will ever see: Belly's "Full Moon/Empty Heart", played over the scene of Pembleton and Bayliss notifying a mother that her son is dead before raiding a suspect's home ("Don't look at me, lookin' back at you...").

It's damn near miraculous and I still haven't seen it topped to this day.

What was the HOMICIDE ep with Moses Gunn, where the entire ep was Secor and Braugher in the interrogation room trying to get a confession out of him? That was the best-- I think they did the whole show sans music and it had this unsettling buzzing flourescents sound providing an eerie undercurrent, and that was in the first season when they muted the colors down to where it was practically B&W.

Lex, that episode was "The Men and Adena."

Frank's return episode where they usage "Only Happy When It Rains" by Garbage (I think that's it), is a scene blazed upon my memory. I also have the scene with Clark Johnson at the biker funeral while the Pretenders "I'll Stand By You" stuck in my head as well. Such a great show that spawned a great mini-series in the Street, a rather damn trippy show in OZ, and the fucking WIRE. Few shows have such fine lineages.

One of the episodes from the last season used SUPER BON BON by SOUL COUGHING, that was total 1996/97 OWNAGE.

Random trivia - Believe it or not, Three Men And Adena (my pick for the best Homicide episode, although that's a lot like judging which diamond is shiniest) was directed by action guru Martin Campbell.

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