From Stick Up Kid to Stuck Up Kid(?)
Happy endings were few and far between on the series finale of The Wire (Poor Dukie! Poor Alma!) So seeing a few of the actors from that great ensemble land other roles has kind of helped me to make up my own. Like Thursday! It was nice to see Bea Amy Ryan get a nice Office job. And when Daniels Lance Reddick isn't tooling around around in his caddy, it good to see him still putting that steely glance of his to work and scaring the bejesus out of the losties as Matthew Abaddon. But in the warbled words of Idol wannabe Juanita Barber, "what about the children" who brought most of the emotional heft to season four and a fair share of heartbreak to season 5 (Dammit Dukie! Damn you Kenard)? When we last saw Michael, he was on his way to becoming Omar v2.0, an outsider wreaking havoc on "the game" with a pretty boy by his side and an honor code all his own. Most of us know how well that turned out for v1.0. So I was disheartened to see Michael following along on the same path-- although he had few other options. Therefore when I found out who was in the cast of the upcoming 90210 spin-off, I warmed up to the show a little more. Micheal's Tristan Wilds has made it off the means streets of B'more and is moving on up to B'Hills-- and Lucille Bluth is Jessica Walters plays his adoptive grandmother!
Here's hoping a blood relative or foster family shows up from Dixon Mills' past. I don't know who. Maybe . . . someone a bit on the androgynous side who knows how to handle a nail gun and takes extreme pride in her hair.
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