Thursday, July 31, 2014

CAFE de ZONK



Carol:
"You can't trust the police these days."
Sarah:
"Says who?"
Carol:
"The wire!"
'The Cafe'
 
I'm fairly certain that in the script, Sarah's mother's line "The wire!" probably was printed as "'The Wire'!".  It was supposed to be a reference to the TV series from HBO.
 
But 'The Wire' and 'The Cafe' exist in the same TV dimension, so Carol shouldn't be referring to a TV show.
 
There are several options to choose from to de-Zonk this situation.  One would be that Carol was using the slang term for the newspaper wire services.  But how she was privy to such information is unclear.  I don't think we've seen any habitues of Cyril's Cafe in the seaside village of Weston who were journalists.
 
The better option would be that Carol ("Speak of the devil!") had read a non-fiction book entitled "The Wire", which covered the drug trade in Baltimore and its judicial, political, and journalistic ramifications.

And then, as often happens in Toobworld, it was adapted into a movie.  (A TV show if must be.....)
 
Works for me!
 
BCnU!

 

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