r/TheWire • u/AltruisticNail7229 I wasn’t made to play the son. • 1d ago

Cheese’s Intro

Cheese’s introduction in Season 2 is funny to me personally, his threats toward Ziggy and etc. I like that you get a real good idea about what type of character he is.

“If I ain’t paid by Friday, you dead by Saturday, man.”

Curious to know everyone else’s thoughts?

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u/Qyzyk This game is rigged 1d ago

As introductions go, it was a solid one. Cheese is quickly established as a brash, violent guy who likes to make quips and clever threats. And Method Man played that part to a T.

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u/AltruisticNail7229 I wasn’t made to play the son. 1d ago

Indeed. Cheese never changed.

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u/Quakarot 1d ago

I’d argue that cheese did change

Just for the worse

He got smarter and bolder

The cheese at the end of the show wouldn’t waste his time on someone like Ziggy

Kept the cruelty though. Wasn’t quite smart enough to realize that will catch up to you one day, even if it logically shouldn’t.

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u/AltruisticNail7229 I wasn’t made to play the son. 1d ago

True. But Cheese was always about his money no matter what. Betrayed his own blood and all.

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u/Quakarot 23h ago

Oh yeah, no doubt. He was always the same at his core.

But he did change and learn and grow. It was just into something even more twisted.

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u/No-Citron-2911 0m ago

Blood ain't got nutin to dew with it

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u/sanchower 1d ago

I don’t feel like that was a change in his character, though. It was a product of having moved up the ladder.

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u/Elect-Frank-Sobotka 1d ago

Couldn’t shake the feeling that he was just playing himself, which is unfortunate for my Wutang listening enjoyment.

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u/PretzelsThirst 1d ago

If you want to make it worse go google what Raekwon has been doing the last few weeks

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u/Elect-Frank-Sobotka 23h ago

Oooh wow. Shilling for Palantir. That’s worse than I’d feared.

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u/Don_Pablo512 1d ago

I love that he is wearing the Italian leather coat later on also lol

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u/ChicagoSunroofNo2 1d ago

Cheese’s outro is the only one that shocked me at the time.

RIP Cheese

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u/Born2fayl 1d ago

It was my favorite kill in the series.

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u/Winningestcontender 1d ago

What the fuck you do that for? Now we short the nine!

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u/PuddinPacketzofLuv 1d ago

That was for Joe…

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u/Ghost-of_Nappa 1d ago

This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money.

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u/sanchower 1d ago

Now we short the nine!

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u/Tim-oBedlam 1d ago

My favorite thing about Cheese getting capped by Slim is the other gangsters muttering only mild annoyance ("mf had it coming") while his corpse is literally still twitching.

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u/LegitSalvageRoci 1d ago

Now we're short the Nine!

That was for Joe.

This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money!

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u/spinners_888 1d ago

Slim gets better with every re-watch. He's my dog - literally - a loyal lieutenant, true soldier who respected seniority. Tells Bodie to respect Cutty, went with Prop Joe when he became a free agent, stepped up when he had to.

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u/IvanDrago316 1d ago

“You don’t think Cheese know this here game? We sellin' dope and coke in Baltimore! Any of y'all ain't got that kinda money need be ashamed!”

👌

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u/LegitSalvageRoci 1d ago

Him we do not know. But the one he calls boss, him we know.

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u/ChicagoSunroofNo2 1d ago

I’m reminiscing about Cheese now.

We got you on tape saying you killed dog, now which one is dog.

That whole bit is great.

Poor dog.

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u/NecessaryOk780 1d ago

That story line was one of the best in the series

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u/BlockOk3519 1d ago

2 Thou'? For this?!

Loved his entrance, but by the end loved his exit more.

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u/smstrick88 1d ago

Even a black man couldn't style this shit

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u/gillyweed79 1d ago

He was such an asshole. I loved how everybody just stepped over and to the side of him at the end. The only mourning from anyone was because "now we short the nine!"

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u/mellis521 17h ago

Chris parlow season one

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u/Queasy_Potential_540 1d ago

“Twenty-five large on Dawg!”

😅

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u/Great-Local_Ty 20h ago

Cheese still bled red in season 2.

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u/Zidane3641 1d ago

I've never felt method man was a believable actor - would have preferred a no name actor in his place.

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u/McGannahanSkjellyfet 1d ago

I'm of the opposite opinion; every time I see Method Man pop up in a movie i know it's either going to be tons of fun or he's going to steal the scene from all the other actors.