He lives in abandon rowhouses and can’t really go to clubs due to his notoriety. Can’t drive a nice car. Even when he temporarily moves to Puerto Rico he lives in a dump.
What does he spend his money on?
He lives in abandon rowhouses and can’t really go to clubs due to his notoriety. Can’t drive a nice car. Even when he temporarily moves to Puerto Rico he lives in a dump.
What does he spend his money on?
You realize this is a TV show, right?
He spends some of it on his grandmother. I think the real point the show is making is that being a drug dealer (or robbing drug dealers) is not a path to wealth, its just another means of scraping by.
Novan wrote:
He spends some of it on his grandmother. I think the real point the show is making is that being a drug dealer (or robbing drug dealers) is not a path to wealth, its just another means of scraping by.
That is not the point of The Wire at all.
Anyways, I think Omar was big into the stock market.
To me (and to my wife), Omar has been the most compelling bad guy character on TV. He's horribly bad, and yet there's something about him that pulls you in and makes you want to know him better. Maybe it's that he follows an unbreakable code. Not a "good" code (he's a ruthless killer and drug dealer), but a clear, consistent one that he never betrays.
His ending in the series (I don't want to spoil it for anybody who has not watched and might yet) is, to me, one of the most surprising, and by times both overwhelming and underwhelming. There's a pretty good cartoon version you should be able to find on youtube if you don't know what I mean and want the snapshot version.
Apart from most compelling character (Omar) and one of the most interesting "ends" on TV, The Wire is also notable for having the best - ever, by far - scene on cable television. There is a scene where Bunk and McNulty go back to check out a murder scene, and over five minutes only one word - a very versatile word - is used. Best. Scene. Ever.
Love that show...
No Heart Anthony wrote:
He lives in abandon rowhouses and can’t really go to clubs due to his notoriety. Can’t drive a nice car. Even when he temporarily moves to Puerto Rico he lives in a dump.
What does he spend his money on?
He gives it to Butchie (the blind man who owns or at least runs a bar) to look after. I don't think he has much of a long term plan though. If it's a lot he could retire, or at least help go into a legitimate business.
I think Omar also destroyed a lot of the money and drugs that he stole, to show that the robberies were not about profit, but in most cases, for revenge (at least in his feud with Marlo).
He put it all in bitcoin.
Coke and ho's. That's what $$$ is for.
They changed this from the book to streamline the story.
He bought a bunch of old coins and currency and fake old Id
He paid a guy that looked like him to pretend to be him. And that is the guy at the end of the last season. You can tell he was not the real omar because omar was left handed and the stand in was right handed.
Omar had met doc brown during season 4. And doc took him to around 1900 and Omar used the name chalky white.
You obviously didn't watch the show because Omar...
bling bling wrote:
Coke and ho's. That's what $$$ is for.
He was gay and could have gotten all the coke he wanted at his job (which was literally stealing coke).
He must have spent it on something else.
Omar was homosexual wrote:
He was gay and could have gotten all the coke he wanted at his job (which was literally stealing coke).
He must have spent it on something else.
Maybe on butt toys?? What an overrated show.
These two scenes will tell you everything you need to know.
“It ain’t about ya’ money, bruh!”
“It ain’t what you takin’, it’s who you takin’ from, ya feel me? How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with puppies.”
In season 4 he steals the whole shipment and sells it back for half price, which means he must be incredibly wealthy after that point if he wasn't already. But he isn't really into material wealth, and even the guys who are on that show don't really know what to do with their money once they have it. He tries to leave town, but ends up coming back, and in the end it's hard for him to know more than his Baltimore lifestyle.
Sheeeeiiiittttt boy. Some of it goes to me and the rest goes towards honey nut Cheerios