r/TheWire • u/Vivid_Look_4269 • 3d ago

Forgot about Rawls

I just did my second rewatch. I waited five years so I could forget a good bit and really enjoy it the second time. I forgot Rawls is closeted, and it never comes out. In a lesser show, they would have outed him. I think it's great that they showed how a person in power can hide in broad daylight

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u/L0st_in_the_Stars 3d ago

I appreciate the deft way Rawls' gayness was dropped in, without it becoming a subplot, as was done with Vito in the Sopranos. In real life, though, a closeted high-profile public official would be more likely to cruise remote rest stops so as to avoid recognition.

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u/FelineThrowaway35 3d ago

Oh Vito’s gayness was definitely a subplot

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u/attaboy_stampy 3d ago

Yeah. I mean it was a whole thing.

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u/darth_necrosis 3d ago

I think the comment’s point was that they did not do it with Rawls but did with Vito.