The Wire appreciation thread
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Thread necro! Although just wanted to add that I bought the 5 season boxed set at Christmas for the wife (she fancied seeing this) and we started watching it last week. Despite us only watching it after work and the odd episode at the weekend we're already onto season 3 - it's an astoundingly good programme and I'm really, really sorry that I missed it first time around.
I can't praise it enough, the entire thing is just superb.
I'll be keeping an eye out for Treme now too!
I can't praise it enough, the entire thing is just superb.
I'll be keeping an eye out for Treme now too!
I started watching this a few days ago and am now on episode 6 of season 1.
Really like it, slowly starting to get hooked on it, some very interesting characters.
Have to say though its no patch what.so.ever. on 24, still best TV show ever made IMO.
Really like it, slowly starting to get hooked on it, some very interesting characters.
Have to say though its no patch what.so.ever. on 24, still best TV show ever made IMO.
Caporegime
24 is utter dross by comparison. Hell, 24 is lightweight by comparison to a lot of tv.
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My wife and I are getting to the end of Season 3 now. I'm getting irritated with McNulty. He's good Po-lice, but he's a walking **** up. Really wish he'd get a grip of his life.
Feel sorry for Pres as well; just when I thought he'd turned a corner
Feel sorry for Pres as well; just when I thought he'd turned a corner
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Feel sorry for Pres as well; just when I thought he'd turned a corner
He get's a brilliant run at things in season 4.
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Just got to the end of Season 4. I feel sad, no doubt. A real shame how things turned out for some of the characters. Also feel frustrated for the kids, when they really needed someone, the people that could have helped didn't (with one exception).
Going to start watching Season 5 tomorrow. Am going to feel gutted when this comes to an end.
What an amazing show...
Going to start watching Season 5 tomorrow. Am going to feel gutted when this comes to an end.
What an amazing show...
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Starting it all again tonight. Loved it first time around.
Soldato
Never really liked 24 that much apart from the obvious highlight to the show
Wire on the other hand feels more real then the news, obviously I dont know thats the case but certainly comes across as having been written with blood and tears on the pages
I didnt even get what they were saying half the time at first. I'll watch it on dvd or something one day
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OMG. Dreadful...
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Series 4 is just amazing when they look at the school system
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Agreed. Probably my favourite.
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Going to have to watch season 4 again now
Just finished watching this yesterday. I wasn't convinced for quite a while (first two series apart from a few good eps) but I felt it picked up a lot from S3 and the political angle added quite a bit.
Lester Freamon is probably my favourite character, one of those dogged intelligence backroom types that works methodically and gets results but occasionally comes out of his shell (when drunk, or an audacious ploy).
To be fair looking back over the show as a whole there are a LOT of good characters. I think early on it can be hard to follow because they throw too many characters at you and it hard to work out quite who is who to begin with (especially while you get to grips with the street lingo). But in the long term the benefit is you had a lot of well rounded, developed characters rather than pantomime villains. Not many shows would invest that much time in people like, I dunno, Bubbles, Naimond etc.
Perhaps the beauty is that when it comes to 'villains' (often much deeper than that), there are many from all walks of life:
-The predictable guys in the game (kingpins like Stringer, Avon, Marlo, etc)
-Politicians (sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!)
-Police brass
-Family upbringing
-Glory-hunting newspapermen
etc
....and yet many of these 'villains' are also proper 3-dimensional characters that you can empathsise with at least on some level. Lots of shows do that but not on this scale, you get shows where there are some well developed major villains but not too many that tackle so many different angles at once.
The irony is in fact that while McNulty is kinda the 'main' character in terms of being the poster boy you see on covers, with a heavy focus at the beginning and end, overall the show has a much wider scope and could easily stand on two feet without him.
Anyways, kinda feels like I should give S1 another pass sometime.
Lester Freamon is probably my favourite character, one of those dogged intelligence backroom types that works methodically and gets results but occasionally comes out of his shell (when drunk, or an audacious ploy).
To be fair looking back over the show as a whole there are a LOT of good characters. I think early on it can be hard to follow because they throw too many characters at you and it hard to work out quite who is who to begin with (especially while you get to grips with the street lingo). But in the long term the benefit is you had a lot of well rounded, developed characters rather than pantomime villains. Not many shows would invest that much time in people like, I dunno, Bubbles, Naimond etc.
Perhaps the beauty is that when it comes to 'villains' (often much deeper than that), there are many from all walks of life:
-The predictable guys in the game (kingpins like Stringer, Avon, Marlo, etc)
-Politicians (sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!)
-Police brass
-Family upbringing
-Glory-hunting newspapermen
etc
....and yet many of these 'villains' are also proper 3-dimensional characters that you can empathsise with at least on some level. Lots of shows do that but not on this scale, you get shows where there are some well developed major villains but not too many that tackle so many different angles at once.
The irony is in fact that while McNulty is kinda the 'main' character in terms of being the poster boy you see on covers, with a heavy focus at the beginning and end, overall the show has a much wider scope and could easily stand on two feet without him.
Anyways, kinda feels like I should give S1 another pass sometime.
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Soldato
Only watched them all last year and annoyed with myself on how long I'd put it off.
Awesome series had me hooked start to finish.
Awesome series had me hooked start to finish.
I've watched this all the way through on probably three occasions now, and season two is still my favourite. The story revolving around the docks fills the season nicely while giving room for the other story lines to develop, and all the characters are fully fleshed out and real.
And it's got the McNulty in the brothel scene which is amazing.
And it's got the McNulty in the brothel scene which is amazing.