the wire
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- bolus
I locked myself in yesterday and watched the entire first season of the wire, 13 hours straight.... now I'm bloody addicted and craving for more
I can't believe nobody in dutch television is willing to buy this show, fucking idiots, the lot of 'em
- Ravdyk0
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
- digdre0
typical dutch, yo'know.
- digdre0
greedy greedy greedy.
- SuperSport0
greatest show ever!
- nah. That would be The Sopranosdigdre
- WIRE blows the Sopranos away!SuperSport
- no. it does'tdigdre
- yes it doescolin_s
- i will have to agreeRamanisky2
- ahahahaha. THE SOPRANOS as the best show ever? hahahahahahnoRBG
- sorry, you have SHIT taste. sopranos was good, but far from close to being the best.noRBG
- the Wire.
best. show. ever.
exador1 - Sorry -Sopranos doesn't even come close.jacklalane
- Sopranos is dumb and violent.bainbridge
- sherman0
recommended watch
- 7point340
you are welcome
- PonyBoy0
*whistles 'the farmer in the dell'...
- FallowDeer0
I watched the first 3 episodes and I just couldnt get into it?
- because you don't like conversations. and waiting for action wich will not comedigdre
- its cos its not got vin diesel inFallowDeer
- lolFallowDeer
- takes about 6 or 7 to get into it. then you're hooked.colin_s
- It's one of those shows where the whole season is just a build up until the last 2 or 3 episodes. But by the time you get there, it is well worth it.BrandNewly
- ...get there, it is well worth it.BrandNewly
- i think ill give it another try thenFallowDeer
- At least get through the first 5. I was the same as you but tried again.HAYZ1LLA
- That's BS. I was hooked in the first 2 minutes of the first episode. The convo about Snot Boogy is fucking epic.jasonistaken
- harlequino0
@sherman
great link, I always like Bill Moyers! Just got this book that's a long transcript of an interview he did with Joseph Campbell (writer and mythology scholar around whose work George Lucas shaped original Star Wars) over something like 80 hours. Great stuff if you are interested in where story and deep archetypes come from, and why we respond to heady work like The Wire.- that is a fucking brilliant interview. i remember seeing clips of it in high school7point34
- we were studying the hero's journey7point34
- we also watched the trilogy at the same time. i think we were reading wizard of earthsea7point34
- cool class in retrospect7point34
- NIce! Yup, stumbled on this book in a used book store, and thought "hot damn, what a find!"harlequino
- great stuff7point34
- identity0
the key to a great television show (The Wire, Sopranos, Mad Men): People generally like to make classifications of other people. This is especially true in television. We can classify someone as "good" or "bad" and they typically won't fail us in our assignments. Now, you take someone morally ambiguous - say Tony Soprano or Don Draper - who you can empathize with at times, laugh with at times and even CHEER for at times, but throw a few wrenches in their behavior. By doing this - making them the BAD GUY sometimes - it disrupts your classification of them. In doing this - you want to watch more of their character development to see "what else theyre going to do"... You could take the same formula and apply it to a bad relationship - TONS of people stay in those because they exciting and the good is always GREAT when it does happen...
Just my observation...- kinda like folks in, like, real life yeah?kelpie
- (ie, I agree with you, but aren't you just describing a realistic level of human ambiguity that makes for decent drama?kelpie
- indeed - but think about theatre, television, movies - most of them have pretty well-defined charactersidentity
- I feel like we def. agree/talking about the same thing - but its just a trend Ive seen in television in the last decade.identity
- check out any description of a protagnist from a film noir movie -> you'll see this isn't a new formulalukus_W
- bolus0
thanks sherman, great interview
- forcetwelve0
ive watched it all now - best show i've ever seen EASY
- never watched The simpsons ehdigdre
- I mean, the sopranosdigdre
- hahaa. i have watched the sopranosforcetwelve
- colin_s0
omar vs levy in the courtroom, season 2 episode 7, epic faceoff.
best show.
- BRNK0
Oh, indeeeeeed.
- its_only_me0
Utter nightmare of a show to get into but after I got by the first couple of crap episodes it got better.
- 5timuli0
I'm about to watch S01E12. Fucking love this show! More than the Sopranos, easy!