the wire
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- janne760
dutch tv sucks...
since i got telly again in amsterdam i only watch Canvas.
Belgian TV == Quality TV
- elahon0
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER!
- bort0
This show is awesome. I'm only half way through season 1, but I'm already tempted to say it trumps the Sopranos.
OMAR 4 PREZ!
- Kate_Henlay0
It was al right nothing wrong with that
- shitehawke0
I finished the 5th season last week. Im now watching some of the repeats on BBC2...
Excellent writing and scenes that stay with you long after watching.
- phatlee0
'FIVE-O... FIVE-O...!'
- phatlee0
If you liked the wire you'll love this:
- noRBG0
As much as I love The Wire, and think it was the best show ever put on air, I will also say a couple of things against that.
For one, they had probably the easiest story they could ask for, to write. This story wrote itself, and it's been sitting there waiting for someone to write it since Raymond Whateverhisface hit the media's attention in the late 80's. The story was real, so that makes it all the more believable. What they added to it, and how they developed the characters involved, that's what makes the show stand alone as great. Same with the Sopranos. The story was real, or at least based off reality, and so the overall story writes itself, but the proof is in the mini-stories of each episode practically.
The other thing that both of these shows had going for them is that they were both on HBO, meaning the writers didn't have to deal with the challenge of writing around commercials. A full, straight hour of story trumps an hour of story, broken up by seven minute commercial breaks any day.
Where "the cheese stands alone," for The Wire is that all these characters are practically new character sketches for most viewers. Sure, most people have watched black gangsters in some form or another in movies or TV, but The Wire was one of the first to bring it to your living room via television, and for six years.
People LOVE the fictional gangster, but they hate a real one.
- If it's so easy to portray real life, why doesn't anyone else do it?bainbridge
- _me_0
just watched s1+2+3 in the last 2 weeks.. i talked to my designers this morning like i was Omar running a street corner and they were like, " oh so you watched the wire finally?" was pretty funny.
- mydo0
and why didn't anyone tell me how good this show is?
half way through the box set!
- SteveJobs0
definitely time for a second viewing for me. had to wait so i could forget as much as possible, but it probably won't be as amazing as the first time. wish there was another show as good as this one.
- fiver0
i had a second viewing starting this weekend. started up season 2 last night. so damn good.
- Ramanisky20
I used to hate it when people said how season 2 was not as good as season one as if they 2 completely different shows and not a continuous story broken into chapters
best show ever.
- i agree. all seasons rely on each other.fiver
- how else would we be introduced to the greek.. jimmy on boat patrol.. beatty.. oh man what a great seasonbrandelec
- I loved Season 2 ..
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