the wire
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- fiver0
i must say the one thing that drives me nuts is the packaging on the box set. i borrow it from my friend and it's just asking to be scratched every time you pull it in and out of that sleeve. my buddy is also a bit of a slob, so that might have something to do with it.....
- 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
- 5timuli0
I'm about to watch S01E12. Fucking love this show! More than the Sopranos, easy!
- janne760
dutch tv sucks...
since i got telly again in amsterdam i only watch Canvas.
Belgian TV == Quality TV
- 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!
- 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
- rylamar0
After finishing seasons 1-2 on HBO I watched seasons 3,4, & 5 over Christmas break. Best show in my opinion. Bodie was one of my favorite characters.
I love how Omar was kinda bummed that someone dropped a bag of drugs out the window for him just because he stopped to smoke a cig while in his PJs.
- 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
- Ramanisky20
The Wire has been re-formatted and re-wired in 16x9 Full frame HD.
I've been binging for the last 3 days ... thanks HBO.- I'm in. Been wanting to watch it all again for a while...MrT
- Do they film it in those dimensions?bainbridge
- Yeah is this original video or cropped?monospaced
- MrT0
Have my home-made Wire ringtone, it's great for text messages.
Merry Christmas!
- bainbridge0
It's a shame so few people try to make a realistic, honest show. Why is it easier to create scripts where people seem phony and over the top?
This show will hold up except for the technology. Text messages were new technology in the show.
- Right? And McNulty always uses a pay phone.. FFS!!!
"No cellie Mcnutty?" in my Bubbs voiceRamanisky2
- Right? And McNulty always uses a pay phone.. FFS!!!
- 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
- abettertomorrow0
So anyways I finally started watching this show...hey, I only missed the boat by about 10 years, right?:)
Anyway, I always wondered how good it could really be but it definitely lives up to the "greatest of all time" reputation IMO. I've never watched such an ambitious show in terms of scope, character writing and most importantly realism. It's almost like a cross between a documentary of urban life and a crime drama.
"All in the game y'all...all in the game..."
- I'm a little jealous, with I could see it for the first time again.DRIFTMONKEY
- *wishDRIFTMONKEY