The Wire
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The Wire
I know lots of you have seen this show many many many many many years ago. But I am working my way through the series because I never had HBO and never had heard people talk about the show. But for those looking for something to get in to its probably one of the best tv shows ever made.
Its a cop show. But the grittiest cop show you will ever see. If you don't like R rated material its got tons of f-bombs and occasional nudity but its soooooo good.
The writing is fantastic. The characters are three dimensional flawed human biengs, but they are smart. Its nice to see that they even write the crooks to be smart people. The plots are interesting and realistic. The cops are the heroes but the are far from perfect.
Its just soooooooo good and such a "guy" show.
If you have never watched it, try a disk or two from season one and you may just get hooked. I am so glad I started watching the show and see why many critics called it the best show ever. I wish every show could be even close to how good this show is.
Its a cop show. But the grittiest cop show you will ever see. If you don't like R rated material its got tons of f-bombs and occasional nudity but its soooooo good.
The writing is fantastic. The characters are three dimensional flawed human biengs, but they are smart. Its nice to see that they even write the crooks to be smart people. The plots are interesting and realistic. The cops are the heroes but the are far from perfect.
Its just soooooooo good and such a "guy" show.
If you have never watched it, try a disk or two from season one and you may just get hooked. I am so glad I started watching the show and see why many critics called it the best show ever. I wish every show could be even close to how good this show is.
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Just watched the final episode last night and am I sad there are no more. For those who have never checked it out.......
This from a couple "best TV show" articles.
From Time's top 100 all time:
Through a sprawling, Balzac-ian network of cops, their targets, and the politicians and bureaucrats around them, The Wire tells the story of a declining industrial city—Baltimore, but it could be many others—and the people struggling amid, or profiting off of, its downfall. In The Wire's view, the world is not divided cop-vs.-robber or black-vs.-white so much as machine-vs.-individual; officer, teacher, drug soldier or pol, people are screwed by institutions that discard them when they're used up and reward inertia over innovation. (The best chance, The Wire suggests, is for free agents like its unlikely hero, the street bandit Omar, who robs drug dealers and answers to no one.) Yet the series—which, by the way, is also a fantastically realistic cop show—is also funny and the opposite of nihilist, giving everyone from detectives to junkies dignity. Occasionally, it even offers a glimpse of something like hope, which is all the sweeter for being harder earned.
And from SF Gate:
1. "The Wire," HBO. Ostensibly a cop series with a story to tell about the drug war in America's inner city (Baltimore, in this case), "The Wire" over five seasons was really an insanely ambitious, intimately detailed historical document about institutional failure on all levels - cops, criminals, courts, politics, schools and newspapers. Dense, novelistic, painful, funny, real and transformative all at once. "The Wire" is the best television series ever made. Period.
I could not have said it better.
This from a couple "best TV show" articles.
From Time's top 100 all time:
Through a sprawling, Balzac-ian network of cops, their targets, and the politicians and bureaucrats around them, The Wire tells the story of a declining industrial city—Baltimore, but it could be many others—and the people struggling amid, or profiting off of, its downfall. In The Wire's view, the world is not divided cop-vs.-robber or black-vs.-white so much as machine-vs.-individual; officer, teacher, drug soldier or pol, people are screwed by institutions that discard them when they're used up and reward inertia over innovation. (The best chance, The Wire suggests, is for free agents like its unlikely hero, the street bandit Omar, who robs drug dealers and answers to no one.) Yet the series—which, by the way, is also a fantastically realistic cop show—is also funny and the opposite of nihilist, giving everyone from detectives to junkies dignity. Occasionally, it even offers a glimpse of something like hope, which is all the sweeter for being harder earned.
And from SF Gate:
1. "The Wire," HBO. Ostensibly a cop series with a story to tell about the drug war in America's inner city (Baltimore, in this case), "The Wire" over five seasons was really an insanely ambitious, intimately detailed historical document about institutional failure on all levels - cops, criminals, courts, politics, schools and newspapers. Dense, novelistic, painful, funny, real and transformative all at once. "The Wire" is the best television series ever made. Period.
I could not have said it better.
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I got hooked on the show as well. I enjoyed the first four seasons. I never did get around to seeing the rest of Season 5. My friend told me he had all the seasons, but he did not have season 5.
One of these days I will see how it wraps up.
One of these days I will see how it wraps up.
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