The Wire - does it ever get going?

[hornetrider]

Isohunt for all your duplicate of your original material needs.

[FiF]

Well update.

I was rather sure the DVD was completely fubarred.

15 minutes with one of these that I had tucked away in the loft and no longer do I need to run down to Whitby Harbour and take a trip round the bay dressed as Johnny Depp and shouting Har Har Har.

Great success.

[vtgts300kw]

I haven't read all 21 pages, but some shows benefit from being watched on DVD/ Streaming ( aka binging ), and others don't. This show is a case of the later.

[BrotherMouzone]

I’ve been re-watching the Wire, and knowing where all the pieces fit makes the show even better.

Just finished S2E6 ‘All Prologue’; I’m enjoying season 2 a lot more than when I watched it the first time. In fact season 2 is brilliant.

[Nikolai Petroff]

Justin Cyder said:

I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch it. The Sopranos comes closest, but is nowhere near as nuanced as The Wire.

The Wire is incredible because it is 100% realistic. Not one aspect of it could not have happened in real life. We had a mayoral election in Moscow recently and the opposition candidate based his campaign somewhat in the campaign of Carcetti. Needless to say, he got WAY more votes then was expected of him. Sopranos is fun but a bit over the top at times.

[VinceFox]

Got the box set, just finished season one and gone straight into 2.

Bloody brilliant.

[TEKNOPUG]

Nikolai Petroff said:

The Wire is incredible because it is 100% realistic. Not one aspect of it could not have happened in real life. We had a mayoral election in Moscow recently and the opposition candidate based his campaign somewhat in the campaign of Carcetti. Needless to say, he got WAY more votes then was expected of him. Sopranos is fun but a bit over the top at times.

It was written by a former policeman and local news journalist IIRC. Hence the realism. They said they could have done an entire series just on the City Hall/Political angle.

Fancy watching it again now!

[dave_s13]

Ha, we've just fire this up again.

Season 1 just finished.

I've seen it before, a few years ago. My Mrs' first time and she is hooked.

[GALLARDOGUY]

I rewatched the whole lot recently. Will never tire of it. From snot boogey, to brother mouzone, it's all superb.

[Halb]

The Wire has a different style to the Sopranos, it's more documentary style. But I doubt any of it is any more real that what exists in the Sopranos, the world of organised crime is pretty crazy itself.

[Justin Cyder]

These things are always subjective, but I would put the wire leagues ahead of the Sopranos & I do love them both.

[GALLARDOGUY]

Justin Cyder said:

These things are always subjective, but I would put the wire leagues ahead of the Sopranos & I do love them both.

We may not agree about football, but I can't fault your viewing habits.

[Justin Cyder]

[chilistrucker]

TEKNOPUG said:

Nikolai Petroff said:

The Wire is incredible because it is 100% realistic. Not one aspect of it could not have happened in real life. We had a mayoral election in Moscow recently and the opposition candidate based his campaign somewhat in the campaign of Carcetti. Needless to say, he got WAY more votes then was expected of him. Sopranos is fun but a bit over the top at times.

It was written by a former policeman and local news journalist IIRC. Hence the realism. They said they could have done an entire series just on the City Hall/Political angle.

Fancy watching it again now!

Same guy behind, 'homicide, life on the street' I think?
A great series, would seem very dated now but still worth a watch.
the wire. Still yet to see a better series!

[Halb]

I love the Wire also, but it ranks below the Sopranos (and a few others), it is on my top four, they revolve though.

[Justin Cyder]

chilistrucker said:

Still yet to see a better series!

Really it's this. I suppose you can argue the Sopranos had more consistency when you take into account series 5 of the Wire and although I rate it, there's lots of criticism for series 2, but in it's pomp, it's profound in a way that nothing I've ever seen matches.

The Wire is about America and it's about people. That really is what sets it apart. It has themes that arch miles above the actual plots & stories. The Sopranos is essentially a saga about a family of gangsters, albeit a superior one. The Wire, though is the first series I've seen to transcend it's own narrative. Absolute masterpiece.

[Halb]

Wire is a wide brush, Sopranos is a fine detailed one. Wire is about a city, where Sopranos moves ahead is it's central character. Sopranos is about T. Some of the stuff I have read written by the creator puts it into a fine juxtaposition. And the character is so well written that it doesn't need to try.
If I think of shows that transcend their narrative, then the above two fit, also BSG and Deadwood.

Edited by Halb on Saturday 4th January 21:59

[BrotherMouzone]

New game. What said that? (No cheating)

'You want it to be one way..... but it's the other way'

[Rich_W]

BrotherMouzone said:

New game. What said that? (No cheating)

'You want it to be one way..... but it's the other way'

Easy. Marlow.

My turn

Easy one
"I lit his ass up"

Harder one
"He set off the smoke alarm. Twice"

Answers

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwkDCJ6ox8
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elAlcyJRGUk

[Justin Cyder]

One of my favourite lines: Why'd anyone want to leave Baltimore is all I'm sayin'.

Very telling line for that character.