The Wire - does it ever get going?
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Personally I thought S4 was the best. What the kids go through and the choices they make is so heartbreaking. And it probably has the best intro scene off all when Snoop buys a nailgun from a hardware store salesman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDpvkwBBu6U
It took time for me to fully appreciate S2. I find it prescient now with Trumpism.
It took time for me to fully appreciate S2. I find it prescient now with Trumpism.
Might have said this before but the moment in the Wire which really gripped and dragged me in was in Season 1. The episode where Det Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters) seemed to be playing an old detective who had brassed off someone in the 'senior management', been put in a backwater as punishment, and here was now in another backwater job, serving out his 30 making models or was it dolls house furniture, I forget, but put there by 'senior management' as another punishment for someone else Anyway not taking any part in the investigation, dead weight, until he overheard something, copper's genes fired up, and he was now on fire, fully committed. A set of loose cannons and no hopers who really gelled into a team.
Another reason I think people don't get it is that it's a show that, even on a rewatch, where you really cannot have it playing in the background while dicking around on the phone. PAY ATTENTION!
Another reason I think people don't get it is that it's a show that, even on a rewatch, where you really cannot have it playing in the background while dicking around on the phone. PAY ATTENTION!
ON THIS DAY
On the 2nd June 2002, 'The Wire' premiered on HBO.
THE greatest TV show of all time.
What's the best moment in the show?
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i36ybA8Ms
On the 2nd June 2002, 'The Wire' premiered on HBO.
THE greatest TV show of all time.
What's the best moment in the show?
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i36ybA8Ms
Finished season 5 last Sunday, it was a little disappointing as it seem a bit rushed to closed out the story/series.
The end was more true to life than a Hollywood style happy ending - drug lord, sleazy lawyer and politicians getting away with it, also the vicious life circle.
For me The Wire is up there with NYPD Blue and The Shield.
If there is a season 6, it's got to be the Greek storyline since they have come back to Baltimore.
The end was more true to life than a Hollywood style happy ending - drug lord, sleazy lawyer and politicians getting away with it, also the vicious life circle.
For me The Wire is up there with NYPD Blue and The Shield.
If there is a season 6, it's got to be the Greek storyline since they have come back to Baltimore.
Ructions said:
ON THIS DAY
On the 2nd June 2002, 'The Wire' premiered on HBO.
THE greatest TV show of all time.
What's the best moment in the show?
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i36ybA8Ms
Such a good scene, Omar was an all time greatOn the 2nd June 2002, 'The Wire' premiered on HBO.
THE greatest TV show of all time.
What's the best moment in the show?
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i36ybA8Ms
Ructions said:
What's the best moment in the show?
Not the best moment on the show but one that certainly let's you know you're about to watch something different:-DETECTIVE JIMMY MCNULTY: Let me understand you, every Friday night you and your boys will shoot crap right? And every Friday night your pal Snot Boogie he'd wait 'till there was cash on the ground and then he'd grab the money and run away? You let him do that?
WITNESS: If we'd catch him we'd beat his ass but ain't nobody let it go past that.
DETECTIVE JIMMY MCNULTY: I gotta ask you, if every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away why'd you even let him in the game?
WITNESS: What?
DETECTIVE JIMMY MCNULTY: Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
WITNESS: Got to. This America, man.
Ructions said:
...What's the best moment in the show?...
I always like the line where one of the characters goes to buy a nailgun (to facilitate storing dead bodies in abandonned houses) and the salesman says a certain model is 'the Cadillac of Nailguns' to which the more urban character later suggests "He mean Lexus, but he ain't know it," I once took the train from NYC to DC which passed through Balitmore, and large parts of its suburbs looked exactly like the streets on The Wire.
mikiec said:
Ructions said:
ON THIS DAY
On the 2nd June 2002, 'The Wire' premiered on HBO.
THE greatest TV show of all time.
What's the best moment in the show?
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i36ybA8Ms
Such a good scene, Omar was an all time greatOn the 2nd June 2002, 'The Wire' premiered on HBO.
THE greatest TV show of all time.
What's the best moment in the show?
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i36ybA8Ms
The Wire fans might enjoy Snowfall on iPlayer.
Edit: Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDF97Ebilps&ab... (very NSFW)
Edit: Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDF97Ebilps&ab... (very NSFW)
Edited by Fishlegs on Thursday 3rd June 11:11
Edited by Fishlegs on Thursday 3rd June 11:12
TV is split into two eras. Before The Wire, and after it. Before, there was no show out there that really showed off what the TV show medium could do. TV shows had always been just inferior movies, stretched out with filler content to provide passable entertainment over a large span of time. After The Wire, TV has enjoyed a golden age featuring stories far more complex and deep than could be possible in movies. The Wire is what pushed TV to occupy that middle ground in depth between movies and novels that it always had the potential to. But I feel that I am taking away from the show by just describing it as a pioneer, because it is far more than that. The Wire is not just a first, a groundbreaker, it remains to this day the single greatest viewing experience that television has to offer. At first it's confusing, it feels slow, but after you start figuring out what's going you realize how clean it is, and how not a moment is wasted. Now when i rewatch The Wire, every moment is exciting, and hilarious. I laugh out loud many times because I am so invested, so in love with so many of the characters, that just seeing them bounce off each other is exhilarating. The dialogue is not just novel-quality, it often surpasses novel quality. Each season is a novel, with each episode being a chapter. The Wire has taught me so many lessons, taught me so much about life, politics, and human nature, and kept me smiling, laughing, and thoroughly entertained the whole time. What more can I say? I count down the years until I start forgetting this show a little just so I can experience the pleasure of rewatching it yet one more time.
Y’all can get your instant gratification elsewhere.
Y’all can get your instant gratification elsewhere.
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