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You Gotta Keep The Devil Way Down in the Hole (The Wire)
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Watching the first few episodes, all I kept thinking was "Alright, this show is okay but I don't see why everyone shits their pants over it"
Even now I just look at it as a show that's extremely well-written but it never got the hooks in me the way something like Breaking Bad or Lost did
It was just a show to watch and enjoy myself, but I never found myself going "Oh God I have to watch the next episode now" because it really doesn't have those kinds of moments
I guess basically what I'm saying is that the show had no mystery or cliffhangers, and I can respect that realism, but I think serialized television loses something if it doesn't have something to immediately grab you
Also season two is great, before haters come in saying it isn't. It's a toss-up between two and four for me as to the best.
And finally
I can buy The Wire on Amazon Instant Video instead of just renting it
How the fuck did that take so long
I need to watch this shit ASAP
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I bought all of the seasons at that price
So discouraging going into Target now and seeing the seasons for $20 a pop
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I will admit, Season 2 absolutely emotionally wiped me out. I think I left off halfway through Season 3 but goddamn this show.
lt mello is played by the real jay landsman
Personal season rankings go! 4-2-3-1-5
This is my personal one, the wire never really had a bad season, ranging from brilliant if flawed at times (5) to best season of tv ever (4). it's cool if you disagree
I still get pumped whenever I see an actor from the wire pop up in other projects, and usually seek out stuff from them, especially Michael k. Williams and Idris Elba
Without wishing to sound too much like a pretentious wanker The Wire is not like other TV shows. It is barely television at all. It is not structured around the artificial constraint of episodic television - so no cliff hangers, no characters recapping the plot after coming back from an advertising break, no writing deliberate vague handwavey we-can-fill-this-in-later-in-case-we-are-renewed unresolved plot strands.
The Wire is not a show that grabs you, it leads you in until you are way down in the hole. My wife hated the first 5 episodes of the Wire. As we were watching Homicide: Life on the Street at the same time she had a direct Baltimore based "cop show" to compare it against and she found it wanting. The Wire's characters were, seemingly, aggressively unpleasant and amoral. The show was going out of it's way to present a wall to the viewer to block out any empathy. It too about two months to watch the first five episodes. But then, at episode six, it all started to come together. Depths to the characters was now evident, plot was snowballing, nothing individually could be stated as the "thing" but it was like a switch was thrown - we watched the remaining episodes within a week and devoured the other series in a near glut. For us, "Oh God I have to watch the next episode now" is pretty much how we went through series 2-to-5. We had to ration ourselves at one point. Not because we wanted to see any specific moment or action but because we wanted to experience the whole thing.
The Wire makes no accommodation for the viewer and ask for nothing in return but also makes no false promises. No "previously on The Wire" to signpost what this episode is to be about but no faked tension before an advert only to find the situation was not exactly as framed. There is just nothing to compare The Wire to.
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Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Just got my sister through it, gonna start the lady on it soon.
Watch Treme, you'll have a heart attack.
In fact everyone, watch Treme right now (except if you haven't seen The Wire, watch that first). Treme is also David Simon's brainchild and it feels a lot like it even though it is, on the surface, nowhere near as bleak and cynical (though it has its moments too).
Also it has great music all the time in every episode.
Such a great series.
Season 2 is better. But yeah if you don't care about the characters, New Orleans culture or the music, there's not much in there for you.
I watch it mostly because the characters are about as well developed as they were in The Wire.
this is my favorite cold open in the series
also spoilers + nsfw (titties)
it's kinda clever
also massive spoilers (seasons 1-5)
gets out, looks at it, looks at the angles
backs up
and does the exact same thing again but faster
because that is probably my favorite opening sequence and my favorite summation of jimmy mcnulty
it's like four posts up!
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i love the way he looks at it and goes "fuck it i know if i do the same thing again but harder it'll work!"
that's mcnulty
a self-destructive asshole who just keeps trying to do the same thing, over and over, and getting the same results every time and getting more and more fucked up by it
you wanna talk about a car as a metaphor for its owner, a la breaking bad?
mcnulty's sedan wins
it's that mcnulty always thinks he's right, that if everyone would just shut the fuck up and let him do it, it'd work
but it won't work. he just keeps bashing into the same wall over and over, thinking that this time, for sure, he'll get it, because he'll just do it even harder
even when the fact that it doesn't work and he's ruining himself is staring him in the face, what does he do?
the same goddamn thing
season 3 he basically gets an intervention in the form of daniels telling him that he's a piece of shit who ruins everything by Being McNulty and goes back to being a beat cop, and he does good! in season 4 he puts his life back together and keeps it together because, in his own small way, he's accomplishing what he set out to do at the start of season 1, without running headlong into walls anymore
but then he gets asked to rejoin homicide, and it all just starts again. and this time he doesn't just crash the car, he totals it, all because he thinks if he just does it hard enough and fast enough he can show everyone that he's right about things
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d'andre and prez (and ziggy. and naymond.) are supposed to be....not innocents, but people forced to be in a world they don't belong in and that they want no part of
bodie and mcnulty belong in this world, they just don't like the thing it's become
bodie is better about it though, because you get to watch his frustrations grow over four seasons, instead of just having them thrust at you from the start