I guess I'm gonna pick up The Wire. Hope it's as good as Breaking Bad, which I'm sure everyone one here will say it is.
As for TS, finish BoB. Great mini series.
WTF is the wire about?
If you don't want to buy the series without getting your feet wet first just do a google search for "project free TV the wire season 1."
My brother forced me to watch the first episode of The Wire. Promised me I'd be hooked.
I wasn't.
Flame on.
it is objectively the greatest tv show of all time.
While both may have their flaws, subjective disadvantages and overzealous fans, they are evidently and demonstratably the top performers in their particular realm.
I've heard so much of the wire but I can't fathom it being that good.
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with this, but at the same time, I can't stand David Schwimmer.
On the other hand, even season 5 of The Wire which in my opinion is the weakest in the series, is probably still better than just about anything else I've ever seen on TV. Ever.
My brother forced me to watch the first episode of The Wire. Promised me I'd be hooked.
I wasn't.
Flame on.
Just so much blind, religious, crazy hate. Read his previous posts on the subject, you'll notice a good vocabulary and a lot of strange, unsubstantiated babbling about "boring characters"
Not drinking the Kool-Aid = Blind, religious, crazy hate?
You ever wonder why all threads about The Wire amount to nothing more than drooling fans slobbering all over it? Because anything less is not only not tolerated, it's tantamount to blasphemy, and the people who aren't members of the cult don't have the patience to talk to a brick wall. Saying anything about The Wire that is less than "The Wire is the GOAT" is a sin that warrants eternal damnation. I know of no other piece of media that has yielded such an insulated cult (in every sense of that word) of intolerant and close-minded fans, which is made all the more perplexing when you consider that the show at whose alter these fans are worshiping isn't even very good, much less worthy of even being considered among the GOAT.
But hey, freedom of religion, right? You can like The Wire all you want, just so long as you leave me my little piece of land where I can spout off my craziness :wink:
Not drinking the Kool-Aid = Blind, religious, crazy hate?
You ever wonder why all threads about The Wire amount to nothing more than drooling fans slobbering all over it? Because anything less is not only not tolerated, it's tantamount to blasphemy, and the people who aren't members of the cult don't have the patience to talk to a brick wall. Saying anything about The Wire that is less than "The Wire is the GOAT" is a sin that warrants eternal damnation. I know of no other piece of media that has yielded such an insulated cult (in every sense of that word) of intolerant and close-minded fans, which is made all the more perplexing when you consider that the show at whose alter these fans are worshiping isn't even very good, much less worthy of even being considered among the GOAT.
But hey, freedom of religion, right? You can like The Wire all you want, just so long as you leave me my little piece of land where I can spout off my craziness :wink:
you've never been able to back up a single criticism with a concrete point, and it comes across as very silly.
If I want to watch a documentary on life on the streets, then I'll watch a documentary on life on the streets. I watch film and television because it's not a documentary, it's not "reality." The Wire conflated the notion of "realism" with the most stripped down form of dramaturgy imaginable; as such, it is immensely unsatisfying and uninteresting from a formal/narratological perspective.
What I seek in fictional narrative is emotional truth. The Wire was too focused on the representation of reality as opposed to allegorically highlighting universal truths of the human condition. Nothing was philosophically illuminating about the show, none of the themes on which it focused were anything new (city schools suck, politics is crooked, cops are run-of-the-mill bureaucracies, even the good grapple with evil, blah blah blah) and, moreover, their expression wasn't inspired or entertaining.
the Kafkaesque idea that the social machine will swallow you whole and annihilate your sense of self in its own promulgation, it was a contributing factor to the pervasive sense of boredom and monotony. You can't win, the fight is futile, it's going to end the same way no matter what. Yeah, so why am I watching?
You weren't emotionally invested in D'angelo at all
Good God no, especially once he went to prison. Was there a greater certainty in that show's entire run than the stupendously obvious trajectory that storyline was going to take? And what's more, it dragged on and on and on and on until they finally killed him, to the point where, once it happened, all I felt was relief that I wouldn't have to deal with that fucking character and his stupid whiny storyline anymore.
damn that shit was dull as dishwater, not for me at all.