Has it aged well? Is it still worth watching today? How do modern tv shows compare?
The Wire retrospective thread
Bentley Walker
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Joseph Moore
Some of the themes are a bit on the nose and some of the characters are straight out of anime, but it's still 9/10, even by today's standards. Now Oz, that's a show that hasn't aged well.
Jose Cruz
>tfw can't watch The Wire because I have no idea what anyone says
The police keep using complex police terms and I can't understand gangsta speak. (not trying to be /pol/ I genuinely don't know what they're saying).
Matthew Roberts
definitely, i had no idea baltimore is a shithole
Justin Barnes
Are you non-American?
Caleb Williams
It's just as good now as when it came out
My 8th rewatch was as good as my 3rd
Kayden Young
>Has it aged well? Is it still worth watching today?
It did not just "age well" it matured into undisputable kino, because every modern TV show is either tits and ass edgy normie bait, or some meme zoomer bait.
Christopher Morales
Its shit and it was shit at the time
Alexander Parker
Joseph Edwards
Oz is timeless. It’s basically Shakespearean.
The wire is about pagers. Hasn’t aged well at all.
William Mitchell
Oz is Marlowesque. The Sopranos is Shakespearean. Also, The Wire is Dickensian, and Breaking Bad is shit.
Bentley Jackson
>and some of the characters are straight out of anime
no they're not. They have real life equivalents that were, in most of the cases, even more "anime"
Ayden Collins
Turn on subtitles
Jose Rivera
Lmao white boi lost as fuck
Gavin Morgan
ESL here, I know what you mean
The dock worker union stuff and the newspaper were the worst for me
If you don't understand something, just pause the episode and look up the script here springfieldspringfield.co.uk
And if you still don't understand it, google it. There's a whole wiki for terms used in the Wire
Luke Thomas
I'm Canadian
Benjamin Russell
I like the show because it exposes truth about the workplace.
Aaron Kelly
I didn't really like season 2 when I first saw it but in retrospect it's one of the best. Up there with season 4 for me.
Jackson Jones
I'd argue it's even better and more relevant today. The Wire shows how the system fails fundamentally at every level, street, law enforcement, education, media, and politics. It shows a lot of problems and doesn't offer any easy or hackneyed solutions. It doesn't blame any one person or institution, no side is without sin and there are more than two sides. You feel sympathy and anger at every character yet all their motivations feel human and you know that what they did made sense to them given their situation.
Landon Rogers
I didn't like it much at the start but it picks up fast and towards the end it reaches heights of quality that none of the other seasons can ever touch
Austin Ward
I powered through the show and it was much easier to comprehend after a rewatch. You'll catch on.
Leo Gutierrez
Turn on subtitles, google any terms you don't understand. A lot of them have context clues so you can figure out what they are talking about based on what else they are saying, even if you don't know the exact word.
Connor Barnes
How can The Wire be so redpilled when David Simon is a leftist sjw cuck?
Noah Lopez
David Simon is an actual journalist who is just basing his show on what he sees IRL. He's not a tumblrina who's never met a black person before.
William Rodriguez
>Oz is Marlowesque
I don't know what this is
Jacob Perry
Has The Wire been dubbed in a foreign language? I kind of want to rewatch it but I also want it to be productive waste of time.
Parker Rivera
spanish
Lincoln Jenkins
Christopher Marlow, pleb. He's Shakespeare but more violent.
Owen Bell
Still good