It's only been a few years, but what the fuck man. It feels wrong to even call this television. Just rewatched Season 4 as an antidote to GoT. I hate preaching my tastes and don't like declaring anything 'the best,' but this show actively, profoundly makes it hard to enjoy much else, or suspend disbelief for lesser writing & acting.
Recs for this feel?
also wire general
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very good very good. HOWEVER. season 5
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However, season 5? Because I agree
Is it a one-time thing? Will we ever see a show like this again? I get that stories like the wire fly against escapism, i.e. will never pull the same viewers or money, but are we past the point of valuing realism enough to invest in content like this? (payoff being real-world education and empathy in entertainment)
What makes The Wire so good is how novelistic it is. It's funny you prefer it to GoT considering the latter is literally based off a series of novels
Season 2, fuck off normie scum!
I'd recommend visiting r.eddit friendo
They love blacks over there enough to stand a show almost completely comprised of them
Season 2 is the only watchable season for this very reason
I bet your favorite musical genre is hip hop
You should just kys desu
Agreed, but the novelism only applies to GoT 1-3 for me. It's got to do with pacing, plot consistency, character development, and intrigue that slowly accumulate.
The slowness begs your focus and memory but for a greater emotional payoff
nice try
I wanted to try to watch this show because I hear so many good things about it. But it is hard to get into, seems dated and everybody's a nigger
>seems dated
pagers maybe, but PDAs and burners are still in use today. Just because it's a flip phone and not a smart phone shouldn't make it harder for you to comprehend.
Glad you got that out of your system. You happy now, bitch?
>"serious" crime drama
>main character has a fucking catchphrase
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Reeks of the early 2000s. Has not aged well. The last season was a fucking joke. Your taste level is not that great
You actually typed that all out and thought it was witty? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
>Has not aged well.
might be valid if the show's themes weren't still true to life and relevant
only they are
>he thinks mcnulty is the main character
As a teacher I enjoyed Prez's arc. Too bad they didn't go deep into how shit his situation probably is.
>Waaaay down in the hole
Had to watch this entire show for an under grad policy class I have to ask you guys:
>would a real life hamsterdam be a good idea?
>after Kima is shot and the fedfag walks up to Rawls (who he thinks is Daniels, was that racist?
>was McNulty justified in his actions in season 5?
>because Rawls was in that gay bar, is he gay?
>what did you think of the fucking fuck fucky fuck, fucking scene?
I thought they capped it pretty well, with the principal basically telling him that it's fruitless to try to save any one kid
plus the season ends with him seeing dukie on the corner and his face tells all
Rawls was most definitely gay. Throughout the series you see little actions that indicate it.
>sitting in a gay bar, the most obvious
>RAWLS SUCKS COCK scrawled on bathroom wall
>flips through Jay's porno mag, but doesn't seem very interested in it
the wire isn't even better than oz you plebs.
>would a real life hamsterdam be a good idea?
pretty much everyone acknowledged that it was morally righteous but a legal/political impossibility
Oz is based, but in a "so retarded it's awesome" kind of way. I don't understand how you can legitimately believe this and not have brain damage
the wire is corny as fuck, it's a show about black people for white people. david lynch agrees with me btw.
Sounds gay, never seen it.
which version was best brehs?
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The original by Tom Waits, of course.
GOD TIER (pushes the envelope of what television can be)
Twin Peaks, The Wire
SHIT TIER
Everything else
cringe
I'm watching the 1st season of The Wire and I just got done watching the episode where DeAngelo teaches the younger kids chess. I was blown away! I had to watch it a couple times to really pick up on it, but did you guys realize that when he was teaching them about the chess pieces, he was really referring to THEM being the pawns! What an amazing metaphor!
It was so deep and meaningful, I am amazed by the deep symbolism of this.
Do the later seasons continue on with masterful symbolism like this? This was truly the pinnacle of storytelling that I have ever seen on a television show, and I think I can confidently say The Wire is the best show ever made without even having seen the entire series.
Also the acting is amazing. Idris Elba and Dominic West do a great job with their Baltimore accents.
McNulty isn't justified in anything that he does, he's a complete piece of shit with a self-righteous streak that does nobody any good. He's too career-minded to do anything with his hotheadedness.
cringe and bluepilled
I think the "the wire is the best show of ALL TIME" shit is an exaggeration but you can't literally believe Oz is better as a television drama. It was one of the earliest attempts at serious, "gritty" TV drama and was really rough around the edges. It got so cartoonish it was actually hilarious at times, and some of the worse plotlines are unwatchable. Again, it's kind of based, but your personal feelings about the shows are making you say stupid shit.
1 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 5
The Wire is the greatest tv show of all time.
tom's probably the best but i have a soft spot for the season 1 version
2=4>3=1=5
Only season 2 and 3 is good. Brother Mouzone is like a cartoon character with his ultra politene mannerisms. Season 5 shits the bed.
The Sopranos is way better.
maybe you're a dumb faggot and you just can't into the correct opinion? maybe you're a giddy teeny bopper who needs to shut the fuck up?
>Brother Mouzone is like a cartoon character
yea pretty much the only character to take me out of the show, thankfully not too prominent though
Why do you Gabagoolists always seethe in Wire threads? Not everything is about your fucking mafia/family drama show.
Nice list but you forgot the Prisoner.
This happens in real life incel.
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oz aged like shit dude
this pepe looks just like colvin
Did I? ;-)
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Add in The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Boardwalk Empire and you’ve got yourself a good list
>Mad Men
You mean The Americans?
>Boardwalk Empire
You mean Westworld?
Everyone who likes this show is a gay virgin incel cuckold
>westworld
you can bait better than this
Yeah man just finished season 2 during my rewatch and fuck man its so good. I felt the same way you did after finishing Sopranos for the first time . Shows will come around here and there but fuck if the early 2000s werent spoiled with good entertainment.
No I can't :(
I second this
think we'll ever get back to that point in terms of networks greenlighting this kind of storytelling?
as far as i'm concerned, everything since mad men has been a cartoon
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