I've been wanting to catch The Wire for years. It's always been said to be the best TV show ever made. Now i think thats a pretty tough call. Im a big fan of the Sopranos in its dramatic style, content, and humour so i didn't think The Wire would be able to match it.
Im half way through serises one and it could possibly be the greatest TV show ever made. I'll have to reserve judgement until the end of the season but so far so good.
Check it out all you lovers of long arching plot lines, drama, violence, black humour, drugs, gangsters, and the crumbling social structure of the late 20th / early 21st century.
I still want to check out Deadwood as well. Just for Lovejoy swearing a lot.
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I keep hearing those who proclaim the God-like status of "The Wire", yet am too scared to make time for the box-set.
Can you help? How do you suggest breaking myself in? Is it a drunken late-evening watch, or more sober Sunday afternooner.
Well Dr. Hamhock...
It is most definately not a drunken watch. I would treat it much like the sopranos. In fact i started watching it when the recent season of the Sopranos finished as a kind of TV methadone to get me over the withdrawl symptoms.
Get the first season off of somebody. Watch the first episode. You'll get hooked straight away.
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