The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade

The Sopranos kickstarted the resurgence of truly amazing television. The Wire is so far the pinnacle of that.

EDIT - So yeah, s'pretty good.

So good, I'm doing an entire PhD on it.

True story.

As I watch neither, I used to get this and The Shield mixed up.

And that's all I've got to say about that.

I know what you mean. I used to get The Sopranos mixed up with Last Choir Standing.

I've just realised that, for all this time I've been telling chalkitdown that I've been watching Weeds, I've accidentally been watching Pushing Daisies.

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Corazon de Leon

Zenigame wrote:You seem to have misspelled the word "Lost" in the thread title. Quite how you managed to accidently write "The Wire" instead is beyond me.

I'm personally still trying to figure out what you were trying to type when you accidentally hit send on your PM request for a name change.

PsychicSykes wrote:
Zenigame wrote:You seem to have misspelled the word "Lost" in the thread title. Quite how you managed to accidently write "The Wire" instead is beyond me.

You seem to have misspelled "Arrested Development" in your post. Quite how you accidently managed to write "Lost" instead is beyond me.

You seem to have misspelled "Soupy Norman" in your post. Quite how you accidently managed to write "Arrested Development" instead is beyond me.

Soulfinger wrote:Also I'd put 24, Spooks and the Sopranos above Lost.

I love Lost but I'd agree with that and I'd also add The Shield to that list.

Completely agree. The Wire is utterly brilliant. It's so tightly written, with fascinating characters and densely brilliant season-long narratives. It even manages to get better as it goes along, peaking at season 4, with season 5 still being superb. What I love is that everyone I know seems to have a different favourite character, which says something for the standard of the writing. It's got to be Omar for me, with Bubbles a close second.

One of my flatmates is American and he is obsessed with The Wire, but for some bizarre reason he thinks season 4 is the worst and season 2 is the best

I always liked season 4 the most and thought the second season was the weakest just because it was a bit too standalone compared to the others.

I think 2 and 4 are the best. S2 is standalone but not a lot more than the rest, there are elements introduced that are really important to the rest of the series, especially the heroin shipments.

Favourite characters? Stringer, Marlo, Omar, Chris and Nick Sobotka, and of course McNulty. All brilliant.

Zenigame wrote:You seem to have misspelled the word "Lost" in the thread title. Quite how you managed to accidently write "The Wire" instead is beyond me.

Corazon de Leon

<]:^D wrote:
Zenigame wrote:You seem to have misspelled the word "Lost" in the thread title. Quite how you managed to accidently write "The Wire" instead is beyond me.

Could you have whacked any more facepalms into that utterly pointless post deriding the opinion of another? :mrgreen:

Corazon wrote:
<]:^D wrote:
Zenigame wrote:You seem to have misspelled the word "Lost" in the thread title. Quite how you managed to accidently write "The Wire" instead is beyond me.

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Could you have whacked any more facepalms into that utterly pointless post deriding the opinion of another?

Yeah.

Oh Teh Noes wrote:
Corazon wrote:
<]:^D wrote:
Zenigame wrote:You seem to have misspelled the word "Lost" in the thread title. Quite how you managed to accidently write "The Wire" instead is beyond me.

+

Could you have whacked any more facepalms into that utterly pointless post deriding the opinion of another?

Yeah.

Yep.

Corazon de Leon

Then you should've just gone the whole hog and broken the page.

I've never seen a broken phpBB3 page.

I remember the old really long quote chain trick on GR. Fun times.

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