The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade

Memento Mori wrote:Herbi's not entirely wrong.

He's wrong about Breaking Bad and The Shield, so 66% wrong, then.

Awful show.

I could do a lecture on how wrong that post was.

The Crimson Clown wrote:I can't be the only who thought Snoop was a dude for the entire show...right?

Nope.

Balloon Sod wrote:What the strawberry float! I just found out that Snoop is female, and 30 years old at that. I thought they were taking the piss out of 'his' hair when they called her girl

strawberry floating hell, please tell me someone else didn't realise either

Cuttooth wrote:I could do a lecture on how wrong that post was.

I pretty much make a living out of doing just that.

strawberry floating Conventry :fp:

I know.

I nearly put do a PhD on The Wire, but I'm pretty sure you can't do a PhD on The Wire.

My landing floor begs to differ.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, etc.

What the strawberry float.

melatonin wrote:My landing floor begs to differ.

howdoesanyonegetaroundthehouse.jpg

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, etc.

Do all the pieces matter?

Apparently so.

Anung wrote:Where Wallace at?

Get it right, ffs

melatonin wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:I could do a lecture on how wrong that post was.

I pretty much make a living out of doing just that.

strawberry floating Conventry

I nearly choked laughing at this picture. My instant reaction was 'very impressive', followed by laughter at the typo. Seriously though, you have an awesome life if you are lecturing on The Wire. I envy you greatly.

I'd love to have gone to that, as I'm a local. Down in Sussex though. Come lecture here!

Phatman wrote: I envy you greatly.

Don't. There's a very good reason why books like this exist:

melatonin wrote:

I remember hearing about that at the time. Was gutted to have missed it. More upsetting was when I googled 'the wire as social science fiction', just now, and read the first result, a mail piece about the undergraduate module of the same name at my university, York.

Oh, Pat from Norwich. Your deranged, anti-intellectual ramblings have prompted me to take an angry-nap. I hope you're happy.

It was a pretty good two days actually. Spoke to a few people covering it for The Guardian, who I think approached it slightly more positively than anyone from The Mail would have done.

Next up, the UB40 conference in Birmingham next month.

Yes, it's real.

Drawlight wrote:
melatonin wrote:

I remember hearing about that at the time. Was gutted to have missed it. More upsetting was when I googled 'the wire as social science fiction', just now, and read the first result, a mail piece about the undergraduate module of the same name at my university, York.

Oh, Pat from Norwich. Your deranged, anti-intellectual ramblings have prompted me to take an angry-nap. I hope you're happy.

the wire is the sort of thing guardian readers watch - dull, slow paced and foreign.

- alex c, bristol, 16/5/2010 16:40

Read more: http://www.dailyfail.co.uk/news/article ... z1DMj7URoS

Trust a Daily Mail reader to think the fact a show isn't British is a negative.

Wow, do you have the lecture slides for your class Melly? That sounds proper interesting.

Memento Mori wrote:
the wire is the sort of thing guardian readers watch - dull, slow paced and foreign.

- alex c, bristol, 16/5/2010 16:40

Read more: http://www.dailyfail.co.uk/news/article ... z1DMj7URoS

Trust a Daily Mail reader to think the fact a show isn't British is a negative.

Slow-paced is also not a negative.

"Slow paced" can be a negative but foreign isn't. I'm not saying The Wire is slow though, it does well establishing the characters.

The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade

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