Install the app
How to install the app on iOS

Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.

Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.

The Wire revisited (with spoilers)

Status
Not open for further replies.
I'm not a fan of comparing the wire to the sopranos, the main character in the wire is the city of baltimore, each season is an investigation into the different aspects which make up a failing city. With an overall arc of an underfunded police department among many other

Season 1 - the corruption of the streets due to the drug trade

Season 2 - the corruption of the docks due to the drug trade and lack of port trade and the effect it has on the people

Season 3 - political corruption

Season 4 - failure of school system and how it pushes the youth into the drug trade

Season 5 - the failure of the media

It's a brilliantly written interwoven tapestry.

The sopranos while great in its own right, is more about a family of gangsters. there's no comparing the 2
 

I'm watching again for the fourth time or something with my gf who has not seen it yet. Watching it for the first time after a while, I am more impressed with Daniels than I was previously

Also love Avon (you only do two days), Wee bey, and Bubbles. The Bubbles scene at the end has me in tears every time.
 
I also personally loved Treme which is a show David Simon did about New Orleans, I'd even say I enjoyed it as much as The Wire. There's a folky, entertaining element to it though it's still as gritty and emotional as The Wire.
 
leslad said:
I'm watching again for the fourth time or something with my gf who has not seen it yet. Watching it for the first time after a while, I am more impressed with Daniels than I was previously

Also love Avon (you only do two days), Wee bey, and Bubbles. The Bubbles scene at the end has me in tears every time.
Click to expand...
Daniels is hard as nails. Always had the impression he was a mechanical lover mind you.
 
Why are comic film people talking about breaking bad in here?

Anyone who thinks breaking bad is the best show probably goes to Disneyland for their 40th
 

leslad said:
I also personally loved Treme which is a show David Simon did about New Orleans, I'd even say I enjoyed it as much as The Wire. There's a folky, entertaining element to it though it's still as gritty and emotional as The Wire.
Click to expand...
It works on a much smaller scale (Baltimore can stand in for urban America, but New Orleans is such a sui generis town that it can only ever be New Orleans) but it works, and it helps answer the question that The Wire left hanging in every viewer's mind: What if Lester Freeman were a Mardi Gras Indian? And, of course, the music's superb.
 
leslad said:
I also personally loved Treme which is a show David Simon did about New Orleans, I'd even say I enjoyed it as much as The Wire. There's a folky, entertaining element to it though it's still as gritty and emotional as The Wire.
Click to expand...
Ive not seen this. Got a few things to watch at the minute but will definitely add
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Welcome to GrandOldTeam

Get involved. Registration is simple and free.

Register
Back
Top