The Wire

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Ran out of things to watch on netflix so hooked up the first two disks of season 1. Hooked. I heard people talk about how good it was before but I'm a believer now.
 
I'm about to start season 3. My favorite scene in the whole show so far is in season 1, when McNulty and Bunk inspect the dead girl's old apartment and spend about five minutes saying only the F word.
 
Im at the end of season 1. parts seems slow but I attributed it to setting the story/characters. Does it pick up some? I heard it was the greatest show ever and I went in expecting greatness like The Shield. Probably shouldnt have gone in thinking that.
 
Season 1 was slow at times but from my memory it was to build characters.

Season 2 was great. Way better than the Shield IMO.
 
I had a thread about this recently as I'm watching this on Netflix right now, as well. Have about four episodes to finish season four. Season three was amazing, but I have loved every season I've seen so far for different reasons.

I remember I used to see people comment on the internet that The Wire is better than the Sopranos and thought, "no ******* way." I get it now. They may be equal as far as being well made, but The Wire, despite not always ending how you predict, or cases not always getting "wrapped up in a neat little bow" like network cop dramas, is much more satisfying (to me) than The Sopranos.

I'm a little sad that I'm about to start season five, and then that's all she wrote. Great television.
 
It definitely picks up. Season 1 moves a little slow at first to try and establish the characters as the previous poster mentioned. Just stick with it and you will be rewarded with pure greatness.
 
Just finished season 1 last night. For those of you that say Season 1 was slow compared to the others, you make me very excited. I thought Season 1 was pretty good.

Without spoiling the rest of the seasons for me can someone let me know how the show continues? Does the show stay focused on Avon and the organization for the rest of the seasons or is it a new challenge every season that they focus on?
 
I pesonally think it is best to not have that answered for you. Not being a dick, just think its better if you let it unravel not knowing.
 
There are some storyline carryovers from previous seasons to the next but it's not like other shows where it picks up exactly where it left off and continues with that particular story arc. The focus of the 2nd season goes in a completely different direction. Part of the greatness of the show.
 
a lot of the same players, in the same game, but each season has a completely different focus from the last one.

but you're in luck. season 2 is my favorite season (probably because that is when i started watching it) of all.
 
This is the best show ever. I rank the seasons (and I love them all) as follows:

Season 2
Season 4
Season 1
Season 3
Season 5

It's not that I don't like 5, it's just (without giving anything away) that one of the two major story lines during this season (the one that doesn't involve McNulty and Lester) would have been better as a recurring theme during all the seasons, rather than as a focal point of one season. They are all great, I spent a good part of the offseason re-watching the entire series...
 
The series is really about the city of Baltimore and how terrible things have gotten there. Each season reveals a different aspect of a city in serious decay. Season 1 is just the tip of the iceberg.
 
we are about half way through season 3, so far season 2 has been my favorite.

It is a great show
 
I just finished this show last night.

Damn good. I think it really ended appropriately. I enjoyed the ending, but I won't say anything to spoil. But overall, the show is about how ****** up Baltimore is.

I thought the show started pretty slowly. I wasn't hooked until the end of the first season. I thought season 4 was the best.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't David Simon (creator) say on one of the DVD commentary tracks that if there had been a sixth season, they would have focused on the immigration issue in Baltimore.

It would have been interesting to see how they would have dealt with this issue through the prism of The Wire.
 
Also, while the show is specific to Baltimore, this show could have just as easily been about Houston:

(1) the drug trade
(2) the flow of drugs/weapons through the ship channel
(3) city government/bureaucracy/political corruption
(4) the school system
(5) print news media

As a former teacher in inner-city Houston (who left for an inner-city teaching experience after being at suburban Kingwood HS), season 4 hit me pretty hard. One of my students was dealer. Several of my students were Cholo/Chola gang members. One of my students was shot in the face and two of my advisees witnessed the the slaying of their brother at a party. Another student wore the wrong 'colors' to school and was picked on until he dropped out, etc.

The themes presented in The Wire are an unfortunate reality in all of our inner cities.
 
Not just Houston but maybe moreso D.C. Then there is Gary, Indiana. Detroit, Chicago, Miami and the list goes on. Where I lived in D.C. I got a full immersion into the goings on. After seeing people get shot, finding bodies in the park, laid out on your car with a knife still in the rib cage, walking over broken vials of crack on the ground and other things you lose sight of how shocking it is.

I remember coming back to Austin and having East Austin as pretty much the only place I could move to that would accept my dog at the time (a Rottie). The high occupancy rate and shortage of housing meant that landlords did not have to lend to a dog owner as there were tons waiting that did not have one. Why bother? I wouldn't.

I had not been in East Austin in over a decade. I used to skateboard in the mid 80s in parts of the area. It had wicked things to grind on and mess with. Nobody usually gave us trouble and some came and watched us. They always bought us beer when we gave them cash for one to enjoy on their own.

I never played hoops or ate at Sam's with them to establish my street cred, haha.

My point is that things over here had not gentrified like they have over the past decade or so. Things were still "shady" by Austin standards. I found myself grinning ear to ear at what I saw or should I say what I did not see. So calm and tame compared to what I was used to.

I have lived over here now over a decade and don't plan on ever leaving it unless I move out of Austin. But the Wire is a template for oh so many cities in our country.

I had a friend beaten over the head with a concrete pipe as he pee'd in an alley on the way to our car. He was no more than a foot inside the shadow that angled across the opening. He was maybe 18 inches from the entrance of the alley. He was in a coma for about a month and had a gap in his head about four inches long and an inch wide.

He was robbed for under a buck in change. I was going to buy him some breakfast at a Diner on the way back to D.C. since he had no cash. We did not make it back to D.C. that night.

Charm City my ***.
 
I don't recall his character's name in The Wire, but remember the black city councilman that always says, "Sheeeeeeeet." His character could have been been written about Dallas councilman Hill that currently stands trial. Same criminal defense. Hill even had a press conference with a group of local ministers from black churches. Same currupt **** happens all the time in Dallas.
 
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