the wire appreciation

ps i watched the first episode of the wire and it was good.

i watched the first episode of the wire and was not impressed. i ended up starting at the third season and reading all the backstory on wikipedia (lol) and was amazed.

  keltoi said:

  Dirty Protest said:

You havent said if you'ld seen it or not, of you havent, kind of makes you point a bit moot.

 

you're the moot one pal. i said i had no idea what everyone was on about and joked about wire magazine.

 

I HAVEN'T SEEN IT... but i bet it's shite like all those others.

i apologise for the pal bit above... that was wanky of me.

:kiss:

No problem, its the internet . But your still wrong about Seinfeld, watch 'The Bubble Boy' episode from series 4 and if you dont laugh at the Trivial Pursuit bit I worry for your soul :innocent:

i've given him a chance before and i just don't get seinfeld's appeal... like woody allen. that awkward, socially stunted, stereotypical complaining jewish thing doesn't do anything for me i'm afraid (lol maybe it's too like me).

i appreciate everything except s5

  keltoi said:

i've given him a chance before and i just don't get seinfeld's appeal... like woody allen. that awkward, socially stunted, stereotypical complaining jewish thing doesn't do anything for me i'm afraid (lol maybe it's too like me).

enjoying seinfeld has nothing to do with jerry seinfeld appeal. he isn't funny.

just finished epidode 5, season 4.

holy shit, the program will forever have a special place in my er, heart. seriously though, there have been so many moments of poignancy and gravity watching it so far, its ridiculous.

on a small note, i noticed in that last episode, during a pretty paltry scene wherein some corner kid was waiting out for a friend, during the questioning by another kid on that he would be another couple of hours they artificially went to the effort of putting in fake cold steam coming from his mouth. i mean, its such a paltry thing, completely inconsequential, but they went to the effort of doing something like that just to accentuate the fact that he was waiting and it was, in fact, a cold day. and its like that is the spirit of this program - not giving a fuck about success, just making a piece of intensely studious art.

also - the parallels/juxtiposition between the system and the game. cincetti and marlow. polar opposites but alike in the greater context - (forgive the use of 'moral') but marlow coming up immorally in a game that is amoral and has lost its waning rules of street morality, and cincetti coming up morally in a system that is amoral and has lost its roots of morality/integrity/social care(?).

this program says more about america than any manifesto or sweeping allegory, its just so plaintive. no bullshit, just purely brilliant observatory art? social commentary? i dont know what it is. just fucking good tv!

/drunk

  Idrn said:

on a small note, i noticed in that last episode, during a pretty paltry scene wherein some corner kid was waiting out for a friend, during the questioning by another kid on that he would be another couple of hours they artificially went to the effort of putting in fake cold steam coming from his mouth.

or maybe it really was cold...

Spot on that Idrn

You'll love the finale of season 4, it's epic

  Idrn said:

look fool, dont just storm in trying to wave your mottled cock around when you havnt even watched the first episode.

 

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/The_Wire.html

 

fuck off for a bit, then come back with an opinion.

Thank you!

I am going to watch now!

Watched first 3 eps.

Does it get good at some point? So far all I've seen is a Law and Order storyline stretched out to 3 hours with lots of "fucking fuck we're on fucking cable"

Also, it's set in Baltimore and the only Think break I've heard so far is "It Takes Two" wtf

The show doesn't really get that Bmore club savvy until like season 3.

the wire and lost.

ultra appreciation from me for the best shows on tv

just finished the first season last night. good shit. very similar to the shield in a lot of ways. sometimes its a little too heavy handed and some of the acting is pretty uninspired (could mcnalty aka nick nolte be any more generic? and could his mouth be any crookeder?). i was bummed when kima got shot and even more bummed when wallace got killed.

hopefully i'll start on season 2 tonight.

Halfway through series two here. I agree that McNulty the smirky everyman seems a bit fake compared to some of the other chars, and that gets even worse in S2. The whole thing is frighteningly addictive though. Love the pacing!

Has anyone made a joke about the magazine yet?

  analogue wings said:

Halfway through series two here. I agree that McNulty the smirky everyman seems a bit fake compared to some of the other chars, and that gets even worse in S2. The whole thing is frighteningly addictive though. Love the pacing!

If you haven't gotten to episode eight yet, you'll really appreciate how over the top McNulty is and not really care how realistic his character is. Epic cold opening.

  Iain C said:

Has anyone made a joke about the magazine yet?

no. and i don't see how it could be funny anyway. :undecided:

Christ, you actually sound like a Wire reader.

Full disclosure: I have a (lapsed) subscription

The Wire got shit, very quickly. (the magazine)

The free CD's were decent though. What a joke that you have to subscribe to get them...

i just realized i was thinking of Wired magazine and you were probably thinking of The Wire seeing as how you're from the UK.

and either way i don't read either, so i don't know why i'd sound like a reader of either, and any joke about mistaking either for the show the wire probably would be dumb.

SO THERE.

LOL, I smell of failure and stale meat