the wire appreciation

  On 3/6/2013 at 9:22 AM, Awepittance said:

Season 2 is probably my favorite as well. I didn't love Season 4 or 5 when i first saw them. I've grown to love both though. Especially 5, because of the reasons mentioned by Lump above. I also wasn't bothered by whatever racial symbolism Zaphod inferred from it, i don't really agree with the premise. Maybe a little bit more rushed and over the top than previous seasons but still filled with great moments. Season 4 was a rough one for me, it's by far the most depressing and dark of any season in the Wire. I tried to get my Mom into the show and she couldn't get past the 3rd or 4th episode of 4.

i don't think 4 is nearly as depressing as 5. the end with dookie and michael is so fucking sad.

i guess i should have said dark instead of depressing, parts of season 4 play out like a circa 1990s wes craven black ghetto horror film (but actually scary and not bizarrely silly)

lol people under the stairs. i wish that movie was good. ghetto gothic is such an unexplored sub genre, ripe with possibility.

Only weak thing I have to say about Season 2, is that the police investigation only really gets going halfway in the season.

S2E8 where McNulty goes on his druken rampage, is so fucking hilarious. Pissing myself laughing every time I watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwDMK0H09o

Yeah man, love that scene.

Season 2 has so many funny moments.

Fuck me.. Valchek is just the greatest scumbag ever.

  On 3/14/2013 at 9:34 PM, Ceerial said:

Fuck me.. Valchek is just the greatest scumbag ever.

whoa weird

i saw this thread was bumped & the first thought that came to mind was "man that guy valchek from the wire is a jerk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttbQTz8tAE

Season 3 is also so fucking good. I really like Bunny and Cutty.

I'm not too crazy about the Carcetti storyline though. And some of the Stanfield's crew characters are a bit silly and one-dimensional compared to Barksdale's crew.

  On 3/15/2013 at 8:49 PM, Ceerial said:

Season 3 is also so fucking good. I really like Bunny and Cutty.

 

I'm not too crazy about the Carcetti storyline though. And some of the Stanfield's crew characters are a bit silly and one-dimensional compared to Barksdale's crew.

goddamn Cutty was one of my fave characters, without a doubt.

the scene where Cutty stares down Fruit is AMAZING.

Yeah cutty is a great character with a fantastic arc

Best show ever I guess, havnt really watched much else.

Im only really bothered by top of the shelf prime shit if I´ll have to dig through heaps of it. The Wire is a mountain.

  On 3/6/2013 at 9:22 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

I tried to get my Mom into the show and she couldn't get past the 3rd or 4th episode of 4.

Yeah me too, but in vain she just cant handle watching people shoot up.

So powerful, so gritty, so good. Because yeah when your already dealing with the subject..

Also everything else positive to say about this show.

Omar, Cutty, Prop Joe, Stringer, the Barksdales, Mcnulty, The Bunk and that bow-legged motherfucker, that bow-tie motherfucker, Cheese, Slim, well yeah the list goes on...Duquan.

And Bubbles of course.

im glad someone's mom could at least watch some of it...its near impossible to get my mom on board....shes still only on the 3rd episode of Season 1.

Bodie's ending is just chilling.

  On 3/26/2013 at 10:08 AM, Ceerial said:

Bodie's ending is just chilling.

Yes. Most of the young characters end up with some massively brutal ending.

I hated Bodie so much when the show started. Not because of his actor or anything, I hated him because he's just a gangster prick, but he won me over so much. It's amazing that the show can take a character who I am fundamentally against and make me sympathise for him. His final scene just killed me. Just started watching The Wire again for the fourth time or so, it's like catching up with an old friend.

That scene with McNulty and Bodie is one of the best in series.

I have never got around to watch Treme.

Is it anyway near as good as The Wire?

Nope.

I tried it, got half way through the first season but the story just doesn't grab me at all. Maybe it's just personal preference, but I find it jarring how frequently the characters refer to being in New Orleans, or how awesome it is to be from New Orleans. I know there was a bit of it in the Wire, the city being a character in the show pretty much, but I don't know, something about it bothered me in Treme.

I'm really sad that I couldn't get into Treme, it's not shit by any margin, but it's also nothing special.

Treme is enjoyable enough but I'm not hooked and I think it really struggled to find an arc (at least across the first 2 seasons).

Yeah, that's what I thought. I actually remembered that I have a watched a single episode of it, a long time ago. It din't grab me either.

I'm hoping David Simon will be done with it soon, so he can do something crime related again. I wasn't too crazy about Generation Kill either.

  On 3/27/2013 at 12:51 PM, Ceerial said:

Yeah, that's what I thought. I actually remembered that I have a watched a single episode of it, a long time ago. It din't grab me either.

 

I'm hoping David Simon will be done with it soon, so he can do something crime related again. I wasn't too crazy about Generation Kill either.

I really liked Generation Kill.