Lucky sod. Being a teacher, I bet season 4 is going to feck you up.
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Lucky sod. Being a teacher, I bet season 4 is going to feck you up.
Just started season 3 episode 1. Gonna get it watched before the World Cup coverage starts.
Towers just got blown up.
Ain’t got there yet, but I’ll probably be there sometime next week or so. Summer break gives me a bit of time to knock out some episodes
A few years ago I was looking for something to watch and read many great reviews of this show. Only watched the first episode because I didn't know what the feck was going on. From what I remember, there was no character introduction and for all I knew, I was watching an episode from the middle of season 2.
Here I am now reading nothing but positivity on the Caf. Perhaps I should watch a few episodes and really give it a chance.
Here I am now reading nothing but positivity on the Caf. Perhaps I should watch a few episodes and really give it a chance.
As someone who just started watching it about 2 weeks ago....
Hell yes you should!
Season 4 is the greatest thing ever broadcast on TV (bar United triumphs).
That's one of the great things about it, it's like you're just suddenly given a window into a world to see what's going on. It's not like everything has been created for the sole purpose of the show, it's been there before and will carry on afterwards.
Think it it almost as a docu-series, you're being shown life in Baltimore.
Best bump thread ever.
The first time I saw it, I was like WTF is going on for the first 2 episodes. But by the end, it the best TV I have seen.
I love the lack of exposition. It's really crazy how much of a given it is for us to see a scene start with two characters speaking together in a way that just happens to outline all the salient details to catch up people who aren't involved at all. I love that the Wire forces you to piece it all together in your own mind.
Season 3 for me is the greatest single season of TV ever. But it's so close with season 4, I think most on the Cafe slightly prefer 4. Wish I was @Carolina Red right now.
That’s a great way to describe it!
You guys are makin me blush.
Think I’m due another rewatch.
I had Justified in my top spot of gritty crime dramas.
The Wire has now dethroned Justified.
The Wire has now dethroned Justified.
Interesting start to the season so far.
Fecking Cheese... literally talking about his damn dog.
Also, that paper bag scene at the end was deep.
Also, that paper bag scene at the end was deep.
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so jealous you are watching for the first time, I miss that feeling
Man, so much I'd like to say to you, but...nah, just enjoy it.
He’s saying that the past is always wit us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it... all this shit matters. Like at the end of the book, boats and tides an all... It’s like you can change up, right, you can say you somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But, what came first, is who you really are. And what happened before, is what really happened. And it don’t matter that some fool say he different cause the only thing that make you different is what you really do or what you really go through. Like, you know, like... all them books in his library. Now, he frontin wit all them books, but if we pulled one down off the shelf, ain’t none of the pages ever been open. He got all them books, and he ain’t read near one of them. Gatsby... he was who he was, and he did what he did. And cause he wasn’t ready to get real with the story... that shit caught up to him. I think, anyway......
I went on my Maps app and found the low rises...
Ha, cool.
My bike may be fecked so I'll be getting the train to work for the next month. 3 episodes of Happy! to watch )2nd time) and then this is going on the tablet. All 5 seasons 720p X265 is only 15GB. It will all fit on easily.
First time watch for me, too.
First time watch for me, too.
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I went on my Maps app and found the low rises...
This is the exact kind of rabbit hole I have been lost down a thousand times
Wait til you can read about it all without worrying about spoilers, it's dangerous!
Envy.
In fierce competition with The Sopranos for the best show ever. So many fantastic characters and like someone said an almost documentary feel about it. Hard to imagine it ever being beaten.
I've still got that to watch, too.
The Sopranos? I envy you. Like I said, along with The Wire, it’s the best show ever made. And there are six seasons of it!
Same here. I’ve seen the odd episode now and then but never watched the whole show straight through.
I watched the Wire before Sopranos, and was disappointed by the latter.
Heard so many people raving about it. Found it very repetitive with the odd high point.
A controversial view to some, but I bet, not to others.
Heard so many people raving about it. Found it very repetitive with the odd high point.
A controversial view to some, but I bet, not to others.
B, he was a man in his time, you know?
——He a man today.
——He a man today.
Almost done with Season 3
- I like Colvin. Everything worked against him though. Damned unfortunate
- Herc’s really starting to piss me off
- The guy who opened the boxing gym... there was a guy on CNN Heroes that sounds just like that character.
- WTF is McNulty doing with the DC dominatrix chick?
- Herc’s really starting to piss me off
- The guy who opened the boxing gym... there was a guy on CNN Heroes that sounds just like that character.
- WTF is McNulty doing with the DC dominatrix chick?
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My stupid brain read that as Bunk at first, but yea Herc is a douche
Added a couple more thoughts in the spoiler... but... totally agree. He’s a damn idiot.
The guy who opened the gym is Cutty, full name (no joke) Dennis Wise
Yea Herc started out ok but quickly became a joke, he was a good character because obviously that kind of guy exists in the department but he was a total prat.
Yeah I’ve noticed him and Carver have drifted way apart over season 3.The guy who opened the gym is Cutty, full name (no joke) Dennis Wise
Yea Herc started out ok but quickly became a joke, he was a good character because obviously that kind of guy exists in the department but he was a total prat.
Here’s the real guy that Cutty sounds like...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/us/gallery/2017-cnn-hero-khali-sweeney/index.html
That's cool. There's so much stuff in The Wire that's taken from real life, it may have been based on that story.
Edit: that story is from 2017 so maybe not but still
I had this exact same experience. I don't really rate Sopranos but its a fair point that it was probably the first of the 21st century drama shows so the quality standards weren't as high when it was made. I don't think I'd have Sopranos in my Top 10 or Top 15 of all time though.
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Colvin might be my favorite character in the whole show.That's cool. There's so much stuff in The Wire that's taken from real life, it may have been based on that story.
Edit: that story is from 2017 so maybe not but still
Name a few then please.
Not counting comedies (and The Wire is no.1)
Gomorra (Ita)
Romanzo Criminale (Ita)
Suburra (Ita)
Engrenages/Spiral (Fra)
La Casa de Papel (Spa)
Six Flying Dragons (Kor)
The Disguiser (Chi)
Valkyrien (Nor)
Tree with Deep Roots (Kor)
Dark (Ger)
Stranger (Kor)
Nirvana in Fire (Chi)
Breaking Bad (US)
Mad Men (US)
The Shield (US)
Mr Robot (US)
Fargo (US)
Narcos
Halt and Catch Fire
Orphan Black
Better Call Saul