Television The Wire

Almost finished the first season. Totally addicted again. It's the last thing I watch before bed and I'm getting an episode in before I go to work in the morning. It's so unbelievably good.
 
I'm on 6th episode of last season, ist my second watching. A masterpiece.
 
Halfway through my first rewatch in ten years. The port series is a lot better than I remembered. It really gets under the skin of the circumstances which create crime while telling a police story in a way not much else ever has.
 
I'm halfway through the third season. Hamsterdam. Doing a few episodes a day, every day.

I can quit any time I want. Honest.
 
ZupZup said:
I’ve not actually seen this show… but at the weekend I was in Budapest doing a touristy boat trip on the Danube and got talking to an American guy in the queue. He said he was a small time actor and he was in Budapest to film a TV episode of a small show he hadn’t heard of until he was given the job.

I asked him if he’d been in anything I might have heard of… and he said he appeared in all seasons of the Wire as a lawyer “for the bad guys”. Nice chap. Anyway, I feel I should watch the show now to see how much he actually is in it… and since the show does get rave reviews.
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Haha, cool story.
 
Badunk said:
I'm halfway through the third season. Hamsterdam. Doing a few episodes a day, every day.

I can quit any time I want. Honest.
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On my first watch 3rd season was probably my favourite but on each rewatch it gets worse in my opinion. Hamsterdam storyline got old pretty quick.
 
Roosney said:
On my first watch 3rd season was probably my favourite but on each rewatch it gets worse in my opinion. Hamsterdam storyline got old pretty quick.
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Feels a bit weird to tell someone that actually you think the thing they're currently enjoying wasn't that good. At least wait until they've finished the season :lol:
 
Herman Toothrot said:
Halfway through my first rewatch in ten years. The port series is a lot better than I remembered. It really gets under the skin of the circumstances which create crime while telling a police story in a way not much else ever has.
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The 2nd season might be my favourite. On the first watch it feels like it gets in the way of the story and characters you knew from the first season, but when viewed as a whole it's fantastic.
 
nimic said:
The 2nd season might be my favourite. On the first watch it feels like it gets in the way of the story and characters you knew from the first season, but when viewed as a whole it's fantastic.
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It's excellent, one of the best seasons of TV. The ending of the penultimate episode is chefs kiss.
 
On the final season now. It is absolutely brilliant. You get so invested in the characters that you have to watch just one more episode. I remember the first time I watched it, I'd regularly go to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning, very reluctantly. Now, I'm older and less capable of staying up, so it's around midnight now. But, oh my god, it's just the most incredible show.

Going to have to rewatch Sopranos when I'm done.
 
Fun fact: Steve Earle, who plays Bubbles' sponsor, Walon, is the singer of the theme tune on the final season.

Personally, I prefer the season 4 version.
 
Just finished.

Epic.

5 seasons in 25 days. That's how good and how addictive it is. Feel sad now it's over.

In 4 or 5 years' time, we go again.
 
Rado_N said:
100%
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I don't know it it's my outright favourite, but it's fantastic. I get some people may feel slightly disappointed on first watch because they don't get to see more of the characters and the plotlines they grew so fond of in season 1, but other than that readjustment, it's just superb television.
 
cafecillos said:
I don't know it it's my outright favourite, but it's fantastic. I get some people may feel slightly disappointed on first watch because they don't get to see more of the characters and the plotlines they grew so fond of in season 1, but other than that readjustment, it's just superb television.
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When you first watch it seems like a big shift, but in reality it’s not so much that as it is the world you are seeing grows with each season and you’re getting a look at more and more aspects of that city.

It’s so bloody good.
 
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