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musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited September 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Anyone a fan? Just settling in right now to watch Season 1 on DVD.

As a sociology major I am excited because I hear the show is well, very sociological in its look at inner city life.
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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,922
    one of my favorite tv shows of all time. you will enjoy it.

    Don't give up on it during season 2.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    i have only seen season 1 & 2 but i liked them both a lot.

    Stick with it. It moves "slower" then fast pace normal tv shows, but the build up is so good and the pay off is wonderful.
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  • JenfarrJenfarr Posts: 680
    Great show. Season 4 is my favorite.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    one of my favorite tv shows of all time. you will enjoy it.

    Don't give up on it during season 2.

    I heard going in that season 2 was a bit of a drop off. While I can see why people that got hooked by season 1 might be a bit thrown, I didn't think it was half bad. But then, I watched it all on dvd so I could move pretty quick. But seasons 3-4 were its pinnacle, and some of the best tv ever created.
  • Indifference71Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,872
    One of the best shows ever. Pretty dark and depressing, but thats the reality.
  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    We're almost done with Season 3 right now. It's really an amazing show.

    For what it's worth, I also liked Season 2.
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    I found my pictures of Bubbles when I met him and his daughter in 2004. I hung one up at work, the only pic of him that didn't have his hand down his pants. I hate that when guys do that. What does it mean? It took me a couple of years to find those pics of him when I sat with him on a train and I did not know he was an actor til about an hour after I was sitting with him. At the time, I never heard of The Wire. It's funny, because another woman on the train (from NYC) recognized his (model) daughter and not him! She was a "Gap Baby" and Tommy H. model. I saw him on Criminal Minds last year.
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  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    just finished season one. I really like it. I can see why it is touted as the greatest tv show ever, and I can see why. I like how realistic all the elements are portrayed, from the police to the criminals, and I found the whole inner city life depiction, interesting, and at the same time disturbing.
  • gar mcmichaelgar mcmichael Posts: 184
    The Wire is amazing.

    I once saw Prop Joe at a Mexican restaurant. He was with an entourage of shady characters so I just stayed a safe distance.
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    they have only just started showing season 1 on free to air tv in australia, so i am just starting to watch it
    i like it, slow moving, but so many little things that you can see will come together
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    vedder_soup wrote:
    they have only just started showing season 1 on free to air tv in australia, so i am just starting to watch it
    i like it, slow moving, but so many little things that you can see will come together

    ugh really?? theyre back to season 1? you know tis been on free to air before here. yes keep an eye out cause so many little things do come together. 8-)
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I want to watch it, but someone I know who I think is a conceited gobshite likes it, so I'm gonna have to wait a couple of years before I check it out.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I want to watch it, but someone I know who I think is a conceited gobshite likes it, so I'm gonna have to wait a couple of years before I check it out.

    Don't let me turn you off man. Despite the conceited gobshite thing, I truly do have decent taste. Just see my Buckcherry quote in the other thread.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    soulsinging wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I want to watch it, but someone I know who I think is a conceited gobshite likes it, so I'm gonna have to wait a couple of years before I check it out.

    Don't let me turn you off man. Despite the conceited gobshite thing, I truly do have decent taste. Just see my Buckcherry quote in the other thread.

    :) I wasn't referring to you. Someone I know here in Chinatown.

    Edit: And now you've gone and made me feel bad about what I said about you in the 'Define Liberalism' thread. :mrgreen:
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Byrnzie wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I want to watch it, but someone I know who I think is a conceited gobshite likes it, so I'm gonna have to wait a couple of years before I check it out.

    Don't let me turn you off man. Despite the conceited gobshite thing, I truly do have decent taste. Just see my Buckcherry quote in the other thread.

    :) I wasn't referring to you. Someone I know here in Chinatown.

    Edit: And now you've gone and made me feel bad about what I said about you in the 'Define Liberalism' thread. :mrgreen:

    Oh, my bad. Well, if the shoe fits, as they say!
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    catefrances wrote:
    vedder_soup wrote:
    they have only just started showing season 1 on free to air tv in australia, so i am just starting to watch it
    i like it, slow moving, but so many little things that you can see will come together

    ugh really?? theyre back to season 1? you know tis been on free to air before here. yes keep an eye out cause so many little things do come together. 8-)

    well you know what it is like out here, quality tv like that will have been programmed late on one of the commercial networks and then dropped due to low ratings...

    ABC2 have it on tuesday nights...

    i am currently 60% of the way to aquiringing all 5 seasons by other means :? :ugeek:
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    I loooove The Wire, definitely one of the best ever made. Sad they didn't continue, but glad they didn't ruin it by trying to continue either. I must admit, I never finished watching Season 2, I thought it was crap :? Seasons 3 and 4 were definitely my favourite. I need to take a weekend out and watch it all again. I'm thinking I'll understand it a lot more the second time round. Sometimes it was a bit hard to get what they were saying, espeicially when Snoop was involved :lol:

    Have any of you watched The Corner? It was a 6-part prequel-type to The Wire, by the same writers and some of the same actors, just much less dramatised.
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