I finally got around to watching the wire...

[phillycavsfan]

 

[Apollo Kid]

 

[Larry Holmes]

I was getting around to just watching this show for the first time, subs

 

[Tom]

The first 7 episodes were slow as fuk tho


I honestly didn't give a shyt about anything that happened before or after the 4th season

 

[killacal]

The first 7 episodes were slow as fuk tho


I honestly didn't give a shyt about anything that happened before or after the 4th season

Were you watching while it was running? You waited 4 yrs for it to get good?

Im gonna stick thru it tho, why omar gotta be gay tho

 

[Tom]

Were you watching while it was running? You waited 4 yrs for it to get good?

Im gonna stick thru it tho, why omar gotta be gay tho

Nah I ran through the entire series for the first time over the course of a few months last year. (If I was watching it while it aired I probably would have just stopped watching after the 2nd season to be honest)


1st season is kinda slow, 2nd season will suck ass....3rd season gets better towards the end....

when u reach the fourth season u will be witnessing some of the best shyt ever shown on television. Fourth season was a work of art imo and should have won an Emmy.


The Wire fourth season = Breaking Bad, its that good bro


and then the 5th season it will go back to being boring....but its worth watching for the simple fact that it brings closure for alot of the characters, the last episode was dope to me.


btw, I would NOT advise you to skip directly to the 4th season because then u will miss alot of the story and alot of the shyt that happens will probably make zero sense to u if u haven't seen any of the previous seasons. And Omar is hands down the best and most interesting character on the show b....the nikka was so gangsta I almost forgot he was gay sometimes

 

[prophecypro]

Keep watching....dont worry about the start. Just keep watching

 

[iamstr8fire]

Im gonna stick thru it tho, why omar gotta be gay tho

Lol. I don't think there is a single person who has seen this show and not said that.

 

[avon barksdale]

 

[Huellz Santana]

breaking bad is a godo show but its too unrealistic for me to label it goat

a 50 year old chem teacher/pushover all of a sudden kills numerous drug capos, including one of the most shrewd who took out cartel members, and becomes a drug bawse

in less than a year

and his brother is a very smart DEA agent?

the Wire is slower but you could see all that pretty much happening except Hamsterdam​

 

[Serious]

breaking bad is a godo show but its too unrealistic for me to label it goat

a 50 year old chem teacher/pushover all of a sudden kills numerous drug capos, including one of the most shrewd who took out cartel members, and becomes a drug bawse

in less than a year

and his brother is a very smart DEA agent?

the Wire is slower but you could see all that pretty much happening except Hamsterdam​

Hamsterdam, did happen bro...


and @TOM season 4 sucked imo

Season 3 was piff............

 

[STAN JONES]

breaking bad is a godo show but its too unrealistic for me to label it goat

a 50 year old chem teacher/pushover all of a sudden kills numerous drug capos, including one of the most shrewd who took out cartel members, and becomes a drug bawse

in less than a year

and his brother is a very smart DEA agent?

the Wire is slower but you could see all that pretty much happening except Hamsterdam​

Hamsterdam really happened back in the early 90s but I agree with you 100% about breaking bad,especially season 5

 

[head shots101]

 

[hex]

at Hamsterdam being real. I've never heard that before in my life, or is this another case of the writers taking something real (like the real Omar surviving a 6 story jump) and turning it into bullshyt (not only did he survive, but he limped around killing people using a mop as a crutch).

at people talking about "The Wire" is realistic. That shyt is less realistic than "Breaking Bad", because unlike "The Wire" that show never claimed realism. It's mission statement was: turn the protagonist into an antagonist. And they succeeded. Meanwhile "The Wire" is supposed to be real but turned into "Dexter" in the last season.

Which brings me to my next point. By David Simon's own admission, "The Wire" ain't supposed to be realistic. It's meant to be a dramatized, Greek tragedy set in Baltimore:

We’re stealing instead from an earlier, less-traveled construct—the Greeks—lifting our thematic stance wholesale from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides to create doomed and fated protagonists who confront a rigged game and their own mortality. The modern mind—particularly those of us in the West—finds such fatalism ancient and discomfiting, I think. We are a pretty self-actualized, self-worshipping crowd of postmoderns and the idea that for all of our wherewithal and discretionary income and leisure, we’re still fated by indifferent gods, feels to us antiquated and superstitious. We don’t accept our gods on such terms anymore; by and large, with the exception of the fundamentalists among us, we don’t even grant Yahweh himself that kind of unbridled, interventionist authority.

But instead of the old gods, The Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces. It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no decent reason. In much of television, and in a good deal of our stage drama, individuals are often portrayed as rising above institutions to achieve catharsis. In this drama, the institutions always prove larger, and those characters with hubris enough to challenge the postmodern construct of American empire are invariably mocked, marginalized, or crushed. Greek tragedy for the new millennium, so to speak.

That's why you have certain mythic, larger than life figures like Omar and Brother Mouzone and Chris and Snoop. That's why Omar died the way he did.

So at using realism as some kinda yardstick for how good a show is. You might as well stick to the Discovery Channel.

Fred.

 

[Fury616]

at Hamsterdam being real. I've never heard that before in my life,
Fred.

You never heard of Skid Row have you? Its basically Hamsterdam for homeless and druggies. here lemme help you out. Skid Row, Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia