Just Starting Watching 'The Wire' And...
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He had that same mentality that Herc had he never learned when Carver was trying to teach him what Colvin and Daniels taught him. "Tony if you go around knocking heads all the time nobody's going to work with you when the real shyt happens" When he wrote Collicio up I understood it he gave Collocio the same out Daniel's gave him,Herc and Prez and Collicio so stupid to realise it.
Money Be Green
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I remember the summer going to my 6th grade year I had a cousin from Philly come down here for the summer and he use to watch it. After he left i forgot all about it
. Fast forward my 10th grade year nikkas in class talking bout the wire. Im like nikkas still watching that show , let me see what the hype is about.
I go home turn on demand on and started watching the goat season of the wire. Season 4
. I could relate to the them kids at the time cause I live in MD and we were around the same age at that time.
I remember the summer going to my 6th grade year I had a cousin from Philly come down here for the summer and he use to watch it. After he left i forgot all about it
. Fast forward my 10th grade year nikkas in class talking bout the wire. Im like nikkas still watching that show , let me see what the hype is about.I go home turn on demand on and started watching the goat season of the wire. Season 4
. I could relate to the them kids at the time cause I live in MD and we were around the same age at that time.
I'm gonna really try to stick it out. I tried to watch it years ago and didn't make it past episode 3. Here I am, 10 years later and I figured I would appreciate more as an older breh. It's the same thing this time aroundI'm checking out Deadwood now and this is keeping my interest, but I'm definitely gonna try to finish The Wire.
Deadwood is a beast. Probably the best of all the shows of hbos golden era and I’ve seen em all repeatedly. I got up on deadwood late and binge watched it. In my opinion it’s the best. But stick it out with the wire you’ll be rewarded. Those first episodes are really an intro to the characters more or less. That’s what I realized rewatching it but it picks up real nice.
Rome is another good one if you haven’t seen it yet.
Did you watch the episode when Wallace got killed yet?
Or when Stringer send goons to kill D'Angelo in prison?
Or when Cheese gets capped.
I watched the Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. Neither of those show match the Wire.
Marlo is probably one of the most evil characters ever written in the history of television.
I know that its blasphemous to speak out against the Wire- but I think the show was HIGHLY overrated. Good? Absolutely. Cinematic masterpiece? Naw.
In fact- I am convinced half of the reason the show became so popular is because it taught white people some new lingo:
"Hey Tyler, my IPhone broke so I had to buy a BURNER in the meantime
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Quite honestly, I thought the show focused way too much on the Cops, and I hate cop shows.
In fact- I am convinced half of the reason the show became so popular is because it taught white people some new lingo:
"Hey Tyler, my IPhone broke so I had to buy a BURNER in the meantime
"Quite honestly, I thought the show focused way too much on the Cops, and I hate cop shows.
It took me a little while to get into th Wire too, because it wasn't clear who all of the characters were. They are introduced very slowly and as the story unfolds it is clear that the writers are not only studying the characters, but they also look at institutions, which fail the people that the institutions were supposedly created to help. Case in point was season 2. I didn't get why the spent that year on the docks, but looking back on it they had to show how drugs got into the Country and later into the hood. They also showed the parallels between blue color ethnic people and African Americans.
It is really well written and really well acted. The gangs stole the show.
It is really well written and really well acted. The gangs stole the show.
This quote sums up the show....
"WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE DRUGS, ALL YOU SEE IS DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG DEALERS.......WHEN YOU START FOLLOWING THE MONEY, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GONNA FIND"
"WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE DRUGS, ALL YOU SEE IS DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG DEALERS.......WHEN YOU START FOLLOWING THE MONEY, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GONNA FIND"
One of the best written shows of all time. IMO only thing that comes close is MR. ROBOT.
Money Be Green
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The dude that played Kenard went to my highschool a year after I graduated. One of my lil homies was still there when he got there said everyday nikkas use to ask him to say the lines from the show 
. They said he was smart as fukk tho 
. They said he was smart as fukk tho 
Yeah that’s how the wire is. I was bored as shyt in the beginning, forced myself to keep watching just based off all the hype and then that shyt is piff. I even sat through the ENTIRE dock worker season which was even MORE boring but that shyt ends good too and I appreciate it now. It’s a good show. Keep going.
season one starts off slow and u have to struggle to stick with it and season two has to grow on u...but its worth it just to get to season three and four.....
VertigoKnight
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Season 2 was pretty good imo. Shows a different angle to the corners but amps it up to show the real power players.
If we look at each season as a look at a failing city institution they all pull together.
The Lyon King
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They almost lost a nikka on season 2