The Wire

[andykopgod]

Just watched the final episode and they werent wrong about the hype of this programme, i was hooked from day 1. Just gonna order the box set. Jimmy Macnulty was my favourite closely followed by Omar. Brilliant show.

[El Kabong]

HBO does great stuff, I only wish they had Mad Men, that show would be bad ass on HBO!!!

Generation Kill was awesome as well as Band of Brothers

[andykopgod]

Yeah i remember band of brothers it was awsome. My bro has it on dvd i think il borrow it some day.

[OumaFan]

Best Cop Show Ever !

In the running for just best drama.

Much better than the Sopranos.

I could go back and watch season 1-4 like today. Season 5 I didn't like as much (still great) and I saw fairly recently so maybe not.

[Phil]

yeah my mate loaned me the boxsets and I was hooked, watched them all in
a couple of weeks, another series I loved was OZ

[X]

I'm devastated that the Wire has now finished. A gritty and cynical depiction of the rich tapestry of urban Baltimore life, all interconnected. The best TV show ever made and, unusually for a US show, the moral seemed to be that there are no good guys or bad guys - everyone's a mix of the two ...... and life is seldom fair. Fantastic.

[Wadeb_21]

You know as much as I like HBO series I have yet to see a single episode of this. I have heard so many good things about it. I really need to take the time and watch it.

I have loved so many of those HBO shows the Sopranos, Generation Kill, Entourage, OZ.

Another new one thats pretty funny is Hung anyone been watching that?

[El Kabong]

....personally I think 'Homicide: Life on The Streets' was much better than The Wire, but The Wire is still very good

[JazMerkin]

....personally I think 'Homicide: Life on The Streets' was much better than The Wire, but The Wire is still very good

Lyle, you must be on that Marion Barry shit to think that, the first 2 series of Homicide were alright, but The Wire is just on a different level as a TV show. Hell, for my money it sets a completely different bar in TV drama.

Probably one of the few shows that people of all races, classes & across the political spectrum can enjoy, because basically everyone has some decency to them, whilst also being a complete bastard.

Well, except Major Rawls, Valchek & Clay Davis. They're just bastards.

[El Kabong]

What are you talking about?!!?! Homicide was GREAT!!! Yaphet Koto, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor....great show, I refuse your notion that The Wire is better.

[JazMerkin]

What are you talking about?!!?! Homicide was GREAT!!! Yaphet Koto, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor....great show, I refuse your notion that The Wire is better.

I refuse yours. I dunno why you're quoting male actors at me, something you want to tell us Lyle?

It wasn't that Homicide wasn't very good, but it got silly after the first 2 series especially how Bayliss became some bisexual weirdo. Pembleton was always good, but the characters were just not as real as The Wire to me. Maybe because I read the book it was based on, I was always harsh, but for me it can't hold a candle to The Wire, which whilst letting its characters evolve (see Carver), it didn't turn them into freaks & totally change their character.

[OumaFan]

For the Brits it seems like I remember a fair amount of the actors are British are they not?

I know Stringer Bell is. Isn't McNulty Irish or something? I guess that's technically not being British. And Carcetti.

[JazMerkin]

For the Brits it seems like I remember a fair amount of the actors are British are they not?

I know Stringer Bell is. Isn't McNulty Irish or something? I guess that's technically not being British. And Carcetti.

Nah, McNulty is posh British, Stringer Bell is ghetto British & Carcetti is Irish. There was someone else who apparently was, I think it might have been Freamon although I'm not sure

[Dark Lord Al]

my wife bought me the first boxset of the wire last christmas , we then bought all the others pretty sharpish , but personally i thought the last series was a bit to far fetched , as for BAND OF BROTHERS , i lost interest after the 640000 episode lol utter drivel.

[Zilla]

For the Brits it seems like I remember a fair amount of the actors are British are they not?

I know Stringer Bell is. Isn't McNulty Irish or something? I guess that's technically not being British. And Carcetti.

Nah, McNulty is posh British, Stringer Bell is ghetto British & Carcetti is Irish. There was someone else who apparently was, I think it might have been Freamon although I'm not sure

Sorry to resurrect this thread, just finished the last season. Freamon isn't British. He's American, but has lived in GB since the 70s. He's on the show Treme now.