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I bought the box set of The Wire to watch when my family went on holiday for the two weeks over Halloween half term and I was here working. I have never been so addicted to a tv show. Brilliant writing, brilliant acting and absolutely compulsive. I watched it back to back and got totally immersed in it. In a way it has ruined cop shows for me because nothing compares to it now.


I shall watch Luther to see if it comes up to scratch.

  • 2 weeks later...

Finally watched ep 1 last night - he was good enough in it but even allowing for bunkum/enjoyable popcorn telly it was pretty poor. Having a villain as woo as that in the opening episode was all wrong


Cracker did this sort of thing much better 20 odd years ago. C-

It's not so much the dialogue (although it is an issue) but the even-by-hokum-standards leaps in guesswork


When he was given the gun in episode one and then with a single "why am I finkin abaht...." he managed to deduce the whole dog/gun/cremation thing


But I'll give it another go

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> When he was given the gun in episode one and then

> with a single "why am I finkin abaht...." he

> managed to deduce the whole dog/gun/cremation

> thing


Ah, but you mentioned Cracker - do you remember the one where Cracker deduced from something like the tone of his voice that the rapist was of mixed race and had issues with his skin colour and wanted to be like his white mum so used to sit in a bath of bleach and that's why he was raping women?


Or the time when, I think it was a monk, had amnesia and said "my not remembering" about someone being shot on a train, and Cracker immediately knew it wasn't him because he used the possessive with the gerund (I do have a slightly freakishly detailed recollection of this)


plus ca change...

I've watched the Luthers and no, thread title Stringer Bell is not back.

There was a nuanced subtle unpredictable character where the viewer was not quite sure he'd end up (at least until the end of series 3 of course).

Luther, is the cliched cop with problems-estranged-wife-rumpled-suit-on-the-edge-mumbly-but-still-attractive part written for an actor rather than a character.

I think I'll give this a swerve from now on, that hour on a Tuesday could be better burying myself in an improving book, something by Spinoza, perhaps, even a vintage Viz annual would be better.

3 episodes in and it's not really growing into itself. It's merely proving itself to be utterly cliche ridden, two-dimensional nonsense.

Pity, waste of a terrific cast and, judging by the quality of the photography and just how many helicopters they must have hired, lots of money.


Ditto re Saskia Reeves and the Viz annual.

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