The Wire

[mattham]

What's happening with Deadwood ? any word on a fourth series? Or is it going to be a movie?

Have only just started the Wire so have ??what ??five series to work through? Great. Don't know if I can be bothered to wait for BBC2.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Help me out here guys. I watched 10 mins of the first episode and switched off. Persuade me I need to persevere.

[mightyroar]

are you talking about the wire or deadwood gatecrasher?

[Keef]

Mattham, apparently they had planned to make a couple of feature length Deadwoods, but it never came about, and they are all now saying they doubt it ever will. Damned shame!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Never ever ever ever ever

Unless someone wants to pay me

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm talking about The Wire.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Even by ardent fans definition the first few episodes are loose and hard to follow. Stick with is pgc. You will see glimpses when d uses chess as am analogy. . Around episode 2

And shame mp. . Why so trenchant?

[Jimbob]

the wire was crap and as for generation kill, give me ross kemp in afghanistan any day.

*tin hat now donned, presently residing in hastily erected anderson shelter*

[citizenED]

Richard Bacon is talking about The Wire on Five Live in about 7 minutes. Tune in addicts.

me, I'm still a Wire virgin. I'm saving it for my dotage.

[SimonM]

I see it has just been announced that BBC2 is going to show all 5 series from start to finish free, gratis and for nothing!

[woofmarkthedog]

No

[northlondoner]

Hey, am I late with this? But Stringer and Mculty arent the only Brits. Mayor Carcetti is also a son of Albion. He was the main dude in that show from a few years back, Queer as Folk. Just found that out at a dinner party I just returned from (hence weird time of slightly drunken post).

[SeanMacGabhann]

Albion? Hibernia surely

[Keef]

I ask again, when is it coming on BBC?

[SeanMacGabhann]

I dont think auntie has scheduled it yet. . They have just acquired the rights. I know they are stripping it across week nights tho.

[Sue]

I'm really pissed off it's coming to BBC2, I bought a DVD of the first bits and I haven't watched it yet, could have saved my money :))

[ralphation]

Best off having the DVDs. It rewards repeat watching and I don't know that my girlfriend and I could have waited a whole week for the next episode.

[Moos]

What ralphation said. I watched the whole thing on DVD (thanks Keef and cousin Mark!) and while from time to time we did leave it a week or so between episodes, there were points when that would have been torture.

[SeanMacGabhann]

PGC - I don't know if this helps, but I went back to what I worte at the start of this thread and I think it might address some of your concerns

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Now I KNOW it's just a TV show and I would normally not bother starting a thread on it

But then again it isn't just a TV show. It isn't even what it looks like it is ("what... some kind of US cop show with lot's of drug dealers and I can't understand what anyone is saying") - yes it looks like that but if you still think that after series 1 then you have been watching something else

I like my entertainment. Heroes, for example, is keping me royally amused at the moment.

But The Wire is simply Not. Like. Any. Thing. Else

Someone once said that having seen it, watching The Sopranos was like watching The Waltons

The other downside is that some people think "Oh if you like The Wire you will like..... [insert some other show here - The Shield is a common one]" - which is nice of them but never right

It's not episodic. Each series is like one big show. Comparing the show to a novel has been overdone but no less accurate for that.

Many people will not make it past episode 2 at best. Having heard so much about it, it won't have sunk in yet and it will be dismissed as "meh"

You will see characters you ignored, or despised, or loved all become so darn personal to you, you will wonder why other shows can't do this

You will get to THAT scene in episode 4, series 1 and a) laugh b) realise why this is different

It isn't about good guys or bad guys it's about all of us and the systems we have to operate in, be it in our personal lives or our work lives. And how no matter how bad things get, changing them is nigh on impossible (bleak message - funny show. A bit like life I guess)

[Keef]

I never understood the thing about it being a slow starter, I liked it from the off. However, even now reading that, I just think calm down Sean, it actually IS just a tv show believe it or not ;-)

[Moos]

Personally, I'm loving seeing the level-headed MacGabhann getting all passionate and fired up - go on, Sean shout it out!

[SeanMacGabhann]

yep - that's what I thought too when I reread it - but hey, I can't rewrite the past!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Right Sir, I'll give it another go.

[SimonM]

If anyone is interested, David Simon is to be a special guest at this summer's annual Harrogate Festival of Crime Writing...

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Started watching this after reading comments on here Fx channel Monday nights. Was very funny this week when they are in kitchen looking at bullet lines and say nothing apart from Mother F**ker or just F#*k 2 mins of per class made me smile all Tuesday just thinking about it. Glad I have 5 seasons to get through. Thanks for tip about this