re: I haven't seen The Wire

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The Wire takes a while to build up. At the beginning, events don't make sense, but toward the end, everything always comes together.

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I'm not in a position to doubt your take on it, but this kind of talk made me a little wary. I guess my experience with B5 and DS9 helped, in that they had seasonal arcs (much like an act of a play), multi-seasonal arcs and series long arcs, and things turned on and off as necessary. Once you recognize that's what The Wire is doing, it is even fairly effective episodic storytelling, but the episodes build a wall and the walls form a building.

I was hooked at about episode 3 or 4. Maybe I'm easy.