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re: I'm a free born man of the USA! (The Wire finale, spoilers)
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:42 am to CocomoLSU
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:42 am to CocomoLSU
after watching this clip i youtube'd some scenes, leading up to a 10-minute clip of "best quotes" and i could put myself back in that specific time in that specific episode in almost every quote
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:43 am to bodask42
I am always up for a Wire appreciation thread.
This showed really changed my view of the world, and what it means to me to be an American. It should be a jarring look in the mirror for all of us.
The photography, editing, and writing always respected the real world and the intelligence of the audience. Hollywood bullshite was nowhere to be found. (McNulty serial killer is the only exception).
I am currently in a frenzy of Breaking Bad worship, but I never forget the effect The Wire had on me. It's been about three years for me, and its high time I re-watched it.
I still call it the GOAT.
This showed really changed my view of the world, and what it means to me to be an American. It should be a jarring look in the mirror for all of us.
The photography, editing, and writing always respected the real world and the intelligence of the audience. Hollywood bullshite was nowhere to be found. (McNulty serial killer is the only exception).
I am currently in a frenzy of Breaking Bad worship, but I never forget the effect The Wire had on me. It's been about three years for me, and its high time I re-watched it.
I still call it the GOAT.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:49 am to TigerRad
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I am currently in a frenzy of Breaking Bad worship, but I never forget the effect The Wire had on me. It's been about three years for me, and its high time I re-watched it.
I was way late to The Wire party, I watched it this year for the first time. As hyped as it was, as good as people said it was - it met (and sometimes exceeded) those expectations.
How often does a show do that?
Oh - and 1 more plug - this time for Clark Johnson.
Clark played Gus Haynes (the editor with ethics in Season 5 of The Wire) - but he has done much more work as a television director.
As a fan of both shows, Johnson directed the pilot/finale of both The Wire AND The Shield. There is little doubt in my mind those shows have THE best Pilot/Finale episodes of any television series in history - so I'm nominating Clark Johnson as best television director of all time - based on the strength of those 4 episodes.
This post was edited on 8/30/13 at 8:54 am
Posted on 8/30/13 at 9:05 am to SlowFlowPro
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after watching this clip i youtube'd some scenes, leading up to a 10-minute clip of "best quotes" and i could put myself back in that specific time in that specific episode in almost every quote
I did the same thing, and I agree.
Also, like I mentioned, this little 5 second scene with Bubbz made me so fricking happy: LINK IMO it's a testament to how deep the characters were and how good of a job the show did of getting you invested and involved with them that such a small clip of someone sitting at a dinner table can make the audience feel so much happiness for that character. Love me some Bubbz.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 9:07 am to Ace Midnight
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As hyped as it was, as good as people said it was - it met (and sometimes exceeded) those expectations.
The Wire is the Darrell's Special of television.
And I am serious.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 9:37 am to Tiger1242
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I would recommend waiting on this. I jumped right from The Wire to Breaking Bad and I think it ruined Breaking Bad for me. The shows just have such different feels
the wire is my GOAT, sopranos is my #2 and nothing else i've seen is close. I have just started breaking bad and am about 5 episodes into the first season, and am enjoying it immensely. based on what i've seen so far, it will probably end up #3 on my all time list
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:12 am to 632627
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the wire is my GOAT, sopranos is my #2 and nothing else i've seen is close.
I am curious - have you seen The Shield?
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:21 am to Ace Midnight
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I am curious - have you seen The Shield?
I admit I am only half into season one, but its really hard for me to imagine this approaching The Wire (reasons above).
The first ep is great.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:21 am to USMC Gators
When Slim Charles finally popped Cheese, you could have called it right there for me!
"That was for Joe!"
"That was for Joe!"
This post was edited on 8/30/13 at 10:22 am
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:33 am to TigerRad
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I admit I am only half into season one, but its really hard for me to imagine this approaching The Wire (reasons above).
The first ep is great.
I was hooked from the beginning - but, the money train, Kavanaugh and the final 2 season run are well worth the effort. I'm not denying that The Wire is great, but I can't pretend it didn't have down moments. Was it better on a consistent basis than The Shield? Probably, and that's certainly true of The Sopranos. But, The Shield gets some highs and lows that are tough to equal, and that is also true of The Sopranos.
I wasn't even arguing with the guy who said nothing else approached The Wire and The Sopranos, with BB closing - and I was just curious to know if he'd seen The Shield and not considered it in this rarefied company.
Those are really the best 4 dramas with which I'm familiar - again, with their "parents" (so to speak) Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue coming next.
As a caveat: I never watched Homicide, but it has virtually the same source material as The Wire - Belzer and Andre Braugher were exceptional on the crossovers with L&O, and Belzer ultimately brought his character, based on the same source as Jay Landsman to L&O. Okay - stick with me on this trivia (this is a thread about The Wire, after all) - "Jay Landsman" the character on "The Wire" was based on a real Baltimore policeman named Jay Landsman. The real life Jay Landsman was also the character basis for Richard Belzer's multiple series' character John Munch.
But the real life Jay Landsman also played LT/MAJ Dennis Mello on The Wire.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:51 am to smash williams
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Honestly, I get just as much enjoyment rewatching The Wire as I did watching it for the 1st time.
Agree, I re-watched it twice. Once on DVD and once when they re-ran it on that direct tv channel a couple years ago. It was kind of cool to watch an episode once a week every Sunday night for the duration of the series, even after seeing it twice. Going to give it a few more years and I'm sure I'll do it again.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 11:41 am to bodask42
In the month or so after I graduated and didn't have a job yet, I watched, in this order, Cowboy Bebop, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, and Firefly. That was a good month.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 11:45 am to TigerRad
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This showed really changed my view of the world, and what it means to me to be an American. It should be a jarring look in the mirror for all of us.
The photography, editing, and writing always respected the real world and the intelligence of the audience. Hollywood bullshite was nowhere to be found. (McNulty serial killer is the only exception).
All of this.
On a side note, I've never watched The Sopranos. It's on my list. I tried to get into The Shield twice, couldn't stick with it.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 12:08 pm to Tigersfan
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Agree, I re-watched it twice.
Although it is just speculation at this point, I suspect that out of all of these, regardless of which is ranked "higher" among the greats, The Wire will very likely end up being the most "rewatchable" because of the nature of it - it is a show about processes, rather than outcomes. BB and The Shield are mainly about outcomes and unintended consequences. The Sopranos is somewhere in the middle.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:19 pm to Ace Midnight
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I am curious - have you seen The Shield?
can't say that i have. maybe that will be next after breaking bad.
Posted on 8/31/13 at 3:13 am to ZenFNmaster
What the frick did I do??
Posted on 8/31/13 at 3:33 am to bodask42
I love running to that song-
He fought the champ in pittsburgh
And he slashed him to the ground
He took on tiny tartanella
And it only went one round
He never had no time for reds
For drink or dice or whores
And he never threw a fight
Unless the fight was right
So they sent him to the war
He fought the champ in pittsburgh
And he slashed him to the ground
He took on tiny tartanella
And it only went one round
He never had no time for reds
For drink or dice or whores
And he never threw a fight
Unless the fight was right
So they sent him to the war
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