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re: Hypothetical Breaking Bad Question: What Makes It Your Best Show If It's Not?
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:53 am to GeauxAggie972
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:53 am to GeauxAggie972
I LOVE breaking bad and spend every week praising those writers like they are gods. I have never been on the edge of my seat and blown away so many times by a show. It is phenomenal and unforgettable.
But it can not ever surpass The Wire imo.
What people tend to forget is The Wire was real. Yes, I know it is technically fiction, but short of an actual documentary, no fiction has ever been realer. The people that made the show had lived that life. They were actual cops, reporters, teachers, criminals etc in Baltimore. This makes it deeply moving to me. Its a jarring look in the mirror for this nation.
Breaking Bad can never be more human, more relatable, more important.
Breaking Bad thrills me.
The Wire changed me.
But it can not ever surpass The Wire imo.
What people tend to forget is The Wire was real. Yes, I know it is technically fiction, but short of an actual documentary, no fiction has ever been realer. The people that made the show had lived that life. They were actual cops, reporters, teachers, criminals etc in Baltimore. This makes it deeply moving to me. Its a jarring look in the mirror for this nation.
Breaking Bad can never be more human, more relatable, more important.
Breaking Bad thrills me.
The Wire changed me.
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Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:55 am to shinerfan
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the definitive portrait of a modern American city, with layer upon layer of thought provoking and deeply troubling commentary on the world we live in. Breaking Bad is entertaining, but The Wire is more aptly compared to Tolstoy.
that right there
When people point out that The Wire never won any awards, I always say that the Nobel Prize for Literature would have been more appropriate. It is so far beyond being evaluated as just a "TV show".
Posted on 8/30/13 at 10:36 pm to TigerRad
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When people point out that The Wire never won any awards, I always say that the Nobel Prize for Literature would have been more appropriate. It is so far beyond being evaluated as just a "TV show".
to me, the wire is the greatest story ever told on any medium(movie, televison or book). i can't see anything ever topping it.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 11:31 pm to Wrenchruh
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Certain tropes used by BB may also be present in TWD, except BB isn't written on construction paper with crayon and acted by community theater actors.
Neither is the Walking Dead.
Posted on 8/30/13 at 11:38 pm to Libertyabides71
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Neither is the Walking Dead.
yes it is
the writing of the shows is worlds apart. BB is like nabokov or kafka, and twd is like a 5th grader
Posted on 8/30/13 at 11:55 pm to Carson123987
The depth of the wire makes it the goat
It is totally rewatchable and you catch more things every time you rewatch it. Nothing else comes close
It is totally rewatchable and you catch more things every time you rewatch it. Nothing else comes close
Posted on 8/31/13 at 12:11 am to Carson123987
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the writing of the shows is worlds apart. BB is like nabokov or kafka, and twd is like a 5th grader
The writing of the Walking Dead is intentionally following a Graphic Novel which has been praised by its writing. Its an adaption of the work.
Breaking Bad has no source material.
Posted on 8/31/13 at 12:14 am to GeauxAggie972
Breaking Bad is second to The Wire because The Wire took 30 or 40 characters and made a masterpiece while Breaking Bad made a masterpiece with 5 characters or so.
Posted on 8/31/13 at 5:27 am to TulaneTigerFan
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Everything considered, this might be the single worst thread I've ever seen on the movie/tv board.
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