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re: What show most closely resembles The Wire ?
Posted on 1/25/22 at 2:49 pm to PhilipMarlowe
Posted on 1/25/22 at 2:49 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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I completely forgot about this. I think I watched the first couple of episodes, and decided to wait until the season had completely aired, and just forgot to go back to it. Is it actually good?
Definitely worth finishing. Season 2 is really really good. The story line with the pimps is just awesome
Man those dudes were brutal. When Larry Brown started getting in to acting he becomes my favorite character. S3 takes a dip to me, mainly because the pimps arent in the show as much and the aids story line isnt too compelling. I mean its incredibly accurate because it was rampant at the time, but I just didnt care for those characters enough.
Its definitely worth finishing imo. Just incredibly well written. Maggie Gyllenhaal killed her role to me. Similar to the Wire in that a number of these people are loosely based off of real people.
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Posted on 1/25/22 at 2:51 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Treme is horrible. Its like an ad for new orleans stereotypes.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 2:53 pm to WaltWhite504
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Belzer's character moves to NYC and joins Law & Order so many consider Homicide the precursor to that epic as well.
His cameo in The Wire confirms the three shows (Homicide, Law & Order and The Wire) all inhabit the same universe. Technically, he is a nexus to X-Files as well.
But wait, there's more: (Belzer's character) Muntz is based on real BPD detective Jay Landsman. Jay Landsman is a character in The Wire (played by Delaney Williams) and is ALSO based on/named after the real Jay Landsman.
However, the real Jay Landsman also appears in The Wire as Lieutenant (acting Captain?) Dennis Mello (who is named after a former Baltimore Western Division commander.)
See also, The Corner.
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 3:00 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Just incredibly well written. Maggie Gyllenhaal killed her role to me.
David Krumholtz had a lot of scenes with Maggie and killed his role as well.
Macchio was fun in a very different role for him. All the pimps were great. Lawrence Gilliard was solid in his role as sort of the "conscience" of the show.
My favorite line was from Black Frankie, though: "Damn! Y'all murdered the shite out of that motherfricker!”
Posted on 1/25/22 at 3:02 pm to Byron Bojangles III
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The Shield
The Shield is one of my favorites too, but it is a non stop action and violence rollercoaster. Nothing like the Wire which is a slow narrative where dialogue is what you remember most.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 3:20 pm to Byron Bojangles III
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The Shield
While I love both shows. The Shield is much narrower in scope. The Wire is a story about a city.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 3:23 pm to CID 310
quote:The Hanger
What most closely resembles The Wire ?
In all seriousness tho, wasn't Treme that show where every character had a name like Thibodaux and Baptiste and they all had god-awful New Orleans Accents?
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 3:28 pm to iwyLSUiwy
That might be up next for me after I finish hate watching Ozark with Jonah.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 3:29 pm to WaltWhite504
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The answer is Homicide: Life on the Street = Simon's precursor to the Wire
Also, "The Corner" which is imo much more like the early season plots of the wire in a way.
ETA: A lot of it is free on youtube.
I think its based on a book of the same stories. By the time the Wire came to fruition it was at that weird turn of the century with cell phones and stuff sort of changing the drug game in real life. However, it is still my second favorite show ever. Really hope Simon does some prequel stuff or side projects to tie The Duece to the Wire. As hinted at the very end of The Duece.
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 4:40 pm to WaltWhite504
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If you haven't seen Treme - it is The Wire in New Orleans
Treme was fricking terrible
Posted on 1/25/22 at 4:52 pm to CID 310
Funny, I literally just finished The Wire last night. It was on my list for a long time and when Michael Williams (Omar) died I finally started watching.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 6:28 pm to iwyLSUiwy
I loved The Deuce. Was a very cool look into NYC in the 70s and 80s. The ending isn’t great, but it ties up loose ends.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 7:16 pm to dltigers3
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Killing Omar the way they did was just showing that no matter how badass anyone was, you can be killed at any given time by any person. I liked it.
You hit the nail on the head here.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 7:22 pm to WaltWhite504
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The answer is Homicide: Life on the Street = Simon's precursor to the Wire
This is the answer. Great show.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 7:48 pm to WaltWhite504
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If you haven't seen Treme - it is The Wire in New Orleans
You should prob give it a watch if you’re going to recommend it
Simon on Treme
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It's a very different piece from The Wire. We're not trying to do a crime story or a political story. This is a story about culture and how American urban culture defines how we live. New Orleans is an extraordinary and unusual culture, but it comes from the same primal forces in American society of immigration and assimilation and non-assimilation and racism and post-racialism that really are the defining characteristics of this melting pot society.
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 7:51 pm to Comic_Tiger
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And did David Simon write anything original in his life?
Homicide and The Wire were based off of Simons book in which he spent a year with the Baltimore homicide department.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 7:54 pm to Cosmo
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Treme was fricking terrible
It was impressive how badly Simon botched it considering his love of New Orleans, you would have thought he knew better that rolling out some of those ridiculous characters
My serial downvoter found this thread quick
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 8:25 pm to WaltWhite504
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If you haven't seen Treme - it is The Wire in New Orleans
I couldn't even finish Treme. Thought it was awful.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 8:50 pm to WaltWhite504
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f you haven't seen Treme - it is The Wire in New Orleans
What would you say are some common elements between The Wire and Treme?
Posted on 1/25/22 at 9:47 pm to WaltWhite504
quote:Not available streaming anywhere. According to IMDb it's NBC studios 5th most popular TV series. With NBC Studios (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) on IMDb Surprised no one has it streaming.
Homicide: Life on the Street
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