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The Wire
BillieTheBot
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Has anyone else got sucked into this top quality US import?
So many people, so many story lines - its a dense novel of a tv drama!
So many people, so many story lines - its a dense novel of a tv drama!
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Not yet, but my friend read a thing about it in The Guardian and decided to buy the boxset based on that alone. He raves about it all the time.
I'll get the DVDs off him after I hand in my dissertation next month.
Of course he does, not only is he generally fantastic but he knows good TV, and this is top notch entertainment.
Charlie Brooker is amazing
But yeah, The Wire has been incredible - after so many years watching it it's going to be sad to say goodbye. Not expecting it to be an easy ride though - as David Simon said when asked for his view of life 'Everything you love will fuck you in the end' - so I'm not expect McNulty or Omar to get out alive.
I love The Wire, really filled a void and now it's finishing too :grump: My brother and his mates in Hamburg love it so much they want to start filming their own version. They figure they've got docks and prostitutes so the scripts must write themselves :razz:
He's got a couple of books out that are worth reading.
They are both on the road to nowhere arent they, all they've got is 'the game'.
Can not wait for each new episode
ah are they about television?
Yep, they are selections of his Guardian work.
I'm only coming up to the end of series 3, so that hints at all kinds of things. I must find series 4!
Just seen the penultimate episode. Best one out of season 5 so far... bit sad and kind of a shocker too...cannot wait until Monday when the last one comes out!
And the last episode is being directed by Clark Johnson He's the newspaper editor in the latest season, and of course the detective from Homicide - a perfect circle to end it on.