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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2010-11-28 12:00 am
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The Wire

...is over.

What am I supposed to do with myself now?

This is by far and away the best television show I've ever seen. I don't mean my favorite--it's up there, but I probably love BtVS and A:tLA as much. But I've never seen anything as well done as The Wire, and I have this dreadful feeling I'm not going to again.

Someone please hold me.
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[personal profile] liz_marcs 2010-11-28 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to say, you're likely not going to see something as awesome as The Wire.

Unless you watch The Wire again.

Seriously. I've re-watched the whole series something like four times (I own the DVDs). And every time I notice different things and different hints of the future dropped in various episodes. It's sometimes like I'm watching a whole different series than the first time I saw it.

However, if you like Simon and Burns, I also recommend Generation Kill, which is also really good (the actor who played Ziggy in The Wire is one of the leads). I've heard that Treme is good, but doesn't match the high-water mark of The Wire (it, too, has a lot of The Wire actors in it).

If you want to see The Wire troop of actors in completely different roles, you can also see The Corner, which was filmed before The Wire and served as Simon's and Burns's proof-of-concept for The Wire.