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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.
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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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.
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I sort of want to rewatch the series RIGHT NOW and I just finished it. It took me a long time to get into it. For almost all the eps of the first season, I thought it was really well done, but it didn't grip me all that much. Then Greggs got shot, and Omar was whistling shit, and I got pretty interested. By the end of the first season I thought, "huh, that was amazingly well done, and interesting I guess; I'll check out the second season . . ." It was the third season where I really got overwhelmingly invested (the characterizations of Stringer and Avon just grew in such epic proportions, and those two juxtaposed against each other, and then there was Cuddy and Colvin and Carcetti . . .). I also had a really hard time of keeping track of all the characters at first--it's one of the things I like about the show, but it would be fun to go back and see early!Omar and early!Prop Joe and even early!Cheese and OMG BUBBLES.
I just . . . why is there nothing else like this; it's really the best; how come not everyone seems to know this?