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I've never watched The Wire

Rex Grossman

By Rex Grossman
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iloverage

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Finished season one the other day. Now, I don't like to take hype on board too much. I won't usually let it interfere with my own, honest opinion.

My own honest opinion is that The Wire is the best televised drama I have ever seen, and easily up there in my top three list of greatest ever shows. I'm certain of this.

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Mercury

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My own honest opinion is that The Wire is the best televised drama I have ever seen, and easily up there in my top three list of greatest ever shows. I'm certain of this.

I have only seen the first six episodes (watching on FX) but you may just be right.

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Mercury

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There was a lovely moment in this weeks episode where Bodie is roughed up by two of the cops (can't remember their names) who think he has walked out of the youth detention centre again. When they realise he was released by the courts they give him a lift to his Grans.

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Roboplegic Wrongcock

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I just don't find this show slow. It just oozes atmosphere and is punctuated with moments of genuine humour. I'm two episodes into series 2 but I have to admit I'm not as taken by the docks scenario as I was with the projects.

It gets so much better the characters at the docks are so fleshed out plus it gives you a chance to see where the drugs come in from, and the people above the street drug gangs.

You've also got all the old characters slowly coming back into the storyline and you've got Ziggy's

drinking duck

to look forward to :(

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Graham S

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Homicide: Life On the Street and Law And Order SVU's Det. John Munch turns up in Season 5, apparently. The character has also appeared on Law & Order and Law & Order: Trial By Jury, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Beat, The X-Files and Sesame Street.

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Pob

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Homicide: Life On the Street and Law And Order SVU's Det. John Munch turns up in Season 5, apparently. The character has also appeared on Law & Order and Law & Order: Trial By Jury, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Beat, The X-Files and Sesame Street.

Munch was in The X Files? Wow.

Oh, and I've just realised you meant that the character Munch is in The Wire, rather than the character. Cool!

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Graham S

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I quite enjoyed Brooker's show.

I bet he loved featuring in the title credits. Bit of a dream come true for a Wire fan. Music rights be damned, I bet he's got his own personal version with "Down in the Hole" as the backing music. I wonder which version he opted for.

Good choice of clips, some brief, but reasonably telling interviews. Lester Freamon's a good looking man in person. Melvin Williams is scarier in real life than when he's playing the Deacon.

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johnT

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I'm just watching this from the start on FX and really enjoying it.

I love the music at the end of the show, it's just really melancholic, and it gives a feeling almost as if there's no hope i.e. for the police or for the people living in the area. That's just an early interpretation based on 5/6 episodes, so I may be barking up the wrong tree.

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therealjohnpeat

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The Wire needs a bit of attention for it to really get-going - watching a couple of episodes could easily leave you thinking it's just another "gritty" cop-show.

The 2nd series was great for me because the 1st series builds so much character into the major players that the 2nd can really 'riff' on them.

Omar is - surely - the single greatest 'bad guy' in cop show history tho - being a

black, gay, drug-dealer stick-up man

:P

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Mercury

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This week's episode on FX one was great scene after another from Prez translating the language/code right through to McNulty telling Rhonda that they are coming after his badge. The dialogue is consistently awesome - "I'd love to throw a fuck into that" and "take off these handcuffs and I'll fuck you in all three holes dyke cunt" were particular highlights.

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chalkitdown

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Did You Know... that the actress playing Snoop did 8 years for stabbing someone to death in Baltimore?

Did anyone else think Snoop was a man? :( I didn't realise she was a woman 'til I had seen all of season 4 and went rummaging through the character bio's on the HBO site. I was shocked. I thought she was a boy in his late teens/early 20's or something.

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