The Wire

[redtodd 7]

Pretty good show. It just took me a while to get all the characters down and sometimes I am not sure what they are saying because I am not good at Ebonics.

[frank 2,304]

It's on BET now, so I'll just assume it sucks and move on.

[Big Blue 06 195]

It's on BET now, so I'll just assume it sucks and move on.

 

Exactly.

[redtodd 7]

It's on BET now, so I'll just assume it sucks and move on.

 

Racist

[Big Blue 06 195]

Racist

 

Exactly.

[ArnieBragg 1]

Exactly.

 

You're missing out.

 

Excellent show.

[itsbigmoni 1]

I heard a lot of hype about it and then Bill Simmons even wrote an article about it saying how its the best show in the past 5 years or something. Since we have that blockbuster online thing we ordered it and its not bad. I wasn't immediately addicted like everyone said but now i'm on the 10th show of the first season and its probably my favorite show. Heroes is still the shiz though.

[frank 2,304]

Racist

 

 

BET is a race?

[redtodd 7]

I heard a lot of hype about it and then Bill Simmons even wrote an article about it saying how its the best show in the past 5 years or something. Since we have that blockbuster online thing we ordered it and its not bad. I wasn't immediately addicted like everyone said but now i'm on the 10th show of the first season and its probably my favorite show. Heroes is still the shiz though.

 

I wouldn't agree with the best show in 5 years analogy, but it is good. I was similar to you, I wasn't hooked right off the bat but I was digging it by the end.

 

We'll probably start watching the 2nd season soon.

[D_House 0]

i love this show. netflixed all the available seasons and would watch episodes as soon as they arrived. possibly the best written show i have ever seen.

[redtodd 7]

i love this show. netflixed all the available seasons and would watch episodes as soon as they arrived. possibly the best written show i have ever seen.

 

I have the 2nd season downloading as we speak.

[D_House 0]

I have the 2nd season downloading as we speak.

i enjoyed that season a lot. the action shifts to focus on union dockworkers... i won't say more

[IN$TANT REPAY 11]

i love this show. netflixed all the available seasons and would watch episodes as soon as they arrived. possibly the best written show i have ever seen.

 

 

The feller who created the show, David Simon, was a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He wrote several acclaimed books about his experiences before he moved into TV. That is why many have said that it is so realistic.

 

Many people who like The Wire also appreciate Homicide: Life on the Streets, which aired on NBC.

 

Simon also said that they have to fight harder to get things taken care of on the show when dealing with the higher ups. And they hardly got the marketing/promotions pub or the push that HBO gave other shows like the Sopranos for instance.

 

No SAG nominations, etc.

 

here are the words of some of the critics:

 

Picking the best TV shows isn't easy

Many standouts filled the small screen last year

By Maureen Ryan

Chicago Tribune

 

 

"The Wire," HBO: Descriptions of this program sound like eat-your-vegetables TV: One strand of the most recent season of the HBO drama explores how the education system lets down inner-city kids. You might think that's a formula for earnest, boring TV — until you meet Dukie, Namond, Michael and Randy. Thanks to the cliche-free writing of "The Wire" staff and four phenomenal performances by the young actors playing these eighth-graders, this quartet of Baltimore kids became real and their fates came to matter intensely. If Dickens were writing now, he'd be writing for "The Wire." It's a gripping, novelistic serial that is unsparing in its authenticity and in its compassion. And the anger that motivates "The Wire" shows us how we are all complicit in society's failures.

 

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/.../701020537/1979

 

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Here are top five best (and worst) television shows

 

1. "The Wire" (HBO): An unapologetic look at inner-city Baltimore that's superbly written, wonderfully acted and unlike any other drama on television. Watching "The Wire" is like reading an intricately plotted novel you can't put down.

 

2. "24" (Fox): No other TV show makes hearts race like "24." It's a pulse-pounding thrill ride that grabs you by the throat from the opening minutes and never lets go as, once again, super CTU agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) saves the day — and the world.

 

3. "The Shield" (FX): Shows aren't supposed to get better as they age. But "The Shield's" fifth season was its best, thanks in large part to Forest Whitaker's sizzling performance as a driven Internal Affairs detective willing to do whatever it takes to bust bad-boy cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis).

 

4. "Heroes" (NBC): In a season overloaded with complex serialized dramas, "Heroes" quickly emerged as the one you didn't want to miss. It moves like a bullet, boasts a cool mythology and has well-drawn characters who can do everything from fly to bend time.

 

5. "Entourage" (HBO): Sly and knowingly funny, "Entourage" has become the male version of "Sex and the City." It's just as clever and sometimes as bawdy. It also features the wickedly funny Jeremy Piven as a hard-charging Hollywood agent and one of TV's best ensembles.

 

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/162468

[redtodd 7]

 

Here are top five best (and worst) television shows

 

1. "The Wire" (HBO): An unapologetic look at inner-city Baltimore that's superbly written, wonderfully acted and unlike any other drama on television. Watching "The Wire" is like reading an intricately plotted novel you can't put down.

 

2. "24" (Fox): No other TV show makes hearts race like "24." It's a pulse-pounding thrill ride that grabs you by the throat from the opening minutes and never lets go as, once again, super CTU agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) saves the day — and the world.

 

3. "The Shield" (FX): Shows aren't supposed to get better as they age. But "The Shield's" fifth season was its best, thanks in large part to Forest Whitaker's sizzling performance as a driven Internal Affairs detective willing to do whatever it takes to bust bad-boy cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis).

 

4. "Heroes" (NBC): In a season overloaded with complex serialized dramas, "Heroes" quickly emerged as the one you didn't want to miss. It moves like a bullet, boasts a cool mythology and has well-drawn characters who can do everything from fly to bend time.

 

5. "Entourage" (HBO): Sly and knowingly funny, "Entourage" has become the male version of "Sex and the City." It's just as clever and sometimes as bawdy. It also features the wickedly funny Jeremy Piven as a hard-charging Hollywood agent and one of TV's best ensembles.

 

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/162468

 

I love all those shows.

[ArnieBragg 1]

The feller who created the show, David Simon, was a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He wrote several acclaimed books about his experiences before he moved into TV. That is why many have said that it is so realistic.

 

Many people who like The Wire also appreciate Homicide: Life on the Streets, which aired on NBC.

 

I'm actually reading Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets right now. Written almost 20 years ago during the late 80s. Pretty interesting.

 

From Publishers Weekly

Baltimore Sun reporter Simon spent a year tracking the homicide unit of his city's police, following the officers from crime scenes to interrogations to hospital emergency rooms. With empathy, psychological nuance, racy verbatim dialogue and razor-sharp prose, he offers a rare insider's look at the detective's tension-wracked world. Presiding over a score of sleuths is commander Gary D'Addario, "connoisseur of survival" who grapples with political intrigue, massive red tape and "red balls" (major, difficult cases). His detectives include Tom Pelligrini, obsessed with solving the rape-murder of an 11-year-old girl; Rich Garvey, whose "perfect year" is upset by a murder case that collapses in court; and black, cosmopolitan Harry Edgerton, a lone wolf, son of a jazz pianist. This hectic daily log reveals the detective's beat on Baltimore's mean streets (234 murders in 1988) to be brutal, bureaucratic and, occasionally, mundane.

[IN$TANT REPAY 11]

I'm actually reading Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets right now. Written almost 20 years ago during the late 80s. Pretty interesting.

 

 

There are police officers who said that after they watched The Wire, they were left stunned by how realistic it was. Some cops have said that even the "police terms and language" that was written into the show was ground breaking.

 

But I dunno what they are talking about because I have not seen one episode of this show. I kept seeing empty episode #1 boxes in movie rental and retail stores. But many of my friends have seen it and get hyped up whenever someone else mentions the name of this show. I plan to order it through Blockbuster online soon.