I've got two episodes left in season 3. I had been complaining to my girlfriend that nothing's really happened and how disappointed I was with what's apparently the best or second best season...until the last couple of episodes last night. It really picks up in the last third of the season, and I expect an exciting last two episodes tonight.
This exactly what I've always thought. It's just similar with its epic scale, breadth, and the plethora of characters along with urban power struggles and corruption, death, and devastation everywhere. Always thought the Wire would work really well in a PoV styled books, similar to the Game of Thrones book series.
I don't think the writing, characterization or the ear for real spoken language are "better" in the shows of today. The overall production quality, and the actual plotting might be more what you mean though. The Wire's budget was nothing like what they throw at some of these shows today, from what I understand.
racist show. you mean to tell me not one ese in B-more? shiieeet. great show. i'm just now binging on the shield and i'm liking it almost as much as the wire.
Honestly, I could only make it through season 2 before I got fairly bored of the show. But I was trying to binge-watch, and I feel like that show isn't really made for that kind of constant watching.
Probably not. Probably also worth mentioning that season 3 and 4 are widely agreed to be the show's finest seasons.
Season 2 blows but it sets up the rest of the seasons and only gets better. When it's all said and done I have this rated as one if my top shows.
Season 2 was focused on the docks, and the greek etc. right? That might have been my favorite season.
I wouldn't get your hopes up for Season 5. They went a little insane to force the viewer to go meta on what can be realistically done. I talked to a coworker who lived in Baltimore and he had a great point that while Season 2 looks out of place, it's one of the more memorable seasons and sets context of how big the whole picture is. It fits because when you look back on all five seasons, it really does paint a picture rather than a typical story where you have good guys, bad guys and a resolution where the bad guys are defeated. I was in the camp of not liking season 2 because season 1 ramped up nicely and wanted to see continuation of that in the second season (given the long and detailed setup for each season), but that point makes a lot of sense to me. It took me three years to finish the series. I binge watched the last 2 and a half seasons but the first two took a while. I think part of it is because each hour has so much detail and nuance where you're forced to pay attention and we've been trained as an audience for immediate gratification as a reward for our attention. So after the hour, which feels like a full length movie, you're wondering what made that investment worth it. . I think it was worth it in the form of a docu-drama or a medium of art that perfectly describes a condition in our lives that we never stopped to pay full attention to yet still had the illusion of control or understanding. I don't think many other shows have done that
No idea why people hate season 2 so much. I guess they just don't have any frame of reference to the downfall of blue collar midwest/east coast/rust belt america. Gimme guns and drugs!
I really liked seasons 1 and 3, but those were a bit more of a variation of the usual police-gangster-crooked politician story, albeit done incredibly well. IMO seasons 2 and 4 were when the show really gave viewers the bigger picture of what the drug trade encompasses. I've watched the show all the way through twice, but that first time I watched those two seasons unfold, I was floored.
Odd statement. Really nothing procedural about the show at all. I do agree that certain elements feel dated now. But 10 years is a kind of a long time. The Shield is terrific, and criminally underrated. It deserves to be regarded as a 'pantheon' series, on the level of BB, Sopranos, et al.
Not only that, but Netflix greatly helped out BB. I just finished The Wire and would put it just a step above BB. The only slow season for me was Season 2. Some big things happen in that season, so you need to watch and it fits in nicely after the series is complete. Season 3 is probably my favorite. Something like 3, 4, 1, 5, 2. Maybe 2 before 5.
I thought season 2 was amazing as well. 3 and 4 are the best followed by 1. I was slightly dissapointed in season 5 if anything.
Think the biggest issue with season 2 is that it's kind of disorienting. It's a pretty massive shift but once I finished the series it made more sense. Need to watch this series again...
I really liked season 2, I was surprised when I found out most people didn't like it. One of my favorite shows of all time.
