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I just finished season 4
All I can say is wow. By far the best show I've ever watched. I can't even go back to Breaking Bad...
The characters in this show...
Avon, Stringer Bell, Wallace, D'Angelo, Omar, Bodie...
Nick, Ziggy, Frank, The Greek, Beadie...
Proposition Joe, Marlo, Brother Mouzone, Cutty, Carcetti...
Dukie, Michael, Randy, Namond, Snoop, Chris, Sherrod, Wee-bay...
McNulty, Carver, Greggs, Prez, Bunk, Bubbles, Daniels, Freamon...
These are just a few of the best cast I have ever seen. Best casting of all time. I've never been so attached to so many characters... I can't even pick a favorite character, or just a few favorite characters. Dukie, Michael, Namond, Randy, Snoop, Bubbles, Prez, Bodie, Carcetti, McNulty, Greggs, Stringer Bell, Wallace, D'Angelo, Omar, Ziggy are probably my favorites.
Season 4 is definitely my favorite thus far. A lot of people didn't love season 2. I felt it was a 10/10 just like seasons 1 and 3. Season 4 is an 11/10. After watching this show, I don't know what to do. I think I might be done with television. Breaking Bad season 3 was great, but other than that nothing even comes close for me. Game of Thrones maybe...but The Wire is just better. Flat out better. The Wire is like Game of Thrones in a real world. With real characters.
This show really showcases how fucked up the world is. The ghetto is fucked up and I feel for anyone who has to deal with it. The good people and the bad people. The drug users and the dealers. I'm sure there are some truly evil people in the ghetto, but almost everyone has a reason. Parents, gangs, etc. Even then I feel for the gangs and the parents.
Thank you, creators and writers of The Wire. I love you guys.
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This show is the best piece of art TV ever produced for me. Pure Bliss...
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Halfway through season 5 in my second watching of the Wire.
Did anyone else find season 5 a little disappointing? The general storyline is just a bit weak and unrealistic IMO.
Love the newsroom stuff though.
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From everyone I've talked to, the general consensus is that the fifth season is the worst.
It does pick up a bit, but yeah, it's a let-down all around.
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On October 06 2012 00:12 Jockmcplop wrote:
Halfway through season 5 in my second watching of the Wire.
Did anyone else find season 5 a little disappointing? The general storyline is just a bit weak and unrealistic IMO.
Love the newsroom stuff though.
Pretty much everyone, season 4 is the show's peak and best season and season 5 is probably the worst (though it has plenty of outstanding bits so there's absolutely no way anyone should not watch it), and I was honestly a bit disappointed especially by the finale episode.
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@OP: binge 4 day marathon and only 1 season? weak
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Just finished watching every season. Definitely a gem that i should've watched way earlier. Amazing cast, amazing plot(s) all around, amazing characters. Sick show.
Sopranos & The Shield next, dunno. 
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To those who have finished the Wire and want a bit of the same vibe, go watch Oz, it was the big HBO serie before the Wire, uses a lot of the same actors and features the same kind of gritty realism.
The Sopranos is also very good, but very different, although it still has a certain amount of realism it goes more for a cinematic, at times almost Godfather like vibe.
If I where to make a list of HBO series it'd prolly look like this (might you I did not watch Deadwood or True Blood yet (and have no intention of watching True Blood)):
1:The Wire
2:Oz
3:The Sopranos
4:Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones might rise in time, but I personally found the first season to be somewhat lacking at times, Sean Bean really stole the show but we all know how that ended, season 2 got the plot moving along a bit more, and it's growing on me, but I think it will still require a lot of work to go up in my list.
On Metacritic the 5th season of Breaking Bad and the 3rd (iirc) of The Wire are tied for the highest score for a season ever, and although Breaking Bad had it's lulls I would call it, along side the Wire, the best television series ever made.
Also, has anyone seen this and actually been to Baltimore? Being european and never having been to America, does it improve the experience if you have physically been in the city this series basically revolves around?
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I am on season 5 and It is a really amazing serie.
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Yesterday while surfing the internet i faced with these two videos and got emotional and shit. I just got these words of Avon shockin in my head: "You can't play out for shit like this man, this is life..."
+ Show Spoiler +
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thanks for those clips, there were great. The Wire should be studied by all students like shakespeare and the classics.
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I could never get into this. I absolutely loved Deadwood and Rome is literally my favorite show ever, but I just wasn't really hooked by this show at all.
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^ How many episodes did you watch? It took me till around episode 6 to be hooked,
Another Epic Scene
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On February 04 2013 18:40 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
I could never get into this. I absolutely loved Deadwood and Rome is literally my favorite show ever, but I just wasn't really hooked by this show at all.
This isn't anything like Rome, so it might be normal. It's a mostly black / detective series with a film noir touch. It deals with society in a way no series has ever done before.
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Bodie is my favorite character in The Wire.
A couple of the most powerful scenes in The Wire (MASSIVE SPOILERS)
Bodie kicks in the window: + Show Spoiler +
Poot, Bodie, Wallace: + Show Spoiler +
Chris and Snoop vs Bodie: + Show Spoiler +
Stringer and Avon Balcony Scene: + Show Spoiler +
Top 10 Characters for me:
1. Bodie
2. Omar
3. Stringer
4. Bubbles
5. Michael
6. Namond
7. D'Angelo
8. McNulty
9. Carver
10. Avon
For me, these characters were so dynamic and powerful...I can't really explain how incredible these guys were unless you've seen the show.
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This show was awesome. I have never seen a show portray some of the inherent problems of society in such a good way, without judgement and from multiple angles. The characters were really good too. You really felt like you knew them at some point. I was kinda sad about Bodie : (
Also the where's Wallace scene gave me goosebumbs
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I started with this show like 4 weeks ago, right now I am halfway through Season four and a little bit disappointed. Season one was great, season two was pretty weak compared to Season 1+3+4. Probably because it had the least likable characters in it. The thing with Season four is, after the third one (which is probably the best season of any tv show ive ever seen) I was soooo hyped because almost everyone told me season four would be even better. Season four is good, dont get me wrong, but not as good as expected. Seems like something is missing...
My favourite Characters are:
Stringer, Bodie, Omar, Brother Mouzone, Marlo Stanfield and The Bunk.
Characters I do/did not like at all:
The whole Sobotka-Clan, The Greek + his Crew, Burrell.
All in all, the best show ive ever seen. Like a modern Game of Thrones.... but better.
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aw man prop joe died? He was one of the best characters on the show ;;
On April 11 2013 03:28 JoeCool wrote:
I started with this show like 4 weeks ago, right now I am halfway through Season four and a little bit disappointed. Season one was great, season two was pretty weak compared to Season 1+3+4. Probably because it had the least likable characters in it. The thing with Season four is, after the third one (which is probably the best season of any tv show ive ever seen) I was soooo hyped because almost everyone told me season four would be even better. Season four is good, dont get me wrong, but not as good as expected. Seems like something is missing...
haha so true. I remember what got me into the show was I saw that season 4 had like a 98% on metacritic (the highest of any season of any tv show) so my intrigue grew to wondering just how good the show was.
Without spoiling anything specific, it does really come together at the end. Without a doubt, season 4 really sells its message the strongest and is the most emotional.
However, I just liked season 3 the most. To me that season just seemed like the most exciting, we still had the Barksdale crew together (way better than Marlo and his goons), and it's by far the most dynamic season (hell we start it off with the projects going down).
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On April 11 2013 03:28 JoeCool wrote:
I started with this show like 4 weeks ago, right now I am halfway through Season four and a little bit disappointed. Season one was great, season two was pretty weak compared to Season 1+3+4. Probably because it had the least likable characters in it. The thing with Season four is, after the third one (which is probably the best season of any tv show ive ever seen) I was soooo hyped because almost everyone told me season four would be even better. Season four is good, dont get me wrong, but not as good as expected. Seems like something is missing...
My favourite Characters are:
Stringer, Bodie, Omar, Brother Mouzone, Marlo Stanfield and The Bunk.
Characters I do/did not like at all:
The whole Sobotka-Clan, The Greek + his Crew, Burrell.
All in all, the best show ive ever seen. Like a modern Game of Thrones.... but better.
After rewatching season 2 became one of my favorites. You should rewatch the series after a while.
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EPT
