Is "The Wire" really as great as NT makes it seem?

[seymore cake]

My sentiments on The Wire have been express throroughly throughout my tenure... I will just quote this and save myself some time

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

The Wire is like Mahler's 8th Symphony, compared to The Sopranos being Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Both great pieces of writing, but one clearly more important and popular than the other, and the other much more intense and layered.

The Wire is something you must watch from beginning to end, and when it's over, you begin to realize how incredibly detailed and precise they were when they wrote it. And they portrayed the cycle of despair in the inner city through the focus on the kids in the last two episodes.

 

[swyftdahoe]

Originally Posted by Seymore CAKE

My sentiments on The Wire have been express throroughly throughout my tenure... I will just quote this and save myself some time

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

The Wire is like Mahler's 8th Symphony, compared to The Sopranos being Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Both great pieces of writing, but one clearly more important and popular than the other, and the other much more intense and layered.

The Wire is something you must watch from beginning to end, and when it's over, you begin to realize how incredibly detailed and precise they were when they wrote it. And they portrayed the cycle of despair in the inner city through the focus on the kids in the last two episodes.

+1

 

[charmcitykid]

the short answer is no. the wire is sensationalized. some of the scenarios and situations are quite real tho. i HATED the wire at 1st because i didn't likethe fact that they had a bunch of new york actors/characters playing dudes from baltimore. the wire is cool, but it ain't all it's cracked up to be.

i'm from baltimore, born & raised if that matters.

 

[gambit215]

Season 2- Was weak because you dont stuff a white cast in a black show and expect us to just "swallow" it, Season 2 should have been a follow up toseason 1 and it just took you from point a to x. You didnt see any characters from that season until you saw Nick Sobotka sp? on like the LAST EPISODE. Thepeak of the SERIES was when Stringer told Avon he killed his cousin, and yea the show wasnt about the Barksdales but lets be serious, DEE was like the firstcharacter we were introduced to after Mcnolty, Marlo and his whole crew/storyline lacked any real charisma which lead to the show getting watered down, season5 was stupid because there was really no character development with the journalists, as far as the Sopranos being better?!?!?! um no...............at least theWire had the dignity to give thier fans SOME kind of closure....................since I peeped the last episode I havent been able to take the Sopranosseriously since.

To answer the first posters inquiries, I find that when you watch a show from a premium channel, you gotta watch it from the beginning otherwise you aresetting yourself up for failure.