If you don't watch this show, I hate you. Season 1 already marks this as the best cop show out there. Lance Reddick from Fringe and Lost is a great addition too. Bubbles and Stringer Bell ftw. Each epsiode may be pretty long but theres so much to look out ofr, especially finding the quotes from the begining. Dominic West and the rest of the cast are perfect, can't wait to see how it ends.

I've been meaning to watch this ever since I saw Charlie Brooker talk about it on Screenwipe. Hopefully I'll be picking up series 1 soon.

The sooner you do it, the sooner I'll stop hating you!

I finally watched all 60 episodes of this show and man, I really don't think I can watch television the same way again. This is also a bump for this thread, because it is remarkable how little respect this show gets, it deserves it more than any other television show to date. The fact that this show didn't win one single Emmy is disgraceful and there have been many controvesys over it, trust me, if the Emmys gave the award to the truly deserving winners, Mad Men would be burried under the amount of awards won by The Wire, but I hear they never recieved it for many reasons (racial issues, the war on drugs, the bleakness of the show, etc.) whatever the truth is, something is fucked up.

Now, allow me to attempt to introduce you to this masterpiece of mordern television with some clips, but they won't do it justice of the full show, that's a given.

Huzzah, a royal bump.

PROTIP: If you are planning to check this show out, PLEASE do not just watch one, two or three episodes tops. It's not that kind of show, a whole season (and the show all together) needs to be appreciated as a whole story. But don't fret, the show will reward you for your consistent watching at during the season finales... where shit gets beyond real...

Don't say I didn't warn you, Link.

This might help people get into it.











I agree. In fact, It's best to start from the beginning of the whole show. It's not like, well, most any shows where you can miss just an episode or even an entire season and expect to get everything, even with watching a recap. The show doesn't work like that. It has a large cast and does not tend to forget it's characters until they are out of the game or dead. It might be overwhelming at first. I know I had a problem remembering who is who at first, but the more I watched the easier it was. I also found there were barely any characters I didn't like being on the show, which is amazing to me personally. Sure, there were some people I hated, like that one reporter in season 5, but I did not wish he wasn't put in the show in the first place.

So, in other words, the more time you put in the show, the more rewarding it'll be. I think you can watch one season and be satisfied with it, as all the major plotlines presented in that season are wrapped up by the season finale, but personally, once I found I could devote the time to it, the show grabbed me and never let me go. Heck, I still think about it occasionally. In fact the only disappointment I have is that there aren't a lot of extras on the DVDs.

There are only 60 episodes across five seasons. Each episode is an hour long, but it won't hurt to take some time off that RPG you're currently obsessed with and spend it with the show. It also won't hurt if you wait until that brand new couple of games you want drop in price and get the boxset instead.

I've been meaning to get into this... but I can only do one series at a time. Once Lost wraps, I still got HBO's Rome, John Quincy Adams, and then finally The Wire.

.... but I'll probably start digging into that M*A*S*H box set my dad got for me for my b-day, I love that show

The show is over, though. They weren't canceled either. HBO was kind enough to actually let the show run as long as the creators wanted it to run, which meant five seasons.

OH GOD!!! IT'S SLIDERS ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!

Sollah and Charlie Brooker, possibly the most persuasive mix imaginable! I'm glad there is another fan of the show on this forum, after a couple of years of trying to plug this show, to help me spread the word.

Danimal, I would recommend watching The Wire straight after Lost is over, I mean who knows... you could wake up dead tomorrow.

Are... are you threatening me?

That is one of my favorite quotes ever.

Well, my time of preaching about THE GREATEST SHOW ON TV is over soon (and I presume is wearing kinda thin). So, one more bump should suffice and I'll leave you with this:


EDIT: On second thoughts, that video was kinda spoilerfield. Instead, see how the writers get so much depth out of... mcnuggets.



Wallace's final line and D'Angelo's reaction says it all.

EDIT EDIT: This is relevant.

I wish I had the cash.....

BTW, I didn't have HBO and still don't. I got reasons.