watch The Wire!
The Wire is probably the best drama series to hit television in a very, very long time (only Six Feet Under comes close for me) and you really should seek it out and watch. But don't expect any quick hit action, stick with it for three or four episodes and it will draw you in completely because this ladies and gentlemen is the great American novel born straight onto the televising screen.
Below is the very first scene and a scene from the first series that perfectly showcases why The Wire is a hundred times smarter than any of it's contemporaries, watch these then get your backsides down to the shop and get those boxsets.
How it all begins...
Playing chess...
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4 comments:
I bought the first series of the Wire recently after hearing so many good reviews. It's on my to-watch list, once I've finished West Wing s7, the entirety of Futurama, Life on Mars s2, and so on and so forth...
In return for your recommendation, I insist that you simply must watch Deadwood as soon as humanly possible. Again, with the caveat that it's a slow starter, and it will most likely take you a while to tune into the patterns of speech and the unusual pacing. Seriously though, this is television as art of the highest degree; absolute brilliance in atmosphere, dialogue (even with all the swearing), acting, characterisation, production design, music, cinematography and direction. Awesome.
Frankly throw everything else on the list out and jump straight to The Wire, I'm not kidding.
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All in good time, all in good time...
I reiterate my comments on Deadwood. You throw out what you're currently watching in favour of that and I may do the same for The Wire ;-)
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