It’s for work, honestly.
TV December 27th. 2009, 10:29pmEveryone in the office at work was talking about “The Wire” for a long time. They were passing around the DVDs so that people could catch up on the first season. I hadn’t heard a bad thing about the show, but I didn’t get in on borrowing them because I didn’t have the time to watch a cop drama while managing all my new responsibilities. I’m always up for new materials to watch. Hearing people recommend the show was fine, but most of the people heaped on so much praise that it was hard to believe anything could live up to the hype involved. The Wire had been praised by everyone for so long that I just figured I’d get around to it eventually and I didn’t want anything spoiled for me. I wasn’t in a rush to see it, but I would watch it when I got the chance.
I’m currently watching the first season, and I’ll start on the second season not long after. It’s good stuff. It’s not as hard hitting as “The Shield” in my opinion, but it’s played way more real to life. They take their sweet time with their case, and it feels like each episode is a slow progression on a story of two sides playing a game of chess with one another. It’s all morally grey, but occasionally speaks a clear truth that comes from a good story. The characters feel self-motivated and self-interested in a very believable manner, which is where it has the upper hand on The Shield.
Anyway, I hope to finish at least the first season of the show so that I can have something to talk about in the office when I’m back there next week. While it isn’t my favorite show, it is a very good, well written show that I’ll watch more of in the future. I’ll have to listen to other people’s recommendations in the office since they proved right in this particular case.
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December 31st, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Did you catch Veronica Mars the first go-around? Another great recent one was Deadwood. Both lasted three seasons are were darlings of the critics–not so much the wrestling-loving masses though.
February 13th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
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