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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 03:48 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Half the cast are, or were, actually criminals, worked in the paper and police force and characters like Bubbles were real people. The deacon was a kingpin in the 60's. Snoop went down for killing (and later the distro of heroin). Even the old mayor was a character and did push to legalise drugs, like in Covin's Hampsterdam.
Whoa, blimey.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 03:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's even deeper than that, the attention to detail in The Wire is amazing.

The majority of the characters are based on real Baltimore figures, but there's loads of little details, too.. Such as the scene where Omar is in the court room waiting to testify, and the clerk is trying to get a crossword puzzle. The answer to the crossword puzzle is is the Greek god of war, 'Ares'. That was put in there because apparently, kids from Baltimore projects love the greek myth classes in school, and many have a peculiarly decent knowledge of them, even though many leave school barely being able to read or write.

Loads of little details like that are all over the series.

Best show ever.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 04:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


0psys wrote:
Best show ever.


:olo:

It's dull. Only criminals like it.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 04:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I pretty much judge people based on how much they liked The Wire.

My system continues to prove infallible.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 05:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm the same with Breaking Bad.



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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 05:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm pretty obsessed with the Wire. I've watched the whole thing through like 7 times.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 05:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


feedback wrote:
I'm the same with Breaking Bad.


I keep meaning to watch this; everyone who mentions it says it's the best show ever.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 05:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


0psys wrote:
Best show ever.


this

only show that comes close is Deadwood
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 06:01 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I rate The Wire ahead of BB and Deadwood but they are close, which is saying something.
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PostPosted: 06-16-2012 06:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Luther is up there as well, but people in the US might now have heard of it.

It has Stringer Bell as a cop, and the final two episodes of season 1 are arguably the two singular best pieces of television ever made.
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PostPosted: 06-17-2012 06:10 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
0psys wrote:
Best show ever.


this

only show that comes close is Deadwood

Cocksucker.



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PostPosted: 06-17-2012 08:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


WHITE COCKSUCKER
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PostPosted: 06-17-2012 02:48 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
I'm pretty obsessed with the Wire. I've watched the whole thing through like 7 times.


yep, same
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PostPosted: 06-18-2012 05:26 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I found out about this from the wikipedia page :)

Wikipedia wrote:
In December 2006, The Washington Post carried an article in which local African-American students stated that the show had "hit a nerve" with the black community, and that they themselves knew real-life counterparts of many of the characters.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire#Realism
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