>White female character sheepishly admits she has not taken a stranger's wiener in almost *whispers ashamedly* .... almost 3 weeks
>Disgusting slothlike Black lesbo BFF asks "What were Tyronne and D'seanquan sneaking out of your apartment at 5AM two days ago for then?"
>Whyte wimman main replies "Oh that doesn't count I had met them the week prior at the brain surgeon conference... man that conference was exhausting!"
>*laugh track + audience makes "ooooooohhhh" noise*
>*israeli Producer creams pants at thought of influencing 1,000s of real life moron wimmen*
My favorite little story about The Wire is that when Idris Elba left they show he had to be consoled cause he was afraid he'd never get another part again.
McNulty married into billionaire royalty. saw him on a house TV show and he was chilling with the biggest shit eating grin I've ever seen. good for him.
The first season is GREAT. Second season is too drastic a change from the first, but lots of people enjoy it on repeat viewings. Third and fourth season get back to what made the first season good, and people argue about 1 > 3 > 4 etc. all the time. Fifth season is utter shit that should not be watched.
The ooc one in season 5 is Lester. It's perfectly within McNulty's character to make up a serial killer
I hated the sudden dive in his character arc. He went from alcoholic mess at the start, to unfulfilled but relatively stable, to happy and healthy and doing old fashioned police work in the Western. It would have been the perfect place to close the circle, but then it's straight back to much worse alcoholic mess.
It's plausible for the character, but it does make the prior four seasons of development feel a bit pointless.
Yeah, he should’ve just brushed off the murder of a character he was close to considering a friend.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>character he was close to considering a friend
The was cringe in the first place. >Dude cops having respect for drug dealers.... Good people on all sides... All victims of the machine *hits bong*
Redditor shit runs so deep through this show.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Appraised for its realistic depiction >Have anime tier villains like snoop, brother muozone, and chris >O'mar
Yea I ain't recommending this cucked shot to anyone.
Also david simon is a pussy
>look at me I never watched the show it sucks!
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yea but I coincidentally know the names of actual anime characters, right?
Wire gays are actually dumb
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
See
[...] >look at me I never watched the show it sucks!
[...]
I hated the sudden dive in his character arc. He went from alcoholic mess at the start, to unfulfilled but relatively stable, to happy and healthy and doing old fashioned police work in the Western. It would have been the perfect place to close the circle, but then it's straight back to much worse alcoholic mess.
It's plausible for the character, but it does make the prior four seasons of development feel a bit pointless.
The point was Jimmy wasn't actually happy being sober. He had no case to obsess over, he was bored. He sabotaged his relationship with the single mom and his nice life to go back to being a drunk detective, because that's the life he prefers.
You can't magically change decades of behaviors and addictions overnight and expect to stay that way, not how it works.
Wasn't Bodie's death the reason for his return to Daniels' unit? He became obsessed with catching Marlo because he felt responsible for Bodie's demise. It's also the main reason for McNulty's actions in the fifth season.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
yeah, but it all comes across as rushed as everything from season 5. I rewatched the wire last year and season 5 is such a massive step down from all the previous years
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I consider S5 non-canon, except for Bubbles' final scenes
He didn’t “magically change,” he took stinger’s death extremely hard, and extremely personally. He thought he was going to put him and Avon away, he thought he’d won. But then stringer is killed, out of nowhere as far as he’s concerned. Imagine how it would feel to mourn the death of a murdering drug kingpin like he was family. He realizes it’s the job that’s fricking him up, so he goes back to a beat, and then he’s happy. Then bodie is murdered, he takes that personally, and relapses. And when an addict relapses, they go harder than they did originally. Then he gets pulled off Marlo, and goes further down the spiral.
Agreed on the 2nd season totally, it's fantastic but it's also kind of a misstep in terms of how much it shifted gears, or at least a misunderstanding between the audience and the creators over what this show was intended to be.
I feel like the creators envisioned the show to be a borderline anthology series, where each season would look at a different component of society and try to diagnose our societal issues, and the contributions to those issues from each level, while leaving characters and storylines from previous seasons behind for the most part. Because they do end up doing that essentially, you go from the street crime level to the blue collar union worker level to the schools to the government to the media/newspapers. To me that's the whole point of the show; it's doing a holistic diagnosis of why things are so fricked up, and it's not the result of one cause or one problem.
But with season 2 viewers were like "what the hell, where did the characters I grew to care about go?" So the creators course corrected with S3 and on, folding in characters and storylines from past seasons with the new societal levels they wanted to focus on in subsequent seasons.
The chess scene is the great filter. People treat it literally, but that sort of shoddy superficial metaphor is exactly what a mid-level toady who doesn't understand his situation. Everyone calls it a game and yet nobody seems to understand nor follos the rules of said game, nobody can see the forest for the trees. It's like pottery
>budget john goodman >budget gene hackman >the homosexual hitman who goes through the same tragic buttboy lover gets killed circle about half a dozen times >we be the pawns in chess n shit >the muslim brother hitman who can intimidate three hardened drugdealers at once by babbling about how cool his bullets are >same poor good boy not cut out for life in da hood cycle about 5 times >muh obsessed alcoholic detective who can't let the one case go >tards going to this day "hamsterdam was such a great idea" >"me my mommy and daddy"-tier 32 year old dude playing 17 year old bodie
I didn't get into it right away either, but my friend (now deceased) encouraged me to give it more of a chance, and I'm glad I listened to him.
It's a very slow burn, but by the mid-point of s1 you should be properly hooked.
the pilot definitely feels "cheap" and too heavy-handed (much like david simon's future project "we own this city"). i would say to not become discouraged by the first episode and to give the entirety of s1 an attempt before giving up on it.
A pilot is a single episode of a show produced mostly independently and pitched on its own to get a series greenlit. The wire did not have such an episode. The term is not interchangeable with “first episode.”
you realize that successful pilots are often times used as the first ep right? the wire did have a pilot and the creator refers to ep1 as "the pilot" on commentary. you spoke out of your ass on something you have zero understanding of and got caught, i suggest you stop doing that to yourself.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Anon, unless he talks about the protection of the first episode as a pilot, then he’s just using the word wrong.
>Admits to watching the wire (redditor show for psueds with a Black fascination) >Admits to liking it so much he listens to the audio commentaries to hear more from the unironic cuck writer
Not that anon but you self owned. No one who belongs on this board would willingly watch even 5 minutes of The Wire.
We Own this City was made so much better by looking into the true story it was based on. I watched it as it was airing and thought it was decent, then a year or so later I was thinking about it so I watched the documentary (‘We Got a Monster’ or something along those lines) and then read the book and then rewatching it with all that information in mind enhanced the whole show like you wouldn’t believe but also made the insert of the fictional black chick who was created and is almost a main character who only exists as an exposition dump for a political narrative seem so much more moronic. That’s probably the biggest gripe I have with it, it’s like the show is holding your hand and calling you a dipshit who can’t discern a narrative for yourself without being explicitly told “OH NO DEY CORRUPT”
>Season 1 is the most simplistic of the seasons but still great >Season 2 is an acquired taste >Season 3 is a solid Machiavellian Shakespearian rise and fall tale >Season 4 is incredible, can potentially be argued as the best and really ties in how characters from the first 3 seasons get locked into their fate of either gangbanging, becoming a druggie, lost in the system, getting murdered or making it out of the projects to a good path following 5 middle school friends >Season 5 is kind of a filter season with a great ending
Overall it's a must watch. Avon is the best character
Yes, it's my favorite show, although it took me a bit to get into it when I first started watching it (I didn't like it that much at first). I think I was more hooked after 4 episodes or so, takes a bit to pull you into the story/characters. Give it another chance and see what you think.
>ahaha chess pawn queen king analogy u get it ?????
The show's trash and final 2 seasons are terrible >Anime villains and characters >leftist propaganda
Superior cop show coming through
The first season of The Shield had some stinker episodes as well. It gets drastically better from season 2 on to become a master piece of television.
It isn't flawless though. I'm not a fan of most of the subplots, like Vic's family business or Julien's gay desires. The music sucks for the most part, and you had implausible stuff like the disconnectable cameras in the interrogation rooms, or the fact that 90% of the suspects never demanded a lawyer.
Despite the negatives, The Shield is still amongst the best tv shows of all time. The same can be said about The Wire. I suspect you're simply tired of leftists and blm propaganda. So am I, anon.
I never said Shield is flawless, but it is far more REAL and entertaining than lel wire.
If anyone wanted to watch a cop show, I would recommend The Shield 10 out of 10 times, simple as.
And yes I am generally tired of commie propaganda especially coming from a post-soviet country and actually knowing what it means.
The Wire is extremely unrealistic.
Black people don't talk like that.
Especially black drug dealers and criminals. They barely have a coherent thought in their head. They sit around all day, watching TV, and selling drugs, and maybe having sex. They don't pontificate, strategize, or engage in any level of sophisticated behavior.
The ONLY reason why they're not constantly arrested, is because of shithead lawyers and judges who make it impossible to arrest them for things like this.
>They sit around all day, watching TV, and selling drugs, and maybe having sex
but that is what the majority of the black criminals on the wire do all the time. stringer bell is the exception
Oh look we have an expert who definitely knows what he’s talking about and isn’t making any assumptions whatsoever. How fun
they clearly show the street dealers to be 99% irredeemable thugs like real life.
D was a high level player and his cousin was the boss. Wallace and Bodie were the exception in terms of intelligence, this is why the show focuses on them
I'm glad you admit that basically all of the dialogue between black characters is completely unrelated to real life.
The ONLY realistic scene in the entirety of The Wire is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8GaFuo4svQ
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
that's the only scene you know of because it's been posted in one of the threads you've been seething in not too long ago, shield troony
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I never watched The Shield.
I've watched every episode of The Wire.
The Wire is a great show, but it's also THE most unrealistic show I ever watched.
David Simon is a complete simp/loser.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
we can all tell it's you shield troony, no need to pretend
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nitpicking critically acclaimed shows you’ve seen very little of isn’t how you fit in around here. It’s how you get made fun of
I mean have you seen any other cop show? watch blue bloods or SVU or something like that shit, its beyond terrible
I'm sorry your pro-black anti-white police fantasy show is complete fiction.
I really am. But maybe you should take it up with David Simon? I mean, he's the one who created fictional characters out of thin air. >But muh based on true stories.
Umm, about that, lmfao.
The only reason why the 2nd season exists is because the show got flack for being "racist", so the second season had to focus on white criminals, even though there aren't any white dock workers who committed the murder of 13 prostitutes, or were engaged in large scale high jacking/drug trafficking.
All so Simon could say "See! White people are just as bad as black people."
Umm, fricking nope.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
not reading all that
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The Wire troony >Not being able to read is different than choosing not to read.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Ohhhhhh okay I get you now. You’re just not very smart, that’s alright.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Bruh the wire is adamant about how there’s good people on both sides trapped by the people who are shit, on both sides.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Seek help bro
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>pro black anti white police
what compels someone to make multiple blog posts about a show they never watched?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I mean have you seen any other cop show? watch blue bloods or SVU or something like that shit, its beyond terrible
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
SVU is obviously no masterpiece but it’s not terrible by a long shot. The first 8-10 seasons at least are unbelievably comfy especially the episodes with a lot of Ice-T and Belzer interactions. this also brings up a weird point though, what is it with the trope of 2000s cop shows having a token gay homie? I mean obviously you have Omar from The Wire, Julien from The Shield, and on a lesser note you have Finn’s son on SVU who becomes a recurring character. Why are black gays so ubiquitous in 2000s cop shows in particular kek
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Why are black gays so ubiquitous in 2000s cop shows in particular
Psyop by Hollywood.
And most Hollywood writers are gay, so it's easy it makes writing easier if they include a gay author avatar.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
and then the gay cop also murdered his wife in reality
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Dude WUT??? I will admit I’m not in the know and behind on things, I’m actually only just now watching The Shield for the first time right now a decade and a half after having seen The Wire which I’ve watched several times since but are you serious? I gotta look into this, don’t worry I’m not asking to be spoon-fed shit I can look up in two seconds but this is some wild information I was not aware of okay yeah so I looked it up and wtf that’s some nutso shit
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Dude WUT??? I will admit I’m not in the know and behind on things, I’m actually only just now watching The Shield for the first time right now a decade and a half after having seen The Wire which I’ve watched several times since but are you serious? I gotta look into this, don’t worry I’m not asking to be spoon-fed shit I can look up in two seconds but this is some wild information I was not aware of okay yeah so I looked it up and wtf that’s some nutso shit
>”April arrived home to discover Jace, who happened to also be intoxicated. Jace proceeded to shoot April in the back; as April staggered down the hallway of their home, Jace shot her in both legs, saying, "You like to run. Try running to heaven." He then contacted his father-in-law and calmly told him to pick up the kids and that he shot April.”
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I Dian tell you’re not quite as perceptive as you think you are
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>he thinks black people talk the same way between themselves as how they talk at him
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I Dian tell you’re not quite as perceptive as you think you are
YEAH Dianne, shut the frick up homosexual
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
theres lots of great scenes from the wire, youre just a contrarian
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nitpicking critically acclaimed shows you’ve seen very little of isn’t how you fit in around here. It’s how you get made fun of
they clearly show the street dealers to be 99% irredeemable thugs like real life.
D was a high level player and his cousin was the boss. Wallace and Bodie were the exception in terms of intelligence, this is why the show focuses on them
yeah this is the correct take. they are like the complete opposite in terms of approach to a cop show (the shield has cops in shootouts basically every episode, the wire a cop basically never shoots anyone the whole show)
Exactly. The Wire has the tension building slow burn thing going for it where for example if they need inside information on someone or something they’ll set up this intricate sting that spans the course of two or three episodes whereas in The Shield the same scenario would just be Vic walking out of the station and smash cut to him and Shane holding a gun to some dudes head or pistol whipping a homie until he talks
Nothing wrong with either of those but yeah they’re completely different shows despite technically kind of being about the same sort of thing
>Appraised for its realistic depiction >Have anime tier villains like snoop, brother muozone, and chris >O'mar
Yea I ain't recommending this cucked shot to anyone.
Also david simon is a pussy
>room full of psued redditors discussing how the spectre of George Floyd hangs over every scene and makes a post-2020 rewatch of The Wire "hit different" >Intro to Bawitaba by Kid Rock starts playing from outside, quietly at first, but growing in volume. >Aggressive banging on the door >"Open up!" >Redditor says "no.... This is a mistake this is just the biannual r/TheWire meet up. >Door flies off it's hinges as it's kicked down >BAWITABA DA BANG DA BANG DIGGY DIGGY DIGGY SAID UP JUMP THE BOOGIE >Squad of shield fans storm into the room wearing leather jackets and sunglasses and push the Redditors to the ground and cable tie their hands behind their backs. >Anyone who struggles gets the shit beaten out of them. >BAWITABA DA BANG DA BANG DIGGY DIGGY DIGGY SAID UP JUMP THE BOOGIE
>Power fantasy
Yea being a corrupt butthole of a cop and father is surely something to be fantasizing about!
Every fan of The Shield knows it is based on a true story...and that strike team was actually black. I'm glad they changed it the way they did because chiklis and goggins are killing it.
>power fantasy
Yeah its totally awesome to be corrupt as hell, escape every problem by the skin of my teeth, have a failing marriage, autistic kid, have no one trust you, work for a low paying job where the only way to get ahead is cheat lie steal and murder, fun fun
[...] >Power fantasy
Yea being a corrupt butthole of a cop and father is surely something to be fantasizing about!
Every fan of The Shield knows it is based on a true story...and that strike team was actually black. I'm glad they changed it the way they did because chiklis and goggins are killing it.
>is trying to be sarcastic but ends up at truthful
This show was great because, it shows that USA is worse than a third world country, like damn it was bad in the 2000s, and is even worse now, literally a 4th world country that pretend to be first world.
I grew up in a third world country, and is not even a 1/100 as bad as the reality the show presents.
>contrarians still pretending that S2 is the best just because it was unfairly maligned for a long time
I like it but it's the worst by every reasonable metric. Some of the dialogue and acting is particularly egregious.
I'm in season 3 kind of struggling, we just lost Cole. I wish we could have seen much more of Frank Sobotka, he had such energy and conviction that never really got explored in any meaningful way. He could have ended up being a brilliant anti-hero or general antagonist. A crooked Union run by boosting goods, not by gay Greeks, would have been a much more interesting enemy for the wire to tap in on.
I remember back when The Wire was first broadcast the black people looked green on my TV but now watching it on an LCD computer monitor they look black. What's the deal with that?
I was surprised to hear that season 2 is among the less well-received out of all of them. I really liked it upon my first watch, seeing how deep the distribution network ran.
>Money [is] green[.]
t. also a genius 166 IQ Chessmaster drug dealing Machiavellian/Carl von Clausewitz strategist tier and fried poultry connoisseur fr fr my homie bet
It do be green fr fr
the whole show had the blue and green NYC tint so the fake bills looked green on camera, kind of ruined it.
no it didn't, fix your tv settings
Anon, you're colorblind.
holy shit what a damn moron you are
>blue and green NYC tint
No it didn't.
>NYC
You're moronic.
i believe you anon
that guy is smart, he should try chess
>now dis here the queen..... and she ain't no b***h
Brilliant
da kang stay da kang
(LMAO)
lol
I forgot about the superhero villain nerdy homie lmao
Who wrote this shit, and what fantasy world di they live in?
>White female character sheepishly admits she has not taken a stranger's wiener in almost *whispers ashamedly* .... almost 3 weeks
>Disgusting slothlike Black lesbo BFF asks "What were Tyronne and D'seanquan sneaking out of your apartment at 5AM two days ago for then?"
>Whyte wimman main replies "Oh that doesn't count I had met them the week prior at the brain surgeon conference... man that conference was exhausting!"
>*laugh track + audience makes "ooooooohhhh" noise*
>*israeli Producer creams pants at thought of influencing 1,000s of real life moron wimmen*
He was a chess champion along with jake gyllenhal
homie, is you taking notes on a criminal fricking conspiracy?
homie I read about takin minutes in Robert's rules of order
where's wallace?
I really gotta start naming or organizing my images, took me longer to find the pic that it took to find Wallace
i have the same problem, terrible organization and i use shorthand names for things all the time
WHERE THE FRICK IS WALLACE?
these are for you mcnulty
You have my undivided attention
*mcnutty
My favorite little story about The Wire is that when Idris Elba left they show he had to be consoled cause he was afraid he'd never get another part again.
and he never did
his career did get put on pause for a while, the guy who plays mcnulty appears as a jobber underling in attack of the clones, and post related
did voice acting work, like Caesar in New Vegas.
the only one who had an OK career ended up being Lance Reddick. there is no justice.
oh and michael k williams duh. all the blacks had semi-successful careers minus the dyke and stringer bell's homies.
McNulty married into billionaire royalty. saw him on a house TV show and he was chilling with the biggest shit eating grin I've ever seen. good for him.
Is the wire actually good? I only watched the first episode didn’t really get into it
The first season is GREAT. Second season is too drastic a change from the first, but lots of people enjoy it on repeat viewings. Third and fourth season get back to what made the first season good, and people argue about 1 > 3 > 4 etc. all the time. Fifth season is utter shit that should not be watched.
The fifth season tends to be a hard filter. You really need to understand what it’s referencing to get it.
The Wire doesn't have a single bad season, season 4 and 2 are simply much better than 1, 3 and 5. But it's all great.
>The Wire doesn't have a single bad season
It has only two actually good seasons, one mid season and two unwatchable seasons
nah
3>2>4>1>5 for me
4>2>3>1>5
I disliked season 2 on first watch but enjoyed it more the second time through. For me it’s
4>1>3>2>5
Five is the weakness season by a long way but it concludes the show in a satisfying way by the end.
I just couldn't tolerate what they did with McNulty. Seems to me he was totally ooc for the whole fifth season.
The only reason there’s a show is because he talks shop to an outsider.
The ooc one in season 5 is Lester. It's perfectly within McNulty's character to make up a serial killer
Good, intelligent people don’t stay in corrupt systems long, and if they do, they become corrupt themselves.
I hated the sudden dive in his character arc. He went from alcoholic mess at the start, to unfulfilled but relatively stable, to happy and healthy and doing old fashioned police work in the Western. It would have been the perfect place to close the circle, but then it's straight back to much worse alcoholic mess.
It's plausible for the character, but it does make the prior four seasons of development feel a bit pointless.
Yeah, he should’ve just brushed off the murder of a character he was close to considering a friend.
>character he was close to considering a friend
The was cringe in the first place.
>Dude cops having respect for drug dealers.... Good people on all sides... All victims of the machine *hits bong*
Redditor shit runs so deep through this show.
>look at me I never watched the show it sucks!
Yea but I coincidentally know the names of actual anime characters, right?
Wire gays are actually dumb
See
The point was Jimmy wasn't actually happy being sober. He had no case to obsess over, he was bored. He sabotaged his relationship with the single mom and his nice life to go back to being a drunk detective, because that's the life he prefers.
You can't magically change decades of behaviors and addictions overnight and expect to stay that way, not how it works.
Wasn't Bodie's death the reason for his return to Daniels' unit? He became obsessed with catching Marlo because he felt responsible for Bodie's demise. It's also the main reason for McNulty's actions in the fifth season.
yeah, but it all comes across as rushed as everything from season 5. I rewatched the wire last year and season 5 is such a massive step down from all the previous years
I consider S5 non-canon, except for Bubbles' final scenes
He didn’t “magically change,” he took stinger’s death extremely hard, and extremely personally. He thought he was going to put him and Avon away, he thought he’d won. But then stringer is killed, out of nowhere as far as he’s concerned. Imagine how it would feel to mourn the death of a murdering drug kingpin like he was family. He realizes it’s the job that’s fricking him up, so he goes back to a beat, and then he’s happy. Then bodie is murdered, he takes that personally, and relapses. And when an addict relapses, they go harder than they did originally. Then he gets pulled off Marlo, and goes further down the spiral.
Absolute bullshit. As stupid as the killer plot was its handled as well as possible and the season is a beautiful send off.
2 > 5 > 1 > 4 > 3
You are a crazy person.
Agreed on the 2nd season totally, it's fantastic but it's also kind of a misstep in terms of how much it shifted gears, or at least a misunderstanding between the audience and the creators over what this show was intended to be.
I feel like the creators envisioned the show to be a borderline anthology series, where each season would look at a different component of society and try to diagnose our societal issues, and the contributions to those issues from each level, while leaving characters and storylines from previous seasons behind for the most part. Because they do end up doing that essentially, you go from the street crime level to the blue collar union worker level to the schools to the government to the media/newspapers. To me that's the whole point of the show; it's doing a holistic diagnosis of why things are so fricked up, and it's not the result of one cause or one problem.
But with season 2 viewers were like "what the hell, where did the characters I grew to care about go?" So the creators course corrected with S3 and on, folding in characters and storylines from past seasons with the new societal levels they wanted to focus on in subsequent seasons.
5 is worth it for Marlo.
>price of da brick goin up
If you don’t understand you’re watching something special in the first scene, then you won’t.
It's a genuine masterpiece. One of the few TV shows that could be called the best.
The chess scene alone disqualifies it from being "good" nevermind masterpiece status and you get some cucked scene like that every other episode.
It’s hilarious that an imdb post, made in earnest, caused people to think that scene was terrible, simply because it was reposted here.
The chess scene is the great filter. People treat it literally, but that sort of shoddy superficial metaphor is exactly what a mid-level toady who doesn't understand his situation. Everyone calls it a game and yet nobody seems to understand nor follos the rules of said game, nobody can see the forest for the trees. It's like pottery
>budget john goodman
>budget gene hackman
>the homosexual hitman who goes through the same tragic buttboy lover gets killed circle about half a dozen times
>we be the pawns in chess n shit
>the muslim brother hitman who can intimidate three hardened drugdealers at once by babbling about how cool his bullets are
>same poor good boy not cut out for life in da hood cycle about 5 times
>muh obsessed alcoholic detective who can't let the one case go
>tards going to this day "hamsterdam was such a great idea"
>"me my mommy and daddy"-tier 32 year old dude playing 17 year old bodie
Sounds kino.
I didn't get into it right away either, but my friend (now deceased) encouraged me to give it more of a chance, and I'm glad I listened to him.
It's a very slow burn, but by the mid-point of s1 you should be properly hooked.
the pilot definitely feels "cheap" and too heavy-handed (much like david simon's future project "we own this city"). i would say to not become discouraged by the first episode and to give the entirety of s1 an attempt before giving up on it.
A pilot is a single episode of a show produced mostly independently and pitched on its own to get a series greenlit. The wire did not have such an episode. The term is not interchangeable with “first episode.”
david simon literally calls ep1 "the pilot" on commentary you fricking moron.
>but x used word wrong too!!
So?
you realize that successful pilots are often times used as the first ep right? the wire did have a pilot and the creator refers to ep1 as "the pilot" on commentary. you spoke out of your ass on something you have zero understanding of and got caught, i suggest you stop doing that to yourself.
Anon, unless he talks about the protection of the first episode as a pilot, then he’s just using the word wrong.
>Admits to watching the wire (redditor show for psueds with a Black fascination)
>Admits to liking it so much he listens to the audio commentaries to hear more from the unironic cuck writer
Not that anon but you self owned. No one who belongs on this board would willingly watch even 5 minutes of The Wire.
See
We Own this City was made so much better by looking into the true story it was based on. I watched it as it was airing and thought it was decent, then a year or so later I was thinking about it so I watched the documentary (‘We Got a Monster’ or something along those lines) and then read the book and then rewatching it with all that information in mind enhanced the whole show like you wouldn’t believe but also made the insert of the fictional black chick who was created and is almost a main character who only exists as an exposition dump for a political narrative seem so much more moronic. That’s probably the biggest gripe I have with it, it’s like the show is holding your hand and calling you a dipshit who can’t discern a narrative for yourself without being explicitly told “OH NO DEY CORRUPT”
Yeah a lot of people feel that way. The fat black lady was obviously there because simon was afraid someone would call him a racist.
It can be a real chore to sit through at times
I can't imagine trying to watch it with a current day TikTok attention span. So glad I did 15 years ago.
So much this.
so much cum, so so much jizzum thank you king
>Season 1 is the most simplistic of the seasons but still great
>Season 2 is an acquired taste
>Season 3 is a solid Machiavellian Shakespearian rise and fall tale
>Season 4 is incredible, can potentially be argued as the best and really ties in how characters from the first 3 seasons get locked into their fate of either gangbanging, becoming a druggie, lost in the system, getting murdered or making it out of the projects to a good path following 5 middle school friends
>Season 5 is kind of a filter season with a great ending
Overall it's a must watch. Avon is the best character
it gets kinda slow with the later seasons, the one about the ports was especially boring. Sopranos is better
Yes, it's my favorite show, although it took me a bit to get into it when I first started watching it (I didn't like it that much at first). I think I was more hooked after 4 episodes or so, takes a bit to pull you into the story/characters. Give it another chance and see what you think.
It's a masterpiece of television. The scene where Kima gets shot is still genuinely upsetting
Yes it’s terrific but you can’t watch it casually. There aren’t many wasted scenes so you have to pay attention
>it's a Hamilton had to be a president episode
You know what the most dangerous thing in America is?
A Black with a bowtie?
nation of islam, they wear bowties
Black "people"?
A Black person with a gun and astigmatism
gottem
You can use irons just fine with an astigmatism.
A homie WITH A LIBRARY CARD
PANDEMIC! GOT THAT PANDEMIC HERE!
AYO, WMD! WMD! GOT DAT WMD HERE!
Yet he says Ben Franklin is a president
>MONEY BE GREEN
Now it's all kinds of colors. This show aged like milk.
It’s still mostly green. In first world countries of course.
any real homies still come back to watch this show?
>Cinemaphile
>real homies
they all went to twitter
>ahaha chess pawn queen king analogy u get it ?????
The show's trash and final 2 seasons are terrible
>Anime villains and characters
>leftist propaganda
Superior cop show coming through
You’re moronic.
>O'mar comin yoo
grow up you manchild
See
The first season of The Shield had some stinker episodes as well. It gets drastically better from season 2 on to become a master piece of television.
It isn't flawless though. I'm not a fan of most of the subplots, like Vic's family business or Julien's gay desires. The music sucks for the most part, and you had implausible stuff like the disconnectable cameras in the interrogation rooms, or the fact that 90% of the suspects never demanded a lawyer.
Despite the negatives, The Shield is still amongst the best tv shows of all time. The same can be said about The Wire. I suspect you're simply tired of leftists and blm propaganda. So am I, anon.
I never said Shield is flawless, but it is far more REAL and entertaining than lel wire.
If anyone wanted to watch a cop show, I would recommend The Shield 10 out of 10 times, simple as.
And yes I am generally tired of commie propaganda especially coming from a post-soviet country and actually knowing what it means.
>but it is far more REAL and entertaining than lel wire
You and your shit taste are simply wrong
>simply wrong but can't say why
slurp more
The Wire is extremely unrealistic.
Black people don't talk like that.
Especially black drug dealers and criminals. They barely have a coherent thought in their head. They sit around all day, watching TV, and selling drugs, and maybe having sex. They don't pontificate, strategize, or engage in any level of sophisticated behavior.
The ONLY reason why they're not constantly arrested, is because of shithead lawyers and judges who make it impossible to arrest them for things like this.
>They sit around all day, watching TV, and selling drugs, and maybe having sex
but that is what the majority of the black criminals on the wire do all the time. stringer bell is the exception
I'm glad you admit that basically all of the dialogue between black characters is completely unrelated to real life.
The ONLY realistic scene in the entirety of The Wire is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8GaFuo4svQ
that's the only scene you know of because it's been posted in one of the threads you've been seething in not too long ago, shield troony
I never watched The Shield.
I've watched every episode of The Wire.
The Wire is a great show, but it's also THE most unrealistic show I ever watched.
David Simon is a complete simp/loser.
we can all tell it's you shield troony, no need to pretend
I'm sorry your pro-black anti-white police fantasy show is complete fiction.
I really am. But maybe you should take it up with David Simon? I mean, he's the one who created fictional characters out of thin air.
>But muh based on true stories.
Umm, about that, lmfao.
The only reason why the 2nd season exists is because the show got flack for being "racist", so the second season had to focus on white criminals, even though there aren't any white dock workers who committed the murder of 13 prostitutes, or were engaged in large scale high jacking/drug trafficking.
All so Simon could say "See! White people are just as bad as black people."
Umm, fricking nope.
not reading all that
>The Wire troony
>Not being able to read is different than choosing not to read.
Ohhhhhh okay I get you now. You’re just not very smart, that’s alright.
Bruh the wire is adamant about how there’s good people on both sides trapped by the people who are shit, on both sides.
Seek help bro
>pro black anti white police
what compels someone to make multiple blog posts about a show they never watched?
I mean have you seen any other cop show? watch blue bloods or SVU or something like that shit, its beyond terrible
SVU is obviously no masterpiece but it’s not terrible by a long shot. The first 8-10 seasons at least are unbelievably comfy especially the episodes with a lot of Ice-T and Belzer interactions.
this also brings up a weird point though, what is it with the trope of 2000s cop shows having a token gay homie? I mean obviously you have Omar from The Wire, Julien from The Shield, and on a lesser note you have Finn’s son on SVU who becomes a recurring character. Why are black gays so ubiquitous in 2000s cop shows in particular kek
>Why are black gays so ubiquitous in 2000s cop shows in particular
Psyop by Hollywood.
And most Hollywood writers are gay, so it's easy it makes writing easier if they include a gay author avatar.
and then the gay cop also murdered his wife in reality
Dude WUT??? I will admit I’m not in the know and behind on things, I’m actually only just now watching The Shield for the first time right now a decade and a half after having seen The Wire which I’ve watched several times since but are you serious? I gotta look into this, don’t worry I’m not asking to be spoon-fed shit I can look up in two seconds but this is some wild information I was not aware of
okay yeah so I looked it up and wtf that’s some nutso shit
>”April arrived home to discover Jace, who happened to also be intoxicated. Jace proceeded to shoot April in the back; as April staggered down the hallway of their home, Jace shot her in both legs, saying, "You like to run. Try running to heaven." He then contacted his father-in-law and calmly told him to pick up the kids and that he shot April.”
I Dian tell you’re not quite as perceptive as you think you are
>he thinks black people talk the same way between themselves as how they talk at him
YEAH Dianne, shut the frick up homosexual
theres lots of great scenes from the wire, youre just a contrarian
Nitpicking critically acclaimed shows you’ve seen very little of isn’t how you fit in around here. It’s how you get made fun of
Oh look we have an expert who definitely knows what he’s talking about and isn’t making any assumptions whatsoever. How fun
they clearly show the street dealers to be 99% irredeemable thugs like real life.
D was a high level player and his cousin was the boss. Wallace and Bodie were the exception in terms of intelligence, this is why the show focuses on them
>Black people don't talk like that.
like what?
>the Shit threads keep dying 10 posts in
>the sole remaining the Shit fan shitting up every Wire thread out of envy
Alpha male kino beats The Reddit
>ESL word salad
I also like the Shield, but the wire season 4 is the best of the wire
Growing up is realizing that both shows have their strengths and weaknesses and at the end of the day, both are pretty great.
yeah this is the correct take. they are like the complete opposite in terms of approach to a cop show (the shield has cops in shootouts basically every episode, the wire a cop basically never shoots anyone the whole show)
Exactly. The Wire has the tension building slow burn thing going for it where for example if they need inside information on someone or something they’ll set up this intricate sting that spans the course of two or three episodes whereas in The Shield the same scenario would just be Vic walking out of the station and smash cut to him and Shane holding a gun to some dudes head or pistol whipping a homie until he talks
Nothing wrong with either of those but yeah they’re completely different shows despite technically kind of being about the same sort of thing
Nah. The shield requires the viewer to ignore plot armor.
It was a fun show but after some time it really started to become dull. Dutch was my favourite character
If you genuinely think season 4 was terrible then you have shit taste and I can disregard your opinion. It's one of the best seasons of any tv show.
The weakest fan of The Shield still has more testosterone than the strongest fan of The Wire.
See
>Appraised for its realistic depiction
>Have anime tier villains like snoop, brother muozone, and chris
>O'mar
Yea I ain't recommending this cucked shot to anyone.
Also david simon is a pussy
>room full of psued redditors discussing how the spectre of George Floyd hangs over every scene and makes a post-2020 rewatch of The Wire "hit different"
>Intro to Bawitaba by Kid Rock starts playing from outside, quietly at first, but growing in volume.
>Aggressive banging on the door
>"Open up!"
>Redditor says "no.... This is a mistake this is just the biannual r/TheWire meet up.
>Door flies off it's hinges as it's kicked down
>BAWITABA DA BANG DA BANG DIGGY DIGGY DIGGY SAID UP JUMP THE BOOGIE
>Squad of shield fans storm into the room wearing leather jackets and sunglasses and push the Redditors to the ground and cable tie their hands behind their backs.
>Anyone who struggles gets the shit beaten out of them.
>BAWITABA DA BANG DA BANG DIGGY DIGGY DIGGY SAID UP JUMP THE BOOGIE
There's no dissonance. Most viewers don't even know that partial-inspiration for the fictional character.
Go cite rampart and rafael perez in a shield thread and see what happens.
>Power fantasy
Yea being a corrupt butthole of a cop and father is surely something to be fantasizing about!
Every fan of The Shield knows it is based on a true story...and that strike team was actually black. I'm glad they changed it the way they did because chiklis and goggins are killing it.
>Every fan of The Shield knows it is based on a true story
All 3 of them.
>power fantasy
Yeah its totally awesome to be corrupt as hell, escape every problem by the skin of my teeth, have a failing marriage, autistic kid, have no one trust you, work for a low paying job where the only way to get ahead is cheat lie steal and murder, fun fun
>is trying to be sarcastic but ends up at truthful
>Do the mods know we're gonna look like some punk ass b***hes out there?
The Wire is probably the most based show in existence. The fact that every thread gets overrun with seething poltards makes it even better.
Money IS green.
wow, you sure showed him. white rednecks never use poor grammar such as this
>shield troony still seething
This show was great because, it shows that USA is worse than a third world country, like damn it was bad in the 2000s, and is even worse now, literally a 4th world country that pretend to be first world.
I grew up in a third world country, and is not even a 1/100 as bad as the reality the show presents.
The Wire is Disneyland compared to how bad Baltimore is in real life.
>Just 20 more years of Democrat control and we can fix it!
David Simon is the biggest piece of shit in the entertainment industry.
thread theme
I have decided to leave Cinemaphile for 3 days. The website is only as good as its users. I hope you enjoy your second-rate users.
>contrarians still pretending that S2 is the best just because it was unfairly maligned for a long time
I like it but it's the worst by every reasonable metric. Some of the dialogue and acting is particularly egregious.
It amazes me that those people are born and raised in an English speaking country and even when they're adults they have no understanding of grammar.
It’s because america is several times bigger than your entire country
Have you ever considered that there isn't one universal "grammar" but that linguistic rules differ from place to place?
David Simon be like "sure, democrat cities are hellholes of crime, corruption, poverty, drugs, gangs and murder but don't vote republican"
Why is this board so slow now this thread has been up for 14 hours
Pepe looking black
Chose your fighter
im bunk (im sagittarius) how about you
I'm in season 3 kind of struggling, we just lost Cole. I wish we could have seen much more of Frank Sobotka, he had such energy and conviction that never really got explored in any meaningful way. He could have ended up being a brilliant anti-hero or general antagonist. A crooked Union run by boosting goods, not by gay Greeks, would have been a much more interesting enemy for the wire to tap in on.
I remember back when The Wire was first broadcast the black people looked green on my TV but now watching it on an LCD computer monitor they look black. What's the deal with that?
What was his name again?
Can’t remember other than it was on the street
I was surprised to hear that season 2 is among the less well-received out of all of them. I really liked it upon my first watch, seeing how deep the distribution network ran.
depends
Agents of shield if a better show.
>Money [is] green[.]
t. also a genius 166 IQ Chessmaster drug dealing Machiavellian/Carl von Clausewitz strategist tier and fried poultry connoisseur fr fr my homie bet
Did you not watch the show? He was dumb and made all the wrong choices despite the meme chess scene.
M comment was directed at the poindexter homie and the kingpins like bell and the other guy who played jimi hendrix
SNEEDY BE FEED
TYPE SHIT