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Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:05 pm
by wub
teamhobson wrote:
Agent 47 wrote:what so good about it?

tempted to start watching
Kevin Spacey :U: If he were a homosexu... wait.
Yeah, that was one crazy little subplot they just glimpsed at.

teamhobson wrote:Just finished the first season of The Wire. HYPE
Start of a beautiful journey. I warn you...season two will seem like shite compared to season one, but once you've watched it all the way through to the end of season five, revisit season two and you'll appreciate it's true beauty.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:11 pm
by Laszlo
Still the second worst season though.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:14 pm
by teamhobson
wub wrote:
teamhobson wrote:
Agent 47 wrote:what so good about it?

tempted to start watching
Kevin Spacey :U: If he were a homosexu... wait.
Yeah, that was one crazy little subplot they just glimpsed at.
Well actually i have only seen the first couple episodes haha, no idea what youre talking about. Lets just say that Spacey had an eye for my best mate (male) while he was working on his play in London.
wub wrote:
teamhobson wrote:Just finished the first season of The Wire. HYPE
Start of a beautiful journey. I warn you...season two will seem like shite compared to season one, but once you've watched it all the way through to the end of season five, revisit season two and you'll appreciate it's true beauty.
Sick. I loved the last scene of this season; All that work and fuck all changes. Big ups to the war on drugs yea

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:40 pm
by hubb
I thought the second season of the wire was the best one and that after the third it falls off drastically. Starts to reintroduce a lot of characters (actors) in dubious ways and becomes more of a straight 'drama'.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:44 pm
by Laszlo
"Second one is best" is what hipsters say!




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Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:47 pm
by Muncey
Nobody can watch all of The Wire without drinking Jamesons at some point, its impossible.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:03 pm
by titchbit
Laszlo wrote:"Second one is best" is what hipsters say!
100% true.

Best seasons (and they're called seasons) were 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, in that order.
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I would rate season 4 higher if Stringer was in it.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:27 pm
by Laszlo
dubunked wrote:
Laszlo wrote:"Second one is best" is what hipsters say!
100% true.

Best seasons (and they're called seasons) were 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, in that order.
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I would rate season 4 higher if Stringer was in it.
1, 4, 3, 2, 5 :roll:

(maybe even swap 3 and 2)

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:14 pm
by hubb
I just prefer it when they kill a lot of white people :corndance:

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:22 pm
by titchbit
Season 2 wasn't as entertaining as say 1 or 3 but it was essential for the entire world David Simon was trying to convey. You needed to learn about the Greek at some point. But even the worst season of the wire is better than 99% of television.

At this point I just wish there was a season 6... And 7... And 8...

Also 2 & 5 are indisputably the worst, 5 because it was just a
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trainwreck with a seemingly improv-ed ending
, but I still rate 5 > 2 because of all the political and media stuff in 5 that was absent from 2. That was the whole point of the series really. It wasn't about gangsters and stevedores. They were just plot devices used to get to the bigger picture, the media and the politicians and the root of the city's problem.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:29 pm
by hubb
Yeah. I would say the transition from the street level to to a pier was more surprising and educational than showing how the future drug' kids' went to school. And the characters were really good. Like Frank or the
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penis guy.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:54 pm
by Laszlo
Debunked, you should put your last post in a spoiler thingy for people who haven't seen it all yet.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:07 pm
by chekov
dubunked wrote:Best seasons (and they're called seasons) were 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, in that order.
come on, 5 was blatantly the worst one

the newspaper angle could have been interesting but wasn't really developed that much, all the characters there apart from gus were pretty one-dimensional
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and wtf was that shit with the fake hobo killer?

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:52 pm
by titchbit
lol yes,
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the mcnulty serial killer plot line was utter shit.
yes the newspaper could have been developed more, and I think it wasn't due to incompetence of the writers but because they were hurried to finish it or something. you still had the whole marlo thing going on in season 5 though, and all of the politicians, which season 2 lacked. that's why I rate 5 > 2.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:05 pm
by chekov
ye marlo was sick, grant you that

i duno, i think it's just that it felt too rushed as you say. i rate the 2nd season more in as much as it showed the impact of the drug trade on a completely different community, the political side had already been covered enough in the 3rd/4th season to let it outweigh the crappy bits of the last season by itself imo

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:21 pm
by Laszlo
chekov wrote:i rate the 2nd season more in as much as it showed the impact of the drug trade on a completely different community, the political side had already been covered enough in the 3rd/4th season to let it outweigh the crappy bits of the last season by itself imo
All of this, basically.

Also, to echo Wub's point, the second season seems a bit gash at first but gets a lot better on the second, third, fourth viewing.

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:43 pm
by chekov
even on the first viewing, the last few episodes get you proper sucked in. definitely makes it worth the slow start

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:02 pm
by Liam92
Right in amongst the 2nd season of Entourage now, loving it!

Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:03 pm
by ehbes
rewatching season 3 of GoT

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Re: Recommend me a TV Series

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:06 pm
by titchbit
the shield is pretty underrated i'm willing to bet most of you haven't seen it and you would all like it a lot. people compare it to the wire. they're similar in that they're both about cops and robbers. but the shield is different. there aren't as many characters. it's more about a twisted plot than a social commentary.