Fellow Wire-heads may be interested in this, which I saw a couple of months ago for work, and is like the Wire, very good, but real. Airing at the moment in the US, doubt it'll get picked up here but DVD out in December. www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/ www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/arts/ ... brick.html

Fellow Wire-heads may be interested in this, which I saw a couple of months ago for work, and is like the Wire, very good, but real. Airing at the moment in the US, doubt it'll get picked up here but DVD out in December. www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/ www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/arts/ ... brick.html

Quote ="craigizzard"Fellow Wire-heads may be interested in this, which I saw a couple of months ago for work, and is like the Wire, very good, but real. Airing at the moment in the US, doubt it'll get picked up here but DVD out in December. www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/ www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/arts/ ... brick.html'" Thanls for that, I'll speak to my 'US contact'...... allegedly

Quote ="craigizzard"Fellow Wire-heads may be interested in this, which I saw a couple of months ago for work, and is like the Wire, very good, but real. Airing at the moment in the US, doubt it'll get picked up here but DVD out in December. www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/ www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/arts/ ... brick.html'" Thanls for that, I'll speak to my 'US contact'...... allegedly

Mentioned it before, but The Corner is worth a watch (think it was shown somewhere on cable recently).

I knew about Bell and McNulty but not Carcetti - all three put in cracking performances.

There's a great in-joke type moment back in season 2, where McNulty does a terrible English accent.

I have loads of The Wire recorded on my Sky+ box.. Still not got round to watching it, they've been on there months!

this thread makes me want to watch it, then when I get home I just don't bother

Coast is the only thing I make anything approaching an effort to watch these days. Finished now though.... until next time. That's good telly is that.

I'm liking that Lost Land of the Volcano thing at the moment, but I'm not sure how much longer that's going to be on for.

I'm also watching Chuck on DVD at the moment, which is quite amusing.

That is all.

Fancy checking that out but next I want to see "Generation Kill", again by David Simon/Ed Burns, but this time about Iraq (but like the Wire it's as much about the characters)

Also tempted to try one of Simon's books

On US shows....

Heroes and House both begain their new seasons in the US last night.

Hopefully be watching tomorrow ish



Last night I watched last episode of season 1 of Dark Blue, which I thought was decent enough to warrant another season, which may not it seems happen. Shame.

Warehouse 13 is fun to watch



There's a new show called 'Bored to Death' which I hope to watch this week.

Hardly ever watch TV. Hardly ever anything on to tempt me to do so.

Been suffering with man flu recently so watched a fair bit this past week in bed with a box of tissues........

Watched Bangcok Dangerous last night. Utter drivel.

Supernatural, True Blood and Harpers Island are all top quality.

I watched the Wire once, fell asleep and had the most incredible dream ever, however this was ruined by the fact that upon waking up Whiskey the Yorkshire Terrier was licking my nuts, strangely stimulating but on reflection slightly wrong.

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is excellent. It works like the best detective fiction, but gives insight into so much more than just policing or just Baltimore. The Corner is good too, but relentlessly hard work.

It's all subjective, but without any shadow of a doubt the best drama I have personally ever watched. I was devastated when it ended. We'd taken Series 5 on holiday with us and had watched it all in the first 24 hours of being there. Omar is THE best character I have ever seen in a drama. He was a very brave character to inject into an American show. Everything the christian right in America would hate. He was a drug dealer, a homosexual, a drug stealer and an afro caribbean. Brilliant! I was so upset when he died the way he did. But then that too was very realistic. It wasn't about a final triumphant fire fight or car chase. The modern day Robin Hood. David simon and George Pelecanos are TV gods in my eyes. If you need a Wire fix get reading George's crime novels. Did I mention that I quite liked The Wire?

Good holiday was it?

Another 99 added.

The Wire was garbage. Quite possibly the most overated TV show in history. if I wanted to watch a load of wannabe gangsters who you cant understand and a load of corrupt police officers, Id just go to Leeds, not sit through an hour of that cr@p

Not a fan then?

Shhhhhhhh.

Grown ups are talking.

Actually some of those "wannabe gangsters" are very much the real deal (see for example Snoop Pearson).

I wouldn't for a minute have expected you to be able to cope with a program as intellectual (and morally) challenging as The Wire. Thankfully HBO make telly like that for the minority and you can stick to Big Brother 27.

Where?

I have looked all round the house and there is only me here?

It's the absolute best. Superb telly.

Not one mention of Tony Smith,Adrian Morley or Lee briers on this thread.

Should be done under the trade descriptions.

Dolls house??

Im in the middle of generation kill. Its good but not in the wire territority. Ziggy from season 2 of the wire is one of the main protagonists and just as annoying

I must admit my devotion to The Wire did waver a little in the middle of the second season, in part down to getting board of Ziggy.

Thankfully, I stuck with it and season 2 finished well, season 3 got better and season 4 was to me the best season of all. Season 5 was good but not quite as good as 4 for me.

Hard to get near Prop Joe (the marriage counsellor quote, need I say more) but I was always a fan of Slim Charles (the fact Anwan Glover is in a Go-Go band just makes him even better). OT but did anyone else on here buy the Go Go Crankin' album all those years ago? Trouble Funk, EU, Chuck Brown etc, the Arena show on Go Go (must have aired 85-86ish) was brilliant and my t**t of a brother taped over it, can't find it anywhere on the net...