FTA-TV The Wire

[jaguaress]

I saw 1 ep of The Wire last week, it was in season one. It was so good I got the Series 1 3 4 and 5 (wasnt interested in 2. I really is the best series Ive seen on tv by a mile. The fake serial killer and the newspaper crew was the only bits I didnt like.

 

[mandy]

Season 2 is great. Except for the first time you watch it.

 

[TheKanga]

I loved it whenever Omar walked the streets and all you hear is "It's Omar,Omar is coming"

''You come at the king, you best not miss''

 

[Northworth]

doing my third viewing now
started season 2 - just a remarkable show

 

[raven echo]

doing my third viewing now
started season 2 - just a remarkable show

I'm holding out until my blu ray box set arrives and then I'll be re-watching it again. Can't wait to see it in high def.

 

[Northworth]

I'm holding out until my blu ray box set arrives and then I'll be re-watching it again. Can't wait to see it in high def.

mos def high def

 

[blackshadow]

I'm holding out until my blu ray box set arrives and then I'll be re-watching it again. Can't wait to see it in high def.

Watched it from go to whoa in glorious HD on HBO Now - looks sensational (was also the first time I had seen it apart from occasional episodes).

 

[Jean Claude Vas Deferens]

mos def high def

Indeed.

 

[BEaston]

I saw 1 ep of The Wire last week, it was in season one. It was so good I got the Series 1 3 4 and 5 (wasnt interested in 2. I really is the best series Ive seen on tv by a mile. The fake serial killer and the newspaper crew was the only bits I didnt like.

you can't just skip s2... it's pretty integral to the whole story arc.

 

[JUBJUB]

you can't just skip s2... it's pretty integral to the whole story arc.

plus it's got the scene Dominic West describes as "The 8th wonder of the world"
It's the scene in ep 5 where Aimee,Nickys girlfriend,takes her top off

 

[jaguaress]

you can't just skip s2... it's pretty integral to the whole story arc.

Ok i will check it out, thanks.

 

[Jean Claude Vas Deferens]

you can't just skip s2... it's pretty integral to the whole story arc.

Have no idea where this dislike for Season 2 came from. Great story-telling, great characters and I agree…. absolutely integral.

Can't understand why anyone would want to skip a season of any show let alone one as top-shelf as The Wire.

 

[BEaston]

It's the scene in ep 5 where Aimee,Nickys girlfriend,takes her top off

This is definitely a great scene.

So many other great ones as well in s2.... Ziggy+forklift, ziggy+duck, McNulty and driving his car around the corner, many more I can't remember.

Probably the funniest season too. Is that the season where the Bunk has to burn his clothes?? haha

 

[JUBJUB]

Probably the funniest season too. Is that the season where the Bunk has to burn his clothes?? haha

It is

 

[mandy]

I think I just loved season 1 so much and the characters in the towers. As I said, season 2 just made me really impatient for the stories to get back there.

Watching it a second time around definitely gave me more appreciation for the season as whole. I totally get why people didn't like it, but I also think, like me, a second watch would change their minds. I'm genuinely really surprised how much I enjoyed it.

 

[TheKanga]

I want to rewatch again but not sure if it's to soon or not.

 

[Father Jack]

Season 2 is where the show really took off for me. I also had very little time for the fake serial killer in the last season, although it did give us the scene where the FBI profilers describe the 'killer' to McNulty.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Have no idea where this dislike for Season 2 came from.

The jump from S1 to S2 in terms of new plots and characters was pretty huge compared to most shows. Just when people were starting to settle into a rhythm with the show, it got ripped out from under them. But once you get used to it (having seen multiple season jumps), it's a lot easier to focus on how it fits with the whole show rather than just with S1.

 

[JUBJUB]

Interesting that a couple of the cops in the series are played by real Baltimore cops
In the Homicide unit there's a Detective Ed Norris.He is played by Ed Norris,who in 2000 became the Police Commissioner of Baltimore,Maryland and in 2003 became the Maryland State Police Superintendent
Also in S3 when Major Colvin is driving around looking for a place to set up the area where the drug dealers can do their business without being charged he has a Lt Dennis Mello with him.Lt Mello is played by Jay Landsman [name sound familiar ?]
Sgt Jay Landsman is the character played by Delaney Williams [the fat cop in the Homicide unit]

 

[blackshadow]

Have no idea where this dislike for Season 2 came from. Great story-telling, great characters and I agree…. absolutely integral.

Can't understand why anyone would want to skip a season of any show let alone one as top-shelf as The Wire.

I found S2 quite refreshing in that it moved away from the towers and allowed for other nefarious characters to be introduced and linked into later seasons.

 

[RickSanchez]

Watching it again for the 4th time.
****ing awesome show.
Tried to show it to a mate last night and he was too busy on his phone, I felt much disrespect so I won't bother showing him again.
I'm a huge OZ fan, so many characters from that show in this.

 

[JUBJUB]

This is one of the best scenes of the show as it is real.It's the wake for Ray Cole.Ray Cole was played by Executive Producer Robert F Colesberry,who died between the making of S2 & S3.



Jay's eulogy refers to the Mississippi incident,the after hours murders and 1993 at Fayette St.They're real references to shows/movies Colesberry was a producer of
- Mississippi Burning
- After Hours
- The Corner

 

[Hamingja]

I found S2 quite refreshing in that it moved away from the towers and allowed for other nefarious characters to be introduced and linked into later seasons.

I've bulked watched it on Presto (halfway through s5) and found the start of season 2 to be a little slow. I've been watching a few at a time so got through the dip reasonably quickly. If you were watching it when it aired and waiting a week for an ep then it probably made S2 feel pretty average. It was slow at the start building the storyline around Nick, Ziggy and the dockworkers. Once the greek became the arc of the story it was much better in the second half of the season.

 

[Hamingja]

Ok, finished the lot. Agree with a few people on the last page about the final season. They went full ****** with McNulty in s5. I think I read somewhere that the writers were former journalists so it had a very self indulgent feel to the newspaper arc.

Loved the end to Omar, so understated. And also the tie up at the end with the circle of life of the game if you will. Michael becomes the new Omar, Duquan the new Bubbles etc etc. It's scary to think a lot of it would be pretty accurate to the real world.

 

[ManWithNoName]

I got the BluRays. Looks ****ing amazing.