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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
Also had to give up on Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Outlander. Both shows had interesting premises and a couple good seasons before taking huge nose dives.
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Oh I finished that one, but I regretted it. However, I still think that first season is some of the absolute best television I've ever seen. I highly recommend watching the first two seasons at least.
And as for The Wire, I fully understand how some people wouldn't enjoy it. I just love that style of show, where everything is depicted in heartbreaking reality without any real solution or resolution given to the audience. Characters sometimes grow, but many just stay the same and suffer the consequences of their hubris. Too many shows want to have definitive character arcs and a clear plot with an end goal in mind, which is traditional story telling and is usually a good way to entertain. I just think that The Wire broke the mould a little while also presenting a clear picture of why modern America deals with so many entrenched problems in their cities and institutions. They also change their focus every season which keeps it relatively fresh as new themes are always being explored (1: gangs and policing, 2: drug import and declining white working class, 3: money and politics, 4: schools and at risk youth, 5: decline of journalism). They're all interlinked and revisited at various points too, so you can see how everything connects and feeds upon itself. The problems seem inescapable, despite everyone's best efforts.
In the end, it's not about any one person, it's about the slow decay of American cities. I guess I just love something that tries to look at a topic on that scale.