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Originally Posted by KTrain
One of my favourite shows of all time. It's definitely a slow burn to get into but has some of the most well developed characters and intense and heartbreaking storylines. I try to rewatch it every couple years.
The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...dream-was-dead |
My favorite show of all time as well. When it dawned on me that the show had no traditional "good/bad" guys, but that I could support and hate people at each level (drug runners/dealers, police, law, government), and often within the same person, it changed my idea of what entertainment could accomplish.
I had the same feeling of awe when Wil Wright first demo'd Spore, and he just kept "zooming out", from microscopic organisms to planet building. How David Simon was able to capture Baltimore in such an expansive way and still keep the show engaging, entertaining, thoughtful, and emotional is what makes this show a masterpiece.