The Wire.........tonight...........BBC2.....11.20pm

[El Presidente]

It needs concentration, commitment, and a dictionary of Baltimore streek talk, but for the next 12 weeks you have the opportunity if you have not already seen it to watch the most absorbing, relentless, sharpest written, and ultimately depressing TV show of all time.

That is all.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Says in the Mirror that The Wire is Bazza Obama's favourite TV show.

THAT is all.

 

[Muzzman]

Thanks for the heads up, forgot this started today

 

[Gwylan]

11.20 is far too late for me ... we can't all be dossing uni lecturers, fitting in a few seminars between letching after female undergrads and watching porno films.

But for those of us who work for a living, there's always On Demand.

It is the best TV series ever though ... what a treat for those who have never seen it.

 

[Kenhead]

Think i'll download them on the iplayer and watch a couple of episodes at a time.

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

It needs concentration, commitment, and a dictionary of Baltimore streek talk, but for the next 12 weeks you have the opportunity if you have not already seen it to watch the most absorbing, relentless, sharpest written, and ultimately depressing TV show of all time.

That is all.

Tru dat.

 

[Eggman]

Its wicked, so it is.

Have the box set, just started series 2

 

[Questions]

Is this series 1 ?

 

[Rookie]

Looking forward to it, hoping its as good as the reviews say it is.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Is this series 1 ?

Yes it is.

 

[Gwylan]

Looking forward to it, hoping its as good as the reviews say it is.

Oh, it is. It's a slow burner though, it takes a couple of episodes to really get into it as there's not much exposition... and there are the accents and the slang to get into as well.

And the two Brits do mean Baltimore accents: you'd never guess that they were from this side of the pond.

 

[Silent Bob]

I'm glad it's made it to terrestrial but the scheduling doesn't really do any favours does it? Five nights a week for twelve weeks with no repeats and no iPlayer? Who would watch that? Other than people with Sky plus, that is.

 

[n1 gull]

Oh, it is. It's a slow burner though, it takes a couple of episodes to really get into it as there's not much exposition... and there are the accents and the slang to get into as well.

And the two Brits do mean Baltimore accents: you'd never guess that they were from this side of the pond.

I've seen them all and absolutely adored it. Who's the second brit? I know Jim McNulty, but I didn't know there was a second.

 

[Silent Bob]

The guy who plays Stringer is from Brixton.

 

[Was not Was]

Tru dat.

Mos' def.

 

[n1 gull]

Stringer is from Brixton! - f*ck me I would not have guessed that. He's totally class as well.

 

[Man of Harveys]

What's so good about it?

 

[n1 gull]

In my opinion its the most intelligent tv series ever made. It makes no concession to dumbing down at all. The accents and jargon are straight from the street and its up to the viewer to get used to them, which you do very quickly.

It shows like a novel. If you read a novel you don't skip chapters. You can't skip episodes, without losing the plot, but also like a novel it doesn't get resolved in an hour, it comes to together at the end. Would you put a novel down after one chapter? Probabl not. You have to be patient and you are rewarded at the end.

Also, there are no good and bad characters, just different characters on the opposite side. Some of the people are proper nasty, but you have empathy for them. One character called Omah is probably the best anti-hero I've ever seen - totally hysterical.

Anyway, watch it your self and I hope you enjoy.

 

[Silent Bob]

Stringer is from Brixton! - f*ck me I would not have guessed that. He's totally class as well.

Indeed. I can remember one slight moment in the whole five series when Dominic West's accent slips a little, that's it. The actor's performances are universally excellent.

 

[Albion Rob]

Indeed. I can remember one slight moment in the whole five series when Dominic West's accent slips a little, that's it. The actor's performances are universally excellent.

It's great when he does a fake English accent - Series 2 I think.

Finished the whole lot in box set on Sunday, funnily enough, and it has left quite a gap. Quite simply the best thing I've ever seen and 63 hours of my life very well spent.

I think there's a third English actor in it as well - wasn't Carccetti in something over here. Actually, he might be Irish.

My favourite bit is when Herc asks two slingers where they get their caps with the peaks on the side rather than the front. The slingers take a long time to explain they are wearing them sideways. Brilliant.