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The Wire is awesome, British TV less so

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TheFuriousWombat:
Oh right, I forgot about Dexter. It is pretty great from the few episodes I've seen. I'm not a huge fan of House but that's probably because I'm not a fan of medical shows in general. Mad Men looks good too. I guess I just feel like a golden age has come and gone.

cgarci21:
I totally agree on the Inspector Lynley point above. If you like that you might try renting the Agatha Christie mystery stuff. Its good and pretty true to the books (which I love).

God save wttw. :) Which is what I watch that on.

Tom:
Spooks is a pretty good British TV show, it's about a team of MI5 agents and is like the British equivalent of Alias without the craziness.

KvP:
So I'm going through the first season again (that's as far as I got, only sporadically kept up with the series after that) but I still can't watch McNulty's scenes with his kids. But it's still great writing, I guess. He's so absorbed in the job that he doesn't see anything wrong with bringing an (admittedly harmless) junkie or a hardened stick-up man along with them during visits. Or using them as fucking surveillance. I think Tommy's right, he's a crazy asshole. But as Landsman said, that's what makes him good police.

And I'll just say again that anybody who really liked the first season of the Wire should check out Homicide if they haven't already.

KvP:
So it's a month later, and I just watched the final episode of the series. I teared up there in a few places, especially the last Bubs scene. Perfect ending, almost literary in the way it ushers out major characters while establishing that minor characters will take their places, in very overt ways. McNutty lives!

Anyhow, enough of that. What was everyone's favorite scene from the Wire, would you say? I know you've got one. For me, there are two, both of which feature Bill Rawls, the hack Police Boss. The first is in season 1, after the undercover debacle, when Rawls takes McNulty aside and tells him that even though he fucking hates the guy, even he cannot blame McNulty for what happened. When I saw that I knew that the Wire was a show of a different caliber - up until that point (and hell, after that point) Rawls was painted as a shitty boss and a self-serving boob, but in that moment he was shown to have something approaching a conscience. The second scene was in season 3. A split-second reaction shot of Bill Rawls in a gay bar. My biggest laugh of the year.

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