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The Wire is awesome, British TV less so
phbihop:
Season 4 is maybe the best season of TV ever made. I thought nothing could top Season 1, but Season 4 was just... amazing. Season 5 was kind of disappointing, but it has grown on me.
Inlander:
Damned if I'm going to let this thread slip off the front page like that.
the_pied_piper:
Well played, sir.
Has anyone seen The Corner yet? It was showing on FX in the UK not long ago and i didn't get a chance to see it. I heard that it was pretty much the same cast as The Wire so i have high hopes for whenever i do get the chance.
I do know that it is in fact from 2000 for anyone who may have suspected otherwise.
Inlander:
The Corner is very different in tone from the Wire. It's still rewarding viewing - though grim, as it doesn't shy away from depicting the ravages on the human body of long-term drug addiction - but if you go into it expecting to see the Wire: the prequel you'll be disappointed. It does indeed have many of the same actors as the Wire, but none of them in the main roles and all of them in very different roles from those they play in the Wire. Clarke Peters, for instance, who played Freamon in the Wire, plays a drug addict in the Corner.
Unlike the Wire, the Corner depicts only one aspect of the "War on Drugs" , namely, the lives of the addicts and their families and friends, so don't expect the wide-ranging examination of city life that you get in the Wire. Also, the Corner is filmed as a mixture of faux-documentary and slice-of-life human drama, so it doesn't have any of the great dramatic sweep of the Wire. It's altogether a more small-scale, intimate examination of inner-city life.
It's a good series, and worth watching, but you might not find it as gripping or as entertaining - for want of a better word - as the Wire.
Inlander:
Hey Britons, now you've got no excuse not to watch the Wire: apparently the Beeb is going to start showing it nightly on B.B.C. 2, from first episode to last, starting on the 30th of March. That's next Monday. Do yourselves a favour!
In other news, late last year the Australian Broadcasting Corporation finally released season 1 of their acclaimed early-nineties police procedural Phoenix on D.V.D. This might be of interest to Wire fans because it also follows a single police investigation over the course of the entire season, step-by-step and in deeply authentic detail. Sure, a lot of the production techniques and stylistic choices have aged poorly, but it's definitely worth checking out if you're interested in this kind of thing.
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