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Treme! From the creators of the Wire

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Inlander:
What the fuck did I do?

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 19 Mar 2010, 11:56 ---Nicely drawn characters and all but I never found all that much to get my teeth into, but if I was more interested in therapy than I am the city that could have been very different.

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This actually makes me want to watch The Wire less because of my antipathy for urban life. Previously it was just because of the nagging, and also because I am wary of taking TV recommendations off of people on this forum based on the other television and films that are big round here.

Edit: I also find it fairly hard to get into these really long American TV series. For a start, they look fairly daunting to approach, but I also never really get engaged with them. I'm only kinda in to The West Wing (and to a lesser degree MASH) because other members of my family are obsessive fans and I've been exposed to a lot of second-hand episodes. I never seem to develop a burning urge to find out what happens to the characters. I watched the first two seasons of The Sopranos with friends a couple of years ago, which was all my friend had at the time, and then have barely ever thought about it again. Most of my favourite television series (Edge of Darkness, Ultraviolet, Riget, etc.) are less than half the length of a single season of most American series. I don't know why this is, particularly. Perhaps it's also related to my general latent anti-americanism.

KvP:
If you don't like dense things then you will not enjoy The Wire. As far as the length is concerned, the thing about The Wire is that it is essentially a new show every season, with recurring characters in the B-stories.

KharBevNor:
I don't think it's density particularly, but rather the length. That 'new show every season' thing sounds kinda promising though!

look out! Ninjas!:
I would take that with a rather large helping of salt though. Speaking as somebody who's only halfway through season 3, the cops that start season one are still there with a fair bit of character development, and understanding what the major case unit is doing relies pretty heavily on knowing the politics that built up there over the previous two seasons. The dockworkers have disappeared, but the dealers from season one are still there, and understanding whats going on with them and marlo requires knowing certain things that happened in s1 and 2. The only thing that's really new in s2 is the dockworkers, and even that begs knowing about the police, and in s3 it's the politicians, and you need to know about the police higher ups to really get that. I haven't missed a minute and there are still things that I'll miss entirely or need to be reminded of.

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