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Vuk:
I know I'm late with it, but I just started watching this show, and it's easily one of the best I've seen. I just finished episode 10 of season 1, and fuck it was intense - the whole time I was thinking what a great character Greggs is, and then she gets shot at the end. Few shows can build that kind of emotional investment from me, so it pretty much speaks for itself with how good it is. I also hear it only gets better, so I'm so stoked to go on with it.

Anyone else into it, at the moment?

David_Dovey:
There's some pretty fantastic conversation that's happened in this thread here (starts off at somewhat split purposes but becomes more  or less completely about The Wire by the end of the first page). It is very, very, very spoilertastic though, so if you've only seen the first season I suppose you wouldn't want to go through it yet. I guess it's gonna be hard to find an conversation about The Wire that doesn't feature spoilers.

There is one hope for you, though. I'll pass along a recommendation that another member on this forum made to me when I was first starting out, and that enriched my viewing greatly; Alan Sepinwall's blogs on every episode The Wire, done in "newbie" (spoiler-free) and "veteran" (spoileriffic) versions, that are probably some of the most incisive, thoughtful and astute commentary on the series yet written. Find them here, links to each season's blogs in right column.

Vuk:
Much appreciated. This blog is fantastic.

bmfs:
My fiance and I just started finally watching this program recently as well - we're about halfway through the 3rd season, and friend I can tell you it just keeps getting better.

Inlander:
Fuck it, let's talk about the Wire again then. It's not like we're doing anything better here anyway.

One of the things that strikes me more with each re-watching is how writerly the show is. I mean obviously it's incredibly well researched and one of the things the show is most often and most vocally praised for is its realism, but in many ways it's also very "literary". And I don't just mean in the grand 19th-century-novelistic sweep of it, I mean in little details and parallels that run throughout the series. A good example of this (and a good indication of the writers having a little bit of fun) is the way McNulty keeps repeating "What the fuck did I do?" throughout the first season, with constantly shifting meaning. It's the kind of thing you don't even really notice the first time through, but it's a very literary kind of effect - and the kind of thing that's much more likely to be found in a novel than in real life.

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