The Wire - The Complete First Season
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Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Amazing Show!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok so I'm huge fan of HBO and their programing. They have made so many shows that I love (Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome,etc). So about year ago I saw season 1 of the Wire on special at my local circuit city. I didn't know much about it at the time, but read what it was about and it sounded interesting and knowing my track record with HBO I figured I couldn't go wrong. Man was I dissappointed I watched two episodes and was bored to tears. So after the finishing the second episode I put the dvd back in the box and tossed under a chair where it's been for the last six months. Anyway over the last six months I kept hearing how great the wire was blah blah, but chose to ignore it. But finally a few day I decided what the hell I'll give it another go. Man am I glad did. This show is absolutely amazing once things moving. Anyway I don't do reviews much but I decided to this just in case there is someone else like me who gave up after the first few episodes. You need to go back and give this another look. It is an absolutely amazing show!!!!Movie Review: I'm a believer.
Summary: 5 Stars
I got the first season on DVD a few weeks ago and now, just like they said, I'm hooked. The Wire isn't just another show. This is like Shakespeare. (Someone else pointed out that Bubbles is totally a characater Shakespeare could have written.)
David Simon says they revel in 'detail' and it's made for DVD in that you can catch things going on in the background when you watch it again. It's slower than other cop shows and you don't have the bad guy getting caught every week. It's gritty, the characters are well rounded, it's doesn't have that jerky, show offy camera style that was fashionable in the genre a while back. Each show has many different stories going on in it. It looks like they film in actual projects, jails, bars, police offices. They pay attention and you can tell.
I agree with all the other people, this is the best show ever. Actors, writers, directors, photographers, and everyone else I don't know about, did this right.
Movie Review: A must-watch
Summary: 5 Stars
I was raised in Baltimore, and live nearby. This series is the real story, a truly Dickensian story, of any large American city. Do not expect to be entertained by it. But if you're voting in 2008 for a candidate who says that he or she watches The Wire, be confident they're better equipped to fix what's wrong with the wealthiest nation in the world that nonetheless has produced some of the world's worst ghettoes. But for an accident of birth, these stories could be any of ours.Movie Review: Amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wire, Season 2, continues the video novel of the first season. No offense to The Sopranos, but this is the best American television show ever made. Movie Review: Best Show on Television
Summary: 5 Stars
We kept hearing people talk about this show and how great it was but I wasn't interested in another cop show about drugs. The first episode was okay but by the end of the second episode I was hooked. It's so well written and the acting is brilliant. My husband and I are now on the third season and it hasn't lost it's edge. I highly recommend it.