The Wire - The Complete First Season
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Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Best TV show ever made
Summary: 5 Stars
Simple as that. From the first episode, a detailed an in depth look at American urban life. Highlights of this season are Larry Gilliard's performance as D'angelo Barksdale. Also contains one of the best ensemble casts of character actors you could assemble. The show is also perfect for the DVD format, where you can view multiple hours consecutively, making the show pick up much quicker than traditional viewing. Start here and watch all the seasons, you won't be disappointed.Movie Review: The Wire, Season 1
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wire was described as being a visual novel by its creators. The idea was to create a slow, sprawling canvas of a show, one that requires, and rewards, devout attention. These goals were certainly accomplished with this, the first season of what is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the best shows to ever grace television.
It's startlingly gripping, considering how slowly it moves. The dialogue is natural, and everything progresses naturally. It's an amazing, amazing show, and you're cheating yourself of a great experience. It rewards loyalty and patience, attention and intelligence. These are qualities far too rare in television today. I can't wait to watch Season 2, which just arrived yesterday.
Movie Review: The Wire - worth the watch
Summary: 5 Stars
No frills, honest cop-TV. Watching The Wire almost has the feel sometimes that you're watching a documentary about a Baltimore Police drug investigation.
If your over the shakyCam, overlit, oversaturated look and feel of other dramas ie CSI take a look at The Wire.
Movie Review: Gift for a friend
Summary: 5 Stars
I have only watched a couple episodes of The Wire, but my buddy absolutely loves it. He now has the complete first, second, and third seasons.
He could probably give a much better review than me, but everything he has told me speaks volumes about this show, and DVD set.
Movie Review: Excellent show, but DVDs have major flaw
Summary: 3 Stars
The Wire is a five-star show; it's absorbing and precise in the way that only the greatest stories are. But many other people here have said that.
What they may NOT have said is that this DVD set contains terrible, unwelcome spoilers. To view an episode, one must click on an episode, then click "watch episode" AGAIN on a screen where a plot synopsis is splashed across the screen. I had to train myself to close my eyes each time that I wanted to watch the show. My wife had one of the major surprises of season one blown for her because she accidentally selected one episode in the future and read the first sentence of the plot description.
The set's clearly fine for those who are seeing the show the second time around, but those seeing it the first time should be warned. I'd be much happier if the DVD menu designer had shown a bit of consideration for the many people who are watching this the first time around.