much and all as i love the sopranos,i love how this thread instantly turned into people raving about the wire,it really is that good.
one thing i wanted to point out to everyone is that,unlike anything else i've ever watched,the wire is actually better the second time around.
after the first time i watched it i thought it was the best thing i'd ever seen on tv,but its when you watch it again that it really comes into its own.
the first time around its so overwhelming,and a lot of the time you are just trying to keep up with whats going on,remember who everyone is,figure out whats being referred to,etc.
the second time you can really appreciate it,how nuanced,subtle and intricate every scene is,how nothing happens without a reason,how astonishingly good the entire cast of mainly unknown actors are,how well they use music,how they manage to humanise almost all the characters,(who would have thought you could grow to love bodie so much after what happened with wallace at the end of season one?),in short,how detailed and well thought out the whole thing is.it really is breathtaking.
ive watched it twice since getting into it less than a year ago,and am looking forward to watching it again,i've no doubt that theres loads of stuff that i missed.
one interesting bit of trivia-the guy who plays the deacon (the lovely soft spoken,gentle old church guy in season three and four who advises various people) was the main heroin kingpin of baltimore in real life in the eighties,the avon case in season one is based on te events leading to his arrest.
its worth chechking out the hbo website,there are various interviews with the creators and so on that are fascinating.
