The Wire

boo boo · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:36 pm **Posts:** 10827

Watched a few episodes, there is absolutely nothing good about this show.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7268

There's absolutely nothing good about your life, either.

boo boo · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:36 pm **Posts:** 10827

That is true.

Hang · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:04 am **Posts:** 2286

Owned.

Quinnsy Lohan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:52 am

Not to mention he's still fat.

Quinnsy Lohan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:05 pm

Also, if you haven't seen it already, check out Generation Kill. It's completely brilliant.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7268

That's high on my list of to watch television. I think Twin Peaks is after my rewatch of the Wire though (I'm near the end of season 2).

Quinnsy Lohan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:27 pm

Honestly, I'd probably put it up there with The Wire or close to.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7268

Valchek has to be the biggest douchebag in the series.

Quinnsy Lohan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:19 pm

Definitely. There's no greater sight than him being punched by Roland (can't be bothered spelling his last name).

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7268

Mr Prezbo!

Two Headed Boy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:48 pm

Valchek, Burrell, Clay Davis, Levy, Officer Walker and post s.4 Herc for biggest cunts for me.

monga18 · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:05 am **Posts:** 5731

I think you have to give most of those characters credit, dicks though they are, for being so good at gaming the system and entrenching themselves. That's what I love about the Wire - it's a show about smart people doing what they do with exceptional skill, whether for good or ill. (Maybe not Herc, but even he isn't so much stupid as simple-minded, rank-obsessed and accepting of drug war tactics/protocol). The lone exceptions IMO are the Sun editors in S5, as it's clear from jump that their buyouts and misplaced priorities are pretty much single-handedly killing the paper, and doing so - this is key - for no good reason. I think that's not a deliberate touch but a case of Simon's anger at his real-life editors trumping his commitment to covering every angle of the story, and I think it winds up as easily the biggest of the show's few flaws.

monga18 · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:05 am **Posts:** 5731

boo boo wrote:

Watched a few episodes, there is absolutely nothing good about this show.

I'm sorry they canceled According to Jim, but that's no reason to troll the rest of us.

Two Headed Boy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:15 pm

monga18 wrote:

I think you have to give most of those characters credit, dicks though they are, for being so good at gaming the system and entrenching themselves. That's what I love about the Wire - it's a show about smart people doing what they do with exceptional skill, whether for good or ill. (Maybe not Herc, but even he isn't so much stupid as simple-minded, rank-obsessed and accepting of drug war tactics/protocol). The lone exceptions IMO are the Sun editors in S5, as it's clear from jump that their buyouts and misplaced priorities are pretty much single-handedly killing the paper, and doing so - this is key - for no good reason. I think that's not a deliberate touch but a case of Simon's anger at his real-life editors trumping his commitment to covering every angle of the story, and I think it winds up as easily the biggest of the show's few flaws.

Holy crap, can't believe I forgot Templeton. Anyways, I'm not saying they are 'bad' characters. If I hate them, that pretty much means they are doing their job very well.

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