The Sopranos Vs. The Wire

u shd try 'damages', shakey.

that rose byrne is all kinds of pretty.

nabs, you're a professional critic and you're impressed by the idea of someone consuming a work of art they're sure they won't like just to be able to say with authority that it sucks?

The Wire is a show I totally want to get into but A. my computer is too shitty to actually torrent and d/l the episodes, and the DVD series are expensive.

Though if I wind up being a single man, the money I save on not taking the lady out to dinner could probably buy one season a week.

yes yes yes we get it you're getting dumped

TV series on DVD are made to be rented, that's a lot of money/shelf space/hard drive real estate

first season of damages is geat! and rose byrne is a h-o-t-t-i-e

im sayin

i will gladly watch even "troy" on cable

I was thinking about starting a thread about people who are OMG FRONTING with the Wire

― @kanyewest (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, May 15, 2009 1:35 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why dont u start a thread about what a stupid douche u are

he's started a few iirc

I know everybody thinks I'm just being jerky but I WAS genuinely interested in seeing this show prior to this poll - lots of people had recommended it to me - and I had every intention of seeing it. I'm not trying to be challopsy here, and there's plenty about it I do like. I've already invested so much time in it in a way I will have some cognitive dissonance going on if I DON'T finish it (maybe I'll leave that decision up to the wife, since she's watching all these too and likes her serial DVD rentals)

it is true the lopsided results of this poll combined with the rhapsodic review my brother gave me probably raised my expectations a little higher than they shoulda been

i think, for your own sake, you should allow your wife to finish watching them by herself.

think we all learned a lesson here today.

drugs are bad

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xpost - haha I just think it'd be hilarious and awesome, in a sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm way, to make yourself watch fortysome hours of something just so you could definitively PROVE you don't like it (but like I said, obviously Shakey's not doing that)

my reasoning for recommending continued viewing would be that, umm ... unless Shakey's got a pressing list of other stuff he would rather spend his TV time on, he's already invested 16 hours or so in learning about certain characters, and the rest of the show is where lots of interesting stuff happens that's dependent on knowing those characters and being surprised by where they wind up, so ... you know, why not at least get some payoff during the next two seasons -- another 16 hours or so is not so precious a chunk of the amount of time dude can expect to spend watching television across the course of his life (and being slightly disappointed by the Wire is still better than flipping around and watching the end of Daisy of Love or something) (though that show is pretty good)

d watching the end of Daisy of Love or something) (though that show is pretty good)

lolol stop spying on me

I am going to try to watch both of these shows in their entirety this summer since there's nothing on TV and I've never really seen either.

In the first season, it seems less like cops=good, drug dealers=bad, than workers=good, bosses=bad. D'angelo and his crew are sympathetic characters, while Stringer and Avon and the muscle are less sympathetic - besides the fact they kill people or give orders to kill people. In the cop sphere, it's similar, the bosses - Burrell, Rawls, even Landsman and Daniels at times, are not as sympathetic as Bunk, Lester, Kima, McNulty.

As the seasons progress - starting in Season 2 and esp. in Season 3 - you see the trials and tribulations of being a boss.

― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Tuesday, June 9, 2009 3:30 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this pretty much holds true w/generation kill btw (which is better than the wire imo)

I've never even heard of generation kill - there's another on the list then. Probably shouldn't plan on getting much done in the next couple months.

it's good, but it's not as good as The Wire.

Ooooh clashing opinions here. Hmmmmm.

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xp ENBB - the two actors from the Wire that also appear in Generation Kill play the two biggest (white) fuck-ups in the former series. I know it's meta, but it seems part of the message of the latter.

Ah, interesting. Am excited to watch all of these now.

four episodes into Season 3... was James Spader unavailable to play the douchebag city councilman?

The disparity between the victor and the loser is fucking mindblowing here. I mean, you can definitely make a case for either but the Wire winning by 86 votes? No way the disparity is that large. If the Wire wins it wins by...don't know...ten at most. Same the other way around. Reconsider people.

Uh, it's not like we can give fractional votes. Not sure what anyone's supposed to reconsider.

I mean hell...what about the respective finales for both shows. Clearly the Sopranos had a better climax?

Yeah dunno...just a tad stunned is all. Love them both but come on...

I don't know, I've never seen it ... not particularly compelled to, either.

That's a problem.

Problem for some, maybe. Not a problem for me, and definitely not a problem for my bf who has no desire to watch Sopranos either.

my wife and I just started watching the sopranos ... we had watched maybe the first couple of episodes way back when -- on VHS, haha. Not sure why we haven't gotten around to it since then ... but I'm looking forward to seeing if it stacks up to the Wire!

season 3 is pretty good so far - McNulty is definitely in Grade A Asshole category by now, he's definitely become less likable as the series has gone on. Actually everybody is pretty much less likable (which is weird cuz one of the criticisms consistently thrown against the Sopranos is how unlikable all the characters are, but I pretty much don't like/identify with anyone on the Wire by this point, they all seem like mostly jerks).

also wtf is up with Chicken Lady political consultant, that is one terrible actress.

she is terribly hot.

I'm 4 eps into s2 of the wire, definitely enjoying it more than s1 (love sobotka!)

xp Shakey: she is weird looking. She gets a better haircut in Season 4.

You don't like Bunny Colvin or Cutty or Omar???

But then I like Rawls because he just revels in being a dick.