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Originally Posted by listopencil
I bought the first season of The Wire on DVD because I had heard so much positive feedback about it. I watched it. It was...OK. I was not tempted to buy any more of the DVD's.
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Originally Posted by TimBone
The Wire is next. I've heard too many good things, I have to check it out. But I have the same concern as you.
Sopranos wasn't bad at all. I really liked it. I just had it built up as the premier Movie Channel series. With everything I heard about it, I expected it to blow all others out of the water. Hard to live up to those expectations. Once again though, **** that ending.
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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
I don't think The Wire will be dated, per se. If anything, the eruptions in Baltimore make the events of the show even more poignant over time.
What you do need to be careful for, though, is not to expect fireworks and stunning plot twists every 10 minutes. It's structured to tell an entire story over the course of a season, and sometimes they linger on world building or just soaking up the environment as the fates align. It's not paced like a Michael Bay movie, more like hanging out on the stoop watching the world go by, albeit a ****ed up dangerous world.
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Well, shit. That's why I wonder...
I doubt it'd ever be able to live up to the hype.