Just finished watching The Wire, what next?

[Sasaferrato]

I have just finished, literally, watching all five series of The Wire.

Can anyone suggest something else to watch? Preferably at least four series.

(Virgin post for me in this forum. )

 

[DotCommunist]

Generation Kill (1st recon marines fucking up iraq 1 a lot)

Sons of Anarchy (biker gangs, gunrunning and stuff)

 

[Spymaster]

Damages.

All 5 seasons available on Netflix.

It's ace.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Deadwood
The Sopranos
Damages

 

[RedDragon]

I've been waiting to find the time to start the The Sopranos @ 86 episodes spread over 6 series it's quite a commitment.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Sons of Anarchy, I watched just before The Wire, it is excellent.
The Sopranos, I have, but just cannot get into, I'll try again in a while.
Deadwood? What is it about?


Ladies and gentlemens, we have a winner! 'Damages' it shall be. I will get my trusty torrent beast onto it straight away.

 

[Dillinger4]

nothing. It's all downhill from here.

 

[DotCommunist]

Bogias is quite fun. Jeremy Irons IS the borgia pope. Theres a great little bantam weight bastard playing micholleto, personal assasin to Cesare Borgia.


Loads of boobs and catholic imagery

 

[Spymaster]

Ladies and gentlemens, we have a winner! 'Damages' it shall be.

Prepare for some late nights. We watched the whole 1st series over 2 days. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger and you just have to see the next one.

Also, the episodes all have titles and the title is a spoken line from that episode. See if you can spot it.

 

[Dillinger4]

Rose Byrne.

 

[Santino]

I will get my trusty torrent beast onto it straight away.

Self-reliance.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Sons of Anarchy, I watched just before The Wire, it is excellent.
The Sopranos, I have, but just cannot get into, I'll try again in a while.
Deadwood? What is it about?


Ladies and gentlemens, we have a winner! 'Damages' it shall be. I will get my trusty torrent beast onto it straight away.

Deadwood: about a town in the old West. It starts out kind of slow - I had to force myself to watch the first three episodes - but once it gets going, it becomes almost Shakespearean.

 

[Dillinger4]

Out of the one's mentioned, I'd say Deadwood.

 

[Dillinger4]

Deadwood: about a town in the old West. It starts out kind of slow - I had to force myself to watch the first three episodes - but once it gets going, it becomes almost Shakespearean.

cocksuckah

 

[jakethesnake]

Breaking Bad. Sons of Anarchy is woeful and I couldn't bring myself to care what happened to any of the characters in The Sopranos.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Prepare for some late nights. We watched the whole 1st series over 2 days. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger and you just have to see the next one.

Also, the episodes all have titles and the title is a spoken line from that episode. See if you can spot it.

Once you've done Damages, a nice counterpoint is a French series called Engrenages [Spiral]. French lawyers and cops.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

cocksuckah

cocksuckah

Swigen!

 

[DotCommunist]

Spirals- Judge Roban looks the spit of Bob Cryer.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Spirals- Judge Roban looks the spit of Bob Cryer.

Is he also an emotionally conflicted human being?

 

[DotCommunist]

Nah, Bob was perfectly happy taking down crims from the Larkmead Estate.

 

[trabuquera]

Seconded Generation Kill and Breaking Bad. Sons of Anarchy is OK but not in the same league.

What IS in the same league (maybe even better in some respects) are series 1-5 (and maybe 6, but definitely not 7) of HOMICIDE - also murderous, also set in Baltimore, also based on David Simon's time with the B'mo' cop squad and some of the finest US TV ever made - very experimental, chock full of great actors and music and basically everything that's great about the Wire in embryo.

Ranging further and risking you not liking: Oz (bonkers, bloody, rape-heavy prison drama) won a lot of fans among Wire fanatics. You might ... might ... also like Game of Thrones, if you're not allergic to dragons.

Good luck with your watching assignments over the next few years.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The judge was pretty ineffective in his dealings with that French woman.

 

[Dillinger4]

Generation Kill for sure.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Something completely different: The Walking Dead - although it isn't five seasons yet.

 

[Spymaster]

Once you've done Damages, a nice counterpoint is a French series called Engrenages [Spiral]. French lawyers and cops.

We're watching that now. Halfway through series 2. The crooked/junkie cops, dodgy lawyers, and strange French legal system are great. Not a patch on Damages though.

 

[DotCommunist]

We're watching that now. Halfway through series 2. The crooked/junkie cops, dodgy lawyers, and strange French legal system are great. Not a patch on Damages though.

being not vastly endowed with grey matter I had to have the inquisitorial as opposed to adversarial legal system explained to me. I'm not sure I like the french system. A judge with a grudge could decide to take you up as personal vendetta or something

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

We're watching that now. Halfway through series 2. The crooked/junkie cops, dodgy lawyers, and strange French legal system are great. Not a patch on Damages though.

I preferred Engrenages, although I very much liked Damages. I thought the characters in Engrenages were more human. It's as if Damages is a well written whodunit; Engrenages is a character study that happens to be in a police/crime setting.

 

[Spymaster]

being not vastly endowed with grey matter I had to have the inquisitorial as opposed to adversarial legal system explained to me. I'm not sure I like the french system. A judge with a grudge could decide to take you up as personal vendetta or something

Yep. The prosecutors doing the investigations takes some getting used to as well.

 

[bi0boy]

Boardwalk Empire.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yep. The prosecutors doing the investigations takes some getting used to as well.

A small point I found interesting: when the Prosecutor leaves the Department to become a private lawyer, he has to be re-called to a different Bar.