The Wire comes to BBC2 (Spoiler free, please)
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Griff
Hardly posting anymore
It's this sort of evangelism that comes from people who watch it that makes me so suspicious of it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Why?
I keep pimping the show to my mates because it aint like normal tele. It's (as has been said loads) like a book really, episodes as chapters rather than self contained stories with overarching storylines to link them.
After much hectoring (from me) Ginger Matt's gyal bought him series one boxset and now he is entranced and acknowledges me as a God of TV Show recommendations.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Hmm, I hope it doesn't mean what I think it means - Monday=S1, Tuesday S2, Weds S3 and so on...
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
It was the "shocks and annoys" thing that I was asking about.
I've never watched it. In fact I don't know anyone irl who has.
I am intrigued by the amount of hype it receives on here though. Although it does sound like they're going to show it all in one week? How is that going to work, or have I read it wrong.
I have better things to do with an entire week than watch tv...
I am intrigued by the amount of hype it receives on here though. Although it does sound like they're going to show it all in one week? How is that going to work, or have I read it wrong.
I have better things to do with an entire week than watch tv...
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
There's only 60 episodes and it's five seasons long?!
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
I've never watched it. In fact I don't know anyone irl who has.
I am intrigued by the amount of hype it receives on here though. Although it does sound like they're going to show it all in one week? How is that going to work, or have I read it wrong.
I don't.
I just have other telly to fit in.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Yes, altho each ep is actually 60 mins, not 40, so each season is the equiv of 18 'normal' length US TV shows.
me said:
But there in lies the point, very few people have had to sit down at a time appointed by a tv scheduler to watch the Wire.
We've mostly seen it on DVD/ torrents, and that way it slips into our lives *when * we have the time. And not the other way around.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
if each episode is 60 mins and there are 12 episodes per season, then there's no way that they could show a season in one evening is there?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I'm willing to put money on the proposition that only a small minority of people watch torrents, or have even heard of torrents.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
nah - they repeated the shit out of Fresh Ponce of Bel Air, remember - was on the 6pm slot for at least 10 years
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Dated? Why, when did it start?
Will wasnt supposed to be an accurate depication of Philly yoot though was he?!
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
2000, iirc.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Will wasnt supposed to be an accurate depication of Philly yoot though was he?!
You mean thats not how it is?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Really? It's 9 years old?
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Similar.You mean thats not how it is?
Afterall, a couple of guys who were up to no good, did start making trouble in his neighbourhood. That's Bodie and Poot right there. I blame social promotion. And the drug corners
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Seriously?
It's that kind of talk that turns me against this show. Not everyone torrents, or buys DVDs on the say-so of internet people.
Actually the boyfriend feels the same way.
Seriously?
It's that kind of talk that turns me against this show. Not everyone torrents, or buys DVDs on the say-so of internet people.
He refuses to watch it on account of me having inducted all of our friends into the cult of Bunk and Bell. Makes me feel cold towards him at times.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
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8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Aired June 2002. Episode 1 made several references to FBI/Dept of Homeland Security, post 9/11.
Seriously?
It's that kind of talk that turns me against this show. Not everyone torrents, or buys DVDs on the say-so of internet people.
It was a tad more than the "say-so of internet people" though wasn't it?
Seriously don't bother. Who do you think you are to even envisage yourself a worthy addition to our elite club?
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I checked since I posted that, you are right.
It has been a while since I watched it from series1.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
motherfucker.
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