Just after the first season the show makes you feel like you know the ins and outs of the drug trade in Baltimore and the complexities of Police life. The show is full of bad language, drugs and violence yet you can’t help feeling that this is life on the streets of Baltimore. The dialogue in this show is realistic, extremely so, and it matches the entire tone of the show. I watch the action on screen and only refer to the subtitles when the slang got confusing, which was rare anyway. But I don’t think turning subtitles on is the heresy one writer of the show seems to think it. More often than not I found myself reaching for the subtitles button. As well as this the characters all speak in drawls of Baltimore slang. I got to flashbacks to another brilliant HBO show: Band of Brothers, on account of how many characters there are and, at first, how difficult it is to differentiate between them. I’d be an idiot to pass it up.įirst thing you notice in The Wire is how sprawling it is. As well as this, the whole boxset of The Wire was on offer in Blockbuster. The best way I’ve heard it described is that “ it really is as good as all of your pretentious friends tell you it is.” From the first season alone, I have to agree.Īfter surfing the internet and forum after forum during my watching of the first 4 and a half seasons of Breaking Bad, I saw loads of people saying “You like Breaking Bad? You should totally watch The Wire !!!” At the moment The Wire and Breaking Bad seem to be duking it out for the title of best TV show ever. It’s usually found sitting atop lists naming “The Greatest TV Shows of All Time”. Everyone has heard of The Wire, or at least mostly everyone.
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