Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

The Wire vs. The Sopranos

Options
  • 16-04-2011 2:35am
    #1
    jimpump
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭


    these shows are the best ever...IMO id pick The Wire

    someone get a poll up cos i dont have a clue how to


«1345678

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    No need of a poll kiddo. Both fantastic shows but The Wire takes it every time. (imo)

    Anyone who hasn't seen it.... watch it.


  • Options
    #3
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    This is going to be locked or moved just to let you know, im a veteran round these parts so i knows;)
    Haven't watched either though


  • Options
    #4
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    This is going to be locked or moved just to let you know, im a veteran round these parts so i knows;)
    Haven't watched either though
    Hot Lips is off duty so it might escape... LOL!!!


  • Options
    #5
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Degag wrote: »
    Hot Lips is off duty so it might escape... LOL!!!
    I wish they'd relax the modding a tad


  • Options
    #6
    Professional Griefer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    Just started watching the Sopranos from the start a few weeks ago.

    Show is brilliant.

    Must watch the wire, don't think I've seen anything from it.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Father Damo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    The Sopranos. Better characters, better acting, witty dialogue, better plots.

    The Wire is somewhat overrated tbh, and has too many cliches and stock characters (alcoholic womanising cop, wow, never seen that one before). Its watchable but nowhere near deserving the plaudits it received. Oddly enough the same guys who made the Wire made a 6 part series in the mid 90s called The Corner, set in Baltimore about a pair of addicts and their teenage dealer son who soon seeps into using himself. Its 10 times better in terms of plot and acting, theres a great book on the same story as well. Yet nobody has ever heard of it!


  • Options
    #8
    jimpump
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    This is going to be locked or moved just to let you know, im a veteran round these parts so i knows;)
    Haven't watched either though

    man you are missing out big time if ya havent seen these shows!!


  • Options
    #9
    Auvers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    cant pick one


    its impossible


  • Options
    #10
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Hollyoaks!


  • Options
    #11
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    jimpump wrote: »
    man you are missing out big time if ya havent seen these shows!!
    I know man people keep saying they're great, but I really don't watch much tv anymore. Not on purpose, it's just gone so rubbish over the years there's nothing I've gotten in to. Lost was the last show I watched, and that was stupid.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    jimpump
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    Father Damo wrote: »
    The Sopranos. Better characters, better acting, witty dialogue, better plots.

    The Wire is somewhat overrated tbh, and has too many cliches and stock characters (alcoholic womanising cop, wow, never seen that one before). Its watchable but nowhere near deserving the plaudits it received. Oddly enough the same guys who made the Wire made a 6 part series in the mid 90s called The Corner, set in Baltimore about a pair of addicts and their teenage dealer son who soon seeps into using himself. Its 10 times better in terms of plot and acting, theres a great book on the same story as well. Yet nobody has ever heard of it!

    ive seen The Corner and have to agree with ya, probably just as good as the wire if not better. still got to read the book, but im tryin hard to find it

    i might have picked the sopranos only for the last 2 series let us down big time....and dont get me started on the final scene. what a loada bollox!!


  • Options
    #13
    Buceph
    Registered Users Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    The Wire.

    Watched Sopranos as it came out, and could never get into it. There was no redemption to any of the characters. And The Wire had that in spades, even the lowest of the drug addicts and crime lords had elements of humanity.


  • Options
    #14
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I know man people keep saying they're great, but I really don't watch much tv anymore. Not on purpose, it's just gone so rubbish over the years there's nothing I've gotten in to. Lost was the last show I watched, and that was stupid.

    The Wire will restore all faith in tv, a steady diet of the Wire, followed by The Sopranos, then to lighten things up Arrested Development, wash that down with Curb Your Enthusiasm then top it off with Boardwalk Empire. tv heaven. People who dont watch these shows genuinely dont know what they're missing.


  • Options
    #15
    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    havent seen either too - may if i find time watch sopranos though after hearing the wire is better, i may just go with that one!


  • Options
    #16
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    If you want reality TV watch 'The Wire' If you want fantasy watch reality TV.


  • Options
    #17
    jimpump
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    +1

    baltimore reminds me a bit of places ive lived like ballymun ha


  • Options
    #18
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    The wire take a dump on the sopranos.


  • Options
    #19
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    Father Damo wrote: »
    The Sopranos. Better characters, better acting, witty dialogue, better plots.

    The Wire is somewhat overrated tbh, and has too many cliches and stock characters (alcoholic womanising cop, wow, never seen that one before). Its watchable but nowhere near deserving the plaudits it received. Oddly enough the same guys who made the Wire made a 6 part series in the mid 90s called The Corner, set in Baltimore about a pair of addicts and their teenage dealer son who soon seeps into using himself. Its 10 times better in terms of plot and acting, theres a great book on the same story as well. Yet nobody has ever heard of it!

    Omar is probably one of them most intriging characters in any series ever.

    One of his most famous scenes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYj7q_by_2E


    McNulty (whom you are referring to) isn't as black and white either. Think Series 5?


  • Options
    #20
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Homicide: Life On The Street is well worth a watch as well, same style of show, set in Baltimore, but it focuses more on the cops than the criminals, at least for the first series, a lot of the cast of The Wire are in it too.

    This thread made me look this clip up, now I want to watch it all again:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIvu1yg3bU


    The opening to the best tv show ever.


  • Options
    #21
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Both great shows but the sopranos ran out of steam a bit towards the end. I'd go with the wire.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    jimpump
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    krudler wrote: »
    The Wire will restore all faith in tv, a steady diet of the Wire, followed by The Sopranos, then to lighten things up Arrested Development, wash that down with Curb Your Enthusiasm then top it off with Boardwalk Empire. tv heaven. People who dont watch these shows genuinely dont know what they're missing.

    man they are the only shows i record on me sky box, Curb is ****in hilharious but me bird doesnt get it at all.....add seinfeld to them shows and your sorted tele wise ha

    and trailer park boys is gas aswell


  • Options
    #23
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I watched the wire twice, I watched sopranos till I don't even know... I certainly didn't finish it.

    eta

    yanno.. I'm pretty sickened that they're even being compared like they're on the same level or something..


  • Options
    #24
    jimpump
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    Degag wrote: »
    Omar is probably one of them most intriging characters in any series ever.

    One of his most famous scenes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYj7q_by_2E


    McNulty (whom you are referring to) isn't as black and white either. Think Series 5?

    Stringer Bell and Marlo > Omar Lytle


  • Options
    #25
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    The simpsons

    The wire


  • Options
    #26
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,120 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    The Wire. Oh, indeed.


  • Options
    #27
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues.


  • Options
    #28
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Degag wrote: »
    McNulty (whom you are referring to) isn't as black and white either. Think Series 5?

    Agreed.

    McNulty is no hero - he's a self absorbed asshole who wants to 'win' he's an insecure muppet who can't take that his wife dumped him blah blah blah

    McNulty 'they do not get to win we get to win'

    Bunk on the other hand...
    Bunk would have put Marlo away for the rest of his life within 'the rules' only for McNulty making a balls of things and lettin him get off.

    Bunk and Omar are the only ones who live by an ethical code imo.


  • Options
    #29
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    jimpump wrote: »
    Stringer Bell and Marlo > Omar Lytle
    Stringer is a superb character alright.


  • Options
    #30
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I wish they'd relax the modding a tad

    The will hear you :)

    you will be evicted.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Agreed.

    McNulty is no hero - he's a self absorbed asshole who wants to 'win' he's an insecure muppet who can't take that his wife dumped him blah blah blah

    McNulty 'they do not get to win we get to win'

    Bunk on the other hand...
    Bunk would have put Marlo away for the rest of his life within 'the rules' only for McNulty making a balls of things and lettin him get off.

    Bunk and Marlo are the only ones who live by an ethical code imo.

    Yup, i mean was there any character on the show who didn't think he was an asshole?
    ethical code? hmmm, it's a while since i watched it, but i guess so. Wouldn't have said Marlo after he killed Prop Joe though. What about the guy who killed Cheese?


Advertisement