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Why do women prefer Desperate Housewives?

  • 30-04-2011 12:08am
    #1
    jimpump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭


    over The Wire? ive watched these shows with me bird and she honestly thinks Desperate Housewives is better than The Wire

    like WTF........Is it a male/female thing or is it just bad taste from me bird??


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  • #2
    mink_man
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    There's a problem if your wife doesn't like the wire ;)


  • #3
    orourkeda
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    jimpump wrote: »
    over The Wire? ive watched these shows with me bird and she honestly thinks Desperate Housewives is better than The Wire

    like WTF........Is it a male/female thing or is it just bad taste from me bird??

    Jesus wept


  • #4
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    I always though Jersey Shore was like a cross between The Wire and Desperate Housewives. But what do i know, iv never watched either...


  • #5
    poisonated
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    I have never watched the wire but if it is even nearly as good as desperate housewives I must give it a try.


  • #6
    gargleblaster
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    jimpump wrote: »
    over The Wire? ive watched these shows with me bird and she honestly thinks Desperate Housewives is better than The Wire

    like WTF........Is it a male/female thing or is it just bad taste from me bird??

    Really?






    Here, gimme a minute,I'll ask them.


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  • #7
    orourkeda
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    poisonated wrote: »
    I have never watched the wire but if it is even nearly as good as desperate housewives I must give it a try.

    Yes. Its intelligent, well written and thought provoking. You should try it


  • #8
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    In fairness, I'd say men prefer desperate housewives.


  • #9
    bonerm
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    jimpump wrote: »
    she honestly thinks Desperate Housewives is better than The Wire

    Really? All I can say is....


  • #10
    Aoifey!
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    I don't think I've ever seen The Wire.


  • #11
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Watched desperate housewives a couple of times not my cup of tea tbh.


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  • #12
    orourkeda
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    Aoifey! wrote: »
    I don't think I've ever seen The Wire.

    If there's been a better TV programme produced than the wire I want to see it


  • #13
    Biggins
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    jimpump wrote: »
    over The Wire? ive watched these shows with me bird and she honestly thinks Desperate Housewives is better than The Wire

    like WTF........Is it a male/female thing or is it just bad taste from me bird??
    Honestly? I can't see any good redeeming features about that series (or many like it) but then the female species are a world away from us in train of thought and sometimes favouritism in regards to programmes.

    Its one of those eternal mysteries which will never be solved! :pac:


  • #14
    Biggins
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    If there's been a better TV programme produced than the wire I want to see it
    The Shield, The West Wing are on par with it!


  • #15
    KeithM89_old
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    If there's been a better TV programme produced than the wire I want to see it
    *cough*
    <---



    /you better have avatars turned on :pac:


  • #16
    jimpump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    Shes watchin Glee now!!! **** this **** :mad:


  • #17
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Did youse ever hear of the auld multiroom.


  • #18
    KeithM89_old
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    The real problem here is OP is letting a woman control the remote....


  • #19
    Biggins
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    KeithM89 wrote: »
    The real problem here is OP is letting a woman control the remote....
    I would have though the problem was, how did she escape the chains attached to the kitchen sink! :pac:

    Yes, I'm a dead man when the wife sees the above! :D


  • #20
    HavingCrack
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    Comparing Desperate Housewives to The Wire is comparing apples an oranges. They're completely different genres, different writing styles, different target audiences etc....The Wire is still miles better though :D.

    However to be fair, the writing in seasons 1-2/3 of Desperate Housewives was excellent and very funny. It was actually some of the main writers of Frasier suprisingly enough :eek:. While the plots were still outlandish they still had a semblence of reality, those events might actually happen. Whatever season they used a plane crash to kill off some of the cast was just awful though, it's lazy writing at its worst.
    orourkeda wrote: »
    If there's been a better TV programme produced than the wire I want to see it

    The new show Southland is definately up there. It's the closest TV has gotten to the Wire since in my opinion. It very much focuses on the police angle rather than Los Angeles as a whole though. Well worth a look.

    Homicide: Life On The Street has its cheerleaders as well but the writing went seriously downhill after season 4 in my opinion. I always imagine it as a sort of proto type version of the Wire. It was getting there but never quite made it.

    Boardwalk Empire definately has the potential to be the next Wire but....there's something missing. I can't put my finger on it, it just doesn't capture my attention. Maybe the next season will step it up a gear.


  • #21
    jimpump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    The real problem here is OP is letting a woman control the remote....

    shes been away working the last week so shes catching up on her shows now on sky plus, ive had the whole week to watch the tele so now its her turn........unfortunatly :(


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  • #22
    HavingCrack
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    jimpump wrote: »
    Shes watchin Glee now!!! **** this **** :mad:

    Anyone who watches Glee over The Wire needs their head examined.


  • #23
    KeithM89_old
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    Biggins wrote: »
    I would have though the problem was, how did she escape the chains attached to the kitchen sink! :pac:

    Yes, I'm a dead man when the wife sees the above! :D

    Didnt your missus sign up just yesterday??
    Il send her a link to this...:p


  • #24
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Moved to Television.:pac:


  • #25
    bonerm
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    Pick up the DVD's if you can't be master of your own television. 50 quid. Great presentation and lots of good comms, docs and q+a's thrown in there too.


  • #26
    CrackisWhack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭CrackisWhack


    They generally just have bad taste in TV & music, especially TV though!:pac:


  • #27
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    The Wire is one of the unique shows on tv that actually needs you to concentrate when watching unlike the all the other mindless garbage that repeats itself a million times over. Its social commentary is second to none in terms of tv dramas. It is as broad ranging as is possible, investigating almost all areas of modern urban life. It actually invokes an intellectual reaction from its audience and that is why it is so worthy of its merit. Comparing desperate housewives and The Wire is like comparing fast food with fine cuisine. It reminds me of a novel more so than what one comes to expect from tv dramas.


  • #28
    jimpump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    The Wire is one of the unique shows on tv that actually needs you to concentrate when watching unlike the all the other mindless garbage that repeats itself a million times over. Its social commentary is second to none in terms of tv dramas. It is as broad ranging as is possible, investigating almost all areas of modern urban life. It actually invokes an intellectual reaction from its audience and that is why it is so worthy of its merit. Comparing desperate housewives and The Wire is like comparing fast food with fine cuisine. It reminds me of a novel more so than what one comes to expect from tv dramas.

    gotta agree man, im watchin The Wire series for the 10th time on FX every sunday....it gets better every time i watch it


  • #29
    Biggins
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    Jesus wept
    He would if he had to endure an episode! :pac:
    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Didnt your missus sign up just yesterday??
    Il send her a link to this...:p
    Traitor! :p
    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    ...Comparing desperate housewives and The Wire is like comparing fast food with fine cuisine...
    More like comparing one cheap sausage to a full course 5 star meal!


  • #30
    Mardy Bum
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    Biggins wrote: »
    More like comparing one cheap sausage to a full course 5 star meal!

    Taco bell and 3 Michellan Star restaurants then :P.

    Desperate Housewives does what it sets out to do very well, mindless entertainment for lady folk, you have to give it that, but on the large scale of things its brutal!


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  • #31
    Mardy Bum
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    jimpump wrote: »
    Shes watchin Glee now!!! **** this **** :mad:

    Can you trade her in or is she too auld :P


  • #32
    Biggins
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    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Taco bell and 3 Michellan Star restaurants then :P.

    Desperate Housewives does what it sets out to do very well, mindless entertainment for lady folk, you have to give it that, but on the large scale of things its brutal!
    Indeed. :pac:


  • #33
    phasers
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    You need to get a new bird OP, she sounds like a gob****e.

    Gotta go, i'm marathoning arrested development then making some sandwiches.


  • #34
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    phasers wrote: »
    You need to get a new bird OP, she sounds like a gob****e.

    Gotta go, i'm marathoning arrested development then making some sandwiches.

    Yeah but you're one of them internet women.


  • #35
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,737 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Not everyone who watches Desperate Housewives is a woman, just like not everyone who watches The Wire is a nauseating, pretentious dickhead.


  • #36
    Richard Dower
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Not everyone who watches Desperate Housewives is a woman, just like not everyone who watches The Wire is a nauseating, pretentious dickhead.

    I beg to differ!


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  • #37
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Not everyone who watches Desperate Housewives is a woman, just like not everyone who watches The Wire is a nauseating, pretentious dickhead.

    +1


  • #38
    tvnutz
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    jimpump wrote: »
    over The Wire? ive watched these shows with me bird and she honestly thinks Desperate Housewives is better than The Wire

    like WTF........Is it a male/female thing or is it just bad taste from me bird??

    Hate to be the one to tell you this but your relationship is doomed. Just leave her now and get it over with.


  • #39
    deisemum
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    Desperate Housewives does my head in and is on a par with Xpose, utter drivel.


  • #40
    Biggins
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    deisemum wrote: »
    Desperate Housewives does my head in and is on a par with Xpose, utter drivel.
    I think I love you.

    :D


  • #41
    Richard Dower
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    Even if i did watch DH....i'd NEVER admit it!!


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  • #42
    metrovelvet
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    deisemum wrote: »
    Desperate Housewives does my head in and is on a par with Xpose, utter drivel.

    Its painful.


  • #43
    pickarooney
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    It's worse than Xpose - the latter never pretended to be anything but crap, Desperate Housewives took a genuinely interesting show and turned it into an insulting mess.


  • #44
    HavingCrack
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    It's worse than Xpose - the latter never pretended to be anything but crap, Desperate Housewives took a genuinely interesting show and turned it into an insulting mess.

    Out of interest does anyone know if the writers of the show changed? The first two seasons were very strong and then it went downhill rapidly.

    Edit: A quick google tells me that two out of three original writers left due to 'creative differences' at the end of series 2...it explains a lot.


  • #45
    Cork
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    Where I work - the ladies have discussions on this programme every week.

    They seem to take it very seriously.

    I think they see themselves as these people.

    It is beyond brutal.

    RTE should Mad Men in this slot.


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