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Newsnight Review discussing 'The Wire' - BBC2 now

  • 18-07-2008 11:07PM
    #1
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    As the title says, Newsnight review are going to be discussing 'The Wire' in a few minutes, asking if it's the best show ever made. I can save them the trouble on that one: yes, yes it is.


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  • #2
    homah_7ft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,138 ✭✭✭homah_7ft


    Thanks for the heads up Ioxy. I would have missed it only for you. Rare unanimity from the panel!


  • #3
    Mossy Monk
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    What did they say?


  • #4
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    What did they say?
    I don't know the panel myself, but the girl on the team presented the piece saying how epic it was, and how it never insulted the intelligence of the audience. She pointed out how many other shows will repeat important items over and over, even the lauded ones, but that 'The Wire' never did. She also brought up how it didn't succumb to the need for redemption that many other shows fell for.

    When it returned to the panel, all three were fans, particularly of how it wove in large themes across a city. A favourite comparison was with Dickens and how his stories interwove different characters in different jobs. They also made favourable nods to Zola and some other writer that I can't recall.

    No disagreement here - everyone loved it to bits. And rightly so.


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