Breaking Bad/ The Wire or other?

02-09-2012 01:30PM

Father Damo wrote: »

100% agreed. It is just cliche loaded for me, personally. It just is not a particularly interesting, well written programme, as unfashionable as that is to say. Some of the dialogue is atrocious quite frankly. The Corner (same setting, same subject matter, same writers) is one of the best programmes ever made, yet is not nearly as well known or rated.

Am I going to have to keep doing this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcy8bvhewtU

How is it not interesting? Maybe for people with low attention spans. The first season can drag a bit at the start but that is because it's written like a book with an introduction and conclusion rather than like something like Breaking Bad which is written with a cliffhanger in mind every week. I'm not sure if you are saying it's well written or not though?

sink · 03-09-2012 10:29PM

Corkfeen wrote: »

What? :eek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwkDCJ6ox8

The following one has spoilers but it's brilliant.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN7pkFNEg5c

Good but no where near it's best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPKVolf7chY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-uY7P3pe4

fruvai · 04-09-2012 01:21AM

I think this is the greatest scene in the Wire:

Great writing

Tom_Cruise · 04-09-2012 01:38AM

The Wire is the show ever made,just watch it and see why - nothing even comes close.

The only bad thing i have to say about it is that after watching it,you just know nothing will give you the satisfaction and viewing quality that they Wire gave you.

fruvai · 04-09-2012 01:41AM

I'll add Twin Peaks and the Prisoner (not the remake, the Patrick McGoohan 60's series)

areyawell · 04-09-2012 01:52AM

Breaking bad is awesome. Each Season is twice as good the last season. When Gus comes into it for the first time its just awesome!

ArtSmart · 04-09-2012 10:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Watched the first half of season 1 of breaking bad. I don't get the love.

Sorry lads

it's entire value is the gradual disintegration of the Main character.

talk to me after the end of series 2.

groovie · 05-09-2012 10:29AM

I've only just started watching Breaking Bad (the first two episodes), and I will say this for it: it won't be quick and it won't be easy. The best things never are though, so I will persevere for now.

Did any one mention Rubicon? As one series shows go, it's fairly awesome.

TimeToShine · 05-09-2012 10:56PM

In my view it's really a toss up between three shows, Breaking Bad, The Wire and The Sopranos.

In my opinion, Sopranos really isn't something that should be marathoned over a week period. It is (in my view) a shade above the wire and the greatest television show of all time if only for the groundbreaking insight it gives us into a character. Tony is easily the most sophisticated character of all time and in this regard Breaking Bad can't really compare and The Wire can't be in this category.

The Wire is also absolutely fantastic. It takes some time to get into, you have to watch all of S1 and S2 and by then everything will be in place for the beginning of probably the two greatest seasons in television history. For me personally I thought S2 was amazing, Frank Sobotka is my favourite character and some of the writing in that season is shakespearian. It's a gritty approach to the real world and unrivalled for having character variety. This show didn't get the ratings it deserved at all when it was on air which is a shame.

Breaking Bad is a step below the two above (this could still change depending on how they end it) but it's still very good. Personally, I think it is one of the few shows that can be marathoned over a one or two week period without losing any of the quality.

One of the three above should be your starting point. Anything else should not be considered until at least you've seen the wire and the sopranos.

don ramo · 06-09-2012 12:39AM

first off it just ridiculous to start with shows of this standard, it worth spreading them out, cause youll find it hard to find shows as good as them after youve seen them, between the 3 of them there are just over 200 episodes, so even watching 1 episode a day youd have watched 3 of the 4 best shows ever made in 7 months, then what are ya gonna do,

and secondly The West Wing is a cut above all other shows in my opinion, 7 seasons and 154 episodes of absolutely fantastic TV,

shrewdness · 07-09-2012 02:06AM

grover_green wrote: »

completley agree , ive had people leaning on me to watch the wire on dvd for years , im on eppisode 6 of series one and while its good , its not in the same league as the sopranos

sure its gritty and real as it gets but it has no charismatic charechter like the sopranos and unlike the sopranos , its not remotley funny

This is the problem imo. How on earth can you judge a tv show on the first half of the first season? And compare it to The Sopranos, which it sounds like you've seen all of? It's the general consensus that The Wire is a bit of a slow-burner, especially at the start, and it takes a while for the huge amount of characters to be established, but it is so worth it when you get used to it. As I've said before, seasons 3 and 4 are some of the finest television I've ever seen, absolute brilliance. If you don't have the patience to give it at least until the second season to get a proper opinion of it then it's not for you, your loss.

ricero · 07-01-2013 03:36PM

so just finished up watching the wire yesterday and i admit its an amazing tv show but still its no breaking bad. breaking bad is the daddy of tv shows

gg2 · 07-01-2013 07:05PM

I bought The Wire series one about three months ago, watched maybe 4-6 eps over the space of 2 weeks and gave up on it. Going to give it another bash this weekend after reading this thread!

ricero · 08-01-2013 12:17AM

gg2 wrote: »

I bought The Wire series one about three months ago, watched maybe 4-6 eps over the space of 2 weeks and gave up on it. Going to give it another bash this weekend after reading this thread!

Agree I think the first series is the poorest the rest are quality

youngblood · 08-01-2013 08:10PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIom3LSbB0I

Breaking Bad/ The Wire or other?

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