The Wire or The Sopranos?

Howard Juneau · 02-10-2013 12:56AM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

The official order is:

The Wire -> Breaking Bad -> Sopranos

Lots of Tony Soprano arse lickers on here, it's good to very good but doesn't exceed the other two.

The Wire is good, but lacks the grit & hard hitting reality of The Sopranos. Bada-bing all the way!

SEANoftheDEAD · 02-10-2013 01:08AM

For me The Wire wins hands down.
Sopranos close 2nd.

After that it'd be Game of Thrones and that aint even finished yet. When it is tho, the aftermath of that finale will blitz Breaking Bad.
Dont get me wrong, BB was savage, but there we're one too many far-fetched scenes that watered it down for me.

This topic should really be decussed in 6 months time when the BB buzz have clamed a bit, for now it ranks in 3rd for me, but time will tell.

anncoates · 02-10-2013 01:15AM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Lots of Tony Soprano arse lickers on here, .

He's actually a TV character and as such it would be pointless to try and impress him?

Yamanoto · 02-10-2013 01:15AM

Howard Juneau wrote: »

The Wire is good, but lacks the grit & hard hitting reality of The Sopranos. Bada-bing all the way!

Really?

I watched both shows in their entirety & though the Soprano's had some horribly stark scenes, The Wire was often unremittingly bleak in a very ordinary kinda way - touching as it did on how poverty, drug-abuse and all pervasive sense of desperation could turn whole swathes of a city to absolute sh1t.

Dyr · 02-10-2013 01:16AM

I watched the sopranos series 1-4 or so over the course of a weekend.

I was referring to people as "this cocksucker" etc for about a month afterwards

david75 · 02-10-2013 01:20AM

Yamanoto wrote: »

Really?

I watched both shows in their entirety & though the Soprano's had some horribly stark scenes, The Wire was often unremittingly bleak in a very ordinary kinda way - touching as it did on how poverty, drug-abuse and all pervasive sense of desperation could turn whole swathes of a city to absolute sh1t.

True but the wire actually manages to be funny and often hysterically funny in parts without being tv/slapstick about it.

The scene with Bunk & McNulty examining the dead girls apartment and they each only say f***************ck for the whole scene. It's genius.

DazMarz · 02-10-2013 01:23AM

"Are you fúcking kidding me?!" -Tony Soprano

It's The Sopranos by a country, urban and nautical mile. Brilliant so it is.

peckerhead · 02-10-2013 01:24AM

Retrovertigo wrote: »

The Wire and Sopranos are both decent but pale in comparison to Deadwood if you want a grittier, more brutal show to watch.

Sopranos.

Swearengen.

C***suckahhhhh!

david75 · 02-10-2013 01:29AM

Tony! Cocksuckah! Wu! No cocksuckah!

Bak laio!!

david75 · 02-10-2013 01:30AM

Lest we forget Calamity Jane. Dunno the actresses name but she played it brilliantly

'Be quick? BE FVCKED!!'

Elbaston · 02-10-2013 01:51AM

Paulie - words dont do him justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2LpILuko7w

david75 · 02-10-2013 01:59AM

Paulie is so detestable. Yer man plays him so well.

Spoilers

Also the only other character who gets away. He just runs off in the car park. No closure on his character either way.
None on Tony's either though I guess

david75 · 02-10-2013 02:05AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0xulrOsgQ

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MickFleetwood · 02-10-2013 03:16AM

Both are two of the best shows ever, but I prefer The Sopranos.

Dempsey · 02-10-2013 03:34AM

why one or the other? watch both!

im interested in deadwood now!

jd007 · 02-10-2013 03:45AM

Go back and watch Breaking Bad again

Welruc · 02-10-2013 04:09AM

Cannot believe six pages and no-one has mentioned "Terra Nova"..........The mind boggles

Elbaston · 02-10-2013 04:36AM

Terra nova ?

lets see.

"The series follows the Shannon family as they travel 85 million years into the past to an Earth of a parallel universe"

- ah.

Fiery biscuits · 02-10-2013 05:20AM

It's quite pointless to compare two great shows on the premise of which one is better and it's all completely subjective. Just respect them for what they are- two of the greatest tv shows ever!

onemorechance · 02-10-2013 05:29AM

They are both great shows. The Sopranos edges it on humour, The Wire edges it on realism.

kowloon · 02-10-2013 05:45AM

anncoates wrote: »

Had high hopes but just could not get into it.

Boardwalk is treading water, I wouldn't bother giving it another shot.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 02-10-2013 05:48AM

Sopranos definitely

ringadingding · 02-10-2013 07:27AM

Season 5 of the wire was crammed full of self indulgent storylines about journalism. But Season 2 and 3 of the wire could match anything I think.

Breaking bad is the first show I've seen that carried that level of excitement into a 5th season.

The wire probably has 6 out of my top ten all time characters

Shhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt

Seachmall · 02-10-2013 07:50AM

The Wire definitely takes it.

Although the final season is "meh".

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 02-10-2013 08:08AM

The Wire for me, although I'm on my second run through Sopranos now and have to day I'm enjoying it a lot more this time through. In my mind that's what sets Sopranos and The Wire apart from breaking bad. Now don't get me wrong I loved breaking bad, third in my list of all time shows, but I think there's more depth in the Wire and the Sopranos that is seen with subsequent watches. I'll re watch breaking bad in a years time to re assess that but for now that's what I think.

tallus · 02-10-2013 08:13AM

The Wire.

02-10-2013 08:15AM

All I'm going to say is "the speech" that bibs gives towards the end. Unbelievable. Wire was amazing and had so many great characters.

Cienciano · 02-10-2013 08:16AM

ringadingding wrote: »

Season 5 of the wire was crammed full of self indulgent storylines about journalism. But Season 2 and 3 of the wire could match anything I think.

Breaking bad is the first show I've seen that carried that level of excitement into a 5th season.

The wire probably has 6 out of my top ten all time characters

Shhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt

The journalism storys in the wire is a vital part of the entire picture.

smurgen · 02-10-2013 08:20AM

The sopranos,there's a lot of depth and detail to the show,I'm still noticing new things in some episodes and it's my third run of the boxset.also the humour is fantastic and very subtle.
The wire is an excellent show too,with great realism and grit,really shows you what life is like from the characters perspective.
I don't think breaking bad stacks up to these two at all,its too cartoonish.good for a bit of easy watching but cannot be mentioned in the same breath as sopranos of the wire.

Seachmall · 02-10-2013 08:26AM

smurgen wrote: »

I don't think breaking bad stacks up to these two at all,its too cartoonish.good for a bit of easy watching but cannot be mentioned in the same breath as sopranos of the wire.

Nail on the head.

The Wire or The Sopranos?

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