The Wire is brilliant and probably the best tv series I've seen, but if you go with it give yourself time to get into it. There are a lot of characters all with three or four different nicknames and everyone has various connections and motivations. It eventually became a joke to the producers how often the show was compared to Dickens but it really is very similar to reading a big fat novel. I at first sneered at the episode summaries on the dvds but ended up finding them helpful, and there were some characters who, between their accents and the slang, I had to turn the subtitles on for. I don't want to make it sound like work because it wasn't, it was a style that I was completely at ease with by the end. BTW Alan Sepinwall has a series of reviews that were great for picking up things that I missed, he did one spoiler-free set for people who had never seen the show and one that looks at it from the re-watch perspective. In any case all your tv choices sound good - do 'em all!
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Date: 2011-06-02 03:37 am (UTC)