BBC Two to air The Wire

[Bob The Skutter]

I can honestly say there's never been a show that's turned me off with bad language...Well not the use of it, but there have been people who don't sound natural saying it, which kinda pulls you out because you know they're a person playing a character saying those things.

 

[Star Wolf]

I can honestly say there's never been a show that's turned me off with bad language...Well not the use of it, but there have been people who don't sound natural saying it, which kinda pulls you out because you know they're a person playing a character saying those things.

Do you mean British actors taking on Baltimore accents an street slang or judges and State's Attorney using such language when talking?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I can honestly say there's never been a show that's turned me off with bad language...Well not the use of it, but there have been people who don't sound natural saying it, which kinda pulls you out because you know they're a person playing a character saying those things.

Do you mean British actors taking on Baltimore accents an street slang or judges and State's Attorney using such language when talking?

No, I mean actors who seem uncomfortable or hesitant saying the words. Like they'd rather be saying something different to what they're actually saying, That makes me feel like they're a character, not a person, and pulls me out of the show a bit. I just mean in general, not specific shows or movies.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

^Yes, because no one ever says fuck in real life...

It wasn't that, it was just so over used! And I can talk, because I swear a lot, but not every second word. Although there have been times......

To be fair, they do have some very stressful jobs (either the police or the drug dealers). In real life, they tend to curse more than most.

That being said, it is HBO, so that's always a factor.

 

[Star Wolf]

I can honestly say there's never been a show that's turned me off with bad language...Well not the use of it, but there have been people who don't sound natural saying it, which kinda pulls you out because you know they're a person playing a character saying those things.

Do you mean British actors taking on Baltimore accents an street slang or judges and State's Attorney using such language when talking?

No, I mean actors who seem uncomfortable or hesitant saying the words. Like they'd rather be saying something different to what they're actually saying, That makes me feel like they're a character, not a person, and pulls me out of the show a bit. I just mean in general, not specific shows or movies.

I guess since Snoop is in effect playing herself she would be the only actor really comfortable with the language. Maybe Mthod Man also.

 

[Flibble]

I'm definitely going to give it another go. I know HBO's stuff, and I really liked Six Feet Under, and Rome.

I know that The Wire is sort off connected to Homicide: Life on the Streets...is it an advantage to have seen this series before watching The Wire?

 

[Goliath]

I'm definitely going to give it another go. I know HBO's stuff, and I really liked Six Feet Under, and Rome.

I know that The Wire is sort off connected to Homicide: Life on the Streets...is it an advantage to have seen this series before watching The Wire?

Aside from having been introduced to the city of Baltimore--no. The two series are quite different, and are not connected, except by their setting.

In fact, I found The Wire a little off-putting at first, because I was expecting something more like Homicide. It took several episodes before I started to appreciate The Wire fully, on its own merits.

Yet one of the most famous scenes on the show nothing is said except a variation of fuck.

I love that scene.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

No real advantage, they're very different. The only thing you benefit from seeing Homicide first (aside from seeing another great show) is they point out a couple of minor things the police do that you'll see in The Wire, but they don't really draw attention to it (the big thing being the big wipe board they have. Red names are unsolved, black names are solved). That's really it from what I can tell.

 

[Star Wolf]

No advantage at all. The Corner would be better as a warm up.

 

[nevermore]

I can honestly say there's never been a show that's turned me off with bad language...Well not the use of it, but there have been people who don't sound natural saying it, which kinda pulls you out because you know they're a person playing a character saying those things.

Do you mean British actors taking on Baltimore accents an street slang...

McNulty's accent was so horrific in the first season, I thought he was from Boston... Stringer Bell on the other hand, was perfect.

...or judges and State's Attorney using such language when talking?

What about it? I know a decent number of people from the Public Defender's office and they talk just like everyone else, including a wide range of profanity. They're just fucking people.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

McNulty's accent was so horrific in the first season, I thought he was from Boston...

Well, I was about to say at least he didn't quite sound English but then I found this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_3ZSeHL4g&feature=related

 

[Mr. B]

This is cool, awesome show. It was brilliant from the very first scene onward.

 

[Seven of Five]

I'd like to give the show another try, but I was put off by over use of the "f" word in the first episode. It just smacked of lazy script writing to me.
(Padding out the episode).

People do swear like that. Not everybody, I know, but some people.

And usually the episodes are quite dense - padding is the last thing that happens.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

From the programme information on the BBC Press Office, it looks like it's airing every weeknight at 11:20 from Monday the 30th.

 

[Star Wolf]

From the programme information on the BBC Press Office, it looks like it's airing every weeknight at 11:20 from Monday the 30th.

Best way to watch it. As a marathon you miss to much because you try to follow just the storyline. A week apart you start acting like Bubbles because you need another fix.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Best way to watch it. As a marathon you miss to much because you try to follow just the storyline. A week apart you start acting like Bubbles because you need another fix.

I don't know how search missed this thread, but here it is.

I guess the format of the show does lend itself to a daily viewing, just as you'd catch up on a book chapter by chapter, night by night. Not keen on the viewing hour though.

 

[Goliath]

If anyone here finds that they really like The Wire, then I strongly recommend that they check out the Generation Kill mini-series, which I just finished watching.

Based on the book of the same name, Generation Kill follows the members of a US Marine Recon unit during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It's made by many of the same people who made The Wire, in the same naturalistic style, and I thought it was just as good.

I even features some familiar HBO faces as actors. James Ransome (who played Ziggy in S2 of The Wire) is particularly memorable as a motor-mouthed Marine, but Lee Tergesen (who played Tobias Beecher on Oz) also shows up, as Evan Wright, who wrote the book on which the series is based.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

If anyone here finds that they really like The Wire, then I strongly recommend that they check out the Generation Kill mini-series, which I just finished watching.

Based on the book of the same name, Generation Kill follows the members of a US Marine Recon unit during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It's made by many of the same people who made The Wire, in the same naturalistic style, and I thought it was just as good.

I even features some familiar HBO faces as actors. James Ransome (who played Ziggy in S2 of The Wire) is particularly memorable as a motor-mouthed Marine, but Lee Tergesen (who played Tobias Beecher on Oz) also shows up, as Evan Wright, who wrote the book on which the series is based.

Channel 4 just bought the rights for Generation Kill. Which I think they're supposed airing this summer.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Generation Kill is good but the episodes were a bit repetitive. The last episode was terrific and gave me the feeling that the story is just getting interesting, which made it very frustrating that they'd end it there. It's nowhere near as good as Band of Brothers, so don't get your hopes up too high.

I tried watching The Wire once, and to my amazement, it actually bored me. (And as a Lost fan, I have proof that my problem is not ADD. ) It's all the stuff about police bureaucracy - I just can't bring myself to care. The drug dealers/users storyline was far more compelling. (Which is probably why The Corner did not bore me in the least - it's The Wire minus the cop stuff.) Someday I'll give it another shot.

 

[Star Wolf]

^ I think I remember you saying that you didn't care about the corner boys being killed thus couldn't buy into the series in previous threads. That is the entire point IMO. Nobody cared about them. We get a preview of season 4, how the corner boys got there arc, in the first season with the story of Wallace. He was one of the lower management grinders, or drug sellers working in the pit. Many call the first season the story of DeAngelo and McNaulty. In my mind its the story of Wallace which sold the series beyond just seeing a slice of Baltimore.