The Dashboard One of you should write a blog post or something, I'd read it!

She stole all the scenes she was in.

DarKool81 Deadwood and Game of Thrones are certainly in the same general area but I tend to agree with you.

DarKool81 Breaking Bad is up there as well as a few others but the Wire is the Daddy

Jordan J Issues of race and class tend to cause emotions to run high in this country.

Gangrel Aussie Howdy -- the idea behind these recaps is that they're specifically for people who have already watched the show. That's why we go episode by episode. Thanks for watching!

Alonso Duralde Hey Alonso, thanks for the reply! Hope (and guessing none was) you didn't take any offense there, it just seemed odd as during many of your other reviews there does seem to be a fair bit of recap / exploration of the episode(s) - time allowing and all. Anyway, reading up more on this show for watching later, it's got a lot of good selling points. Oh, and Ben's right: you need to watch both The Wire and also the Shield - or at least the first two seasons of both. It's always telling of a great series when the second season really matches up or even exceeds the first. :)

Movies, we avoid spoilers; TV, we kinda take it as read that anyone watching has already seen the show. It's a fine distinction, granted, but there it is. And yes, "The Wire" has been on my list for quite a while, but given that I'm usually watching 5-6 new shows at a time for WTF, on top of reviewing new movies, it's been hard to find the time. Maybe one day when I'm in the Burgess Meredith bunker with an extra pair of glasses...

Harsh words dude, he's allowed to not remember

Jay Quintana Yeah, pretty much. Breaking Bad was a good show. The Wire was sheer brilliance.

+Jay Quintana you cant go wrong with either. they are my favorite dramas ever.

Jay Quintana Breaking bad was godlike, definetly. But the wire is better for a few reasons, the first was that it was based on reality, the show handles actual police work, crime networks, legal struggles, and personal failings on the most realistic level. It also captures the time periods INCREDIBLY WELL. Like the show is in 2002, they barely use computers, season 2 and 3 they figure out what text messaging is like its from the future, its fascinating to watch how the times evolve that quickly as they did in the early 2000s. 2nd, the show only got bigger, something a show has rarely been able to do before. Each season changed setting, narrative, point, story telling styles, and character. The wire is better only because it was more inventive and it was nothing like it before. Breaking bad is just the best drama ever made in terms of acting and writing. but it definitely lacks a reality based imagination.

Breaking Bad is in its own league. Nothing compares to seasons 1-4. I hate being a sheeple but it's true.

Well I wouldn't agree to that, as good as the early seasons of Breaking Bad were. I kind of dropped out somewhere in season four but that probably had more to do with my tv habits than the quality of the show itself. But I'd stack "The Wire" and "Deadwood" against any other show.

PissChaps You and I watched two difference shows apparently.

PissChaps This show is GREAT

***** The OP was wrong on so many levels about this show I don't know where to begin. Best limited series I've seen in a very long time.