The Wire is my all-time favorite show. I just recently bought all 5 seasons on DVD for $200.

i think season 2 was my favorite . you still have the barksdale investigation and then they add the whole thing with the docks and the Greeks and prop Joe. great series i have seasons 1-3 on dvd and 4 & 5 on the dvr

thats seems like a real good price where did you get it ? i paid that much for 3 seasons

ebay

My favorite seasons in order...

1
4
2
5
3

My season order would be

1
2
4
3
5

without a doubt one of my all time favorite tv series. i would say my favorite seasons in order would be 2, 1, 3, 5, & 4 . really wish there was a season 6. got to love Bodymore, Murderland

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What do have spoiler tags for then? Post lots of spoilers I say (of course within the spoiler tags).

I'm about to sit down to watch the final episode of season 3 right now. So far this is the best television series I've ever seen!

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Cucksocker, why'd I press one of those buttons??!!!

Blabblecakes has been trying to get me into this series for weeks, and I've actually been watching -- and enjoying -- it via Netflix. I'm almost through Season 2. I really liked Season 1 in the PJs a little more than Season 2, but it's still pretty damn cool. I look forward to catching up to the latest season eventually.

I knew that was gonna happen

I'm glad you are enjoying it so far, Geoffypuddin'. Like I said before, and I think most here will agree that season two, while very good, is a little bit of a detour. At least in that it strays away from the inner city. But I just finished season three and it's my favorite. I can't wait to start 4 and 5.

By the way, you said something about "catching up to the latest episode" but you know the series has ended right? 5 seasons total. There won't be any more.

I've seen it twice now. Felt the same as you on the first viewing, totally disagreed (with myself) on the second.

I don't think it's a detour, because it's certainly necessary, if Simon and co. want to really paint a portrait of a city. It's not "inner city", sure, but the corruption and the bullshit politics of the core really does affect the periphery, too.

Simon's not skirting around the edges; here we see the slow death of the working class as a result of corruption elsewhere. The stats game, the political compromises, the lack of self-honesty in favour of carreerism; all of that leading to the lack of funding, year after year, at the shipyards; and that lack of funding meaning the guys can't get the canals dredged, which means not enough ships are coming in in order to make a living; then you get guys like Ziggy and Nick turning to drugs for their money, and you get guys like Frank trying to keep things going but getting mixed up in horrible shit because their economic needs make them at the mercy of those in power. Bullshit runs downhill, and those at the bottom of the pile suffer most.

Season four is the greatest thing I've seen this year.

Just finished Season 2 ... Can't wait for Season 3, but disappointed that there are only 5.

Great points. I guess it feels like a detour because, for the most part, the scenery, people, attitudes are different. Docks instead of the projects, mostly white union workers instead of black drug dealers, etc... The Wire really is about the city of Baltimore and it makes sense to show the legitimate working class turning to illegal activities as a result of the corruption higher up.

The more I think about it the more I want to revisit season two. This show definitely deserves a second viewing and I'm not even done with it!

It deserves several viewings. Unfortuneately uptil now i have only been able to watch the first 2 series twice. I will get round to the last 3 for another viewing some day.

This year, seeing the end of the Wire and the Sopranos?

Very,very,very sad

To me season two was different because of the scenery but as others mentioned above the actual story and the overarching theme was the same. The guys in the union and on the docks were making some of the same bad decisions for seemingly good reasons as the guys in the projects or on the streets. Everything was connected at some level.

And the Horseface character looked like Clemenza's twin brother..

SEASON 2 SPOILERS:

J Geoff, and anyone else, what are some of your favorite scenes and characters so far?

Everyone remember to use season specific spoiler tags because not all of us have finished the show! For example see my last post above. Thanks

Anyone notice Horseface from his earlier Sopranos cameo? He's Coach Molinero, Tony's football coach from school, as seen in the season 5 episode, "The Test Dream".

And Omar's in the season three finale, too.

If more people had watched when it was still on we might have gotten another season. The series finale was only seen by 1.1 million viewers. In comparison, the series finale of The Sopranos was seen by 11.9 million viewers.

My favorite scene from season 1 is Wee-Bey negotiating his sentence. Just the way he runs up his body count while acting so nonchalant was great. I love at the very end where is he more upset about them not having potato salad than he is about facing life in prison or death row. (it begins around 3:10)

I like how Wee-Bey "took one for the team" in order to protect the organization. His love for his fishes and his family was a contradictory part of a character who was , at the end of the day, a pretty lethal human being.

Any progress?

Red tops, yo'. Two for five.

Pandemic! Pandemic here! Get your Pandemic!

I'll take one!

And I'm still waiting for favorites.... favorite characters, scenes, etc....

I know Geoff made reference to "shorties" in the Gifts thread. That's the kind of stuff we need to talk about here!

Well, I started Season 3, and so far so good -- we're back in da hood! [GangSign] ...but no PJs now... gotta see how this will play out...

What's the last Season 3 episode you saw?

I watched the first 2 discs, which I think were 4 episodes...