Comments on: Gift of the Year: The Greatest TV Show Ever…The Wire

By: My Cyber Monday Wish List

My Cyber Monday Wish List — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:12:24 +0000

[...] Wire: The Complete Series: The greatest show on TV—ever—now in one tidy little box. Other than Seinfeld, this is the only other show I’d [...]

By: Good Reads

Good Reads — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:13:48 +0000

[...] like to do—see The Wire for the first time. Again. I love that show, man. It is, after all, the best show ever. Anything else on this list should be on your radar if you haven’t seen it already. These [...]

By: Nut

Nut — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:00:58 +0000

Nice to hear someone else feels that way Thomas!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:47:12 +0000

While I never thought the show seemed dated, I admit that it took at least half of the first season to drag me in. And it wasn’t until the fourth season that I made the final call: This is absolutely, hands down, bar none, the best show on television, ever. The Sopranos takes that award in most people’s minds, but as far as I am concerned The Sopranos doesn’t even come close to The Wire. Keep on fighting the good fight; let’s get the word out.

By: Observations from Missy’s Window » Blog Archive » Movie Monday “Only my friends can call me a little wop!”

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:01:39 +0000

[...] Coin presents Gift of the Year: The Greatest TV Show Ever…The Wire posted at The Writer’s Coin, saying, “The greatest TV show ever is out on DVD…any [...]

By: Invasion TV

Invasion TV — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:11:05 +0000

I’ll have to check it out.

By: Nut

Nut — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:57:30 +0000

I know just how you feel…the first few episodes did not impress me at all. I was like “This feels dated.” It wasn’t automatic, that’s for sure. But gradually I got hooked onto the characters and couldn’t let go. Tell the world!

By: Deadhedge

Deadhedge — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:43:51 +0000

A friend’s husband got me to relook at the Wire. The first episodes that I saw didn’t grab me either. I had been arguing that the Shield was my favorite cop show and he offered, “Well it’s a good character driven show but the Wire shows the whole system and isn’t just driven by one character.” I got hooked in the web of cops, bangers, corner boys, politicians, schools, long shoresman, the Greek, and everything in between. The game don’t change, it just gets more fierce.

Even though the whole cast of characters drives the Wire, I got hooked into Omar as the antihero for the fact that he never swore but instead offered “Indeed” or “You feel me”

I recently re-read the Slate commentary on the The Wire to relive it. It sounds like we had a similar intro to the Wire and both got hooked. Your post got me rethinking about the Wire and how Season 2 made me want to be a longshoreman.

By: Quarterlife girl

Quarterlife girl — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:42:52 +0000

I had to laugh while reading this post. My boyfriend will NOT stop talking about The Wire. He’s a big TV watcher, and he says the same thing you do (“best show on TV ever”, blah blah, lol). I watched a couple episodes and just didn’t get what he was raving about. Ignore me though, I obviously have no idea what I’m talking about. hehe.

By: the weakonomist

the weakonomist — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:26:11 +0000

Shows like Lost and Prison Break, would be better suited as a movie, perhaps a trilogy. I watched the first season of each and lost interest in them all. The Wire was a bit better, but that’s perhaps because of the mature content. To each their own but it takes an addictive personality to watch any TV series the runs along the same story for the entire series.

About the only prime-time show I watch is 24, because of the explosive action. Thankfully the stories each season are mostly unrelated.