The Wire. I know it's not the right section and I know I've come late to this programme...

Lol at Prop Joe!! He has some great lines, as does Bunk. Classic. My DH and I used to find ourselves walking and talking like the characters!

No spoilers as, although I've seen them all, I would have KILLED anyone who ruined it for me. Don't go on the HBO website as, despite the fact it's great for helping to explain some of those confusing plots aspects within some episodes, you can't help seeing stuff that you'd rather you didn't about the fate of some of your characters....

Have just snorted all over the screen at 5 month Prop Joe. I love the Wire, am on season 3, tell me it stays good. Was also a wast wing addict (though now with the Obama administration I find it hard to separate fact from fiction)
So spoiler wise, have we all seen season 1?
And blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/ is funny.

Prop Joe is a great name for a 5 month old

also no fat cops on the shield which I find strange

LOVED the wire - now hooked on the shield

we miss the 'shiiiiiiiiiit' moments tho

NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!

I also LOVE The Wire - we've watched the first four series and can't bear to watch the final one so have gone back to the beginning to watch them all again (and refresh our memories) before starting on the last one ().

The only thing I'm a bit upset about is that my DH has started calling our rather rotund DS (5mnths) 'Prop Joe' - that's not right, is it?!

Omar is soooo cool! I agree. I won't spoil it for you missymum...

i love the wire too. am on series 4 and very worried about the plight of my fave character Omar...

I agree that it takes a while to get into. Dh (who's Spanish) really couldn't get into it - the accents, the language and the slow start. Which meant that I had it all to myself!

I finished watching series 5 about a month ago, and I feel a gap in my life.

Watched series one on Virgin catch up on demand thingy last week and was hooked!

My complete 5 series box set has just arrived from Amazon, can't wait...

I've just got the last episode of series 5 to go. It's the best thing I've seen for ages.

It took me a while to get into series 1 though. I couldn't understand what people were saying and I kept falling asleep, I got into it with series 2, then went back and watched 1.

Love The Wire, hate The Shield.

As this is in fiction, I'll suggest - why not read some George Pelecanos? He wrote some Wire episodes, and there are other Wire staff writers with novels out there, or there's that 'Homicide' book, non-fiction that the Wire is sort of based on, by David Simon.

great minds mooki!

sheeeeet x post :-) Noonki and we're only 1 letter apart

We've watched all five and had to mourn when it was over. Other tv seemed so rubbish.

I particularly liked series 1 & 3.

I love the way that most of the characters are multi-faceted, like real people are. And how you root for some of the Poe - lice and some of the gangsters at the same time.

I still find it funny hearing the english actors speak in their normal voices!

The fact Obama loved it gives me hope that perhaps he will take up with some more alternative solutions to the social problems in the US.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiite I miss it

I lent my mum and dad series 1 of the Wire last week and now they've come back asking for series 2 AND 3 just in case we don't see them next week :-)

I love that it has a sense of humour and the fact that there are bad characters who still make you empathise with them.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Yes, let me know about the Shield. I loved the West Wing, thought 24 went a bit too silly after about season 3.

Yeah, the accents take a while to hear - we have to watch it quite loud so we can hear. You do get used to it though, after a while. I get so absorbed that a whole hour flashes by!

its brilliant, i'm on series 3 at the mo and I think about it when i'm not watching it. Would love to hear what you think of The Shield Harrogatemum as I am already searching for a replacement.
I didn't enjoy series 2 as much and as I said on another thread, the scene when Bubble walks through Hamsterdam is giving me nightmares, but its the best thing i've ever watched.

The Wire is terrific? True that...

ha ha - dont worry I would feel the same! I was recommended The Shield which is an LA based cop drama but apparently just as gritty. I have ordered the first series from Amazon for when we finish the Wire so we can get straight onto something else - and its quite cheap - £9 per series or something on Amazon. Someone also recommended the West Wing, not a cop drama I know but people do rave aobut it and the whole 8 series are about £50.

nkf I just started a thread on this a few days ago saying what else would I like if I love the Wire!

Very annoyingly my DH has gone away skiing right in the middle of watching series 2 and on pain of death we dont watch it without each other so got to look at the box tempting me until Friday.......

Yes, subtitles are a good idea.