THE WIRE

Omar muthafuckaz

Watch it. Now.

The Wire is fucking great. Everyone knows this. Why does everybody in the world not watch it? Why did I wait ten months after getting the boxset to actually dig into the fucken thing? I don't know, people are assholes and I'm a big asshole. Fuck you! See, that was me being an asshole.

I don't know what a Television is so I can't explain to you WHY it's good (ok I could but I'm lazy and I'm only writing this because I haven't posted on this here blog in ages and I'm putting off a Politics essay that's due tomorrow and I really should be doing). There have been numerous moments in the series where I literally drop my mind in a pile of my own semen and think "jeeeeeeeeeeezus even the camera angles on that were fucking incredible" but I don't want to spoil the series for anyone who hasn't seen it all yet so I won't mention them.

Of course the main plot is great (or plots rather, this shit is MULTI-LAYERED), with plenty of great crime and crime-fighting (Season 3 is recommended for any murder aficionados) but like any great fiction its enjoyability rests in the homely situations that are nondescript in the grand scale of things, but make it all that better. Sure, it seldom advances the storyline when McNulty and Bunk go out and get horrendously shitfaced, but as you get to know the characters the little things start to matter so much and bring the show closer to your heart. The scenes of the small-time gangstaz socialising on the street corners as they wait for customers to flog their product to are priceless, a wonderful reminder that while everyone in The Wire is playing the Game in some sort of way, be they police, criminals, politicians or anybody in the fucked city of Baltimore, ultimately they're all playing the game of life.

Now before I disappear up my ass anymore in trying to explain the programme's superlative quality, I should admit to you that the Wire is not for everybody; my mum doesn't like the bleak realism and my friend Henry doesn't understand what all the black people are saying. But if you can get into it then it's definitely worth perseverance (I'm on season 4 and they have all been uniformly brilliant so far, even if I gave such little a fucking shit about those dock workers most of the time after a fantastic first season of black gangstahood, and  that humourless fuckwit Marlo needs to get shot ASAP). The first few episodes didn't quite grab me although I enjoyed them, but once I knew the characters...man this product is the shit.