Along_the_Wire Yes, did the whole boxset last summer in lockdown.

Got bored midway through the final season, though, didn’t like Seasons 4 or 5 as much as 1, 2 and 3.

    bosstrabs I actually found much of The Wire a bit dull. It’s a cracking TV series, just find Gomorrah more compelling.

      Along_the_Wire Yeah agreed, Sibotka and the chuckle brothers down the docks, great viewing.

        When it comes to RAW SEX nothing comes close to Game of Thrones, even has midgets

          Agreed, season 2 of The Wire is the best.

          LT42

          Nothing gives me the horn more than seeing Jerome Flynn and Tyrian Lannister dismout their horses outside a whore house that they’re about to tear up

            Along_the_Wire Six Feet Under is fucking brilliant.

            Agreed. Have watched in its entirety a few times now, and I’ll never not have some dust in my eye at the final scene

              These things usually end up in a fairly straight head-to-head between The Sopranos and The Wire.

              Absolutely love them both, but The Wire edges it for me, so you have something else utterly amazeballs © ED SMALLMAN to watch there, Si.

                bosstrabs …it does tend to come down to those two but its a weird comparison IMO. The Wire was always intended as a 5-act piece, and although it definitely has it’s slower moments (series!) but when you look back at the scope of it, the storytelling is immense, probably unsurpassed in its ambition.

                Sopranos I have a special love for as I worked on the series promos for about 3 years and was totally immersed in it for so long…. incredible performances and lurches between pathos, humour and horror like little else. I’ll never forgive David Chase for trying to sell us that lazy ending as an ‘interpretive’ set piece though.

                Anyone mention Boardwalk Empire yet?

                    Unbroken1 Boardwalk Empire also good.

                    Narcos original seasons definitely worth watching too. Goes off the boil with Narcos: Mexico though.

                      Enjoyed Boardwalk Empire.

                      Richard Harrow in Boardwalk was immense. As was Gyp Rosetti.

                        Basically HBO changed the game. Brought movie quality scripting, acting and polish to TV.

                        Millsy …so many class peripheral characters, Eli, Chalky, Van Alden, one of my all-time faves.

                        Along_the_Wire …deffo know what you are saying, it was almost like she was briefed to be stiff, esp in her earlier episodes, she improved as it went on though

                              Unbroken1 With you on all of that ….. was it yet another one that suffered from having the rug pulled on it and so they tried to wrap it up all too quickly with the last series??

                                  Smallman1 does the last season not completely ruin the show? that and lost have to be viewed as potentially great shows that were completely destroyed by bad writing, no?