Your Opinion on 'The Wire'

[Tryphon]

From all what I've seen, it's Dexter. Far behind is House M.D. And much further stays the rest (I've started Rome yesterday and it looks very promising).

[Jedo]

I agree about Dexter(at least the first 2 seasons)

Breaking Bad is also really good

[kirkmc]

West Wing. Twilight Zone. Honeymooners.

[Monadology]

Dexter

[quantumf]

The trinity is Deadwood, The Wire and Breaking Bad.

[kirkmc]

The trinity is Deadwood, The Wire and Breaking Bad.

Deadwood, yea, forgot about that one. Still no West Wing though...

[Tryphon]

Dexter

I agree it has despicable aspects, but it's one of the funniest I've ever seen (I saw only up to season 3, and the last one is below season 1 & 2).

Deadwood was good too. I've more difficulties with Breaking Bad (It's certainly good, but it doesn't make me want to go further. The same with Soprano or 6 feet under).

The worst I've ever seen is for now Heroes (I thought Fringe was worse, but John Noble saves it).

[Monadology]

Dexter

I agree it has despicable aspects, but it's one of the funniest I've ever seen (I saw only up to season 3, and the last one is below season 1 & 2)..

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the books (not that they're exactly fine literature). One of the things I find distasteful about the show is it's not willing to be despicable. It's too busy making Dexter into a family man.

There are a number of other problems like a reliance on plot contrivances and pointless cruelty for the sake of drama. I won't deny it's entertaining, though.

If you find the series funny, I recommend the books. Dexter has a much drier, cutting wit in them.

[Tryphon]

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the books (not that they're exactly fine literature). One of the things I find distasteful about the show is it's not willing to be despicable. It's too busy making Dexter into a family man.

That's precisely what I find despicable, especially in season 3. I may read the books one day, but since it'll be a translation, I'm afraid of the result.

[SpongeBob]

I must warn you, season 6 is...

Nope, can't agree on this one.



(Who said there's no use for the batman icon ???)

[kirkmc]

Regarding 24: the first few seasons are very good, but it goes downhill pretty quickly. It eventually becomes a parody of itself, and starts to re-use plot ideas in the last couple of seasons, and even steals some from books that are well enough known to be noticeable. One of the problems in the series is that Jack Bauer is a totally wooden character. Even though the writers try to make him have some sort of life as the series goes on, they fail. He does not change at all, other than making a few grimacing reflections about whether he should be doing what he's doing. (But you always know he'll keep on doing it.) He's a machine; he's a comic book character. The show is a thrill to watch at times, but I could have done without the last two seasons. In the first few episodes of the last season, some things were so ridiculous that I broke out laughing.

[sixko]

Not a big fan of The Wire but I will say this, "The king stay the king."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B-QE_g3JPU

[SpongeBob]

One of the problems in the series is that Jack Bauer is a totally wooden character.

I like him anyways. I also like Clint Eastwood, about whom Sergio Leone once said: he has two facial expressions - one with and one without hat.

[Tryphon]

Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone seemed to really like each other a lot

[kirkmc]

One of the problems in the series is that Jack Bauer is a totally wooden character.

I like him anyways. I also like Clint Eastwood, about whom Sergio Leone once said: he has two facial expressions - one with and one without hat.

Yes, but that's only for a few movies. With Jack Bauer, you go through 8 seasons of it, and it gets a bit boring. He never, ever has fun in the series. There are no moments of levity, of humanity at all. Don't get me wrong: as an action series, it is well constructed, in the early seasons at least. But it's just a bit dark over the long term.