>my face when Michael K Williams is going to be on Boardwalk Empire

Watching the season 1 finale right now.


>AYO STRING! WHERE'S WALLACE! STRING!?

>my face

CAN'T PLAY NO CHEKAHS ON NO CHESS SET YO

Gay Man HBO character fight

Christopher Keller or Omar

>>12024856
>my face when I saw him duel wielding handguns

>>12024860
>my face when your face has no tear tracks on its cheeks

>>12024860
You don't know shit yet

>>12024860
>AYO STRING! WHERE'S WALLACE! STRING!?

Your face after season 3: episode 11

GOT DAT PANDEMIC

fuck yeah wire thread. Only reason I come on this board anymore

>>12024921
YO I GOT THE WMD RIGHT HERE

>>12024942
You happy now, bitch?

>>12024910
Shame to let a good over a frayed cord toaster get away

>>12024897
"We like them little bitches on the chess board."

"ey fochan its yo gurl sneewwp from da wiaar. yeeaaah maayn mah lyf iz a lot lyk da wiar. I had a tuff lyf, it wus ok. I gots on da wiar cos I mets michael k. williams at a nite klub down in bawltimoar. I wus gunna beat his punk ass but den me boyz said naaaawww snewp dat be omar! anyway he came up to me nd axed me if I wus a boi or a gurl nd I said maawfucka ahm a gurrl. "

>>12025020
where can i find moe?

For those of us that have watched the show twice, I have a question.
How badly do you want to start your third viewing?
I've given about 120 hours of my life to watching The Wire, and I have accepted the fact that it was totally worth it, but still, I'm asking you, /tv/.
Was it worth it?

>>12025018
You look good, girl.

*BANG*

>>12025049
Fuck yeah its worth it. This is the only tv show I've ever seen where I feel the same emotions with each viewing. Unfortunately I've shown this to some friends and they hate it because its "ghetto niggers" and "nothing happens its so boring". Makes me rage goddamn hard. Every single time.

>>12024904
>>my face when your face has no tear tracks on its cheeks

that scene didn't make me cry, but it was certainly moving and awe-inspiring.

This is such a beautiful show.

>>12024856

"yo omar you best roll out! we got them mac 10s up in here"
"oh I thinks not Tyrell I thinks not. you best be openin this door right now. Because omar can come back tomorrow...and the next day... and the day after that...and I'm gonna be puttin a bullet in all y'all behinds after what happens today....

*thud*

...fair enough"

>>12025049
loved it even more the second time
pic is my season ranking

I'm watching the Sopranos for the first, and I can only laugh at the fools who think that show is anywhere near as good as The Wire. Hands down, the best tv show ever made

>>12025038
not sure they were posted on /tv/ a while back.

>watch opening of season 2 finale
>"wat"
>"o"
>"OH"
>"OH SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

>bubbles tries to get clean

>"Don't tell her..."


:( goddamn this show

last one

>>12025226
HEY MCNUTTY

Kenard must have heard that advice because he didn't miss when he killed Omar.

>>12025230
who is this artist?

>>12025200
Season 5 gets way too much hate. It wrapped all the characters up nicely and had a fantastic Marlo an amazing finish. Seems like a lot of the complaints are around the faking a serial killer and Omar reaching super hero status. In the case of the first one it is based off real life events and made perfect sense for the progression of McNulty's obsessive character traits. He finally just snapped. As for Omar his antics were important to complete Marlo's story arc. By showing him up constantly it only made the sting that much worse when he wasn't the one who was able to kill him. As far as the falling out the window thing goes, people survive shit like that all the time. He landed in a bush, it wasn't a huge suspension of disbelief.

>>12025207
Sopranos has some of the best single episodes of any series but as a whole The Wire comes together much better.

Would have been better if Marlo died fighting those drug dealers in the end.

Better yet, Omar killed him so one of the best characters in television for a long time wasn't shot by a fucking 10 year old

>>12025263
He hit his target and he got picked up by the murder police. Kenard got popped for dropping Omar.
I sometimes think.
What would happen when Kenard meets Michael in the future?
Fayetter Street Mafia ftw

>>12025289
That be some spiderman-like shit right there

>>12025290
you obviously missed the point of omars death . It doesn't matter what kenard did, in the streets omar went down guns blazing in a last heroic stand

>>12025289
>made perfect sense for the progression of McNulty's obsessive character traits
They [the writers] didn't have to drag Lester down with Mr. Nutty.

>>12025020
I fucking love this one. Slim Charles is such a great and understated character.

>>12025341
Lester never gave a fuck about the rules. That's why he was working the pawnshop unit.

>>12025355
"WHAT DA FUCK YOU DO THAT FOR?! NOW WE'RE SHORT THE NINE!"
"That was for joe"
"This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money"

>>12025341
Lester and McNulty were always the same type of police officer. They might have approached it in different ways but both were outside of the box thinkers. While the progression wasn't nearly as natural as it was for McNulty I don't have a problem with Lester going along with it, his character was all about the ends justifying the means.

>>12025355
>Slim Charles is such a great and understated character.

>That was for Joe

I will never forget that line.

Prop Joe was a likable character too

Just started watching this. On episode 2. If I don't like it now, should I stop watching? I'm really not interested in anything right now, but hopefully it gets better

LIKE A 40 DEGREE DAY

>>12025412
Hide this thread and don't come back till you finish. Give it at least a season before you give up on it.

this show walks on water

prove me wrong

>>12025407
close your eyes... relax, joe.... there, there now... breathe easy.....

;_____;

>>12025412
You are asking /tv/?
We love The Wire so hard that if the dvd set had a larger hole in it we would use it to masturbate while watching Omar eat some Honey Nut Cheerios.

>>12025412
Watch through season 1 if you can. If not, whatever, but I committed myself to that because of how many people reccomended the show and somewhere in the middle of the season I was hooked.

If you end up liking season 1 by the end, dont let season 2 turn you off. A lot of people dont like it as much and it is hard to get into after season 1 but its one of my favorite seasons.

Mother fucking Frank Sobotka

>>12025445
>implying I'm not a black guy from Baltimore
also
>implying I grew up with my dad

>>12025474
>implying you're not some upper middle class white guy who lives with his parents

>>12025474
>>12025508
This was a good thread, knock it off.

>>12025459
>mfw nick sobotkas girlfriends tits

>>12025508
>implying I'm not rooting for the Ravens to win the superbowl
>implying I am not a negro television connoisseur

"want me to fix it up, put a bit of purple in it?"
"yeah sure, then I'll go and stick my tongue up some guys asshole"

trollface.jpg

>>12025531
>Why you grabbing?
>It was staring at me.

Season 2 was awesome. I remember the first time I tried to watch The Wire, I stopped once season 2 started; I just couldn't get into it initially. On my second go, though, I gave that season more of a chance and ended up really liking it.

The best thing about the wire were all the repeating themes.
That scene in the first episode where D is teaching the corner boys how to play chess is fucking genius, and comes back (thematically) time and time again.

Stick with the show, it only gets better.

>Black liar!

>>12025355
If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie.

>>12025590
I liked season 2 more the 2nd time. That was the first time I was wondering who these people were and why I should care after expecting to be like other shows where just a few minor things change each season. By the time the newspaper guys showed up in the 5th season I was used to it and trusted they knew how everyone would tie together.

>>12025660
That line was so great it made it onto the OST.

>>12025638
Damn, I teared up just looking at that picture.

This show destroys me.

>>12025452

>>12025660
that's a good line

WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE
WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE
WAY DOWN IN THE HOOOOOOOLEEEE WAAAAY DOWWWWN IN THE HOOOOOLLEEEE

>>12025690
That shit is real, man

All in the game, yo... All in the game.

>>12025703
He went out like a boss. smooth motherfucker

Nigga, is you takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?

>>12025733
You gonna look after me, Sergeant Carver? You gonna help? You promise? YOU GOT MY BACK, HUH?

>my face

people who think the wire is the best show ever - I feel like they get it. I'm not sure what "it" is, but it's something.

>>12025757
"The board recognises poot"
"Yeaah umm does the board know we gonna look like some punk ass bitches?-"
"MOTHERFUCKER I'll PUNK YOUR ASS"

FUCK YOU

>>12025728
LIKED THE SEASON 5 COVER BEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkBD37fggg

ANY OTHER SHOW THAT USES THE SAME SONG COVERED BY DIFFERENT SINGERS EACH SEASON?

Does anybody else here have the OST or is it just me?

so many opportunities to make gifs, but fucking workflow is confusing on os x

>>12025774
At least Carver grew up by the end. That whole shit was Herc's fault, and he never even matured as a person.

>>12025783
the CHAIR

>>12025797
I liked how Season 5 intro had the vibe of a 90s newspaper show. Like Early Edition or something.

>mfw they implied Marlo would be cool with Herc working for his lawyer

>>12025797
weeds

>>12025797
>God tier intro
Season 1
Season 4
Season 5
>Great tier intro
Season 2
>What the fuck is this shit tier intro
Season 3

>>12025813
Oh yeah that was it. Sorry bro haven't seen it in a while

Watched season 1 last month and it had me enthralled. Having trouble getting into season 2. Does season 2 pick up or is it just not for me?

>>12025787
That scene + laugh track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIi0dzmvpE

>>12025876
For the most part every season starts slow and then builds and builds to a glorious finale. Every scene leading up to it is important though and you will appreciate it more on the second watch through.

>>12025876
see
>>12025666
>>12025590
Just trust it. It's a really good season actually.

Trying to prove to a friend why the wire is better than breaking bad in pretty much every aspect. care to help me out?

>>12025876
Season 2 puts you in a whole new world with a bunch of new characters, but that's not a bad thing. If it's hard for you to see where the show is going right now, keep watching. A moment will arrive where everything is made clear, and it'll be awesome.

Also, if you don't watch Seasons 2 and 3, you'll never get to what is almost certainly the best season of television ever made: The Wire, Season 4.

>>12025910
It's not for everyone and I don't hold it against friends who don't like it. There is no winning an argument in subjectivity.

Mad Men master race reporting. Just here to tell you the wire is boring. Smell ya later

>>12025910
Mention Walt's plot armor.
Compare Bubbs' addiction to Jesse's.
Compare 10 seconds of music and some Periodic Table shit to 5 versions of an incredible song and awesome montages of close-ups of all the political, monetary, drug, sexual, and technological transactions of Baltimore

>>12025910
THE WIRE IS A SPRAWLING INTERTWINED CITY OF AUTHENTIC CHARACTERS WITH MULTILAYERED PLOTLINES

BREAKING BAD HAS GOOD CORE PERFORMANCES BY CRANSTON AND PAUL BUT ITS FAR SMALLER IN SCOPE, AND THE PLOT IS ALMOST SIMPLISTIC BY COMPARISON

BREAKING BAD IS STILL THE BEST SHOW CURRENTLY AIRING, THEN DEXTER

THE WIRE IS THE BEST SHOW EVER MADE

>>12025969
>Mad Men fan calling another show boring

5/10. Nearly had me.

>>12025910

It's showrunner has no idea what to do with Breaking Bad. In contrast, The Wire was meticulously constructed.

STOP IT, YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME WATCH IT AGAIN

I'm trying to start Battlestar Galactica. Surely a somewhat inferior series but it's new.

>>12025978
not trolling broski. Don Draper > Omar

>my face when I love The Wire and Mad Men but The Wire is easily the better show

[no face necessary to convey this simple truth]

>>12025289
The problem with Season 5 is all that shit at the Sun is heavy handed and leaden. The young chick reporter is cute and it's good to see Meldrick back in Baltimore, but otherwise those scenes are a chore. Steve Earle's version of WDITH is way too sedate compared to the other versions, although that's a matter of taste. This coming from a guy who likes the Neville Bros version the best because the bombast/drama suits all the blowhard politicians.

Everything else about S5 is great.

>>12026007
Nothing. Happens. In. Your. Show.

>>12026045
Imagine if somebody said that to you about The Wire. How would you respond? Since this is 4chan, you would probably call him a faggot or a retard, and that would be that, but his opinion wouldn't change.

The only thing to do is watch for yourself.

>>12026056
NOTHING. HAPPENS. IN. YOUR. SHOW.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

>>12026003
BSG and The Wire are probably my two favorites (the other contenders being The Shield and TNG). It's hard to compare the two, but I think they can definitely appeal to the same sort of person.

I'd watch either one all over again with you, that's for sure.

>>12026003
>>12026067

nigga, I'm better than BSG/TNG combined

>>12026060
I'm going to keep watching it, anyway. Looking forward to this Sunday's episode.

>>12026077

me too brah

>>12026077
ENJOY. HAVING. NOTHING. HAPPEN. IN. YOUR. SHOW.

>>12026075
I wouldn't say that, but it is like a combo pack of my favorite sci-fi shows.

>>12026103
Thanks, guy! I appreciate it.

>>12026056
I actually started writing a reasoned response to this, but deleted it because this is a thread about The Wire. It's not a dick measuring contest or a place to battle it out against someone else's favorite show.

>>12026056
You came to a Wire thread to push your show. Then you act like you are the rational person. Die.

>>12026104

Seems reasonable.

Quick, get this thread back on track by posting Wire reaction images!

You have no idea how ashamed I was when I got to this part and said, "THAT's where that reaction came from! I thought it was from Fringe."

>>12026139
>I thought it was from Fringe.

>>12025969
Hey faggot, stop making Mad Men look bad. It's my favorite show and you're giving it a bad rap by acting like an asshole.

Avon/Stringer dynamic was godly.

DAT ROOFTOP SCENE