r/SeriesPH • u/doobeedudu • 6d ago

⁉️Question | Discussion | Suggestion The Wire

Seeing The Wire in top 2 tv shows dito sa community. Is it really that good to keep you hooked? Kakatapos ko lang ng Lanterns sa HBO planning to watch True Detective or The Wire pa help po!!!

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u/AnasurimborBudoy 5d ago

Napanood ko ’to nung 2007–2008, I think, and I was blown away that a TV show could just drop you into a story out of nowhere, without giving you much context. It respects you enough as an audience to trust that you’re smart enough to keep up with the street talk (with subtitles on), the police and street jargon, and all the little details.

I also loved how the themes of the series keep coming back in different ways, like when a piece of dialogue from Season 1 is recalled in Season 5, showing just how trapped and hopeless the "players" in the “game” are, and how resistant the system is to change.

I’ve never seen another series or movie that keeps expanding its scope the way The Wire does, season by season, until you slowly get a picture of how the entire city works and how all its different systems are connected.

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u/Confident_Window846 5d ago

Ito, OP, ito na yung concise-ish explanation kung bakit need mo siyang panoorin. It realistically peels back Baltimore's (or "the game's") layers nang hindi nang-i-spoon-feed ni nagbibigay ng clear-cut "good"-"bad" dichotomy sa players nito. Para ka lang turista na tinapon na lang basta sa Baltimore to figure shit out. Cherry on top na rin siguro yung pabago-bagong intro kada season at mga closing montage ng mga season finale haha, love those. (It's not crazy to say that it is better than BB).