tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post13216163273831258..comments2024-03-18T19:21:49.666+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The WirePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-81518625200710074512008-06-05T19:23:00.000+01:002008-06-05T19:23:00.000+01:00With you on Homicide, Don. Good to see Clarke John...With you on Homicide, Don. Good to see Clarke Johnson in the fifth season ... and a cameo from Munch too!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-82680345951154346952008-06-05T19:11:00.000+01:002008-06-05T19:11:00.000+01:00Absolutely love the Wire - best fictional series o...Absolutely love the Wire - best fictional series on TV, ever. I'd also thoroughly recommend it's predecessor, Homicide: Life on The Street. It isn't as tight as The Wire, and the network occasionally interfered with story arcs. But the writing and acting is superb, and there are some episodes that, like The Wire, make you feel like you sat through the most entertaining sociology lesson, ever. <BR/><BR/>Why they persist making drek like The Bill when stuff like Homicide and The Wire around, I have no idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-26398919752105442972008-06-03T22:44:00.000+01:002008-06-03T22:44:00.000+01:005 seasons? Wow I'll have to watch it again.5 seasons? Wow I'll have to watch it again.steven rixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154964357134050639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-49618169622463592022008-06-03T18:55:00.000+01:002008-06-03T18:55:00.000+01:00I concur, it must be watched from the very start. ...I concur, it must be watched from the very start. Furthermore, the brilliance of the show is that after a single episode not everything is tied up neatly and order restored. It is the complete opposite to every cop show ever made. Crime is shown as a social disease rather than a simple matter of good and evil. It is complex without being over-elaborate. Some of the dialogue is better than most contemporary stage plays.<BR/><BR/>I've just finished series 3 (it keeps getting better and better btw) and plot lines from the very first couple of episodes are still unravelling - afters something like thirty episodes. That is top class exposition in my book. <BR/><BR/>It is this attention to detail, the painstaking methodologies of procedure, the intelligence of the writing, and the social commentary that separates it from the rest of contemporary television - with the notable exception of the now defunct Sopranos.Seánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02062840073086386286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87787878368173964342008-06-03T14:07:00.000+01:002008-06-03T14:07:00.000+01:00politiques – it has 5 seasons.Best thing I've ever...politiques – it has 5 seasons.<BR/><BR/>Best thing I've ever watched. I can't recommend this show enough. <BR/><BR/>Of course, after reading this (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/) I can't help cringe just a little each time I do recommend it ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-13530698327041253822008-06-03T05:12:00.000+01:002008-06-03T05:12:00.000+01:00Well it might take you a while to show me your dem...Well it might take you a while to show me your demonstration. First you have to define "choice", and there are many proposals that only go in the sense of "free will". So does free will really exist? Hmmm I'll have to think about that first. For sure there are different philosophical streams (Rousseau, Voltaire, Marx, Adam Smith, ...etc) but there is undeniably a pattern between poverty and ascension in life, the statistics should speak for themselves in the first place, I guess. At a philosophical level, there'll always be choices, in a practical view, I'm afraid it's not such a case in our societies. "free choice" does not necessarly exist inside a society that incorporates some rules. You also have to take into account what part of responsabilities the governments play in the social dealing to curb down or maximize inequalities. <BR/>It's a long work, I guess, difficult to be summarize in a few lines :S For sure I'd like to hear more from you on this subject :)steven rixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154964357134050639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-66994673253402650822008-06-02T23:02:00.000+01:002008-06-02T23:02:00.000+01:00Politiques, there is always choice. As Marx once s...Politiques, there is always choice. As Marx once said, "men make their own history, but not under the circumstances of their choosing". I'll scribble more if I get the time!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33168229180279637092008-06-02T16:50:00.001+01:002008-06-02T16:50:00.001+01:00Yep good show with 4 seasons, gotta have time to w...Yep good show with 4 seasons, gotta have time to watch the whole thing. I think it's better than the "Sopranos".<BR/>//Marxists believe people have free will, but we also believe the choices they make are shaped by the condition they live under///<BR/>When you are poor in the US, do you really think you have that much choice? I don't think we do, it's a question of survival on a daily basis.steven rixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154964357134050639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-85174714102705482632008-06-02T16:50:00.000+01:002008-06-02T16:50:00.000+01:00Yep good show with 4 seasons, gotta have time to w...Yep good show with 4 seasons, gotta have time to watch the whole thing. I think it's better than the "Sopranos".<BR/>//Marxists believe people have free will, but we also believe the choices they make are shaped by the condition they live under///<BR/>When you are poor in the US, do you really think you have that much choice? I don't think we do, it's a question of survival on a daily basis.steven rixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154964357134050639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-59495428329125559802008-06-02T16:04:00.000+01:002008-06-02T16:04:00.000+01:00I will seek this out too.I will seek this out too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-35908994601884674212008-06-02T12:34:00.000+01:002008-06-02T12:34:00.000+01:00You've got to watch it right from episode one - th...You've got to watch it right from episode one - there's no short cuts!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-36245845504585605882008-06-02T12:31:00.000+01:002008-06-02T12:31:00.000+01:00The review makes it sound really good, I'll try an...The review makes it sound really good, I'll try and watch it sometime.Leftwing Criminologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369810078697007763noreply@blogger.com