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Segev and I started watching The Wire last night, after a number of years of me telling Ryan to piss off every time he raved about it. I had rented the first disk when I worked at Kim's, watched the first scene, and thought it was totally overwrought and didn't bother to watch any further. But after hearing the reviews of season 4, I really, REALLY wanted to see it. So I figured I had to watch from the beginning to really get season 4. And Id o like it, quite a bit. I still think I'm going to be more interested in season 4, when they start dealing with the school system, rather than the first three seasons, which are pretty much concerned purely with cops (as I understand it). And the fifth season is going to deal a lot with the media, which is, of course, one of my main political interests. So I'm psyched for that. I've been spending a lot of time going, "Who is THAT actor? I know I've seen him before!" and then going to IMDB and finding out I'm wrong. It's a frustrating contrast to when we watched Hot Fuzz and I totally knew everyone in the cast. ("Dude, I knew I knew that mumbledy old man, that's FILCH!")

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I love the Wire. it doesn't grab you right away but once you're about half a season in you realize it's the shit. I've only seen the first three seasons and my favorite was actually the second -- which surprised me because for most of the second season I was comparing it unfavorably to the first. also the theme song really grows on you. ah, great times.