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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > The Wire: The Rewatch... and all the pieces matter.
 
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reversefungi
Nov 27, 2003

Master of the high hat!

ShowTime posted:

One of the things I think about when I think about Lance Reddick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5urkfdMUXo

He went onto the Eric Andre show willing and ready to do anything.

Despite being mainly a dramatic actor, he had some incredible comedic moments:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-2C8Ec6co

RIP to one of the best, what lovely news to start the day off :(

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reversefungi
Nov 27, 2003

Master of the high hat!

Barry Foster posted:

The Wire is a landscape and The Sopranos is a portrait - neither is "better" than the other, IMO, they're just doing different things

Both are far and away better than Breaking Bad, though, there's no comparison. Better Call Saul is a lot closer to their level of quality. Mad Men is about on par - or slightly better than - The Sopranos.

These are my entirely subjective but also completely objectively correct rankings

Mostly agreed with all this, but I think you can safely argue that season 1 of True Detective deserves to be up there as well, along with Deadwood.

Also for those of you talking about Deadwood/The Shield, if you haven't watched Justified, you should absolutely fix that! Such an incredibly underrated show.

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reversefungi
Nov 27, 2003

Master of the high hat!

Xiahou Dun posted:

Justified was a show that my dad and I would save up to watch together when I’d go come up to visit. And just to be sociable we’d try to schedule our weird little binges when my mom was out of the house on like a Saturday afternoon.

It’s also a show where everyone constantly drinks really nice bourbon.

My mom has come home so many times to us and a half empty bottle of Blanton’s, day drunk, just slurring “WALDRUP GOGGLES IS A REALLY UNDER RATED ACTOR!” at each other.


Timthee Elephant and Waldrup Goggles had some of the greatest onscreen chemistry of all time.

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