ok, for a long time I insisted that I didn’t watch TV but that’s not true anymore. Now that I am able to download entire seasons of TV shows and watch them commercial-free, I’m more inclined to watch them.<\/p>\n
The Wire is an incredible serialized drama. Set in Baltimore, it portrays a slick, well-run drug operation and the police’s efforts to shut it down. It’s not standard cop drama fare, however. The show delivers great dialogue, well defined characters, and a detailed and realistic depiction of the war on drugs. What is most curious is that there are heroes and villains on both sides.<\/p>\n
I devoured season 1 over a long weekend, and I’m looking forward to season 2 as soon as it finishes downloading.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Season two was also great, with an unexpected narrative direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ok, for a long time I insisted that I didn’t watch TV but that’s not true anymore. Now that I am able to download entire seasons of TV shows and watch them commercial-free, I’m more inclined to watch them. The Wire is an incredible serialized drama. Set in Baltimore, it portrays a slick, well-run drug … Continue reading “The Wire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"0","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}