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Mad Men. Obviously.
I love Mad Men but I would go with The Wire because it has a overarching story while Mad Men just has the main character whoring around all the time.
Mad Men was good for a few seasons and bad for the back half. The Wire was good for 80% of the seasons, and okay for the other one.
POI is good, but it's not on Mad Men or The Wire's level.
The Wire easily. Mad Men is one of the most overrated shows out there.
Easy. The wire
It's a slow burn show but worth the payoff. View each season as a book
Season 2 has pieces that tie into the Avon story and is all about the cops working with Beatty. It's a fantastic season and people only hate it because of Ziggy.
Pembleton and Gee, the best
The Wire no contest.
This is just a kind way of saying its boring. The Wire is an interesting show that is much less then the sum of its parts, which became revered due to good acting/casting and previously ignored/under represented subject matter.
Watching The Wire was the Internet Hipster version of when middle class Americans started listening to 2pac and NWA in the 90s.
I love Ziggy. I mean, I hate him, but he's an excellent character. Like Worm from Rounders, the hatable lower who can't help but fail.
And that duck.
Mad Men is the best, most creative, and well executed TV show in history. Unlike The Wire it doesn't have 1.5 middling seasons.
Mad Men.
Two very different shows - depends what you are looking for in a drama
one is like a very left-brain, complex crime drama that goes over the entire scope of a city
the other is a very right-brain, character driven, nearly plotless show that sort exists in a state of constant dour curiousity
both are excellent, but they are trying to do two very different things
This thread is a good reminder to me that most people don't like complex art. Also anyone who says The Wire is consistently good is not to be trusted, season 5 is teeeerrible.
Mad Men is the best show ever made. Season 1 is probably my least favorite, though i still love it, it's the most on-the-nose with the IT'S THE 60s YO stuff. Seasons 3-7 are just, absolutely perfect television to me. I'll never get something that speaks to me like that again, probably. Just thinking about it makes me want to rewatch it (for the fourth time)
congratulations, you're about to get quoted, a lot.This is just a kind way of saying its boring. The Wire is an interesting show that is much less then the sum of its parts, which became revered due to good acting/casting and previously ignored/under represented subject matter.
Watching The Wire was the Internet Hipster version of when middle class Americans started listening to 2pac and NWA in the 90s.
Two very different shows - depends what you are looking for in a drama
one is like a very left-brain, complex crime drama that goes over the entire scope of a city
the other is a very right-brain, character driven, nearly plotless show that sort exists in a state of constant dour curiousity
both are excellent, but they are trying to do two very different things
This post is a good reminder that most people really love hyperbole. The Wire season 5 has some issues but it is by no means terrible and as a season, is stronger than 95 percent of TV before and after it.
*Sensible chuckle*
Seasons 3 and 4 are phenomenal, among the best seasons of television ever made without question. Season 1 is very very good, the finale might even elevate it to great. The first half of S2, while impressive on a structural level, is a massive bore, but the second half is tremendous. S5 is average-to decent at best. The drop of in quality was pretty jarring for me.
Chuckle all you want but the "bad" season of the Wire is far superior to most TV out there. There are few scenes in TV history that have touched me as muchor as crushed byas Bubbles finally getting to walk up those stairs.watching poor Dookie shooting up
Its better then both in more episodes then it isnt
This is very true
This is just a kind way of saying its boring. The Wire is an interesting show that is much less then the sum of its parts, which became revered due to good acting/casting and previously ignored/under represented subject matter.
Watching The Wire was the Internet Hipster version of when middle class Americans started listening to 2pac and NWA in the 90s.
You come at the king, you best not miss
Mad Men is the best, most creative, and well executed TV show in history. Unlike The Wire it doesn't have 1.5 middling seasons.
Mad Men.
Mad Men rules. I'm not sure why people call it a slow burn when every episode and every season culminate with some major development.
Skip both and watch Person of Interest
The Wire is incomparable.
People shit on s2, but anyone that rewatches the show knows that s2 becomes the best season when going through the show again.
I think Mad Men resonates much more strongly if you're a boomer or older viewer who identifies with living through that period of history.
Literally the worst advice I've ever seen offered on gaf.