holy charmtown AH! we hitched a ride over the Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant bridge this past Joyeaux Noel time.

http://www.harfordbirdclub.org/conowingo.html

that other friday night baltimore crime show nbc 10 yrs ago was pretty cool too, forget the name. i'll have to keep a look on for this Bird on A Wire

A great show. Like the focus on the world of drugs and politics back East. A great pick to rent the earlier seasons.

Best show ever -- nah, but we understand the home town pride.
Watching this show makes one glad Seattle is not so violent, corrupt and decayed.

John Waters is the best thing to come out of Baltimore, ever.

i second the john waters comment.

Apparently I've been living in a cave somewhere on Capitol Hill... I hadn't even heard of this show until last week, and it's the best show EVERRR?

any public venue (ie a bar) doing a screening for the HBO-deprived among us?

i cheated. the wire is on demand so i already saw the new episode. is off the hook. marlo is going after prop joe and the baltimore sun is going after the city council. dont miss the wire. if u do u r a motherfucking fool.

why is it that rags like the stranger, the p.i., ent weekly, etc, ad nauseum, are ALWAYS four or five years past the curve? you mention the genius of THE WIRE naught but at the beginning of it's FINAL SEASON? that's why you get cap hill 'hipsters' saying they've never heard of it. in 5 years you'll all be saying how you remember watching the first season way before anyone else, just like the time you were one of the 25 people to see the white stripes at the croc. what EVER.

I remember trying to watch it a few years ago and I couldn't get into it. You can't just pick it up midway through a season and really appreciate/follow it properly. On top of that the characters evolve a bit between seasons so you miss a lot of subtlety unless you watch it from the beginning.

I got lucky when HBO ran all four seasons in the months leading up to '08. It was addicting to say the least.

GOOD acting
GOOD stories
EVERYONE is dirty

If you have comcast check the "re-ups" to get up to speed, but I'd try to hunt down the previous season DVDs.

@8:
Or... http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/the_wire

sidenote to #8:

that's why you get cap hill 'hipsters' saying they've never heard of it.

Natty Boh...really? I'm from Baltimore, too. I've never seen the show (it's on my netflix queue), but I should hope it's better than Natty Boh!

#1: The show was Homicide: life on the street. David Simon was a writer and producer and is the creator of the Wire.

#6: We need to find a bar so we can have a pool on when bubbles is going to take a hit.

#7 and 9: If you go the On Demand HBO Wire re-up at 12:01 on Sundays. You can see the next episode that the other mopes have to wait a week.

Boy, I sound like a wire nerd

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

BEST
SHOW
EVER
! Hands Down.

Calling the wire a TV show is essentially an insult. It's like calling Socrates a talker.

Mrs. bought me season 4 for Christmas, and it reminds me of the first two seasons of 24 in how engaging it is. Easily one of the best shows I've ever seen, and I can't wait to pick up seasons 1-3.

john waters? it's like comparing orson welles and ed wood..
Yes, John Waters is pretty neat and all, but the Wire is one of the most unrecognized masterful pieces of media to run currently.