comment by ☺ Wumpatröl - We are going to Wembley, We are going to Wembley (U5046)
posted 6 seconds ago
I am the only one who was fascinated by Cohle's nihilistic ramblings on True Detective. That guy was a downer if there was ever one!
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An Emmy-worthy performance from McConaughey. Imagine going on a day long car journey with him.

comment by ☺ Wumpatröl - We are going to Wembley, We are going to Wembley (U5046)
posted 35 seconds ago
I am the only one who was fascinated by Cohle's nihilistic ramblings on True Detective. That guy was a downer if there was ever one!
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That's actually one thing I loved about the show

Omar is the greatest TV character of all time followed closely by Tyrion

comment by Kamran. (U1204)
posted 1 minute ago
"I finished the Walking Dead and I'm currently ruing all that time I've wasted. "
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Hope you get run over

TWD is the GOAT

Can't wait for season 5
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It's on par with the Revolution. It's that bad

That season where they spent the whole 10 or episodes on a farm

comment by Juan Matador (U17834)
posted 12 seconds ago
Omar is the greatest TV character of all time followed closely by Tyrion
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I'd say Tony Soprano, Omar and then Jofferey.

The Farm season was too good

Fek the Yanks, I'm waiting for the Luther movie to come out.

comment by Brain (U18701)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by ☺ Wumpatröl - We are going to Wembley, We are going to Wembley (U5046)
posted 2 minutes ago
"The Hamsterdam series slightly annoyed me, due to the plausibility factor"

Wow, explain!! That was one of the most important bits of the whole series.
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It was just that I found it took a teeny bit of a stretch of imagination for me to process that story line. Don't get me wrong, I know it was central to the plot, and I enjoyed the story, but just felt that it was a little unlikely that such a situation would play out the way it did. I'm sure there is some real life precedent to disprove me, but with the rest of the show so completely 'real' feeling, it just didn't quite ring true to me. It doesn't take away from this being an amazing series though.
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I get you although I do believe it is still a very feasible thing. The idea of a cop just getting tired of the whole depressing cycle of cops hitting corners, shaking up the dealers the find there everyday yet the crime in the city stays the same. At the end of the series, you just had to feel how depressing it can be to be a cop in Baltimore. Remember they even ended it with a scene of cops shaking up dealers in a corner?

Can't watch Luther without seeing Stringer Bell.

comment by Darko - Arsenal 2013/14 Premier League Champions (U17589)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by ☺ Wumpatröl - We are going to Wembley, We are going to Wembley (U5046)
posted 6 seconds ago
I am the only one who was fascinated by Cohle's nihilistic ramblings on True Detective. That guy was a downer if there was ever one!
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An Emmy-worthy performance from McConaughey. Imagine going on a day long car journey with him.
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Even imagining is too much. His partner thought he had a cross in his house because he was a Christian but when he had the explanation, he couldn't wait for the guy to shut up

comment by Kamran. (U1204)
posted 1 minute ago
The Farm season was too good
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One of the things that bothers me is how zombies, a central element of the show which drove the plot, has been reduced to pretty much an annoyance. A side show. They're not as terrifying as they used to be.

Unless they evolve, somewhat, become faster and learn to organize etc would be a lot more interesting

Just googled 'The Corner' On my to-get list now

comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 2 minutes ago
Can't watch Luther without seeing Stringer Bell.
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Speaking of Stringer Bell, I ran into him once in a sainsburys store in Richmond. Shook his hand but unfortunately was in a rush and couldn't take a photo. Found out later his wife was in hospital having a baby. Explained why he looked dishevelled and tired.

*he was in a rush

Wumpatrol... I'm hoping you can accept my apology. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf as a poster and I'd really to start afresh.

Joffrey can get fooked

I like it the way it is tbh.

Who do you think they'll kill off next season?

The reason season 2 differs is because David Simon wanted to create a show that focuses on Urban America's struggle and how the war on Drugs is failing.

So if you look at the Wire it has no main character like say Tony Soprano or Walter White. In the Wire Baltimore is the character which simulates Urban America.

Season 1 = The war on drugs and how it's failing on both sides.
Season 2 = The Docks, the importation of illegal substances / people etc. into America.
Season 3 = The Political game
Season 4 = Education and looks at how the issues an American city faces are not being delt with hence they affect each generation.
Season 5 = The News paper, they dying form of Media (and was also a personal thing for Simon as he was a journalist)

So you've 5 major issues every large American city faces. (some won't have Docks but they all import illegal stuff). Simon wanted, through television narrative to hold a mirror up to urban America and show how the current format is failing everyone on all sides.

The cops don't have enough funding and focus on the wrong things "Drugs on the Table"
The Education system is failing kids hence the high levels of dropouts, also not enough funding and again focusing on the wrong things in thsi case it's about test scores not the kids themselves.
Also the issues not being delt with affect generation after generation, so you've got Bubbles, he eventually gets off the dope and the streets but he's replaced by That dirty kid, can't remember his name, he begins the life Bubbles has led when Bubbles finally gets out.

Also Michael is the new Omar, one dies but there is always another to replace him.

The original corner boys Poot, wallace and Bodie are all moved on but Michale and his gang are now running the corners.
Avon goes to prison Malrow comes along.
Carcetti preaches change and reform but ultimatley goes off to follow his own political career and the balck lady becomes Mayor and it's back to the same issues the city faced under the mayor Carcetti beat in the election.

Without reform and change America will continue to struggle, that's the message the TV show puts out and was Simon's intention. The fact that he got an ex cop to help write it just make sit far more realistic, he also had reformed dealers etc. as advisors on the show to add to the realism of the language used, how drugs were imported, delt and stashed.

All I can really say is The Wire is the Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

comment by Kamran. (U1204)
posted 1 minute ago
The Farm season was too good


Kam you being serious here that season 2 of the Walkign dead was good?

Can't watch Luther without seeing Stringer Bell.

I started watching The Wire after I'd seen Luther and never even realised it was Idris Alba until someone informed me.

Luther is a good shout, undderrated amongst people I know

Haven't seen the last season yet, is it worth it?

All I can really say is The Wire is the Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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Absolutely floored me the first he said that!!

I actually had missed Duquan had become the new Bubbles but you missed that black cop becoming the new disgruntled-by-chain-of-command cop that McNulty was.

Am I the only one who absolutely despises Carcetti the most from the show!! What a çunt!!!!

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comment by ☺ Wumpatröl - We are going to Wembley,... (U5046)
posted 23 minutes ago
I am the only one who was fascinated by Cohle's nihilistic ramblings on True Detective. That guy was a downer if there was ever one!
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I was watching the scene when he's dancing in the bar and said to my misses wait now he's going to start moaning about dancing in a min, next scene he starts saying loads of negative stuff about people dancing

What a character though and so well acted.

The fact that he got an ex cop to help write it just make sit far more realistic, he also had reformed dealers etc. as advisors on the show to add to the realism of the language used, how drugs were imported, delt and stashed.
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I remember watching the show and thinking "the creator of this show surely can't be white can he?"