Apr-08-2011, 06:43 AM (UTC)
(Apr-07-2011, 11:30 PM (UTC))FoolishGirl Wrote:(Apr-07-2011, 12:50 PM (UTC))danieladamsmith Wrote: The Wire...I think it's the best thing ever done for TV. 60 episodes and one long tale. It's the Great Modern American Novel about the city...
Agree! Love that the tale is told from both sides. Even more rich than The Sopranos, which is saying something.
FG,
I've heard David Simon (The Wire's creator) talk about how a lot of shows use the Shakespearian Model for storytelling,,,and he decided to go Greek tragedy instead. It's really something special. You don't realize it the first few episodes. You think you are just watching another cop show...It's not. It's so much bigger than that.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
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