Watched the first few episodes the other week and it just didn’t really grab me enough to want to binge it ala Sopranos, Breaking Bad or GOT
Just to echo everyone else. Stick with it. I first watched The Wire when LoveFilm was still a thing. The first 4 episodes were sent out to me. I watched the first, took about a fortnight to watch the second, and a similar bit of time until the 3rd. There were two specific moments that I recall as the first occasions when I thought "this is f*cking brilliant". I think it's the third episode that closes out with a series of scenes of happenings across Baltimore with phone calls being made back and forth between various characters. In between this you see the wiretap machine just beeping away recording all the incoming/outgoing calls. No exposition or awkward dialogue from characters explaining what you're seeing. Just the realisation that everything is there. Then... fade to black. That was when I immediately put the next episode on and was hooked. To see the discovery, to see how it plays out. To see if they figure it out.
The other moment was the murder scene investigation with Bunk and McNulty. An entire scene, an entire investigation with the whole survey, digging for detail, problem solving, solution finding and reveal being acted out with no dialogue other than variations of "FUCK". And some brilliant visual acting.
For me, the hype is real. There's a HUGE gap under The Wire. Nothing comes close.
I could write/talk for ages about the layered characters, brilliant scenes, funny moments, hilarious comments, social commentary etc. It's just fucking superb. Plus, I've never really got the criticism of season 5, maybe it doesn't hit the same heights of the others, but it's still better than pretty much every other show has put out.
