Wire, The - Season 4 Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Every bit as good as you've heard

When The Guardian's Charlie Brooker goes on and on about The Wire as being the best American TV show of the last twenty years, he can get a bit repetitive. You'd also be entitled to wonder why, if The Wire is such an amazing piece of work, it only gets a UK airing on the obscure FX Channel rather than one of the big mainstream stations. But your reservations would be totally unjustified. The Wire is every bit as good as you've been told and better. Sure, it'll take you three episodes before you have a clue what is going on, but the investment pays dividends.

I can't remember a drama serial from either side of the Atlantic with such depth and emotional range and that delivers trenchant social comment along with a narrative tempo that suffers not one jot from a huge cast of characters and a complex plotline. Unsentimental, brave and moving - I guarantee you will not regret it, but start with season one and work your way through otherwise you really won't have a clue what's going on! Roll on season five!

Masterpiece

The Wire is the best thing ever written...ever. It is that rare beast that treats the audience as if they have a brain. For sure it takes the first couple of episodes per season to fully understand what is going on but by then you are absolutely hooked. I cannot heap enough superlatives upon this show. Superb.