@@dripcaraybbx that’s what I meant. It’s can’t be highly ranked AND underrated. Overlooked by many, perhaps, but generally considered one of the best shows ever
It's wild how they had that flashback at the end. HBO must have really pushed for that because I think it's one of maybe like two times all series where they actually spell shit out for the audience. I think audiences in the 10s and 20s are much better about paying attention during shows now that there's a huge backlog of quality tv.
HBO definitely forced David Simon to do it, he's said so himself a few times. It was a pilot, so HBO didn't want to take any chances that audiences wouldn't remember. Also, you're right, before The Wire and HBO there weren't very many shows that told a long story over the course of a whole season. People were used to episodic stuff like Law and Order where a whole story is told in one episode.
This is the only show where I would lean forward and pay attention to watch the Previously On segment, because of the giant cast and multiple storylines, it was a challenge to remember what happened last week.
Remember how screening of the pilot went so badly, half of the audience fell asleep... I'm guessing HBO executives were all up in his shit but can you blame them? Millions of dollars invested and people said it was boring as he'll and confusing too but they still believed in him enough to throw money down the drain and somehow it paid off
Such an important series, everybody should watch this show, can’t wait to journey through another Top 5 show for me personally with two of the best reactors period!
This show is a masterpiece how they realistically portray how things really are. Whether it's the streets, the police, politics, the education system or the media. This show dives deep in to everything and shows how corrupt and messed up everything in the world is.
Formal: "Hey that's my boy!" "From Gotham." "He got that voice that you make you feel you feel like he about to spit some wisdom. Like some wise shit." Me: (Who has seen "The Wire" multiple times) Oh, god ... they're so unprepared to meet Rawls, LOL!
This more than any show you can't judge on an episode by episode. Sit back and soak it in. You gonna need to always remind commenters on no spoilers. People love to be like "just wait til you see what happens to X person." That's a spoiler. Some people can't keep their mouth shut. They love breaking news to first time reactors. Can't wait to go through it with y'all. This will be a fun year with The Wire and The Sopranos. Two shows that beat all the odds in not just getting made but also all the creative liberty the writers were given.
For me the trinity of television dramas, are The Wire, Breaking Bad, and, The Sopranos. That's all I need in this here world. Though I do like other shows. 😂👍
Yeah, the most real show on television and one that hits all the hardest because of the way it shows, more than telling. They go to some real dark places and they make you uncomfortable, but you know it never is gratuitous. It's just that, rather than telling you that there's racism in the police, they straight up show you the major for homicides in one of the cities with the most black homicide victims in the US casually drop the hard r n-word while he complains about stats like they matter more than people. It's a hell of a ride. Most people who don't click with the show do so because they can't get past the first 4 episodes, which is where they slowly set the pieces and build the world, but the payoff to that is just trmendous.
I’m from Baltimore born and raised…been here 40 yrs….was cool when they’d film it down here…very realistic depictions of what it was like, I’m from Northeast Bmore
"This America, man." Perfect final line to close the perfect cold open to a show. Three simple words so brutally yet graciously encapsulating the class struggle and economic underrepresentation for POC in this country. Gotta get in how you can and make it work. That's how the system was laid out for us.
New subscriber here, enjoyed ur reaction and cannot wait to go on this Wire journey with u guys. This series is truly a masterpiece. Please don’t let people tell u season 2 is shit, we get new players in a new setting but the writing and acting are still top shelf and ALL the seasons work together to tell an overall critique of Baltimore’s policies and bullshit that keep people trapped in dysfunction. Season 4 is my favorite but every season is fantastic. Thanks for doing this.
You mean the DEMONcrat commie lunatics who run cities like Baltimore? I’ve been here 40 yrs in Baltimore, blacks here HATE that blm horse shit…but the news won’t tell/show that…DEMONcrat cities are DESIGNED to keep people in poverty, full of drugs…cia are the biggest drug dealers on earth
The first time I saw this show, I didn't like season 1 that much I don't know why. I got hooked with season 2 and after that I couldn't stop watching the show.
I love how as this show goes on it shows a truly realistic version of the dysfunction and corruption in police departments, and how their own screwups and internal power plays we never get to see give gangs the opportunity to level the playing field a bit more. Hell, it shows how the cops themselves often act like a gang.
I saw another reaction channel do The Wire recently and they too assumed Idris Elba was Avon, I guess because he's become so famous over the last 15 years. This show is the reason he 1st became famous. (Same as lot of the other actors in it.)
Do y'all have a Patreon page where y'all have a full length Reaction where the language isn't edited out??? I'd pay to watch y'all React to THE WIRE #WeJustTalkingTVandMOVIES #TellemTANKseddit #TANKTheTVandMovieMaven
@@FriendRequestReviews Make sure y'all save the FULL Reactions of these Episodes until you do because from experience, this will all but guarantee that fans of your Reactions will follow your PATREON journey.
Another favorite groundbreaking show of mine. The Wire is a epic masterpiece. Season's 3 and 4 are my favorite. Season 2 is my least favorite. Season 1 good too tho starting out. The real tragedy is that this show ain't never won any awards smh. In my opinon this was maybe too raw for those people to handle. The Wire was the first 1 hour show to focus on issues in an urban city between the police, the local goverment, and the drug dealers. Most of the extras you see in the Wire are real. Just like there would'nt be Breaking Bad without The Sopranos, there wouldn't be The Sopranos without The Wire!
Okay, it took me a couple tries. I am three episodes in. I like it so far. I like that it's not a case of the week drama. It's more like Line of Duty, The Killing, Broadchurch, Happy Valley. All the actors are good. Natural, not pretty people saying things and doing stuff like so many shows these days. It has a bit of a '70s vibe. They don't just spoon feed you plot points. I am intrigued.
@@FriendRequestReviews I am looking forward to it. I've been wanting to watch it for a while, but it's never been on any of my services.. So I got HBO Max just for you!
in my opinion, the best show ever created for television, hands down. Breaking Bad is more of a thrill ride (and my runner up) but the Wire is so deep and a slow burn with such impact. hope you enjoy and hope more reactors watch this so more people will pick it up. I'm along for the ride for sure.
My brother is BPCD….the shit they deal with on a daily basis is unthinkable…last month he got a call to go to a row home in west Baltimore because a dude son was “missing”…basically the “mother “ of the child had him for the day then wouldn’t answer her phone and when he tried to knock on the door nobody would answer….my brother and a couple other officers then found her in the kitchen dancing to music….while the child was in the OVEN…he was long gone at that point….absolutely sickening…my bro said the smell is something he’ll have with him until he dies one day….and these cops deal with shit like this DAILY…they deserve ALL of our support/respect…he’s only ever talked about one cop who he thought was a p.o.s
BUSHY TOP😍 AND BODDIE🤗‼️💜 2 corrections: A. this show has the best intro in every variation B. Power and the likes r babys of The Wire not the other way around 💯 Fun Fact... The last series ep mirrors the 1st ep. Genius writing‼️ Even though yall late and it's different when you're watching live and living it at the same time... Welcome to #TheWire4Life👊🏾 but y'all should have done #TheCorner 1st. Its an hbo mini series...bio based but the real characters r n the wire and so r the real ppl. The wire started right after it finished
I'm back at it again. The first intersection of a post 9/11 World. High tech, and it's shift from the war on drugs to the war on terror, when we began to lose all of our privacy. Very sophisticated series.
This show is dope but some of the characters are ridiculous. I know how people talk, on the streets too and that dude Johnny acts like an actor trying waaaaay too hard to act like a junkie. Bubbles too.
I still can't believe you guys are only at 3.5k, you guys are my favorite TH-cam reactors, you're interactions make me feel like I'm chilling with the homies back home. Never change F double R's never change.
I'm excited to watch your reactions to what is, as far as I'm concerned, the best tv show ever made. Just brilliant! Side note: Bunk joked about leaving the mouse's carcass out as a warning to other mouses and that's exactly what happens at the end of the episode with the murdered witness, since he had already testified, so it wasn't about stopping it, but rather about letting people know what would happen if they decided to do the same. All scenes and dialogues in the show are relevant, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
The Wire is one of those shows I've only seen once, probably 10 years ago now. Looking forward to watching you guys watch this series so I get to see it for a second time.
Not at all average imo. I watched it years ago and to this day it stuck with me. I can’t say that for the Sopranos but I never got into that. I just found the characters so repulsive I tapped out after a couple of episodes. I’m determined to give it another crack.
Channel about to blow up with The Wire fans. One of the greatest shows ever.
Such an excellent show. Deadly serious. Criminally underrated. Beloved by those who know.
It’s IMDB 6th best TV show of all time. So I dunno about overrated but certainly under the radar as almost no reaction channels cover it.
@@AlohaTrev "underrated"
@@dripcaraybbx that’s what I meant. It’s can’t be highly ranked AND underrated. Overlooked by many, perhaps, but generally considered one of the best shows ever
It's wild how they had that flashback at the end. HBO must have really pushed for that because I think it's one of maybe like two times all series where they actually spell shit out for the audience. I think audiences in the 10s and 20s are much better about paying attention during shows now that there's a huge backlog of quality tv.
HBO definitely forced David Simon to do it, he's said so himself a few times. It was a pilot, so HBO didn't want to take any chances that audiences wouldn't remember. Also, you're right, before The Wire and HBO there weren't very many shows that told a long story over the course of a whole season. People were used to episodic stuff like Law and Order where a whole story is told in one episode.
This is the only show where I would lean forward and pay attention to watch the Previously On segment, because of the giant cast and multiple storylines, it was a challenge to remember what happened last week.
Remember how screening of the pilot went so badly, half of the audience fell asleep... I'm guessing HBO executives were all up in his shit but can you blame them? Millions of dollars invested and people said it was boring as he'll and confusing too but they still believed in him enough to throw money down the drain and somehow it paid off
Such an important series, everybody should watch this show, can’t wait to journey through another Top 5 show for me personally with two of the best reactors period!
This show is a masterpiece how they realistically portray how things really are. Whether it's the streets, the police, politics, the education system or the media. This show dives deep in to everything and shows how corrupt and messed up everything in the world is.
Formal: "Hey that's my boy!" "From Gotham." "He got that voice that you make you feel you feel like he about to spit some wisdom. Like some wise shit."
Me: (Who has seen "The Wire" multiple times) Oh, god ... they're so unprepared to meet Rawls, LOL!
😂😂😂 then immediately threw up the middle finger after I said that lol
This more than any show you can't judge on an episode by episode. Sit back and soak it in.
You gonna need to always remind commenters on no spoilers. People love to be like "just wait til you see what happens to X person." That's a spoiler. Some people can't keep their mouth shut. They love breaking news to first time reactors.
Can't wait to go through it with y'all. This will be a fun year with The Wire and The Sopranos. Two shows that beat all the odds in not just getting made but also all the creative liberty the writers were given.
For me the trinity of television dramas, are The Wire, Breaking Bad, and, The Sopranos. That's all I need in this here world. Though I do like other shows. 😂👍
this should be at the top of every video, people goofy af commenting that type of shit on reaction videos
Yeah, the most real show on television and one that hits all the hardest because of the way it shows, more than telling. They go to some real dark places and they make you uncomfortable, but you know it never is gratuitous. It's just that, rather than telling you that there's racism in the police, they straight up show you the major for homicides in one of the cities with the most black homicide victims in the US casually drop the hard r n-word while he complains about stats like they matter more than people.
It's a hell of a ride. Most people who don't click with the show do so because they can't get past the first 4 episodes, which is where they slowly set the pieces and build the world, but the payoff to that is just trmendous.
I love when it makes people uncomfortable, let's you know the viewer deep down has some belief in what they're watching.
I’m from Baltimore born and raised…been here 40 yrs….was cool when they’d film it down here…very realistic depictions of what it was like, I’m from Northeast Bmore
"This America, man." Perfect final line to close the perfect cold open to a show. Three simple words so brutally yet graciously encapsulating the class struggle and economic underrepresentation for POC in this country. Gotta get in how you can and make it work. That's how the system was laid out for us.
Greatest show of all time. Enjoy fellas. I’m subbin to go along for the ride
Welcome aboard!
Another great choice!
so glad you’re watching the wire and hope y’all make a patreon for it, it’s the best show i ever watched to this day 💯
one of my fav shows, it's a slow build but just remember all the pieces matter :)
Do not disrespect "Way Down in the Hole". 😂
That’s my favorite of the intro songs. “Corny?” SMH, lol
lol I said what I said! 😂
The Wire? Hells ya! Subbed!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
New subscriber here, enjoyed ur reaction and cannot wait to go on this Wire journey with u guys. This series is truly a masterpiece. Please don’t let people tell u season 2 is shit, we get new players in a new setting but the writing and acting are still top shelf and ALL the seasons work together to tell an overall critique of Baltimore’s policies and bullshit that keep people trapped in dysfunction. Season 4 is my favorite but every season is fantastic. Thanks for doing this.
You mean the DEMONcrat commie lunatics who run cities like Baltimore? I’ve been here 40 yrs in Baltimore, blacks here HATE that blm horse shit…but the news won’t tell/show that…DEMONcrat cities are DESIGNED to keep people in poverty, full of drugs…cia are the biggest drug dealers on earth
The first time I saw this show, I didn't like season 1 that much I don't know why. I got hooked with season 2 and after that I couldn't stop watching the show.
that's interesting, I've heard people saying season 2 wasn't that great... but I think I'll enjoy it all the way through
@@FriendRequestReviews generally people don't like it, but IMO it's underrated
Oh y’all doing The Wire? Subscribed!
We appreciate the support! 🙏🏾
Looking forward to the next episode.
I love how as this show goes on it shows a truly realistic version of the dysfunction and corruption in police departments, and how their own screwups and internal power plays we never get to see give gangs the opportunity to level the playing field a bit more. Hell, it shows how the cops themselves often act like a gang.
Your taste is 👌
LETS GO
Just remember.
What ever you guys thinking about the wire right now
Its beyond whatever it is
CC still got ep 9 once that's clear will drop ep 10 🤙
we need some more episodes, hurry up!! hahahahaa
I saw another reaction channel do The Wire recently and they too assumed Idris Elba was Avon, I guess because he's become so famous over the last 15 years. This show is the reason he 1st became famous. (Same as lot of the other actors in it.)
@@neilsun2521 LOL at that point Wood Harris was a bigger deal( Above The Rim with Tupac, Meet The Titans)than a young Idris.
@@MentalStillness Exactly.
@@MentalStillness [Edit: gosh, have i really been watching this channel a whole year?! Feels more recent..]
Best tv show ever - everyone plays their part in the game - no choice.
Its because he family
BOARDWALK EMPIRE! Equally as good, arguably better…must check it out, so damn good
don't worry hood ish
Avon Barksdale is based on a real Baltimore drug dealer.
Hey Breaking Bad, I'm really happy for and I will let you finish, but The Wire is the best show of all time. It's the best show if all time. 👍👍👍👍👍
that's what we keep hearing
Do y'all have a Patreon page where y'all have a full length Reaction where the language isn't edited out???
I'd pay to watch y'all React to THE WIRE
#WeJustTalkingTVandMOVIES
#TellemTANKseddit
#TANKTheTVandMovieMaven
not yet, but we're working on it
@@FriendRequestReviews
Make sure y'all save the FULL Reactions of these Episodes until you do because from experience, this will all but guarantee that fans of your Reactions will follow your PATREON journey.
Big man you need a history lesson. Only Presidents faces are on U.S. Tender.
Meaning, Money or 💵 Bills.
Idris sounds new york lol but at least he sounds american and not like a brit.
Damn, BrBa/BCS/Wire/Sopranos. Covering the all time great shows.
I am so pumped to rewatch this amazing show with you. It’s been ages since I’ve watched this. Let’s go. 😄
YESSS. Just sit back and enjoy. It's not the kinda show you can judge a few episodes in, gotta let it play out.
It's already starting off good! Can't wait to get further in
Another favorite groundbreaking show of mine. The Wire is a epic masterpiece. Season's 3 and 4 are my favorite. Season 2 is my least favorite. Season 1 good too tho starting out. The real tragedy is that this show ain't never won any awards smh. In my opinon this was maybe too raw for those people to handle. The Wire was the first 1 hour show to focus on issues in an urban city between the police, the local goverment, and the drug dealers. Most of the extras you see in the Wire are real. Just like there would'nt be Breaking Bad without The Sopranos, there wouldn't be The Sopranos without The Wire!
Didn't The Wire come after Sopranos? Do you think The Wire being released changed direction of the later seasons of The Sopranos?
What? Sopranos came before The Wire lmao
I watched the whole series but I could only do it once because it was so devastating. I’m trying to work up the nerve to tackle it again lol
the 1st time i seen it i really didnt pay attention to everything but the 2nd time wreck me hard.
Damn, now I’m even more excited to get through it
Formal, your relationship with the opening theme will get more complicated as the seasons go on. But the closing theme always passes the vibe check.
Another incredible series. Season 3 and 4 are my favorite seasons
Omar COMING.
It's all in the GAME Yo
The greatest tv series of all time.
@@wavonbarksdale3771 it could have been. But the cops air time was a snooze fest ( season 2 straight 💩
Y’all cut out the best line of that scene “MONEY BE GREEN!” 😅😂 17:15
love the channel boys but the wire and the sopranos everyday it would be the best
Okay, I have added HBO Max so I can watch this with you guys.... I will watch this episode tonight....
Yo......this is it.
Okay, it took me a couple tries. I am three episodes in. I like it so far. I like that it's not a case of the week drama. It's more like Line of Duty, The Killing, Broadchurch, Happy Valley. All the actors are good. Natural, not pretty people saying things and doing stuff like so many shows these days. It has a bit of a '70s vibe. They don't just spoon feed you plot points. I am intrigued.
Glad to see you joining us on this journey 🙌
@@FriendRequestReviews I am looking forward to it. I've been wanting to watch it for a while, but it's never been on any of my services.. So I got HBO Max just for you!
in my opinion, the best show ever created for television, hands down. Breaking Bad is more of a thrill ride (and my runner up) but the Wire is so deep and a slow burn with such impact. hope you enjoy and hope more reactors watch this so more people will pick it up. I'm along for the ride for sure.
money be green lol.
My brother is BPCD….the shit they deal with on a daily basis is unthinkable…last month he got a call to go to a row home in west Baltimore because a dude son was “missing”…basically the “mother “ of the child had him for the day then wouldn’t answer her phone and when he tried to knock on the door nobody would answer….my brother and a couple other officers then found her in the kitchen dancing to music….while the child was in the OVEN…he was long gone at that point….absolutely sickening…my bro said the smell is something he’ll have with him until he dies one day….and these cops deal with shit like this DAILY…they deserve ALL of our support/respect…he’s only ever talked about one cop who he thought was a p.o.s
Aye y’all boys going crazy now lol.
finally some more black ppl reacting to the wire, maybe i did win. 😩
😂
YESSSSSSSSSSS this is a very nice surprise
These roles is what started many careers.
Hell yeah boys!
BUSHY TOP😍 AND BODDIE🤗‼️💜 2 corrections: A. this show has the best intro in every variation B. Power and the likes r babys of The Wire not the other way around 💯 Fun Fact... The last series ep mirrors the 1st ep. Genius writing‼️ Even though yall late and it's different when you're watching live and living it at the same time... Welcome to #TheWire4Life👊🏾 but y'all should have done #TheCorner 1st. Its an hbo mini series...bio based but the real characters r n the wire and so r the real ppl. The wire started right after it finished
since we've started The Wire, a few people have recommended The Corner, but said it's really hard to find good quality copies of it.
I'm back at it again. The first intersection of a post 9/11 World. High tech, and it's shift from the war on drugs to the war on terror, when we began to lose all of our privacy.
Very sophisticated series.
That’s why those satanic cowards pulled that hoax…they needed a reason to enact their tyrannical policies…WAKE UP
the lawyer looks like Oakley big brother lol.
The best drama in TV history
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Checking ya'll out in 2024, let's get it!😉
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officer McNulty is the protagonist tony in gta 3 liberty city stories.
Not even lol
@@ChrisMaxCisneros look it up lol.
@@greed42o it says Danny Mastrogiorgo was his voice actor, not Domick West (Officer McNulty)
@@ChrisMaxCisneros its the same dude my guy there are two youtubes videos on the voice actors
I just started the wire so I'm scrolling back checking these out. Ever see the movie kids? Telly from the movie is the white dope fiend.
Why don't you just show the show???
I wish it was that easy 🥲
Can't wait for "Omar comin!"
While I'm waiting for Sopranos, I'll see how this sits.
You've never seen The Wire?
@Friend Request Reviews I've seen a few ep of the first season waaaaaay back so this is fresh to me
This show is dope but some of the characters are ridiculous. I know how people talk, on the streets too and that dude Johnny acts like an actor trying waaaaay too hard to act like a junkie. Bubbles too.
wow starting The Wire, Sopranos and House of The Dragon all at once?? Easy sub.
I still can't believe you guys are only at 3.5k, you guys are my favorite TH-cam reactors, you're interactions make me feel like I'm chilling with the homies back home. Never change F double R's never change.
Appreciate that, that's exactly the vibes we want. Feel like you're kicking it with the homies
Let's fuckin go. I'll be here for the long haul if you guys are
We locked in 💪🏾
I'm excited to watch your reactions to what is, as far as I'm concerned, the best tv show ever made. Just brilliant! Side note: Bunk joked about leaving the mouse's carcass out as a warning to other mouses and that's exactly what happens at the end of the episode with the murdered witness, since he had already testified, so it wasn't about stopping it, but rather about letting people know what would happen if they decided to do the same. All scenes and dialogues in the show are relevant, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
"Nicely done" was said by McNulty to Stringer in the 1st episode, and Stringer says it back to him in the last episode of the season.
The Wire is one of those shows I've only seen once, probably 10 years ago now. Looking forward to watching you guys watch this series so I get to see it for a second time.
Finally someone is doing the Wire! I have been sitting here waiting for this all my life
Bubs is one of the characters I hate the most you can't just do stuff to people then play victim when consequences come.
Wire is OK ....average along side Sopranos.....to be fair everything is.....
Not at all average imo. I watched it years ago and to this day it stuck with me. I can’t say that for the Sopranos but I never got into that. I just found the characters so repulsive I tapped out after a couple of episodes. I’m determined to give it another crack.
@@KCohere33 You are the MINORITY
@@frankie4fingers552 Haha, okay.
I actually think the wire edges out sopranos honestly
@@mintjulius275 Great Joke HUMANITY LAUGHED