This next Stinks Like Turd I’d like to do for The Wire, the pitch perfect “cops & criminals” show. IMDB only has one(!) negative review for it (and an average score of 9.7), so I’ve turned to a variety of other sources also. There just -had- to be people who rail against it simply because everyone loves it, or couldn’t get past the slow start.

The only reason people tell you that the Wire does not suck is because they know they have wasted like 10 hours of their lives on a thing which sucks and this makes them bitterly want others to similarly waste their lives, so they lie.

This is an average procedural, nothing more or less, stuffed with an array of interchangeable and forgettable characters

Want to see a fat cop enter his superior’s office and start, for some reason, to talk about how he was masturbating in the bath?

I found myself yanking this thing out of the DVD 25 minutes in. What a terrible show. It seems the producers of this show decided to use profanity in every scene as a blocker for the horrible writing and unclear storyline.

Isn’t this a police show? Why the newspaper crap. So boring. Why the political crap, So boring. And if that fat senator says Sheeeeeeeeeeet one more time…………………….Show SUCKS.

My main problem though is that the series is just a trap to spread liberal propaganda. You are drawn in by the drug dealers, their lives and their battles with each other and the police, then you have to endure propaganda scenes about the school system, politics and newspapers in order to get to the best part of the show, which is the portrayal of the dealers.

D’Angelo is constantly sitting on the same pile of boxes or whatever every day.

The Wire is like an improvisation at one of those let it all hang out stage schools which never produces particularly great actors.

This series stinks. I watched only episode 1, and have the experience and perception to know that it won’t get any better.

I didn’t like the profanity. It went on for too long, filled every one’s mouths, and didn’t have a point to it after the first 40 minutes. Everyone was swearing and cursing and it bored me. I got bored with it. It didn’t help to develop character or story and offended me after having it fill my ears for 40 minutes. The profanity was so thick in the first 35 minutes I got bored. I coulden’t understand what anyone was saying to each other because of the broken english, cursing and swearing, and lude and immature banter everyone engages in. In short, I coulden’t follow the story. If gangster talk and street slang wasn’t worse enough, the profanity and constant cursing just filled in the rest of the dialogue, it felt like the scriptwriters got bored with developing character and story.

The only reason I kept watching was to see Idris Elba who plays Stringer Bell cause he is a cutie!

Not in twenty years have I seen a show that has such a weak character development.

Common, no computers? I find that hard to swollow, and NO this show does not touch the Sopranos with a 10 foot pole.

But the directing and the writing are WAY OFF. This show would really appeal gangbangers n ppl like dat. Eg.The show has a curtain lingo, if you arnt ‘in the life’ you probably wont get alot of whats goin on.

I tried it sober; perhaps I should have tried it drunk.

Synopsis: “Baltimore is gritty, hardcore. Cops are corrupt sometimes” yawn.

the unseemly feeling I get that a lot of corny crack rap fans will just hype up anything that has anything to do with drug dealing these days.