I never need to watch another TV show (The Wire - The Complete First Season (DVD))

Member Name: DannoStanno

Product:	The Wire - The Complete First Season (DVD)
Date:	15/05/09 (7 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: characters, scripts, acting, story, just about everything

Disadvantages: NOTHING AT ALL

As I write this review, I hope I can grant this TV show justice. Quite simply this is the greatest television show I have ever seen and series one is where it all starts. One thing I do not wish to do is provide any spoilers whatsoever, as I envy the person who is yet to sit down and lose days of his/her life to watching the treats unravel.

If you don't know, the premise is the war on drugs between the Baltimore police force and the dealers of the Westside yet on that sort of description I would have been instantly repelled. The show is far more than that as it goes into every area of the drug trade and society's responses using superb characters and an extremely tight script. Characterwise there is not one character that I could deem either unnecessary, uninteresting, one-dimensional, badly acted, annoying or wrongly cast. As faras the script goes, it has been written not by TV hacks but by journalists and those who have had expererience in this sadly realistic world.

This show is so unique it has often been described as novelesque, in that each episode is a chapter and it is not a show to dip into. I concur, it needs to be watched in order and then rewatched, and rewatched which is possibly why it got such low viewing figures and high DVD rentals. Please go and watch as this is undeniably the most engrossingly brilliant thing to ever hit our screens.

Summary: This hyped up cult show just has taken TV to a new level which is impossible to top