The Wire: Part one - Season 1-3

For a few years now, the wire has been heard nibbling about the circuit, being spoken about, discussed, and eventually shown on TV and watched on DVD. I knew the day would eventually come for me to finally watch one of the most critically acclaimed tv shows of all time and wonder what is it was about it, that it earned this now classic status.

At first, I found it to be a complete drag, every hourly episode seemd to drag on and on. I said to myself, it's not my fault, it's BBC2 showing five episodes a week, at around 11.20pm every night. But eventually I chose it as a drag but kept watching...

As Season 2 began a few weeks later, with a more reasonable amount of three episodes a week at still the same silly late hour, to watch again, wasn't a question. The main reason being, I started so I'll finish and hopefully understand what it is about this programme that has made it such a hit! But there was another reason brewing inside of me, of why I was watching it, as I later found out.

Season 2 ended with me reasonably pleased and satified, I enjoyed it and was looking forward to season 3. During these times of season one and two, I was joking with a friend about 'looking forward to it ending' and 'what a drag it was.' As season three finally began, I finally realised..

Not only did I realise, I started to enjoy...but that's not even the point.

I realised that the wire, doesn't care what I, you, them, us, we, or anyone thinks, in fact, it's doesn't give a fuck, famously quoted by David Simon himself, the show's creator. This is a show depicting life in the city of Baltimore, from all angles, without any use of cliffhangers, musical crescendos or any other tv production device from the tv series we have loved over the years. It's aim is to be real through how people really talk, what they really do in their lives, and how they are all really connected, whether they're on the side of criminal or law.

And so, as the final three episodes air this week, of the third season, I'm really looking forward to it and look forward to seeing how the last two seasons play out for McNulty, Bunk, Stringer, Barksdale, Daniels, Bubbles, characters names that I have finally learnt because it ain't a drag no more. This is intelligent stuff and demands the viewers attention more than once.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/27/david-simon-wire-newspapers

The wire doesn't care...and from this, viewers have fallen in love. Says alot about tv and the world. When people are faced with reality and bravery, they embrace it.

The wire continues...

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Wimbledon 09: Murray

After missing a whole week and missing the chance to go down there to see some live tennis, (all for good reason, concerning the EIFF 09 :)) It has surely been quite a second week of British tennis.

In short, Andy Murray played an incredible set of matches through to the semi-final, where the other Andy, Roddick, played a better game on this particualr day and he deserves to go through, where he face Federer, a man trying to break all the records, and he could.

Of course, I would have loved Murray to go through, but I'm sure the man himself would agree that he was just that little more outplayed by Roddick. But Murray gave it his all and played wonderfully and I have no doubt, that he is going to go from strength to strength, until eventually being the first British player to win Wimbledon since 1936, in due course.

So for now, it's Roddick VS Federer...

New balls please...