a bad show...

I mean ill give it another try... its just not that interesting or good.

cool let me watch 15 mins of setup and buildup just for some junkie to try and rip off a low level dealer with a fake bill. wowwww. so interesting. so much character development.

like honest why the f do I care? I could be watching literally anything else. the sopranos. game of thrones season 1-5, the boys, band of brothers, breaking bad again, Fargo, death note, cowboy bebop, the office. anything else

the wire is drama for the sake of drama while posing as a "gritty realistic street level cop show"

maybe it was new and innovative and "never seen before" kinda thing when it came out. maybe ill give it a try again but I can remember the feeling of the seemingly the irrelevant small scale plots and side plots and thinking "I could be watching so much more epic with more stakes"

That one scene was an example of the overall show. a weak narrative

that's fair

Sometimes people need to just learn to say "I don't like it" and move on. Nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with disagreeing with others. It's all about opinion, not right or wrong.

But this is a very familiar scenario. A very highly acclaimed and highly rated show. At the time it aired it recieved great reviews and plaudits.

But along comes someone who watches it some years later, and can't understand what all the fuss is about.

And rather than simply say they don't like it, they have to attack it , because they have obviously read or been told its a very good show. So they feel the need to tear it down.

And worse, infer that there is something wrong with the people who liked it. They don't understand what they saw in it etc.

It's like there is something wrong with lots of people liking such a show, when this one person cannot understand why. So the default position for them becomes "I can't be wrong. So it must be everyone else that's wrong".

The sensible thing to do would be to say "Not for me" and move on. Or at least offer a proper critique and reasoning as to why they don't like the show.