"The Wire" Celebrates 20 Years: Why All the Pieces Still Matter

[@leonhall856]

Hands down the greatest tv series ever made. Absolutely flawless

[@nickcaesar7650]

Better than The Sopranos?

[@alexanderpink1267]

Sopranos is slightly better but they are both far ahead of any other tv show

[@cyrusgill1594]

Fucking thank you 🙏🏿 finally someone who fucking comprehends what crime drama television is supposed to be. Salute 🫡 to you for knowing what authentic television is. We should kick it

[@cyrusgill1594]

U have sense

[@jaysilver9925]

100%%%%

[@danpreston564]

I watch the Wire start to finish once a year. Usually in the winter when you don’t want to go out. It’s like listening to a favourite piece of music. I know what’s going to happen, I know what people are going to say but it still hits me in the feels. I laugh. I genuinely cry, especially with Bubbles, whom I love with all my heart, more than most real people in my life. The dialogue is beautiful. Once you tune in to the slang in the projects it’s like understanding a lyrical foreign language. Nothing else comes close.

[@jemelwoseley9381]

Facts… I watch once a year also

[@thijs673]

Same here mate. As soon as I’m done with season 5 I already start again. Best show ever.

[@kevinwheesysouthward9295]

It’s funny. The Wire was my favorite show ever, while I was watching it. As the years went by, other shows (Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Ect.) would take its place as my #1. The funny part is, that those shows only surpassed it for a short time. I can honestly say that The Wire passes the test of time, as the highest quality of television ever.

[@jackbedient]

Very well put…

[@raymondsims7042]

⁠@@jackbedientwhat’s your top ten? Mine is 1. The wire 2. Game of thrones 3. Mr robot 4. Dark 5. The boys 6. Breaking bad 7. Succession 8. Stranger things 9 sopranos 10. Mad men

[@timiam9800]

The Wire will still be worth remembering in another 20. Thanks for keeping it real!

[@KelticTim]

Namand had crazy heart to step out of the projects and try to make it in a whole new world. F that. Being soft would’ve meant staying there and trying to be his daddy.

[@raineyj560]

Is he the one w the ponytail? I am just watching "The Wire" everyone said Season 4 was the best so I started there. Going to get some liquor this weekend and truly binge.

[@KelticTim]

@@raineyj560 Lmao, yup. They don’t shut up about it either

[@acforsale5802]

The only tv show with no main hero or villain. This is deep story telling played in a show.

[@vegan4life660]

The system is the villain..

[@Gesuselsaviour]

And Baltimore is the main character

[@Craigers8637]

I get your points but if I had to pick a person, Marlo is in the conversation at least in the later seasons, he's stone cold n has no issues having anyone killed

[@JMR_2028]

Marlo was a pretty clear villain

[@analisekeating4838]

Keyma is right that is what makes the Wire the best show on television!! A judge change the way he sentence people!! Wow amazing.

[@LorraineHoisington]

Best thing put on TV in decades. A definite teaching moment from start to finish with the good, the bad, and the ugly not being the way you expect them to be. What touched me more than anything was the young kids, pushed into a world because they had nowhere else to go - no family, no future and no hope. It answers a lot of questions about why people do what they do and, hopefully, teaches us how to fix and repair society.

[@SuperCosty2010]

Bubs: "The hardest part was the 5th season where I had to be clean" 😁 Andre, you were just beautiful, as all other actors too of course, but you especially

[@bananaempijama]

Greatest show ever. No contest.

[@lazybum9732]

I can't pick between this and BB .. both goats of tv shows . BCS comes close as well .

[@raymondsims7042]

@@lazybum9732breaking bad is great but not even close

[@Saturdayz_In_The_Fall]

Season 4 of The Wire will forever be the greatest season television will ever see in all of humanity. Because it focuses on how it all begins, hence the focus on abandoned homes, and how the generational curse will continue on… hence the circular imagery in the Season 4 intro. Just a cycle repeating itself.

[@raymondsims7042]

Agreed

[@reginaldallen7648]

I Love my City. Baltimore. Eastside I was raised different Love

[@slithermayne2218]

Damn, homie that played Landsman dropped some WEIGHT. Dude is damn near unrecognizable, good for him

[@EvanMcLaren]

I enjoyed Breaking Bad and Mad Men, but it grinds me a little that those two shows got way more shine than a much deeper and more superior show, The Wire.

[@raymondsims7042]

Mad men and breaking bad are definitely excellent shows neither is anywhere close to the wire. So yeah I’m with you lad. What’s your top ten? Mine would be 1. The wire 2. Game of thrones 3. Mr robot 4. Dark 5. The boys 6. Breaking bad 7. Succession 8. Stranger things 9. Sopranos 10. Mad men

[@plingploong]

I never got into Breaking Bad - I couldn't get myself to carry on watching. I loved The Sopranos when it was on, and 6 feet under. Mad Men was amazing, but none of those iconic shows (and others) were ones I could watch over and over again, or all the way through. Remember these shows were episodic and broadcast once a week - watching all the episodes together, the way we watch shows now, can change the way you view the material. I can't do that with Mad Men. It's too much. The Wire is one of only a few shows that I'm happy to watch again and again, and I can watch it all the way through without breaks. It's that well-paced and just that good.

[@woppotaco9350]

This show had so many layers, so many different perspectives Ive had to rewatch it. I’m on season 5 and they brought fentanyl when talking about homeless murder plot, shit floored me. I was telling a friend of mine that the show especially season 4 & 5 explains the plot of America RIGHT NOW!!!!!

[@neilifill4819]

Such a great show! I’ve watched it twice. So deep and wide, and so complex, yet very simple.

[@davidarmitage289]

Thanks so much for this … this show was a masterpiece. Very grateful

[@marshallposey7842]

Fantastic series! The acting was superb.

[@cassry2073]

“The Wire” is the best crime drama series ever made. For a fictional tv series, you couldn’t get any closer to reality in portraying the city of Baltimore. The streets being brutal & unforgiving, the fall of the unions at the harbor, how poor the city became and how the school system and the kids suffered more then anyone else, the political divide between the black and white demographics, and the battle within the police system. It’s poor, rough, and a battle within all level of the system, regardless of who you were. A+

[@cyrusgill1594]

Nothing compares (now & then)

[@brandonroyal1255]

Man Slim Charles was my favorite character

[@azareloropeza3261]

I am SO GLAD I WAS ONE OF THOSE GENERATIONS that got to see Yhe Wire on BET late nights , man I remember seeing Omarnin the commercial , that infamous line ok f his " The Game is Out there , it's either play or get played " such nostalgia

[@jaeo9555]

*Poot, you're the man for this hour's interview*

[@paulfletcher3998]

Namand had heart.

[@ChrisGrande]

Great show. I can rewatch clips ad nauseum

[@Gliz2427]

The only Villain in this show is the system.

[@cyrusgill1594]

Because it was REAL. THANKS FOR THIS

[@tippylosojos]

Definetly the best series ever.

[@PRAYIMAKET]

The best tv show. Ever even how they scripted it and all the actors were very good.

[@raymondsims7042]

No question about it

[@jasminehill6312]

Best show ever!!!

[@raymondsims7042]

Without question

[@rickshaw3645]

Greggs 😍

[@swampduck2609]

I wonder if Andre realized the metaphor about the people sweeping up after seeing it.

[@molasorrosalom4846]

People hated the Naymond character? Thought he had one of tbe greatest arcs of the show.

[@Airi_Iwin]

He got the life Randy and Duquan deserved he was a good kid don’t get me wrong but he got to be lucky.

[@St3phenking13]

He was a clown lol. Mike had to humble him and put him in his place but he learned his lesson in the end so he got his stuff together in the end.

[@jennaebranch4293]

NO LIE... BUBS COMING UP THE STAIRS & SIT WITH HIS SIS' FAMILY⁉️. MADE MY SOUL WARM & ME WANNA CRY‼️❗️, CUZ I WAS FOLLOWING HIM & MCNULTY DA MOST❗️‼️. BUBS WAS A TRUE SUCCESS STORY‼️...NAMOND AS WELL❗️.

[@shaneikaj.8711]

Did we pay that “dog” that barked every damn episode 😂😂😂

[@swampduck2609]

It’s details like that, that made the wire so realistic.

[@thijs673]

I wish I never watched the wire. Don’t watch this show. Because afterwards no cop show will be good. I started with Power for example, but I rather watch the Wire again for the 50th time. When I’m finally arrive at the 5th season I get a smile at my face by thinking of McNulty as a serial killer😂

[@BandannaLew]

I love some of Mrs.Shirley’s scrambled eggs

[@mrsteel9026]

If a show gets bad ratings that's usually a sure sign it's good.

[@bo71588]

THE WIRE DESTROYED HBO; YOU CAN'T GO ANY HIGHER

[@ChooseCompassion]

Masterpiece with a capital M!

[@skellvarnsen23]

aint no thang

[@chillbest14]

Donut my favorite

[@adamtheagent3978]

as good as sopranos is, the wire blows it away.

[@raymondsims7042]

Agreed not even close

[@scottyg5403]

I remember watching the Wire and in all honesty it's because it was a cop show. I soon realized it was much more than that. The thing is I couldn't seem to find others who were watching ,and this includes both black and white. Then all of a sudden people caught on. But alas no Emmys for this show! Total BS in that regard!

[@JayyJay92]

When does poot cry? I think poot was like wtf when did I miss my cousin? Lol when does that happen.

[@Clarence_Oddbody]

Sonia wearing Shardene’s glasses.😅😅😅😅

[@cashnelson2306]

I'm sorry "namond was soft" is such an absurdly stupid thing to say lol, how do you miss the point of the show that hard

[@TsunamiBrook]

ever-relevant. PANDEMIC!

[@sandrahunter5904]

This is a true fall of a great American city.

[@PinealPlayground]

These big networks crack me TF up. As important n big as The Wire was and IS, STILL...there's nothing more than a podcast to commemorate this epic series?! Lol cheap as mf's. EXACTLY what Kanye was talkin about.

[@wwbuirkle]

Baltimore is even worse now

[@Flowergurl2000]

The final season was about schools, and it might as well have been a Chrystal ball.

[@shahidafridiboomboom]

The final Season was about journalism. The fourth Season was about schools.

[@jpmnky]

If only that was the last season. The last season was unfortunate. The one about journalists and that goofy fake serial killer storyline.

[@dbutta2496]

@@jpmnky yeah that was bad smh

[@olubukonla7352]

No, there should have been a 6th season about criminalizing immigration, as David Simon intended.

[@andrebrown8969]

@@jpmnky I did like the journalism part, how you get your information is deeply important, but the serial killer story is potentially questionable. What would you suggest they should have done instead?

[@RunstarHomer]

Whoever made this video. By comparing the message of the wire to the modern day BLM/antifa garbage, you showed that you missed the point of the show by a hundred miles.

[@privateuser7]

Look at what democrat leadership did to Baltimore still to this day

[@micperez819]

🤡

[@woahblackbettybamalam]

All political parties dance to the tune of the federal reserve. The game is rigged

[@KelticTim]

So gross to here Kimmies actress say she wishes she could go back and play the character like an activist. That’s now, that’s was not then, and really that’s not even now. Cops are cops, they see the truth, they don’t worry about emotional triggers in a neighborhood, they worry about real ones.

[@flogginmama]

Tell me you completely missed the point of the wire, why dontcha....