r/TheWire • u/Desperate-Cream-6723 • 4d ago

Thoughts on We Own This City

Going through a little The Wire withdrawal after watching the entire series. I've heard We Own This City is the same vibe and somewhat of a sequel of sorts to the Wire... just curious what you all think of this series and if it holds a candle to the Wire?

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u/General-Zombie5075 4d ago

You'll be chasing that Wire high your whole life.

SOURCE: Watched most of The Wire as it aired.

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u/Natural_Return_4650 4d ago

I couldn't imagine waiting week to week for this show. I didn't see it until after it had all aired

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u/General-Zombie5075 4d ago

Week to week has its benefits. Conversations about the show are better because everyone's all on the same part. You can actually speculate about the fates of characters or about what's going to happen because... nobody knows how it ends.

Even here on the Wire subreddit, conversation goes down two paths:

1) Assuming everyone has COMPLETELY finished the show.

2) The ol' "what part are you on?" and we all do some mental rewinds to figure out if we can talk about the funny thing Bunk did... or was that a different season or... shit... nevermind. We'll just say it's good.

So yeah, week to week the conversation can be a lot more speculative, which just doesn't exist when the show ends. There's a reason why "Lost" was, like, king of online discourse for the better part of a decade and now that it's all done... crickets.

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u/AwwwNiceMarmot 4d ago

lol it’s like when Game of Thrones was airing. That’s all anyone talked about, both online and in person. But now it’s like everyone just forgot it existed even though it was a cultural phenomenon at the time. Even die hard fans have almost completely lost interest in the whenever the next book comes out, if it ever does.

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u/General-Zombie5075 4d ago

A lot of Game of Thrones's problem is that they failed to stick the landing. It's like recommending a masseuse who gives the best massages and then at the end of the session they kick you in the balls. It really doesn't matter how good the rest of the massage was, you probably won't be going back.

Your Breaking Bads, your Sopranos, your Star Trek the Next Generations... those all have had long shelf lives. Partly because they all can be recommended without reservation and when you go and rewatch them you know you'll have a good time of it until the end.

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u/Capn26 3d ago

That’s because George sold us out. If I actually thought he’d end the series in his life, I’d still be all about it. I WANT the ending. All of it. But he’s more interested in telling another story, when he hasn’t really finished the first.

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u/Samule310 4d ago

I didn't have anyone to talk about it with when it was on. I was the only person I know who watched it at the time.