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/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.