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[surexit]

Question: people who like The Wire and people who like Generation Kill - are the two groups likely to overlap? Present-hunting for aged parents who lovelovelove The WireETA, after Skyping with my dad: ugh, ugh, I need good answers for this because they need a good joint birthday present because they've just offered to transform my overdraft into

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[radioaches]

Luther! I have never actually watched The Wire or Generation Kill, but my friend enjoyed The Wire a lot and then introduced me to Luther, and Luther is AMAZING and also has Idris Elba in it. Although Luther can be kind of hardcore sometimes. But then I imagine Generation Kill must be too!

[surexit]

I have never even heard of Luther! *goes to research* GK is produced by the same people as The Wire, so that was where my brain was coming from.

♥

[radioaches]

Oh man, it's so great! Idris Elba is a BADASS. And there are lots of great ladies! And great storylines!

[tibididim]

yes, GK and Wire fans overlap! - my dad's a fan of both, he & I have spent the past year or so working through them pretty gradually. I also very much like Treme, the other series made by the same people - set in New Orleans several months after Katrina - but my dad can't get into it, finds it too slow. Treme is much more sprawling than GK and I suppose the storyline isn't so immediately dramatic - no wars, no shooting. But lots of music - several characters are musicians, the music is particularly important - and lots of food. Anyway it's a slow builder but then The Wire was like that initially for me too.

tl;dr YES overlap with GK and The Wire, they are pretty similar in their aims/style of going about things

and Luther is pretty decent! but in style pretty different to The Wire, more normal, in that there are crimes and the cops solve them - Luther isn't the portrait of a city or a community the way The Wire and GK and Treme are.

[tibididim]

also: Ziggy Sobotka from s2 of The Wire is Ray Person in GK! and there are lots of Wire alumni in Treme too.

[surexit]

OH GOD I HAVE BEEN AVOIDING THE WIRE BECAUSE IT LOOKS TOO HARDCORE, BUUUUT. RAY'S FACE. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF IT, EVEN AS A NOT-RAY-PERSON CHARACTER. *WIBBLES*

[sying]

HELLO, ARE YOU ME? It's been on my to-watch list, and on my mediaplayer even, for about at least 6 months now for that reason. James Ransone and great reviews but: hardcore.

[zillahseye]

Man, you just reminded me that I had to get the second season of The Wire.

[zillahseye]

For the James Ransone-related reason mentioned by the person above me!

[surexit]

THAT REASON IS MAKING ME WANT TO WATCH IT, THAT MAN BURNS MY FACE OFF WITH HIS AMAZINGNESS.