Brief interlude of sorrow and tears

[eye_of_a_cat]

People, watch what you select as work-reward TV: season 4 of The Wire is breaking my heart. (Although I would still like to demand that everyone else who hasn't seen The Wire start watching now - RIGHT NOW, I'll wait here - because it truly is as good as its best praise says it is, with the caveat that it's a tiny bit rocky in the first few episodes compared to its complete genius later on, and so you need to stick with it for a little while when you're no more than vaguely curious about what's going to happen next. The heartbreak will come, I promise you.)

Comments

[editer.livejournal.com]

Agreed, through Season 4; Season 5 wasn't as good as the rest, though it was still better than most other TV series and well worth watching.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowed to watch it until the boyfriend has time to watch me watching it :)
But I've developed a Sapphire and Steel addiciton that is having roughly the same effect, except with fear instead of heartbreak.

[bend-gules.livejournal.com]

I watched the first season, and then decided, though it's brilliant, it's too dark and gritty for me to watch and not get discouraged with the state of the world, or at least this little corner of urban Baltimore.

I've never successfully followed such a convoluted plot before! Very glad of the summaries at the start of each (DVD) episode.