On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Angelus Novus <[email protected]>wrote:
> raghu wrote: > > I tried to learn more about Reed and I was really surprised to see an > > article where he criticizes the HBO-show 'The Wire' as neo-Nazi. This > seems > > way over-the-top to me. > > Yeah, Reed's assessment is totally over-the-top. > Thanks. It is good to know it is not just me! > It's hard to put my finger on it exactly, but there's a sense that it's > almost got a sort of romanticized touch to it. Like, characters like Omar > Little and Brother Mouzone seem like highly improbable, larger-than-life > characters, that are intended to provide an object of identification for > the audience, outside of the cops or the drug gangs. Oh absolutely! The Omar character in particular is very much glamorized, though the last season somewhat makes up for this. I don't think this is necessarily a weakness of the show. Without these larger-than-life characters, it'd be downright depressing rather than the highly entertaining show that it is. > Also, one thing that frustrates me when following Internet discussions > about the series, the general consensus among the fans of the series is > that Season 2 is the "weakest" season. I didn't realize this. I personally thought Season 2 was the best of all! Great story, some very well-developed characters and the bad guys were truly menacing. And I loved the angle about how the gangsters manipulate the "war on terror" obsession to their own benefit. And it doesn't romanticize unions at all! > BTW, is anyone a fan of Boardwalk Empire at all? That's another one I've > been following pretty intensely, although to be honest, I think my > enthusiasm for it is rather uncritical. I'm a sucker for that kind of > painstaking period setting, and I love the architecture, design, music, and > clothing of the early-20th Century, so I can't decide if Boardwalk Empire > is really a brilliant revisionist critical history of US machine politics > in the form of a crime drama, or if it's just eye candy for middlebrows > like me. > I haven't seen this one, but it sounds promising. -raghu.
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