Looks like I’ll be starting up the Wire, which is sort of the way I was leaning anyways. Plus my wife is interested and Yolkie might watch along, which makes it way more fun. It seems like it could be difficult to schedule a time to get together for all 60 episodes, so do any of you who have seen it have any suggestions of key episodes to watch with a group? Episodes that have good “holy shit!” moments? Maybe the season premieres and finales?
Also, I’ll be checking out The Bridge tomorrow (10pm on FX). It’s an American remake of a Scandinavian show (like the Killing) that puts two mismatched cops together (like the Killing) to solve a murder (like the Killing.) All jokes aside, I’ve never seen the original but have heard fantastic things about it, and moving the setting from the border of two Scandinavian countries to the US/Mexico border seems intriguing. It’s produced and written by Meredith Stiehm, who worked on Homeland (which I also haven’t seen but I’m sure is great) and the pilot is directed by Gerardo Naranjo, who I believe is a pretty well regarded Mexican director. I’m sure some of the plot points will have to do with the Mexican drug cartel, which sort of terrifies me in real life but is also what made Breaking Bad so great, so it has that going for it too. If anyone else watches let me know what you think.
