yes but
I like Dexter, one of my fav current shows, but as good as it is the realism factor wears very thin at times, and when that happens I get distanced from the characters.

The Wire has much fewer out and out TV show moments in it. It takes a story line that’ll get ejaculated onto the screen in 40 minutes by a standard show and spends over 50 hours exploring the environment. It’s a detailed treaties on every aspect of social and criminal justice system fails in the face a tidal wave of money and corruption. How the media drives an agenda that forces all politicians to follow the probation and criminalisation control of drugs, and the disastrous effects on the lives of the people born in the wrong postcodes. It shows us the 1 in 1000 people who risk their careers to actually make a difference, and how the system will destroys them.

Dexter is fluff in comparison.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 20 Oct 2009, 18:04, 1 reply)

I see your point, however...
"A detailed treaties on how every aspect of the social and criminal justice system fails in the face of a tidal wave of money and corruption" and "how the media drives an agenda that forces all politicians to follow the probation and criminalisation control of drugs" simply isn't my cup of tea. I'd pick fluff over tedium any day when it comes to entertainment. Am I the only person in the world that thinks this way?

That said, I watch Heroes and Lost, both of which are fluff and tedium in equal measures.

As I admitted before, it's not that I really think it's shit. I just didn't like it. And it's people's reactions when I tell them that which really winds me up. I mean, come on, it's just a TV show.
( mrlogic is copying your beard, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 14:03, closed)