Nothing here's real and everyone's alike, 'cos everyone dreams of the millionaire's life

Hello, wish list.
*nb: the picture of Leighton Meester, though she is adorable, is me longing for brown hair.

I never sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death

"A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come."

I tried to write what I feel about The Wire after I finally finished it, and tried to sum up how I don't even need to watch any other hyped shows because I've already seen the best piece of television I will ever see, but words don't really do it justice. If you haven't seen it, see it right away. If you're not interested, get interested. If you've tried and failed, it's probably way above your intelligence level. If the subject matter is not your thing, look again. Either way you're a loser: watch it and every TV show you watch after will be sub par; don't and be blissfully unaware, but be warned: you are being deprived.

Dense, novelistic, painful, funny, real and transformative all at once. "The Wire" is the best television series ever made. Period.

The greatness of The Wire comes from a combination of themes - the life of a city seen through characters allowed to breathe and expand, through plots which unfold in deadly waves of doomed human motive, blind circumstance and economic force, and in luxurious amounts of time.

In The Wire's view, the world is not divided cop-vs.-robber or black-vs.-white so much as machine-vs.-individual; officer, teacher, drug soldier or pol, people are screwed by institutions that discard them when they're used up and reward inertia over innovation...Occasionally, it even offers a glimpse of something like hope, which is all the sweeter for being harder earned.


BAM!


"There go a life that had to be snatched, Avon." So intense. How their relationship starts to deteoriate is just.. fuck, too good.


"It makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell." Oh Bunk, what a guy.


I wouldn't recommend you watch any of these if you've never seen The Wire before. They are moments to enjoy along the way and some of my favourite ones.

After my long-winded praise before, this is probably the last time I'll do it in a while (until I rewatch Season 4, that is) but I miss it terribly and felt the need to share. So fuck you, go watch it and then tell me I'm a massive nerd. I am :)