AMC's Breaking Bad vs HBO's The Wire

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[cardiackat88.]

Watched The Wire and Breaking Bad.

The Wire was by far no slouch, but Breaking Bad is out of this universe, light years beyond anything that has ever been on TV

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Breaking Bad is a better show on so many different levels, imo.

 

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BB was the best because it was fundamentally about choices. In The Wire everyone's a product of their environment, ditto The Sopranos, in Mad Men everyone's a product of their time. Breaking Bad is the only one that examines the concept of evil and wrongdoing as a matter of deliberate choice. I thought it fitted in neatly with the fact that the show doesn't ever particularly condemn Walt or Jesse for the production of meth (because imbibing meth is a user's own choice), only for the actual evil associated with the criminal trade and ruthless climb to the top.

I'm currently approaching the end of the Wire season 2, and I think comparing them in terms of quality is apples and oranges. Breaking Bad is a stark, Shakespearean, moral-driven chess game with a very small cast; The Wire is more of a sprawling Dicknesian epic which doesn't, as far as I can tell, appear to have any particular moral - it's just about all kinds of different people struggling to survive against institutions, living in the cracks.

The Wire also doesn't have many edge of your seat moments the way BB does. It's definitely a quality show, but I'll finish an episode and happily not watch another for several weeks - it's doesn't have that same now, now, now gimme quality that BB did. The exception is in season 1 with the episode culminating in Kima getting shot but that's all.

 

Also MGS has terribad writing. I mean one of the fuging villains infected and controlled another villains arm or some stupid poo like that. thats fuging retarded

[cardiackat88.]

BB was the best because it was fundamentally about choices. In The Wire everyone's a product of their environment,

You haven't gotten to the last two seasons, McNulty and Lester make their own beds and pay for it.

You will also see some of the decisions Bunny makes, "Hampsterdam" but it was all benevolent intent.

Seems like the cops have a whole lot more to struggle with morally.

The "mopes" as they called them also have morals and a code of honor, you will see that when Omar is attacked and his grandmother is put at risk. The rival gang trying to shoot him was ordered by a high ranking boss inside their gang to apologize to Omar and buy his grandmother a new Sunday church hat.

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both are good, but...

the wire >>>>>>>> breaking bad. It isn't close. The wire is next level good.

[Dex]

BB was the best because it was fundamentally about choices. In The Wire everyone's a product of their environment, ditto The Sopranos, in Mad Men everyone's a product of their time. Breaking Bad is the only one that examines the concept of evil and wrongdoing as a matter of deliberate choice. I thought it fitted in neatly with the fact that the show doesn't ever particularly condemn Walt or Jesse for the production of meth (because imbibing meth is a user's own choice), only for the actual evil associated with the criminal trade and ruthless climb to the top.

I'm currently approaching the end of the Wire season 2, and I think comparing them in terms of quality is apples and oranges. Breaking Bad is a stark, Shakespearean, moral-driven chess game with a very small cast; The Wire is more of a sprawling Dicknesian epic which doesn't, as far as I can tell, appear to have any particular moral - it's just about all kinds of different people struggling to survive against institutions, living in the cracks.

The Wire also doesn't have many edge of your seat moments the way BB does. It's definitely a quality show, but I'll finish an episode and happily not watch another for several weeks - it's doesn't have that same now, now, now gimme quality that BB did. The exception is in season 1 with the episode culminating in Kima getting shot but that's all.

 

Also MGS has terribad writing. I mean one of the fuging villains infected and controlled another villains arm or some stupid poo like that. thats fuging retarded

The most well written incorrect post I've ever seen. GG.

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i really enjoyed both, i own both boxsets and all that...

I dont really compare them, theyre different but both really really good...

i re watched both shows this year actually and id say the wire is better for casual watching, as in you can jump to any season and watch where as with breaking bad its a building story about walter so it feels out of place to jump and just watch say season 3...

the wires seasons (for the most part) had a "ending", they would work a case and by the end it was over and the next season would be them putting major crimes back together (seasons 4 going into 5 didnt have the marlo wrap up but the school storyline ended and that was my favorite and main focus of the season) i know they had running story lines throughout all 5 seasons but it was so nicely fit with the seasons you dont "feel lost" with it jumping seasons

so you can watch a season of the wire for the most part and enjoy it for itself, where as with breaking bad i feel like you gotta watch it in order all the way through

but as in best show ever, i dont have one, but theyre both 2 of my favorite shows i've ever watched