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Feb. 14th, 2012 11:34 pmWe've been alternating Fringe and The Wire. Poor, typecast Lance Reddick.
Fringe is very silly - clearly pitched as Lost meets X-Files but it's all JJ Abrams all nude all the time, hence pure Alias. Whereas The Wire Season 1 was fantastic, as everyone said it would be (though they also said that about the blahish Sopranos). In fact I assume we're the very last humans of our make and model seeing it. Not unflawed and presumably charged with less shock-of-the-new, ten years on, but who cares. I wonder how closely trying to do something genuine with television paralleled McNulty's quest in the show. Given how high it shot results were maybe ultimately as mixed as his own, or for that matter his accent, but you can't not fall in love with this kind of trying.
Fringe is very silly - clearly pitched as Lost meets X-Files but it's all JJ Abrams all nude all the time, hence pure Alias. Whereas The Wire Season 1 was fantastic, as everyone said it would be (though they also said that about the blahish Sopranos). In fact I assume we're the very last humans of our make and model seeing it. Not unflawed and presumably charged with less shock-of-the-new, ten years on, but who cares. I wonder how closely trying to do something genuine with television paralleled McNulty's quest in the show. Given how high it shot results were maybe ultimately as mixed as his own, or for that matter his accent, but you can't not fall in love with this kind of trying.
