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I liked The Wire a lot, although not as much as Scott and the Sports Guy. It’s not one of those shows where you can plow through 4 episodes in a sitting, like 24 or Alias. It’s more like a wine, you have to take your time and let it soak in and appreciate it. You appreciate more of its strengths after viewing and thinking about it. For example, when you consider the richness of the character development – take almost any character, and you realize you know a whole lot about them. The main character virtually disappeared in the last season, and it was the strongest one; the strength of the remaining cast was more than enough to pick up the slack. Or the breadth of the subject material. Or the believability of the acting. There’s not a single role where you don’t completely believe the actors and find their choices plausible, except for Brother Mouzone and, at times, Omar. It’s particularly amazing to me in light of the fact that 2 of the main actors playing Baltimore natives are British, and completely believable. Amazing.
I think the standard for how much I like a TV show is how much it makes me want to find out more info on the web. At present, only 4 shows do that for me – The Wire, Survivor, Veronica Mars, and Beauty and the Geek.
Scott will probably be appalled about this, but good as it was, I actually got more emotionally invested in the most recent season of Beauty and the Geek than in The Wire. A romance developed on the show and I found myself inordinately concerned that it work out. I mean just crazy obsessed, find out everything I can about them on the web obsessed, really really wanting them to work out.
I thought a bit about why it mattered so much to me. And I think it’s related to the stuff Wright was saying about justice being an echo of heaven. I completely buy his argument. It makes no sense that we all hunger for justice, or that we even understand what true justice is, without God. We’ve never seen real justice. Yet we all instinctively have an idea, even in youth, of what is and is not fair. And we all know the world is not fair, not right, even though we’ve known nothing else. It’s a voice of heaven.
I think my obsession with this beauty-geek romance is kind of like that, a hunger for justice in this world. We all believe that ideally, people should be judged and appreciated based on their inner character, not their outward appearance. But that pretty much never happens in the real world. So I dunno, something like that made me really want Nate, clearly a great guy, to be rewarded for that. I mean, I really really wanted it. Still do. It’s a hunger for the justice of heaven, that’s my claim.
There’s a problem, of course, with my logic, that I want the guy to be rewarded for his inner character… with a outwardly attractive female. But whatever.