If you walk through the garden..

Hello readers,

Now I'm going to do something a bit different today with this blog post - I'm going to educate. You see I often ramble on about all kinds of random junk on this thing, but very rarely do I ever impart true wisdom unto you all. Well today all that's changed as I say to you now....

You MUST watch the Wire.

Now this is a bit of a weird one, because despite all the ridiculous amount of critical acclaim this TV show has received, it's still ridiculously under-watched. It's so frequently described as the best show on TV, but in truth it's much more closer with the statement 'The best show on TV... that noone has ever seen'. This is about to change of course, as it's currently being shown on BBC2 each and every night - the whole five seasons back to back.


If you think you can keep up with it on BBC then I urge you to do so, but be sure to give it your full attention as it will pay you back many times over. The other alternative is to buy the DVD box sets online, as I currently am. This way you can afford to take your time with them, savour them, and enjoy them exactly when you want to. It also means that you don't have to worry about staying up until 11.20pm every night to catch them! I went into HMV on Oxford Street the other day and noticed that they were selling them for about £30. However the very same box sets on the HMV website are selling for just £15 each. And for what you get out of it, that's a damned bargain!

All the online retailers feature them at about the same prices - HMV, Play and Amazon. Alternatively you can go for the uber whole series box set in one go, but it actually doesn't work out any cheaper - how lame is that?

Tonight I actually finished the second series, and it made me sad, as I know it made a lot of other friends sad. Not necessarily because of the story, but simply because we know that we only have 3 more left before it's all over - and we want to delay that day for as long as possible! The first season was truly excellent, but by the second season you can start to see a much bigger story taking place, and it carries a bigger emotional punch to it.

Powerful, brilliant, intelligent, gripping, absorbing, laugh out loud funny, completely tragic, completely real. It's all this and more - so what more to say other than - BUY IT.

Ps: Bring on season 3!! I literally cannot wait for the postman to come knocking!

- Jimmy