This show is nowhere near as good as Breaking Bad

>>213777726 (OP)
You're comparing apples to oranges plus I bet you didn't make it very far yet

>>213777726 (OP)
the only reason the show gets any praise is because it made gen x queers think they understood racism and how hoodniggers are just misunderstood super geniuses playing chess with an honor system and sheeeit

>>213777726 (OP)
Kill all zoomers

>>213778640
The homeboys were consistently shown to be retarded through and through. Stringer Bell tries to learn econ and biz dev at community college and gets scammed out of hundreds of thousands by some random state senator

>>213778640
you've never seen the show

i only watched the first season of the wire and couldn't go any further, every single character except the black dude that carves shit is annoying

>>213778729
you don't understand, i worked in chicago as an EMS. I was around these people constantly for 2 and a half years, yes I know the show is in baltimore it's the same shit anywhere you go.
Projects niggers are not "occasionally irrational or dense" they're outright fucking braindead. Even the average characters like marlo and deangelo are 10 times more functional than the kind of people who are actually involved in "the game".

If stringer and omar had beef it wouldn't be some game of symbolism where they go after each other's assets, they would find each other and shoot each other dead within 24 hours. The police aren't nearly as corrupt as depicted either.

the show is just leftist cope to dance around the fact that nogs are worthless

>>213778859
Damn that's a crazy blackpill for Wire fans

>>213778859
I was an electrician and only there during daylight but this was my experience as well and that was in Atlanta which isn't even that bad. Never been able to take this show seriously.

>>213778859
A lot of those characters were based on actual drug dealers in Baltimore in the 70s and 80s. The Omar stuff begs the suspension of disbelief but the top nogs are the top nogs for a reason. And the show even got into what you’re talking about toward the end, the new generation of nog coming up in the 00s being more dispassionately violent and unreasonable than the last. Likely some kind of ghetto Darwinian selection in action

>>213779019
>A lot of those characters were based on actual drug dealers in Baltimore in the 70s and 80s.
>this fucking reddit cope
Simon took some vague police reports and then listened to a crackhead who could barely form sentences talk about what she remembered (the real version of the bitch with the nail gun) and used that to write the show. To even call that "based on" it's a massive stretch, 300 is more historically accurate than this.

>>213778859
>>213779017
If you ever have trouble explaining this to Euros tell them to imagine a small city full of gypsies and they'll get the picture.

>>213777726 (OP)
this little thug faggot mogs the entire cast of BB by himself

>>213779105
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Williams_(actor)

>>213778859
I showed this to my black coworker who grew up near where the wire takes place and a few episodes in he said I shut you not word for word
>I mean... *Awkward sigh* gangbang niggas just ain't that smart man

>>213778859
have you heard of "source confusion"? basically after a long enough time has passed after receiving any kind of information, true or not, your brain can't actually remember where it received the information from. so if you've grown up watching tv shows and movies with, say, black people in medieval england, your brain just has "black people in medieval england" floating around with all of the other information its consumed, and unless you've taken the time you consume information that contradicts that you'll just walk around thinking there were black people in medieval england your whole life.

>>213779165
The only time they ever seemed smart to me was when they picked up on the surveillance. The fact they hadn’t been caught was more a testament to departmental resources and a pretty damn good drug lawyer

>>213777726 (OP)
yeah it was cringe
could not even finish one season

Gus is literally a nig and an evil genius

>>213778859
Did you skip the entire school season where all the kids are irredeemably stupid and retarded no matter what resources the system throws at them? The only one who could figure out how to use a computer ended up a dope fiend selling scrap metal.

>>213779147
Let's see what that guy sounds like trying to form a single sentence https://youtu.be/lPaplRNNkmk?t=180

And this was the absolute top of the "game". The most successful and coherent one. Does this person come across as even half as functional as avon or even the average gunslinger in the show?

>>213779252
desu he's not that smart

>>213777726 (OP)
The only reason to watch is McNulty and its because he is played by Dominic West.

>>213777726 (OP)
I'm watching this right now, about to finish s1.
so far I think it's great, acting and story is amazing.
I live near Baltimore, I've been too scared to ever go anywhere outside the Harbor area in my 16 years living here, but this show makes me want to go around West Baltimore, see what's up with the yos and shit

>>213778859
Detroit fag here. Can confirm blacks are retarded at best and animals at worst. They are not smart or strategic, at best they're cunning and cunning is not equated with intelligence

Remember when Daniels blacked that ginger judge? McNutty btfo'd!

>>213777726 (OP)
Why is s2 so boring compared to s1?

>>213779252
gus is chilean

>>213779306
Namond is portrayed as a honor student in the series finale anon. The show tries to go above and beyond to imply blacks are smart and can achieve anything if they just had more money for dem programs

>>213779357
And it's the kind of cunning that only lasts as long as the conversation with you. If they sense you're afraid of some angle or feeling bad for them or naive in some way they'll work that but if their tactics require remembering anything after leaving the general area they can't do it. They do a cache wipe every time they interact with a new person, the kind of shit they do in this show is fucking absurd

>>213779312
he’s very old there tbf

>>213779395
Honor student by negro school standards. his speech for the contest wasn’t even very articulate. It shows that 1/4000 can hope to attend a state school and do fairly well with a good home life. Which is true.

>>213779395
>if they just had more money for dem programs
the entire show is an extremely drawn out way to say that, dindu nuffin, and we wuz kangz

>>213779395
Brother do you know how easy it is to be an honor student in elementary school

It's not exactly a towering intellectual achievement

>>213779312
Sounds as coherent as any Italian mob boss to me

Most career criminals aren't very eloquent.

>>213779491
You’re reading into it too much. Drug legalization failed and all the libshit academics that said it was soooo actually a good idea got absolutely clowned.

>>213779491
Bubbles was the only nog to end up successful in the end and he did it entirely by bootstrapping

>>213779538
I disagree with that anon that some of the kingpins might have an IQ pushing 90, that's believable. My issue is more with how the average gangbangers are depicted. In real life they're basically zombies. It hard to believe until you've met them

>>213779395
>one character makes it academically after being pulled out of an extremely toxic/abusive home that he couldn't handle
>this means the show is saying all niggers are geniuses

>>213779312
>as functional as avon
you mean the guy who was willing to tear down all the clean operations stringer had built over bullshit with marlo?

>>213779692
That is how writing works yes. Whether or not the average viewer cares is a different story but that's what the creator wanted you to take from it.

>>213779691
I've lived the drug life a bit but in a smaller town. I've dealt with people who are clever pieces of garbage and who know how to protect themselves. A lot of them come from cities but I guess the people capable of striking out are typically a cut above the inner-city crowd.

Really though, you can be smart without being educated.

>>213779731
that's what you want david simon to be saying, because it validates some need you have to feel superior to anything. its a regular theme in the show that some kids/people are built for a criminal career and some aren't. your read only works if that's the only character, but he isn't.

>>213779691
The show never focused on the average hood nigger. It was all upper guys. Lieutenants and captains. Basically whenever a 90IQ recognized another 90IQ they started getting pulled up the ranks.

>>213779763
>Really though, you can be smart without being educated.
This is very true but doesn't apply to niggers, they're just neither

>>213779731
I think the creator just wanted to make an entertaining tv show

Imagine if your dog could talk. That's the level most ghetto blacks are at, it's all just emotions and animal instincts. Even if you can reason with them at one time it's gone the moment something distracts them or triggers an emotion. Anyone can be on welfare temporarily, but if you're permanently on it you're not functional as a human and there's fuck all society or the government can do to change that.

>t. worked in a welfare office for 5+ years

>>213779839
what about the ones who aren't in a welfare office?

>>213778859
so you drive an ambulance. u don't know shit

>>213778859
>police aren't nearly as corrupt as depicted
this is how I know you're retarded
opinion discarded

>>213779805
If you think any conversation in the hood has ever sounded anything like this you're delusional https://youtu.be/7rWuJ3eD6Qc

>>213780087
It’s literally a meeting of all the kingpins anon

>>213779367
S2 kinda focuses on a different story so it loses some momentum
but I enjoyed S2 by the end of it

>>213779839

>>213780087
>>213780120
and they all sound half-retarded. the one that doesn't soft-confesses to killing someone all of them loved in a deserted/demolished block of city

>>213780087
The problem is that if they depicted these conversations how they actually go the show would be completely unwatchable, nobody wants to listen to 45 minutes of bix nood

>>213780394
how many high level drug deals have you personally witnessed?

>>213780606
nice try glowie

>>213779371
I'm afraid that's even worse.

Breaking Bad is capeshit for braindead Redditors. Please don’t compare it to real TV shows.