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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 3538983, member: 93"] This was the one binge on which Mrs. 8893 and I were able to agree for the quarantine. Her brother bought us the first two seasons on DVD several years ago and we just never got around to watching it. She loves cop shows and could watch any iteration of "Law & Order" or its hundreds of spinoffs at any time, any day. I generally hate them (loved "NYPD Blue" for the first few seasons and pretty much nothing else), but "The Wire" is a good show for me because it avoids the thing I like least about cop shows, which is the one-hour wrap up. By contrast, this is a slow building plot over the course of a season, with a very heavy emphasis on character development and interconnected plots. We are almost done with season three and are loving it, but a lot of people we've tried to turn on to it have complained that it is too slow and boring for them. [/QUOTE]