somedickinyourmouth t1_j5hhiec wrote on January 23, 2023 at 1:04 AM

Reply to comment by Bushgjl in I like The Wire but it's seriously flawed by Bushgjl

It's just not for you. It would be literally impossible to make a show about criminals that had a "tighter" cast. I don't know how you'd expect that to work. Did you think gangs were just 5 people?

Bushgjl OP t1_j5hi0kz wrote on January 23, 2023 at 1:08 AM

The Sopranos did it easily, that's my point.

You have Tony, Tony's family, Christopher, Paulie, and then the rest are mostly supporting characters. It was kind of an ensemble cast but Chase knew that the focus was primarily on Tony and people close to him so they could weave a consistent narrative.

It's not scattered like The Wire where you are watching events unfold without caring much how things go down.

Cool-Ad8928 t1_j5k9b1z wrote on January 23, 2023 at 4:40 PM

Sopranos were a single family yea? Or at least the family goons/workers etc..

The Wire shows the corruption across a city, and the systemic problems it faces, up to the state level even (and international to an extent)

They did easy because there’s like 10 chars max.

There’s ~10 cops assigned to Barksdale’s case. There’s ~10 crew members in the towers. There’s ~10 east side characters to pop in and out (Joe & such), and 10 members of the court system (lawyers/da/judges etc) and at least 3 street characters (bubs/his boy*/wayland)

I don’t think it’s supposed to be easy.

*forgive me y’all - drew a blank on the name of bubs’ underling.