Watch 'The Wire' !
23 January 2008 by Administrator
Ahoy hoy, its Ivan web log time again. Thank the stars there are a few of us writing these entries otherwise I'd never get any work done [insert sarcastic comment about Ivan's work rate]. I don't know about you but I am really enjoying my colleagues ramblings but I'll leave the clever stuff to them and concentrate on the simpler things in life...
At Evo we have many mailing lists covering most geeky and non-geeky interests e.g. Game Fans, TV & Movies, Animation & Comic books and erm...Lolcats*. One of the recent spams to the Film & TV list concerned the brilliant TV show 'The Wire'. For those of you yet to discover this awesome show here is a brief synopsis of it...
Its Baltimore. People from the projects deal drugs. Po-lice want to stop them. No one wins. No happy endings. Omar rocks. (As I said my ramblings are not going to be literary masterpieces ^_^)
So far so good, it seems like a.n.other cop show, but that would be doing it a huge disservice. Written by a former police reporter, it presents a grim but wholly believable universe that just sucks you in. Along with a great cast of professional actors the show features former cops and criminals in various roles. What I really love about 'The Wire' is that each series (or 'season') has a main story arch, so you get a great deal of depth as the stories play out over 12+ hours.
Across the water in the US, season 5 has begun on HBO and if memory serves it's being shown in the UK on FX and on good old TG4 in the Rep. of Ireland. Not wanting to sound too much like an advert, DVD box sets are also available, so there is no excuse for missing out on this piece of TV excellence (unless you are under 18...in which case go watch star trek reruns).
Moving on from 'The Wire' to matters a little closer to home...
As some of the Evo guys have already stated, we love hearing your feedback on MotorStorm and the DLC stuff that we have been putting out. We try and read everything we can whether that be comments, emails, forum postings or juat good old fashion tea leaves. Whilst we can't directly reply to your comments you can be sure that we are taking them on-board.
Thanks for reading,
Ivan McC
*If this is being read any time past 2007\8 search Wikipedia
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