The Wire - Season One Opening Credits

Season One opening credits for "The Wire". The title song "Way Down in the Hole" is performed by The Five Blind Boys of Alabama. (From: Season 1, Episode 1 "The Target")

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[Kumas576]

The best opening of The Wire seasons

[danimal111ify]

The Wire is easily -- I repeat easily -- the greatest dramatic TV show of all time. I know The Sopranos and Breaking Bad are good, but neither can escape the soap opera constraints inherent in serialized dramatic television. The Wire never feels like fiction. It feels like Life.

[Magandy Ratnam]

I'm watching it right now for the first time. And I like it. This show isn't about evil against good. It's about people.

[GiantSandles]

This. I'd say the Sopranos at its best is better than The Wire, but The Wire benefits from more consistency. And saying either is easily better than the other is kind of dumb.

[Frank Goodin]

I'm producing a graphic novel called LIFE OR DEATH which was inspired by the stories I saw on this show. If you loved THE WIRE, you will love it, check it out on Indiegogo, thanks.

[MrLilfee]

no way buddy season 2 of the sopranos is the only season that comes close 2 the wire some seasons are just rambling stupidity with barely a plot 2 speak of

[Macrute]

right. breaking bad is like fast food, it has nothing to do here. 

[jgreenwood99]

breaking bad gets nowhere near the wire. why is it even up for discussion.

[begozo69]

Bodie muere, Hala Madrid

[Rhuan Mendes]

I just started to watch The wire in 2012 when i finished all seasons the first thing that came in my mind was: How in the hell i didn't watched this before?!

[danimal111ify]

Of the prodigious ensemble cast comprising The Wire, there isn't one dull character. Of the six principle characters in Breaking Bad -- Walt, Jesse, Skylar, Walt Jr., Hank, and Marie -- two are great, but four are insufferable. Granted I haven't seen enough of The Sopranos to make a strong case there, but regarding the Breaking Bad-Wire debate, it seems to me that the latter is very nearly perfect, while the former is vastly flawed.