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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Klosterman makes some great points about how crazy Wire supremacists are and how Breaking Bad is unique in its brilliance.
Myself, I'm still sticking with Deadwood as the pinnacle because it's simultaneously wholly a creation of fiction and wholly true in it's message if not its factual details.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/.../bad-decisions |
I am familiar with both Klosterman's Grantland piece and Jason Whitlock's months-long mental breakdown over it on Twitter.
I am firmly in the camp of
The Wire being the pinnacle of fictional television achievement (the nonfiction pinnacle is
Iron Chef), but not for any of the off-base reasons that Klosterman mentions. I'm in the camp because I can't make a better argument for another drama being #1 than I can an argument for
The Wire. If
Breaking Bad were to surpass
The Wire then I would readily acknowledge it, because I love BB. I don't see BB breaking out of the the clump of dramas that falls right under
The Wire (a clump that also consists of
Deadwood,
Mad Men, and
The Sopranos).
I also distinguish between best and favorite. I actually would say that I enjoy watching
Breaking Bad more than I do
The Wire.