Although we critics spend a lot of time decrying Hollywood's tendency to greenlight scripts based on easy comparisons ('It's like Twilight crossed with The A-Team wearing a pair of overalls'"), there's no one that likes that kind of shorthand more than a critic. It's as easy for us to review a show by comparing it to another one as it is for Hollywood to market a movie the same way (It's like The Hangover with Mexican dwarf brides!).
And so, it seems, every cop show that's been reviewed since the greatest cop show of all time left the air has been compared -- favorably or unfavorably -- to "The Wire." We here at Pajiba are as guilty of it as anyone -- in fact, of the five shows below, we made at least one comparison to "The Wire" in our reviews of four of them, and three of those were...
And so, it seems, every cop show that's been reviewed since the greatest cop show of all time left the air has been compared -- favorably or unfavorably -- to "The Wire." We here at Pajiba are as guilty of it as anyone -- in fact, of the five shows below, we made at least one comparison to "The Wire" in our reviews of four of them, and three of those were...
- 8/9/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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