A'ight?

We've given in — to The Guardian's TV columnists, at least — and started watching The Wire. BBC2 are now showing one episode per weekday evening, so that should keep us busy for the next four months. Just as well: the US TV seasons (Chuck, 30 Rock) are dragging, with multiple repeats, to a close, and Battlestar Galactica has finished, so what else were we to watch?

So far, so highly enjoyable. The accents take a bit of getting used to; I'm sure lots of people are watching it with the subtitles turned on, just as the Americans requested subtitles for Gregory's Girl. Best of all, it's funny. One of the reasons I'd resisted watching for so long was that I expected it to be grim; after all, a show set around the projects of Baltimore was never going to be a barrel of laffs. However, it's really well written and acted -- grim and violent in places, but also highly amusing and totally engrossing. And, we go to bed, talking to the cats in our (very middle-class) faux street slang. I wonder how long it will be before that becomes boring (for them, not us)? Probably about as long as it takes to become bored with shouting "You're a MENTALIST!" at the TV whenever Five shows a trailer for (ahem) The Mentalist. Heh.