Traece t1_j1mcbpo wrote on December 25, 2022 at 4:04 PM

Reply to comment by nebkelly in Excited to start "The Expanse" and hit play without checking the episode. by icedrift

Wow. I never thought I'd see For All Mankind compared to The Wire but here we are.

I don't mean that in a good way, FAM had a good first season and then committed one of the biggest trainwrecks into a B-tier soap opera I've ever seen. It's genuinely so bad I wouldn't even recommend someone watch the first season for fear that a person might suffer the fate of watching the other two. That's not something I'd want to inflict on anybody.

If you had compared The Expanse to The Wire, I'd say you might be overreaching a little, but only a little bit.

nebkelly t1_j1ovkbo wrote on December 26, 2022 at 4:52 AM

I didn't compare them favourably. I referenced The Wire as a benchmark neither of them come close to.

Traece t1_j1oxgy6 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 5:12 AM

>An example of a much better modern SF show is For All Mankind and... that show is maybe a 7 or an 8/10 compared to The Wire or whatever TV benchmark you want to use.

I don't see any universe in which this is neither a favorable comparison, nor a close one. Being 7 or 8/10 compared to The Wire is a high accolade by any metric, and quite close on a scale of 10. You even went so far as to say FAM is "a much better modern SF show."