Shoutout to the guy at my library in Boise who told me to quit skipping season 1
I always blew off season 1 of The Wire because everyone kept saying it was the "slow" one, so I jumped straight to season 3 and got confused about half the characters. After two failed tries over about 6 months, a librarian in Boise heard me complaining and just said, "watch it in order, it's one long story." I finally did, and by episode 4 I was hooked hard enough to finish the whole run in 11 days flat. The slow build is the point, and I was wrong to think I could skip it. Anyone else got a show they tried to start in the middle and had to double back on?