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The only American shows that give me trouble are:
The Wire (Baltimore)
Treme (New Orleans)
Justified (Eastern Kentucky)
But I guess it's down to familiarity. It usually takes a couple of episodes to tune into them. Having said that, my mother now insists on subtitles for all American shows or she won't watch them. Curiously, she has no trouble understanding Kyra Sedgewick's fake southern accent in The Closer. I happen to think the way they talk in The Wire and Treme is wonderful, almost poetic at times.
Last week I tried to watch a British movie, Attack the Block, and to be honest, I couldn't understand a word they said. The accents in Treme are crystal clear compared to the way they talk in that movie.
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