The best TV show of the last 10-12 years that OTW58 hasn't seen...

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Originally Posted by Pestilence

What's The Wire about? How many seasons?

Originally Posted by Buck

It's a show from the point of view of both a Baltimore Drug Syndicate and the Baltimore Police Department.

The best "police show" there is. I use the term "police show" loosely.

That's too simplistic, I think. The Wire is a show about the American city -- a place where, the show argues, an individual human life is made every day by various institutions to be worth less and less.