The Wire

One of the best TV dramas along side Sopranos.
Written by a team in Baltimore; reporter, detective and crime author

Edward Burns writer and Ex Prod David Simons.

Apart from a very few cheesy moments with McNulty and his police buddies 'hey the teams back together!High 5' (yeah sure, more like 'not your ugly mug again, shit for brains!') this TV is fucking amazing. Each season plays out over 12, 1hr episodes. Particularly amazing and low key performances by Barksdale, Stringer Bell and Stinkum. Amazing detailing and real languid filming of scenes, sometimes just a junkie fixing up or containers coming off a ship. If this is TV without the Network it's good. A rare glimse of a TV company focusing on the creative rather than the reach of audience, HBO do it again.