HBO's "The Wire" is starting on BBC 2 on Monday @ 23.20 and continuing every weeknight at pretty much the same time.
There are not enough superlatives in the whole world to describe just how magnificent this show is, if you haven't seen this yet, please watch it, give it a few episodes and you will be hooked for evermore. It is perfectly written, cast and acted. It is nicely shot, if not as beautifully and artistically shot and lit as Six Feet Under, it is still adeptly executed.
It is set around the Baltimore PD and some corner boys mostly in the west side of the city, it is less about the story and more about the characters and the relationships between them. Everybody in it is believably real and you even occasionally understand where the "bad" people are coming from. There are no cardboard cutouts or widely drawn archetypes in this show, they genuinely feel like real people.
Don't take my word for it, I can't express eloquently enough how good it is.
Just watch it.
watch this show, it will hook you like nothing else on tv will.
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