04-04-2020, 08:07 AM
RgrF wrote:
Whatever effort it takes, if you've not yet seen The Wire - do the effort. It's simply the best crime series ever produced.
I’ll second that ‘watch by hook or by crook’.
Best crime series ever? Definitely on the top podium, but I’d put two or three others up there with it. Even seeing it for the first time now, 18 years after its debut, it’s remarkably powerful. I regret missing the full impact of seeing it in its time.
Up there with The Wire I’d put The Sopranos, True Detective (the season 1 storyline and cast), Breaking Bad and Homicide: Life on the Streets.
If I wanted to make it crowded up top, The Night Of and the recent CBS All Access series Interrogation make very strong arguments for themselves having at least a foot up there with those others.