The Wire

HBO's "The Wire" is what television can be, should aspire to be.
"On Demand", my cable company's function that allows me to watch past shows of the channels to which I subscribe, has made watching the series from the first season easy, which aired some 5 years ago.

Politics, crime, and violence as practiced in City Hall, police stations, and the corners and alleys of Baltimore, are dramatized in the most realistic and least simplistic manner. A major departure for television. A triumph.

The last season starts in January.