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To me, what allows “The Wire” to surpass “The Sopranos” in the pantheon of greatest American TV shows is its ambition and its anger.
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This is TV as great modern literature, a shattering and heartbreaking urban epic about a city (Baltimore) rotting from within.
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A critic for this paper once declared "The Wire" "the greatest dramatic series ever produced for television" and as the fourth season gets under way Sunday night, there's no reason to quibble with that assessment.
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The breadth and ambition of "The Wire" are unrivaled and that taken cumulatively over the course of a season -- any season -- it's an astonishing display of writing, acting and storytelling that must be considered alongside the best literature and filmmaking in the modern era.
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If you have only one hour a week for television, give it to "The Wire."
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The best show on television.
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If there ever was a series that makes HBO a necessity, "The Wire" is it.
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Brilliant, scathing, sprawling, The Wire has turned our indifference to urban decay into a TV achievement of the highest order.
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When television history is written, little else will rival "The Wire," a series of such extraordinary depth and ambition that it is, perhaps inevitably, savored only by an appreciative few.
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The best series on TV, period. [15 Sep 2006, p.63]
