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December 11, 2006
The Best Show On Television
After a "mixed" results day of sports in the area -- for we Texans and UT fans, Vince Young's overtime heroics left a bittersweet taste, though the Horns' basketball victory over LSU was an unqualified success -- we settled in for the season finale of the best show on TV.
With programs like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Deadwood, among others, HBO has been pushing the television envelope over the last several years and producing the highest quality programming available.
No show is more gripping than The Wire. Created by David Simon and Ed Burns, The Wire is set on the rough and tumble streets of Baltimore and offers an unvarnished look at the enormous problems afflicting inner-city America.
The show in each season fictionally follows the lives of certain Baltimore residents -- some of whom are part of the criminal element, some not, and some hovering in between -- the law enforcement folks -- some good, some bad -- who struggle to fight an overwhelming crime problem, and the politicians -- some crooked, some straight -- who rule this declining American city.
If you have HBO, watch it -- shows are frequently repeated. If you don't, buy the DVDs. The show just completed its fourth season, and the first three seasons are available for purchase.
Again, there is nothing better on television today.
Posted by houtopia at December 11, 2006 02:49 PM