December 14th, 2009
TV-series of the decade: “The Wire” helped ruin the medium
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From The Guardian’s current series of articles titellled “The people who ruined the decade“, which is just as it reads. Here we go, an extremely quick recap of what I deem to be the best TV-series not only of the decade, but forever.
DAVID SIMON For ruining any TV drama that isn’t The Wire
At first, The Wire seemed like a cop show. Then it felt like a really good cop show. Then we realised we were watching David Simon pulling apart the very fabric of late American capitalism with a forensic, Dickensian masterpiece and pretty much everything we’ve watched since just seems a bit, well, unambitious.
