The Wire

...where Loeterman chooses not to say. The impressive cast is led by Seth Gilliam ("The Wire") depicting Jim Conley, and, as Leo Frank, Will Janowitz, who played Meadow's boyfriend Finn on "The Sopranos." Despite a remarkable resemblance to...

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...greatness." That is, when "Mad Men" or "The Wire" or "Breaking Bad" or "The Sopranos" sets the standard at what are almost impossible creative heights, everything else that comes along seems substandard and thus not very good. The reality...

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...Baer / AMC) by Linda Holmes Mad Men, like The Sopranos and The Wire before it, inspires an admirable amount of careful and thoughtful criticism that's frequently and unfortunately denied to television. Take, for instance, this piece in...

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...entirely so. Quality cable dramas such as Nurse Jackie, The Wire, The Shield, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Mad Men have immeasurably enriched our petty lives, though there's really no excuse for Californication. But it is also...

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...cent of the votes in the survey by lovefilm.com. The top 10 was rounded off by 'Heroes', 'The Wire', 'Doctor Who', 'CSI', 'Prison Break', 'The Sopranos' and 'Sex and the City' respectively. Rating: This article has not been rated yet.

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The world of work drives the best shows on television The world of work drives TV's Mad Men, The Wire and The Sopranos Stringer Bell (Image via Wikipedia) Work. The job. That all-consuming, all-American fixation on career and...

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...SVT2 shows independent films under the title Filmklubben ("The Movie Club"), from 10:25pm. Acquired programming on SVT2 includes Six Feet Under , The Sopranos, K Street, Parkinson, The Kumars at No. 42, The Wire, Nip/Tuck and Veronica Mars.

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...has described his new show as "bubblegum TV" (anyone talking of it in the same terms as other HBO shows such as The Sopranos or The Wire has let the bayou humidity go to their head). But it is fun and raunchy and knowing: we see a...

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...seasons (I have season 5 to go), but I can't think of any other show that's as good. The Sopranos was almost as good, but The Wire just feels more real. Tom Shales: You are certainly not alone in your opinion. When people ask me to name a...

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