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Watching the series finale of The Wire on HBO, I couldn’t help but think of it in comparison to the ending of ‘The Sopranos,’ which had aired not too long before. Both shows, by my opinion as well as the likely opinion of anybody who has seen both in their entirety, being the greatest shows to ever grace cable tv TX.

While having never been quite so involved with its characters as ‘Sopranos,’ The Wire compensated for any inferiority (of which there were only few, including the facts that it wasn’t nearly as exciting and it was hard to keep track of all the characters) with its story. So intricate, so deliberate, so brilliantly and beautifully woven together and executed – ‘The Wire’ goes beyond entertainment: it’s an education. In politics, in bureaucracy, in the school system, journalism, the building blocks of society, the drug situation in America, poverty in America, violence and hate and sadness and little bits of personal redemption in America…While the ‘Sopranos’ may have been more enjoyable on the whole than ‘The Wire,’ watching the show’s ending credits roll for the last time evoked not only a sense of satisfaction, but of appreciation. ‘The Wire’ changed me, in the way I thought and the way that I felt; it inspired me to take notice of the world around me.