The Wire

In 13 episodes, the series captured in pointillist detail the machinations of a bureaucracy-plagued police investigation and the drug dealers — portrayed, for once, in bold 3-D — it targeted. An eloquent lament for wasted time, wasted money and wasted lives.

(HBO)

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