![dek](https://content.time.com/time/bestandworst/2003/cuts/story_tv_tout.jpg)
Best TV 2002
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)