the wire
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I watched the wire in about a month .. often one episode after another. I haven't seen a TV program that was so engrossing.
Why is it so good? I reckon it's largely because of the characters .. when I watched it, I could understand (and relate to) their motivation. Nothing is simple .. and this show doesn't try to spread the myth. Life is a complicated mess - even when it's segmented into five neat themes.
The big watershed moment for me, was the realisation that in politics - there's no big controller. No one person is crafting our world or controlling us all from the top down. The political machine is a huge shape-shifting amorphous animal .. incentives drive people, and circumstances dictate direction.
I'm not sure what kind of conclusions can be drawn from the series - but I sure as hell wish a lot of the people in charge were required to watch and understand the motivation that drives a lot of the people who happen to exist below or around the poverty line.