I just started watching the entire HBO series of "The Wire". It's five seasons.
780 minute per season
3900 minutes total
65 hours
A week and a half of "watching"..... dang!
But it's good. It's about justice, and unlike most Western theme shows, there are no heros. All the characters, rich or poor, black or white, educated or uneducated, are all a little good and a little bad. Everybody is doing their "job" to survive. And everybody thinks they're doing the "right thing", but their own "right thing" is making other people miserable. The prosecuting attorney is making the defendant's life miserable. The cop is making the drug dealer's life miserable. The chief of police is making the cop's life miserable. The drug dealer is making the junkie's life miserable. The junkie is making the drug dealer's life miserable by becoming an informant. The cop is making the chief-of-police's life miserable by not doing his job. Its a total cat and mouse chase, and everybody is a little "dirty", except in their own eyes.
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