“America can hardly understand that show—and it’s about us.” — David Simon

The American television drama is undergoing something of a Renaissance these days, and HBO’s under-watched but much-lauded show The Wire is its crowning achievement. Though at first it seems only a cop show, it soon unfolds to become a sprawling epic and a lament on the decline of a city. Could any contemporary British drama be praised with such a description? [Read more →]