the wire

I've been a big fan of homicide life on the street for a couple years and really wished there were more shows like it. Well creator of Homicide David Simons has made 3 shows all about Baltimore. The Corner, Homicide, and The Wire.
The wire is not like most shows. Television shows are usually episodaic regardless of how much on going story they have they always try to be episodaic. The Wire doesn't want to do that. The wire is without a doubt an ongoing story and nothing else. There are no episodiac kind of episodes. David Simon descibes it as written like a book. I agree because the episodes work more as chapter. You learn new things about characters but the on going plot is most important.
But the real thing that makes this show good is the characters. There so rich I feel like i'm the room with them I wanna spend time watching this show. Are all the characters good people no not at all. In fact some are really bad people but you end up liking all of them. It's a dam good show and really if you can download it or get it on netflicks just get it. Don't think about it. It's better then any movie i've seen this year so far. Except like ninja turtles but obviously.