Update #1: The Wire
Last week I blogged about The Wire, and called it "the best show currently on TV, maybe one of the best TV shows ever." Jacob Weisberg goes a step further in this Slate article, describing The Wire as "the best TV show ever broadcast in America." He continues:
...[n]o other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature.
Slate is also running a TV Club discussion of the show each Monday (see this), with Oak Park's own Alex Kotlowitz among the participants.
Maybe all of the positive press the show has received is finally starting to translate into viewers -- the show was (according to this article) just renewed for a fifth season.
