Well, I accidentally watched the final episode today - having planned to save it for later in the weekend. If you've never seen the greatest tv series ever made, it's not a great place to start but set aside a week and work up to it.

( Minor spoilers - actually only on the set up of the series, and certainly not how it ends. But you might prefer to go in ignorant )

I has The Wire series five.

I'd noticed various mentions by Charlie Brooker over the years of The Wire as the best tv show in the world .... evah, but didn't look closer becaufase it was on cable and I wasn't likely to catch it. Neither Channel 4 nor BBC picked it up, which is just as well because C4 would have shunted it off into the wee small hours (I assume they've decided ( Read more... )