Title: It's all in the Game.
Product review: Homicide is still the finest cop series of the last 15yrs, but The Wire has to be up there. It's a change from other HBO series like the Soprano's and Six Feet Under in that the story is the thing - The Wire is meticulously plot driven, rather than the obvious familial focus of Sops and SFU. Therein lies the shows appeal and its curse - the viewer needs to give 100% attention to actually follow the game and its players. That is not to say the characters are inconsequential, there are brilliantly flawed people on both sides who are crucial to the story - but not more important than the story. The Shield may be good entertainment and can tell a gritty story - but The Wire values persistance and smarts over pistol whipping and muscle. It is one of the few series to tell both sides of the crime story fairly evenly - hell Deangelo Barksdale is almost a sympathetic character, and poor Wallace - well you'll have to watch to understand - it's all in the Game.
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