Thought it’s always been a hard call for me between The Sopranos and The Wire as the best show on television (I usually give a slight nod to The Sopranos for its attention to detail, unparalleled directing and overarching story-lines), it’s not debatable that it seems to have always been the bastard stepbrother, not getting it’s full due.

While I initially resisted the show because I have a quirk about jumping in late, I queued up Netflix and got up to speed, and in the process, supremely hooked.

Though like many on a message board I frequent, prefer the action and street-thug aspects of the show, I found every season to be equally rewarding on all fronts; intellectually, emotionally and from a sheer entertainment standpoint. It has everything.

This season promises to be particularly watch-worthy as it covers a subject I’ve been following closely the last year, the newspaper publishing industry. It is sure to feature touch-points on the decline in readership, and the growth and subsequent stagnation in online revenue, among the immediate issues concerning Baltimore proper. It’s a fair call to guess it will keep close tabs on our favorite characters like Clay Davis, Omar, Snoop, McNulty, Bunk, and of course, the ever-unlucky Bubbles.

The series premiere of the final season airs Sunday night, January 6 at 9PM on HBO.

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