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The Wire
The Wire (2002-2008) delivers one of the most comprehensive institutional critiques in television history, with David Simon's five-season portrait of Baltimore earning a 94% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 9.3/10 on IMDb. Each season -- from the drug trade to the docks, politics to schools and the press -- adds novelistic depth that few other series have matched. It ranked 9th on the Writers Guild of America's 2013 list of the 101 best-written TV series of all time, cementing its reputation for exceptional scriptwriting.
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