Now that I think about it.
The Wire is stupid and overrated. Looking back at it, it seems like some shit written in The Atlantic. Like the class and politics of the people that love love love the Wire is reprehensible and make me wanna vomit. The entire show of the Wire is loved by the type of Black people that read the Jacobin and think Killmonger was a villain.
The moral of The Wire is like, Black poor needs good schools and education. It's literally the ending of Black Panther.
I think Sopranos is good because it completely dissects and removes the notions of savage honor and nobility from the Mafia genre, that was established in the Godfather. The Godfather established the image of the modern mafioso, they really copied and fancied themselves off the Godfather.
The Godfather to the Mafia is what Menace 2 Society is to the Black street hoodlum. Like motherfuckers really thought they were ODog.
Tony Soprano and all his Mafia friends are pathetic human beings. Complete dumbasses. There's nothing remarkable about them. Nobody fucking likes them. They get zero respect.
The Sopranos was more realistic and more critical than the Wire.
I like Mad Men more than both. But I think Sopranos is the better show.
People say Breaking Bad is a top TV show of all time, but that show was lowkey overrated and stupid just like The Wire. Breaking Bad will kill your brain cells if you really think about it.
Nacros is overrated due to it's subject matter.
If I wanted to show a non-American, the best of American Drama TV of the last 25 years, to like give them a taste of what America culture is about in 3 shows.
I would tell them to watch The Sopranos, Mad Men and Deadwood.
