Sopranos was great too, but I didn't think cable counted.
I'll give The Wire a try.
Thanks,
Joanna
Jim Straub wrote:
> Not only is TV fun, but there's a lot of -good- tv on these days.
> Before I moved to reno where I have no tv, I watched:
>
> -the passive aggressive news hour on comedy central (stewart and colbert)
> -brilliant and subversive comedies like arrested development, the
> simpsons, american dad
> -sorta cheesy, sorta awesome primetime soap opera Lost
> -the last couple years' crop of hbo dramas have been mostly very good
> (Rome, Sopranos) and at times of singular brilliance (the wire and
> deadwood).
>
> The Wire alone is worth a cable bill. The best show in the history of
> television and of importance for any leftist in urban postindustrial
> america. If no one on this list is familiar with Omar Little the gay
> robin hood of the projects, and Brother "the most dangerous thing in
> america is a nigga with a library card" Muzone, then what a shame for
> the cause of socialism in the usa.
>
> I probably watch a little too much tv, but it correlates with working
> too much. And if we are in the business of engaging politically and
> culturally with the proles who work too much to make the world spin,
> is it wise to consciously wall ourselves off from that which unites
> them? Television is the medium of our age.
>
> Scores of millions of your fellow Americans, and hundreds of millions
> of your fellow humans, get much of their information about the world
> from TV, and you have no fucking idea what they're seeing. Don't you
> think that leaves you estranged?
>
> Besides, I like TV. It's fun. You're missing fun.
>
> Doug
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