2. THE WIRE (HBO)
It became reflexive among much of the media to say HBO's greatest series ever didn't go out on its highest note—that its newspaper subplot wasn't as strong as past themes tackled by creator David Simon and company. But I thought its portrait of a suicidal industry was sketched vividly, and the central crime stories were once again superlatively acted, with dialogue as pungent as any feature film's. And if the abrupt shooting of legend-in-the-hood Omar (Michael K. Williams) didn't give you goose bumps, nothing else this year could have.
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