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I'm *so* late to the game on watching this program, but I have to say it's hands down the finest television program I've ever seen by a wide margin.
I just finished the 4th season, but its realism, unconventional story arcs, neither-good-nor-bad characters, and damning indictments of virtually every social institution imaginable (police, politics, education, poverty, prison, academia, unions) make it something I could watch again and again and again.
Why is it controversial? Oh, I dunno. It does tackle major social issues that other programs are afraid of; it includes an enormous cast of racially diverse characters without limiting them to unrealisticly awful racial stereotypes; it normalizes much of inner-city drug-dealing economic culture in a way that reminds me of what the Godfather films did for showing the depth and complexity of white mafia organizations; and it is unapologetically realistic on the whole - it isn't afraid to kill off the character everybody loves because it makes sense in terms of the story.
I can't wait to watch Season 5.
It's even being used as the foundation for college courses, including at Harvard, where it will be taught by William Julius Wilson, one of the top/most influential scholars on African-American studies in the US. I'm totally jealous.
I just finished the 4th season, but its realism, unconventional story arcs, neither-good-nor-bad characters, and damning indictments of virtually every social institution imaginable (police, politics, education, poverty, prison, academia, unions) make it something I could watch again and again and again.
Why is it controversial? Oh, I dunno. It does tackle major social issues that other programs are afraid of; it includes an enormous cast of racially diverse characters without limiting them to unrealisticly awful racial stereotypes; it normalizes much of inner-city drug-dealing economic culture in a way that reminds me of what the Godfather films did for showing the depth and complexity of white mafia organizations; and it is unapologetically realistic on the whole - it isn't afraid to kill off the character everybody loves because it makes sense in terms of the story.
I can't wait to watch Season 5.
It's even being used as the foundation for college courses, including at Harvard, where it will be taught by William Julius Wilson, one of the top/most influential scholars on African-American studies in the US. I'm totally jealous.