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I disagree with this. To me THE WIRE took a base theme each season and advanced on the topic with thematic episodes. I actually had no idea Baltimore was such a shit hole until that series. I had heard that about East St. Louis but Baltimore is famous for Sports and Edgar Allen Poe. You hear this shit about places like Harlem and South Central but in fact those areas really aren't as bad as the media hypes them up to be.

The thing I loved about THE WIRE was the way the bad guys weren't really bad guys and the good guys weren't really good guys. The cops were some of the worst pieces of shit on the planet and some of the drug dealers had morality and integrity. Also, no one ever got what they deserved good or bad (actually this isn't true entirely, but it took a long time to get there for a lot of the characters). There was none of these cardboard cartoon characters you see on most crappy cop shows.

Anyways, that's just my opinion but GAME OF THRONES does a lot of this too (fleshing out the characters and making sure people don't necessarily get what they deserve). I like writing that doesn't end in Disneyland themes and bullshit happy endings (unless the characters really earn the happy ending) Even on positive endings, I personally usually like more of a bittersweet resolve than some off into the sunset bullshit.