24 Years Later, The Wire’s Best Scene Is Still 4 Minutes Of Genius

Even after 24 years, the best scene in HBO's masterpiece police procedural The Wire is still four minutes of uninterrupted genius writing. The Wire is often cited as one of the greatest TV shows ever made, and for good reason. It's a brilliantly written show that explores so many facets of life in urban America in the early 2000s, from drugs and crime to the death of the middle class, corruption in politics, the failures of the public school system, and the deterioration of journalism.