[TimorousBestie]

I have very little sympathy for “You couldn’t write X today” arguments. Here, X is The Wire.

There is a spiritual successor to The Wire: 2022’s miniseries We Own This City. Same complicated representation of Baltimore. Same complicated representation of American policing. Good critical reception, but less widely-known than a legendary show that ran for six years and sixty episodes.

The substantive difference between the two is that 2020’s-era HBO doesn’t make long-running serials like The Wire and The Sopranos anymore (Hacks is a notable exception).

That’s not a political change forced on them by unnamed leftists. That’s a change in business model.

[throw2827363]

Exactly, and his examples are really bad because people want complex characters, and a "Kima Greggs" character would absolutely be fine even now.

[oidar]

> 2020’s-era HBO doesn’t make long-running serials

1. Succession

2. Curb you Enthusiasm

3. Westworld

4. Euporia

5. The White Lotus

6. The Last of Us

7. House of the Dragon

8. Industry