The Wire, German style

We have just finished Season Two of The Wire. It's one of the finest TV series ever made. The finest, perhaps. By the way, it takes its name from the use of electronic surveillance technologies by the police, and some commentators have described the title as a metaphor for the viewer's experience: the wiretaps give the police access to a secret world, just as the show gives us access to the shadow world of surveillance. In fact, executive producer David Simon has said that the constant shots of