The Wire

Well, I missed this completely so am extremely late, 6 years I believe, in commenting. But if "he" says it's good, it must be good, so I'm watching it now. (I'm usually far more fickle, I'll move on eventually).
Season 1, episode 3 so far.

It is good, extremely so and I'm not going to reduce it to platitudes. It's full of excellent lines that you think "I must remember that" (but don't) and pretty much every character is well written and acted. Very impressed.

This scene from the third episode is genius: