Goofle

I think The Wire suffers slightly from being an hour long, whereas Homicide is only 45 minutes. You end up with less "filler" and a pacier narrative. That isn't always a good thing in terms of timing and story line development, but I think in general that it helps the show.

I won't definitively say it is better than The Wire yet as I have not seen all of them, but it runs it close/surpasses in terms of my enjoyment of an episode.

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