Oh, Indeed!
Also from The Wire, Idris Elba as Stringer Bell was fantastic. I saw him in the Newark airport waiting on a flight to London, maybe it's his on screen persona or that he's probably about 6'4" 250 lbs but he looked happy left alone and I was happy to leave him alone. On the show he's completely amoral and cunning but with great business sense and wants to make selling drugs like any other business and get rid of the wasteful violence.
The great thing about the Wire is that it shows drug dealers and cops in an unsensationalized manner. To most of the characters it's a job, the same way that anything else is a job and it's boring and repetitive and bureaucratic. The cases also last an entire season rather than one episode so you really get to know the characters and see how a case is built rather than the typical TV cop getting someone to confess through interrogation. The episode where Stringer and Avon compete with Prop Joe to sign up ringers for the East Baltimore vs West Baltimore basketball game was great along with any episode featuring Brother Mouzone.