Of course. Have never missed an episode.

Thought this year started out very poorly what with all the Armenian vs. Mexican cartel shit.

Got good with the hit on Shane and the Armenians, and especially good with the sequence where Shane's hired hit man is in "the box" (Homicide reference) and Shane scrams just ahead of the reveal...

TS's high points: first episode, last scene, establishes the entire series; fucking Forest Whitaker going Captain Ahab on the white whale Mackey for 1.5 seasons; the last eps of Glenn Close's run; Claudette as the only mostly-honorable person in the Barn; using Magnetic Fields to end an ep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_21jk9irrM); Dutch Boy strangling a cat in an attempt to understand the mindset of a pyschopath; Shane, Lem and a hand grenade; two scenes involving electric stove burners.

Essential dramas, in order:

Sopranos
the Wire*
Six Feet Under
Homicide*
the Shield*
Battlestar Galactica
Deadwood
ER (has gone on far too long, but has always been filmed very well, and quite good for network TV)
Lost
Star Trek Next Gen/DS9

*-commonalities of writers, directors, actors exist, most obviously Clark Johnson.