As an example of quality TV, here's AMC's "Breaking Bad" (it's "The Wire" to the Sopranoish "Mad Men":

http://www.amctv.com/videos/breaking-bad/?bcpid=9787693001&bclid=10174960001&bctid=14384555001

Recently watched "Generation Kill" which was "The Wire's" crew interpretation of the initial invasion of Iraq...

...now watching Battlestar Galactica which is all about post-9/11 consequences....

such as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95nMKRUI0j0&feature=related

I have been watching Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex. I'm enjoying it but I cannot tell one episode from any other.

The plot points are there and it works as a series, just that robots blowing shit up in spectacular ways is more fun to follow than the plot.

Meh, it's neither here nor there as far a a recommendation, I think most people who would even pick it up already know what they are getting.

Tigh; Tigh me Up;Tigh me Down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isB-3YDj4yc

Summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grfI3Yv6T0Q

Omar, the "Wire":

some Honey Nut...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lK9y9TVoY8

And of course, the scene of one word, which is "Fuck":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM

I wish I could get Gordon Ramsay on dvd--uncensored.
Either Kitchen Nightmares or Hell's Kitchen. Doesn't matter. I love him.

The Peabody-winning episode of "Homicide: Life in the Steets" is available on You Tube in 5 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM

I'm being a jerk!!

Where are you going??!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUY0E3W6duU&feature=related

All 6 seasons. Dyno-mite!!

Search for Homicide/Subway on YouTube, and observe magnification acting and writing...

I still remember that episode, with Vinnie D'nofrio as the guy caught between a subway car and a hard place. That was an excellent series.

All of the nudity from "Weeds":

http://fleshbot.com/5280489/the-boobs-of-weeds-a-retrospective

All of the nudity from "True Blood":

http://fleshbot.com/5273742/the-boobs-of-true-blood-season-one

Bonus Helen Mirren (spectacular) from 1969:

http://fleshbot.com/5275955/retronudity-young-helen-mirren-in-the-age-of-consent

and Callie Throne from the Wire 2:

http://fleshbot.com/5251207/callie-thornes-breasts-restore-our-faith-in-american-television

and she's doing great work on "Rescue Me" as the psycho/sexy widowed sister-in-law to Dennis Leary, especially the last episode where's she is in red lingerie in a candlelight room grinding away on top of him and promising non-judgmental refuge and taking the wine glass and offering "sips"....

^^^^Thanks. I love watching him break people down over beef wellingtons and risotto.