I have watched more of Homicide: LotS, and it has turned disappointing. The first season was only 10 episodes, and the second was only four due to worries about cancellation. Those seasons were overall very good for a cop show.

The third season came back with over 20 episodes, and I soon realized why: they turned it into a generic, mainstream cop show. Gone was the detailed, multiple-case approach of the first season, and it was replaced with an episodic, one-case-in-one-case-out approach that involves the sort of cases you only find on TV. Serial killer? Check. NSA involvement? Check. Very generic commentary about a particular issue only relevant for one episode? Check. It's probably still better than most cop shows, but at this point it's nothing special. The only reason I'm still watching at all is because I read that David Simon started working on the show full time in later seasons, so I'm hoping it changes.

In other news, I have got my mom obsessed with the Wire. She apparently does nothing after getting home from work except cook/eat dinner and watch the Wire nonstop until she goes to bed. She's early in the fourth season now and will probably finish everything in a week or so. That is what the Wire does to you.