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The Americans (2013)
9.5 The best crime-law-spies-politics drama right now.
I've watched the 10 first episodes so far .Its not totally realistic or believable and it does have some minor plot holes but the acting and scenarios are just great.
Its not the Wire or Breaking Bad but its clearly among the best TV right now and I've enjoyed this more than the last seasons of GoT, Dexter, Justified, Mad Men, Homeland, Elementary SOA & others.
Its also the best new show I know, better than House of Cards & Orphan Black which are pretty good newcomers.
What I like most is that the characters are complex because of their lifestyle and do not need "artificial" mean of making them complex (same for Breaking Bad and The Wire)
The One Percent (2006)
"Born Rich" is 7/10 but this one is awful
Rich slacker talking about being born rich = something he knows about.
Rich slacker talking about economics and changing the world = clueless.
Badly structured, no clear goal and boring.
He wasn't even able to ask one intelligent question to Milton Friedman because he had no clue of what liberalism is all about. He didn't have to read a book he could just have watched a couple of "Free to Choose" episodes and would understand enough to be able to have a discussion with a Nobel prize winner and one of the most important economics thinker of the 20th century.
Its sad since there is a big void for economics & wealth gap documentary.