For Wilson, the unique power of the show comes from the way it takes fictions ability to create fully realized inner lives for its characters and combines that with qualities rare in a piece of entertainment: an acuity about the structural conditions that constrain human choices (whether its bureaucratic inertia, institutional racism, or economic decay) and an unparalleled scrupulousness about accurately portraying them. Wilson describes the shows characters almost as a set of case studies, remarkable for the vividness with which they embody a set of arguments about the American inner city. What Im concentrating on is how this series so brilliantly illustrates theories and processes that social scientists have been writing about for years, he said in an interview.
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