5 is a really important look at money in politics, the dysfunction of bureacracy, and the decline of journalism (20 years later, the Sun is now a conservative rag)

i'll die on the hill that it's still great tv but it does lack the edge that the earlier seasons had since its premise is about wrapping up the crimes of season 3 and 4, not introducing new ones

And the original, Homicide:Life on the Streets. What a great show