Despite the past few years of mergers, rebranding, re-rebranding, and everything else Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav has done, HBO has held onto its reputation as the definitive home for high-quality television. The network essentially created what we now know as "prestige TV" more than 25 years ago, and while many competitors have entered the space, especially in the streaming era, modern series like "The Last of Us," "Succession," and "The White Lotus" have kept HBO on top.

Over those two and a half decades, there have been a wide range of popular shows on HBO, but no genre has defined the network quite the crime drama — the genre it built its early reputation on with back-to-back classics "The Sopranos" and "The Wire." It should be no secret that those shows tend to top most

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