No Stars, Just Great

I don't watch all that many movies or television shows, folks. Between the three sports, filling the bloghole, doing the day job, playing poker, doing the household stuff and being the Shooter Dad and Husband, the day runs out of hours pretty fast. No complaints.But I do, eventually, work through my Netflix queue, and after reading enough about the show to know that I was going to geek out on it, I took the plunge and started plowing through "The Wire", the critically acclaimed HBO series that's set on the mean streets of Baltimore. I know this seems a fair way from sports, but wait for it, I'll circle back.Part of the reason why the show works so well is that it has no known star actors; the cast is just freaking huge, to the point where, just like real life, you are not always certain which character is which, and what exactly is going on. The lead actor is a guy (Dominic West) from Britain who I've only ever seen in one other movie ("300"), whe...