The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever

A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the Unit…

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