I think that The Wire is the most overrated show on television. Many of my friends are very enthusiastic about it, but I watched at least six episodes and could not get hooked. The show felt "cheap" to me, and boring.

You are about as wrong as anybody can get about anything. The Wire is an outright masterpiece.

I can't see how you'd find it to be "cheap". It's got probably the most brilliantly characterized people I've seen on any screen. I'd understand not liking it based on the first few episodes, but by six in it was already gliding along.

The wire is the greatest show ever to land on TV. It has a novelistic approach which introduce characters slowly, however once they are established the show becomes almost too good. There will never be a show like this, ever. Please give yourself another chance, you will not regret it.

Have to agree with the latter two points - stick with it and look out for the business lessons to be learned.