My ranking of the top 5 prestige dramas, worst to best, tell me where I'm wrong.

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Going to put my ranking out there and brace for disagreement, from fifth to first: Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and The Wire at number one. Reasoning is roughly that Boardwalk Empire had genuinely gorgeous production but never quite matched the character depth of the others, Mad Men's patient character study occasionally tested my patience despite being genuinely well crafted, and the top three all earned their spots through some combination of tension, ambition and lasting cultural impact. The Wire tops it for me specifically because of how it used fiction to explain systemic institutional failure in a way nothing else on this list attempts

Fully expecting pushback on basically every single placement here, that's honestly half the fun of posting a ranking like this. Tell me specifically where I've got it wrong and why

Rework my list or post your own entirely. Genuinely curious how differently people would order these five

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