'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.

There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'