Copper: America's Best Tee Vee Show Is Over

Cancelled! The bastards!  Copper was America's finest show, just ahead of Justified and way ahead of such second-tier productions as Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones.  I may have been too generous in contending they had a full $900 to spend on each episode, but the understanding of television, of storytelling, and of gleeful basic-cable violence made Copper a joy to watch.  Great work from the leads and the brilliant addition of Alfre Woodard and the scenery chompmonster Donal Logue made this high-calorie entertainment in ways the showier shows with bigger names and bigger budgets only wish they could pull off.  Don't count on a movie; it would be fun, but I ain't gonna hold my breath or anything.  My personal wish would be to take the Copper folks out to Deadwood after the war to fuck with Sheriff Bullock and those people, and then for Raylan Givens to get caught in some time travel shit and wind up in NYC just as Corky and Francis and their buds are getting back to town after their adventures out west.  That'd fuckin' rock!