All's fair in love and 'War' — a well-cast, classy-trashy divorce drama

Dominic West stars in the new HBO series 'War' as a tech mogul navigating a crumbling marriage. The show explores themes of infidelity and personal accountability through the lens of a high-profile divorce.
Why it matters
It highlights the ongoing trend of prestige television focusing on the complex, often unlikable personal lives of wealthy public figures.
Dominic West specializes in playing men who feel victimized by the consequences of their own actions. One of his signature lines as Jimmy McNulty on The Wire was, "What the f*** did I do?" The line was often delivered not in the sense of, "Oh no, what did I do ?" But instead, as an indignant, "Why am I getting yelled at? What did I do?" And while West's take on then-Prince Charles in The Crown put him in a completely different setting, he retained that sense of arrogant bafflement, affronted whenever he sensed that he was being perceived as the bad guy.
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