THE ECSTATIC AESTHETICS OF XTC
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It was a puzzle. Hill Street Blues was exactly the type of show I knew I should like—the advance reviews were uniformly ecstatic, the ads dripped sincerity—and it wasn’t just some effete gesture by a major network made to appease esoteric culture buffs.