Many readers expect that long-running television series will gradually decline in quality, as initial creative energy gives way to formulaic plotting. The 1990s drama "The Wire," however, became more ambitious with each season, expanding its focus from the drug trade to schools, politics, and the press. ______ , the show's creators have argued that the series is best understood as a single novelistic argument about institutional decay rather than as a conventional television drama.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
- A
By contrast
- B
Granted
- C
Even so
- Dcheck_circle
In fact
Explanation
The third sentence intensifies the second's claim of unconventional ambition. "In fact" signals reinforcement/intensification. "Even so" and "by contrast" oppose; "granted" concedes.