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Genre Drama
Format AC-3, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Contributor Larry Gilliard, Jr., Wendell Pierce, Clark Johnson, Dominic West, Idris Elba, Sonja Sohn
Language English
Number Of Discs 5
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From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner, this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn.

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After one episode of The Wire you'll be hooked. After three, you'll be astonished by the precision of its storytelling. After viewing all 13 episodes of the HBO series' remarkable first season, you'll be cheering a bona-fide American masterpiece. Series creator David Simon was a veteran crime reporter from The Baltimore Sun who cowrote the book that inspired TV's Homicide, and cowriter Ed Burns was a Baltimore cop, lending impeccable street-cred to an inner-city Baltimore saga (and companion piece to The Corner) that Simon aptly describes as "a visual novel" and "a treatise on institutions and individuals" as opposed to a conventional good-vs.-evil police procedural. Owing a creative debt to the novels of Richard Price (especially Clockers), the series opens as maverick Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West, in a star-making role) is tapping into a vast network of drugs and death around southwest Baltimore's deteriorating housing projects. With a mandate to get results ASAP, a haphazard team is assembled to join McNulty's increasingly complex investigation, built upon countless hours of electronic surveillance.

The show's split-perspective plotting is so richly layered, so breathtakingly authentic and based on finely drawn characters brought to life by a perfect ensemble cast, that it defies concise description. Simon, Burns, and their cowriters control every intricate aspect of the unfolding epic; directors are top-drawer (including Clark Johnson, helmer of The Shield's finest episodes), but they are servants to the story, resulting in a TV series like no other: unpredictable, complicated, and demanding the viewer's rapt attention, The Wire is "an angry show" (in Simon's words) that refuses to comfort with easy answers to deep-rooted societal problems. Moral gray zones proliferate in a universe where ruthless killers have a logical code, and where the cops are just as ambiguous as their targets. That ambiguity extends to the ending as well; season 1 leaves several issues unresolved, leaving you begging for the even more impressive developments that await in season 2. --Jeff Shannon

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 1.25 inches; 14.38 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Clark Johnson
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ AC-3, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 13 hours
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Dominic West, Sonja Sohn, Larry Gilliard, Jr., Wendell Pierce, Idris Elba
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, French, English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ HBO Studios
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0002ERXC2
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 5
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 14,702

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One of the best shows ever written, the characters are real, the writing is amazing, the dialog so natural that there is no sense that you are watching a drama, instead it feels as if you are riding right along with them. The writers flesh the characters out to such a degree that we feel as if we know them, like they are our intimate friends and family, like all families the good people have thier flaws and the bad people have thier deft moments of compassion and self realization that makes them human and not a one dimensional television character Indris Elba is amazing, as is the entire cast, all in all this production was flawless. If you have not seen the wire, you have not seen what possibilities television can hold.
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