The Wire (2002)
Listen carefully.
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
Jimmy McNulty Dominic West
Cedric Daniels Lance Reddick
Kima Greggs Sonja Sohn
Bunk Moreland Wendell Pierce
Omar Little Michael Kenneth Williams
Rhonda Pearlman Deirdre Lovejoy
Bodie Broadus J.D. Williams
Marlo Stanfield Jamie Hector
Videos
Season 5
2008
10 episodes
Season 5 of The Wire premiered on January 6, 2008
In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. In the schools. And now, in the media. The places and faces change, but the game remains the same. In the fifth — and final — season, the series expands its focus into the media — specifically the role of newspapers in big-city bureaucracy — as it follows a newspaper staff as they struggle to maintain integrity and meet deadlines in the face of budget cuts and staff reductions.
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Keywords
- corruption
- newspaper
- drug trafficking
- drug dealer
- baltimore, usa
- gangster
- police
- organized crime
- police detective
- surveillance
- power politics
- urban decay
- newspaper reporter
- wiretapping
- workers union
- education system
- docks
- black project
- mayoral election
- violence
- homicide department