The wire isn't your typical crime drama series where a crime or murder is solved in a one hour episode. A single crime is followed throughout the duration an entire season. Centering mainly on drug crimes and homicides within inner city Baltimore, the series is seen from the eyes of both the police investigators trying to solve the crime, as well as the criminals themselves.
The Wire: Complete HBO Season 1-5
| DVD | (08/12/2008
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| RRP Includes every episode from mini-series The Wire One of television's most critically acclaimed programmes The Wire challenges viewers with a cop show unlike anything on air. Universally lauded The Guardian claimed that 'you either love The Wire or you haven't seen it yet' - now there is no excuse with the release of this complete box-set. The HBO series addresses the seedy side of Baltimore's finest looking into money drugs politics and murder. 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. A study on urban life in one of America's toughest cities each season of The Wire has focused on a different aspect of Baltimore starting with the police force and the drug trade then moving on to City Hall the education system and concluding with the media. Over the course of five seasons David Simon has endeavoured to build a city. It is a groundbreaking complex and political look at the streets of America detailed and fiercely intelligent; there is no other show like it on TV.
The Wire - Season 1
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| RRP 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. Episodes comprise: 1. The Target 2.
The Wire - Season 3
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| RRP Corruption is rife throughout The Wire: The Complete Third Season, which picks up the further adventures of the Baltimore Major Crimes Unit as they continue to wage war on drugs. Only as this is The Wire, thats just the beginnings of their problems. Once again, the show thats rightly being acclaimed as one of Americas finest and most intelligent dramas covers the story from all areas. Theres the investigating cops on one hand, their targets on the other, and the small matter of heavy political influence both with the Police Department itself, and from the Mayors Office too.
The Wire: Complete HBO Season 5
| DVD | (22/09/2008
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| RRP In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade this series draws parallels between these organizations and the men and women on either side of the battle. Drawing similarities between those people who society champion as respectable and law-abiding and those dismissed as thugs this series sets out to change this viewpoint by showing how criminogenic and unrespectable the articulate political and respected can be especially in American political-economic life and how innocent and decent those from poor poverty-wracked slums can be. The distinctions between the corporate world and organised crime are shown to have very little relevance. Episodes Comprise: 1. More With Less 2. Unconfirmed Reports 3. Not For Attribution 4. Transitions 5. Reaction Quotes 6. The Dickensian Aspect 7. Took 8. Clarifications 9. Late Editions 10. -30-
The Wire: Complete HBO Season 4
| DVD | (10/03/2008
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| RRP Episodes Comprise: 1. Boys of Summer 2. Soft Eyes 3. Home Rooms 4. Refugees 5. Alliances 6. Margin Of Error 7. Unto Others 8. Corner Boys 9. Know Your Place 10. Misgivings 11. A New Day 12. That's Got His Own 13. Final Grades
The Wire - Season 2
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| RRP The most unvarnished uncompromising and realistic police drama ever returns for another hard hitting season. McNolty has been demoted to harbor patrol Daniels is in the police archive dungeon Prez is chafing in the suburbs and Gregs is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile on the docks of the Baltimore harbor the rank and file scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. W
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