The Wire
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The Wire HBO - The Complete First Season
- 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.
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The Cast of The Wire - HBO
Dominic West ... Det./Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty
John Doman ... Maj./Col./Dep. Comm. William A. Rawls
Idris Elba ... Russell 'Stringer' Bell (2002-2004)
Frankie Faison ... Dep. Comm./Comm. Ervin H. Burrell
Aidan Gillen ... Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' J. Carcetti (2004-)
Wood Harris ... Avon Barksdale
Deirdre Lovejoy ... Asst. State's Atty. Rhonda Pearlman
Clarke Peters ... Det. Lester Freamon
Wendell Pierce ... Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
Lance Reddick ... Lt. Cedric Daniels
Andre Royo ... Bubbles (aka Bubbs)
Sonja Sohn ... Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs
Jim True-Frost ... Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski
Robert Wisdom ... Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin (2004)
Seth Gilliam ... Det./Sgt. Ellis Carver
Domenick Lombardozzi ... Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk
J.D. Williams ... Preston 'Bodie' Broadus (2002, 2004)
Michael K. Williams ... Omar Little (2004)
Larry Gilliard Jr. ... D'Angelo Barksdale (2002-2003)
Amy Ryan ... Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell (2003)
Hassan Johnson ... Wee-Bey Brice (2002)
Jay Landsman ... Lt. Dennis Mello (2004-)
Chris Bauer ... Frank Sobotka (2003)
Paul Ben-Victor ... Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos (2003)
James Ransone ... Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka (2003)
Bill Raymond ... The Greek (2003)
Charley Scalies ... Thomas 'Horseface' Pakusa (2003)
Pablo Schreiber ... Nickolas 'Nick' Sobotka (2003)
Glynn Turman ... Mayor Clarence V. Royce (2004-)
Al Brown ... Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek (2003)
Tray Chaney ... Malik 'Poot' Carr (2002)
Chad Coleman ... Dennis 'Cutty' Wise (2004)
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