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The Wire - The Complete First Season

starring: Dominic West, Sonja Sohn, Jr. Larry Gilliard, Wendell Pierce, Idris Elba
directed by: Clark Johnson

: The Wire - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783127927
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783127928
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 775 minutes
Sales Rank: 231
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2002



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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
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

Product Description:
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.Running Time: 780 min.System Requirements:Running Time 780 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359887321 Manufacturer No: 98873



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - MORE THAN YOU WOULD HAVE HOPED FOR
The Producer Barry Levinson has a love affair with Baltimore, as I do
too, being a years long ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A pretty good show, but not as good as you'd expect.
Heres the problem with the wire-the individual parts are much greater than the sum of its parts. When ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Really good show
I really enjoyed this television show. I can't wait to continue watching the subsequent seasons.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best show-too bad it's over
We love The Wire and have purchased all of the seasons available on DVD. The last season is due to come ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
I can't say anything that hasn't already been said. I can only 100% cosign the other good reviews that ... Read More

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