The Wire (2002)
Listen carefully.
| First Air Date: | 2002, June 2 |
| Last Air Date: | 2008, March 9 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 5 |
| Episodes: | 60 |
| Created by: | David Simon |
| Countries: | United States of America |
| Production: | Blown Deadline Productions, HBO |
| Cast: | Isiah Whitlock Jr., Gbenga Akinnagbe, Wendell Pierce, Aidan Gillen, Reg E. Cathey, Lance Reddick, Neal Huff, Michael Kenneth Williams, Tom McCarthy, Dominic West, Clarke Peters, Domenick Lombardozzi |
Overview:
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.