The Wire
The Wire
“ Listen carefully. ”
FIRST AIR2002-06-02
LAST UPDATE2008-03-09
RegionUS
Media TypeTV
BROADCASTING
Storyline
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.
DIRECTOR / DirectorErnest R. Dickerson
KEYWORDS
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