The Wire
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.
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: corruption, newspaper, drug trafficking, drug dealer, baltimore, usa, gangster, police, organized crime, police detective, surveillance, power politics, urban decay, newspaper reporter, wiretapping, workers union, education system, docks, black project, mayoral election, violence, homicide department
- Cast: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kenneth Williams, Deirdre Lovejoy