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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
Item Dimensions: 90
Label: HBO Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
MPN: 98873
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 775 minutes
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2002
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Editorial Review:
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
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Perfect Guy Gift
Although it's not my thing, I have to admit tat I even got into this show on DVD. Got it for my brother and nephews - they love it. If you don't know what to get for a thinking guy's guy, it's "The Wire." They now have everything through season four and think I'm the coolest aunt ever. Score!
Rating: - Not for Nancy-boys or girls.
Wow. As a student of film, I have to say that this is a great show. But please, please, please don't buy it if you are boring. You may not think you are boring but take this test:
Fill in the blank...
1. C_ _ _ !
2. _ _ C _ !
3. My favorite movie is ______________ .
Answers:
1. If you don't know, you won't like the show.
2. If you didn't come up with more than two answers, you won't like the show.
3. If you answered 'The Notebook' ... Read More
Rating: - For the doubters out there
Since there are tons of reviews here singing the praises of 'The Wire', I wanted to aim my review at the people out there who are on the fence about whether to check out this criminally under-rated show.
I watched the first episode of 'The Wire' when it first aired, and decided that I didn't like it. To me, it looked like an unfortunate combination of "Lost", "Sopranos" and "Oz". "Lost", because as the viewer, you know the characters are never going to succeed, either in getting off the ... Read More
Rating: - Ruined Me for Law & Order
I used to watch Law & Order as I dozed off some nights, I always liked that show. However, after watching season one of The Wire, I can't watch L&O anymore, because in comparison it's just a pile of cool puke.
I started watching this after Sopranos ended, and it's no sopranos. But what is? This is great, better than most police movies you've seen, much less TV.
An especially gratifying thing about this season is the epilogue. It actually ends, not depending on any ... Read More
Rating: - Missed it on HBO... great alternative to post-writer's strike summer TV wasteland
Best television ever made? Possibly. When there's nothing on, catching up on seasons of The Wire, Rescue Me, and Mad Men is keeping me sane.
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