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The Wire - The Complete Third Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WIRE
EAN: 0026359277627
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: HBO Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoGreek (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoSpanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
MPN: 026359277627
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 08, 2006
Running Time: 720 minutes
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2004
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Editorial Review:
Crime drama set in Baltimore.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: WIRE
Title: SEASON 3
Street Release Date: 05/08/2007
Domestic
Genre: TELEVISION
With volatile issues of Baltimore city political reform as its narrative focus, the third season of The Wire superbly maintains the series' astonishingly consistent status as the greatest "novel for television" ever created. While the Baltimore police department's wire-tapping investigations continue to monitor the intricate and now legitimately fronted drug ring of Russell "Stringer" Bell (Idris Elba, smooth as ever), detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) continues his loutish ways, navigating through a series of shallow sexual conquests while doing some of the best cop-work of his career. Stringer's ex-convict partner Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) is back in the picture and bent on eliminating a drug-dealing competitor named Marlo (Jamie Hector), and Baltimore P.D. Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin (Robert Wisdom) tries his own defiantly independent brand of street justice by essentially legalizing drugs in "Hamsterdam," where isolated sections of the city are established as open drug-dealing zones, utterly without the knowledge or approval of Colvin's superiors. As city councilman Tommy Carcetti (Aiden Gillen) plots his own ruthlessly ambitious strategy for the mayor's seat, Baltimore officials, McNulty's wire unit, and the entire Baltimore P.D. stand poised for the inevitable fallout from street-level and executive-level manipulations of power.
Of course, this is just the tip of a very large iceberg, as The Wire continues its labyrinthine yet tightly controlled chronicle of over 50 characters, major and minor, who are all flawlessly woven into the fabric of these 12 remarkable episodes. For season 3, series creator David Simon continued to recruit a top-drawer lineup of reputable writers (including novelists Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, and George Pelecanos) and directors (including Ernest Dickerson, Tim Van Patten, and Agnieszka Holland), and by the time a major character is killed in the season's penultimate episode (arguably the series' finest yet), it's clear that The Wire has earned its crown as the most ambitious and intelligent crime drama in the history of American television. DVD extras are excellent, as usual, including five illuminating episode commentaries (an absolute must for devoted fans of the series), a Q&A session with cast & crew moderated by renowned TV critic and author Ken Tucker, and a classroom conversation with Simon that delves deeper into the creative process of the series. Having deservedly earned its renewal for a fourth season (out of a projected five, according to Simon), The Wire delivers surprises aplenty (keep a close watch for startling revelations) while proving, yet again, that cable-TV is the place to be for anyone seeking respite from the relative mediocrity of mainstream network programming. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Wire - The Complete Third Season
The Wire - The Complete Third Season continues the excellence presented in the first two seasons.
The writing, acting, directing, etc. are all extreemly professional. At times, I felt I was spying on real people in real situations. I would reccommend this series to anyone who enjoys serious drama.
Rating: - Damn Fine TV show.
What can I say that hasn't already been said? This was awesome. I still hit myself when I think that I never watched this show once while it was running on HBO. Stupid, stupid, stupid. If you've made the same mistake I did, you should immediately buy them and watch them.
Rating:  - A solid, if not better season
For better or worse, the third season of the Wire continues to have the same problems the first two seasons of the wire had. The slow pacing of the show, heavy handed dialog, and too many story lines to count continue to hold the show back from the greatness it deserves. Despite this, I found the subject matter in season three, "reform" or the lack thereof, extremely resonating and intriguing enough to keep me watching. I just wish that by season three more action and drama was utilized.
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Rating: - Still one of the greatest shows on television.
Season 3 of The Wire gets things back on track with the ongoing battle between the BPD and the Barksdale crew. Compelling new characters such as Cutty and Bunny are fleshed out, and the last few episodes of the season are heartbreaking to say the least. Definitely a must have for fans of the show.
Rating: - The most thought provoking program I've ever seen!
I don't have HBO but heard great things about The Wire so I tried the first season on DVD earlier this year and I'm hooked. I've watched 3 seasons now and can't wait to plunge into the last two.
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