TV Shows on DVD  - The Wire

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The series opens as maverick Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) 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 co-writers control every intricate aspect of the unfolding epic; directors are top-drawer (including Clark Johnson, who helmed 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.

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