The Wire

Name: The Wire
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2002-06-02
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kenneth Williams

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8.6(2,565 votes)

2002 - 2008

5 Seasons

Ended

CrimeDrama

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Overview

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.