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The Wire: Season 04
Running Time: 60 min.
David Simon's masterful social commentary went back to school, quite literally, in the fourth season, which focuses on Baltimore's crumbling education system. A relevant link to its first three seasons is supplied by Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski (Jim True-Frost), who left the police department to become a teacher at Edward Tilghman Middle School, a hardscrabble institution on life support that services a low-income, drug-infested neighborhood. (Incidentally, Prez's career path is similar to one of the series' producers, Ed Burns). His eighth-grade math class includes a close-knit quartet of friends -- Randy Wagstaff (Maestro Harrell), Michael Lee (Tristan Wilds), Duquan "Dukie" Weems (Jermaine Crawford) and Namond Brice (Julito McCullum). The wisecracking Brice is ignominiously selected to be part of a university experiment studying at-risk kids, which counts a former police commander, Bunny Colvin (Robert Wisdom), as a consultant. Out on the corners, Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector) strengthens his grip on the city's West Side narcotics trade once dominated by the Barksdale gang, and with his cold-blooded lieutenants, Chris (Gbenga Akinnagbe) and Snoop (Felicia Pearson), devises an ingenious method to hide the collateral damage of his ascent from the law. This sleight-of-hand bedevils detectives Freamon (Clarke Peters), Greggs (Sonja Sohn) and Bunk (Wendell Pierce). The trio are flummoxed by the lack of victims that would surely coincide with Marlo's ever-widening domain, a savage power grab that also threatens the relative peace of the New Day Co-Op under East Side pooh-bah Proposition Joe (Robert F. Chew). Meanwhile, the Democratic primary in the city's mayoral campaign pits the entrenched African-American incumbent, Clarence Royce (Glynn Turman), against Councilman Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen), a scrappy politico with a savvy campaign manager in Norman Wilson (Reg E. Cathey), but a long shot to become Charm City's first white chief executive in years. Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide
The Wire: Season 04 Cast and Crew:
Reg E. Cathey - (Norman Wilson) |
Fred Strother - (Odell Watkins) |
Isiah Whitlock, Jr. - (Clayton "Clay" Davis) |
Bill Raymond - (The Greek) |
Aidan Gillen - (Tommy Carcetti) |
Hassan Johnson - (Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice) |
Domenick Lombardozzi - (Thomas "Herc" Hauk) |
Rick Otto - (Kenneth Dozerman) |
Maestro Harrell - (Randy Wagstaff) |
Charley Scalies - (Horseface) |
Wood Harris - (Avon Barksdale) |
Al Brown - (Stanislaus Valchek) |
James Ransome - (Ziggy) |
Delaney Williams - (Jay Landsman) |
Michael Potts - (Brother Mouzone) |
Jamie Hector - (Marlo Stanfield) |
Pablo Schreiber - (Nick Sobotka) |
Larry Gilliard, Jr. - (D'Angelo Barksdale) |
Corey Parker Robinson - (Leander Sydnor) |
Robert Chew - (Joe "Proposition Joe" Stewart) |
Chad Coleman - (Dennis "Cutty" Wise) |
Gbenga Akinnagbe - (Chris Partlow) |
Dan DeLuca - (David Parenti) |
Julito McCullum - (Namond Brice) |
Tray Chaney - (Malik "Poot" Carr) |
Anwan Glover - (Slim Charles) |
Jay Landsman - (Dennis Mello) |
Michael Kostroff - (Maurice "Maury" Levy) |
Felicia Pearson - (Felicia "Snoop" Pearson) |
Ed Norris - (Edward Norris) |
Thuliso Dingwall - (Kenard) |
Maria Broom - (Marla Daniels) |
Richard Hidlebird - (Claudell Withers) |
Tootsie Duvall - (Claudell Withers) |
Jermaine Crawford - (Duquan "Dukie" Weems) |
The Wire: Season 04 Episodes:
The Wire: Boys of Summer
The Wire: Soft Eyes
The Wire: Home Rooms
The Wire: Refugees
The Wire: Alliances
The Wire: Margin of Error
The Wire: Unto Others
The Wire: Corner Boys
The Wire: Know Your Place
The Wire: Misgivings
The Wire: A New Day
The Wire: That's Got His Own
The Wire: Final Grades
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