Director: Edward Bianchi
Genres: Drama, Crime
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In time-honored American tradition, two tough bureaucracies clashed head-on in the weekly cable-TV police drama The Wire. The difference here was that the bureaucracies in question were on diametrically opposite sides of the law. Filmed in Baltimore, the series was set in motion when a local judge, disgusted with the lack of progress in the war on drugs, ordered the city's Narcotics and Homicide divisions to join forces in their efforts to solve a string of murders which might have been drug-related. The "good guys" included homicide detectives Jimmy McNulty (Dominic_West) and Bunk Moreland (Wendell_Pierce) and narcotics detectives Shakima Greggs (Sonja_Sohn), Cedric Daniels (Lance_Reddick), Ellis Carver (Seth_Gilliam), and Herc Hauk (Dominick_Lombardozzi). To say that these law officers did not always see eye to eye would be an understatement, but their jealous squabbles were minor compared to the ego-driven flare-ups within the bad guys' camp -- specifically the members of the Franklin Towers drug dealing operation, led by Avon Barksdale (Wood_Harris) and his contentious relatives. Created by David_Simon (The_Corner), the 13-episode The Wire debuted June 2, 2002, on the HBO cable service. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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