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The Wire - Season 1 (2002)

4,42 423 votes

Show title: The Wire

IMDb score: 9,3 (423.474)

Episodes: 13

Playing time: 13 hour

Developed by: David Simon

Stars: Dominic West, Lance Reddick and Sonja Sohn

Origin: United States

Releasedate: Sunday 2 June 2002

First aired on: HBO (Verenigde Staten)

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The Wire plot

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their suspected criminal targets, The Wire captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, where the lines between law enforcement and crime are increasingly blurred.

Episodes Season 1 (2002)

  1. 1. The Target

    2 June 2002 (1 hour)

  2. 2. The Detail

    9 June 2002 (1 hour)

  3. 3. The Buys

    16 June 2002 (1 hour)

  4. 4. Old Cases

    23 June 2002 (1 hour)

  5. 5. The Pager

    30 June 2002 (1 hour)

  6. 6. The Wire

    7 July 2002 (1 hour)

  7. 7. One Arrest

    21 July 2002 (1 hour)

  8. 8. Lessons

    28 July 2002 (1 hour)

  9. 9. Game Day

    4 August 2002 (1 hour)

  10. 10. The Cost

    11 August 2002 (1 hour)

  11. 11. The Hunt

    18 August 2002 (1 hour)

  12. 12. Cleaning Up

    1 September 2002 (1 hour)

  13. 13. Sentencing

    8 September 2002 (1 hour)

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Actors and Actresses

Jimmy McNulty

Cedric Daniels

Kima Greggs

Avon Barksdale

Bunk Moreland

Lester Freamon

Stringer Bell

Rhonda Pearlman

Bodie Broadus

Marlo Stanfield

Ellis Carver

Ervin Burrell

D'Angelo Barksdale

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Zandkuiken

  • 1743 messages
  • 1428 votes

Re-examined after all these years and The Wire remains exceptional. The first few minutes I feared that it would all feel a bit dated, but I was soon fully into it again. Instinctively, The Wire together with The Sopranos and Mad Men form the absolute top layer in series land for me, although it is sometimes difficult to compare if you saw something 15 years ago. However, after re-watching this first season, I am certain: The Wire is a series of the highest caliber. 5 big stars for this icon of television history.

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Lebarron

  • 1018 messages
  • 702 votes

Again a good series from HBO with a very interesting premise, but the slow build-up and the sometimes long-winded course meant that it was less able to grab me personally than the other HBO series that were in the similar theme such as The Sopranos and Oz. It lacks the action and suspense of Oz and the refined layering, pitch black humor and character development of The Sopranos in my view. The characters were as they were but didn't seem to really develop in my view and that made it harder for me to empathize with them and grow with the series. The series is very realistic. Tackling organized crime is something of the long haul and sometimes it seems like you're looking at paint drying and not with much fanfare and a lot of paf paf poof. In this, the series is a bit similar to Spooks. That was the demythologizing of the intelligence agencies and The Wire therefore demythologizes the investigative work. In that respect it is good because the public also needs to know how long an investigation into a criminal organization takes and what kind of work it takes to eventually get them behind bars, but also that this is actually a drop in the ocean because the successors are already eager. Still, for the entertainment factor, a little more action and tension would have been better. Now for me it was a good series that unfortunately was difficult to get through at times.

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The series takes its time and slowly builds up characters, plot and tension, but once up and running it's fun. What great characters and what great dialogue. The 4:3 image format now looks hopelessly dated, but apart from that, it has barely lost any of its power. Slowly but surely a grand story is forming, which is gaining in strength like a snowball. Curious to see how the series will develop.

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