The Wire (series) (2002)
Release Year: 2002
Nation: United States
Alternative Title: N/A
Director: David Simon
Writer: David Simon
Production & Genre
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Keywords
Keywords: corruption, newspaper, drug trafficking, drug dealer, baltimore, usa, gangster, police, organized crime, police detective, surveillance, power politics, urban decay, newspaper reporter, wiretapping, workers union, education system, docks, black project, mayoral election, violence
Story
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.
