The Wire: The Complete Series [DVD] [2008]

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This saga of two Russian agents posing as a married couple in 1980s Washington, DC is the thinking person’s spy thriller, elegant and cerebral but with tense jeopardy in every scene. Simon wanted to avoid a repeat of these conflicts and chose to take The Wire to HBO, because of their working relationship from the miniseries The Corner.

The show features a fictional depiction of the newspaper The Baltimore Sun, and in fact elements of the plot are ripped-from-the-headlines events (such as the Jayson Blair New York Times scandal) and people at the Sun. Cathey were featured in very prominent roles on Oz, while a number of other notable stars of The Wire, including Wood Harris, Frankie Faison, John Doman, Clarke Peters, Domenick Lombardozzi, Michael Hyatt, Michael Potts, and Method Man, appeared in at least one episode of Oz. Meanwhile, the organized and cautious Barksdale gang is explored through characters at various levels within it.Central to the structure and plot of the show is the use of electronic surveillance and wiretap technologies by the police—hence the title The Wire. Rounding out the temporary unit were detectives Lester Freamon ( Clarke Peters) and Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski ( Jim True-Frost). Madeline (Witherspoon) latches on to the newcomer along with her friend Celeste (Kidman), but things soon take a turn and end in a murder. Baltimore police commander Gary D'Addario served as the series' technical advisor for the first two seasons [19] [20] and had a recurring role as prosecutor Gary DiPasquale.

He is credited by the rest of the creative team as having a large creative role as a producer, and Simon credits him for achieving the show's realistic visual feel. This Designer Cooker Hood gets mounted on your kitchen wall above your cooker and the chimney will extend to your ceiling, and thanks to the design you get extra headroom making angled hoods ideal for.The show's opening title sequence then plays; a series of shots, mainly close-ups, concerning the show's subject matter that changes from season to season, separated by fast cutting (a technique rarely used in the show itself). The opening credits are superimposed on the sequence, and consist only of actors' names without identifying which actors play which roles. The third season is also an allegory that draws explicit parallels between the Iraq War and drug prohibition, [41] which in Simon's view has failed in its aims [45] and has become a war against America's underclass. Written by and starring The Walking Dead's Lennie James, this dark drama follows down-and-out Nelly who embarks on a tireless quest when his estranged daughter goes missing. The driven, ruthless Barksdale ( Wood Harris) was aided by business-minded Stringer Bell ( Idris Elba).