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Title: The Wire: Season 1
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 5
Release Date: 11/04/2005
Actors: Andre Royo, Clarke Peters, Deirdre Lovejoy, Domenick Lombardozzi, Dominic West, Frankie Faison, Idris Elba, John Doman, Lance Reddick, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Michael B. Jordan, Michael K. Williams, Seth Gilliam, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce, Wood Harris
Director: Joe Chappelle, Gloria Muzio, Clark Johnson, Clement Virgo, Ed Bianchi
Audio Language: English, French
Runtime: 12 hours
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Subtitle Language: Arabic, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Hebrew, Hungarian, el, en, fr, hu, nl, pt
Certificate: BBFC 18
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner, this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn. Episodes comprise: 'The Target', 'The Detail', 'The Buys', 'Old Cases', 'The Pager', 'The Wire', 'One Arrest', 'Lessons', 'Game Day', 'The Cost', 'The Hunt', 'Cleaning Up' and 'Sentencing'.

FROM AMAZON
Television really doesnt come much better than this. Criminally ignored by far, far too many people, The Wire has proven itself to be that rarest of things: an intelligent, clever, character-driven show, thats lasted more than one season.

This boxset brings together all the episodes from the maiden series of The Wire, spread across thirteen episodes. Yet those episodes, unlike many in the police genre where the show spends a good deal of its time, are dedicated to just one case. Furthermore, it follows both sides of the case. Thus, theres the Baltimore police department, with its statistics to manage, its internal politics to manage and its chain of command to respect, set against a highly organised drug gang, who too have more than their fair share of problems.

The Wire is a slow burn show, taking time to delicate put its pieces in place. Rarely do you get a dramatic end to an episode, and its not afraid to humanise and blur the lines between good and bad. But, bluntly, theres nothing--not even The Sopranos--that US TV has broadcast in the last ten years that can hold a torch to it. This first series is genuinely outstanding television, and really deserves your attention. And the good news? Excellent as it is, this first series isnt even the best that The Wire has to offer--Simon Brew





SYNOPSIS
The Wire is a groundbreaking, complex & political look at the streets of Baltimore. Season 1 centres around the drug culture of the inner city Baltimore, from the points of view of both the criminals lording the streets and the police officers determined to bring them down. THE WIRE SEASON 1 DVD

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