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

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The series is set in 2019 and follows the uprising of a white supremacist group in Oklahoma in the USA. The disappearances of so many known criminals come to mystify both the major crimes unit investigating Marlo and the homicide unit assigned to solve the presumed murders.

Her investigative work was greatly helped by her confidential informant, a drug addict known as Bubbles ( Andre Royo).Few series in the history of television have explored the plight of inner-city African Americans and none—not one—has done it as well. Before Peaky Blinders came along, Boardwalk Empire proved that period gangster drama could work on the small screen - and did so in a big way. Proposition Joe tries to engineer conflict between Omar Little and Marlo to convince Marlo to join the co-op. An intradepartmental struggle between the more motivated officers on the detail and their superiors spans the whole season, with interference by the higher-ups often threatening to ruin the investigation. In a final montage, McNulty gazes over the city; Freamon enjoys retirement; Templeton wins a Pulitzer; Carcetti becomes Governor; Haynes is sidelined to the copy desk and replaced by Fletcher; Campbell appoints Valchek as commissioner; Carcetti appoints Rawls as Superintendent of the Maryland State Police; Dukie continues to use heroin; Pearlman becomes a judge and Daniels a defense attorney; Bubbles is allowed upstairs where he enjoys a family dinner; Chris serves his life sentence alongside Wee-Bey; the drug trade continues; and the people of Baltimore go on with their lives.

Freamon, seen as a quiet "house cat", soon proved to be one of the unit's most methodical and experienced investigators, with a knack for noticing important details and a deep knowledge of public records and paper trails. Rightly touted as a masterpiece of TV storytelling by most critics, The Wire tells a multi-layered tale of crime from the perspectives of law-breakers and police in modern Baltimore. The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon. Each ambitious series unfolds slowly, opening up a screen novel for viewers that climaxes in some of the most nail-biting scenes ever aired. Simon has identified the organizations featured in the show—the Baltimore Police Department, City Hall, the Baltimore public school system, the Barksdale drug trafficking operation, The Baltimore Sun, and the stevedores' union—as comparable institutions.Twenty-five years after Robert De Niro found the profound sadness of becoming the King of Comedy, Kudrow immortalised its hollow Queen. Randy, in a moment of desperation, reveals knowledge of a murder to the assistant principal, leading to his being interrogated by police. Dennis "Cutty" Wise continues to work with boys in his boxing gym, and accepts a job at the school rounding up truants.