The Wire: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [20 Discs]

Director: David Simon David Simon

Overview

In time-honored American tradition, two tough bureaucracies clashed head-on in the weekly cable-TV police drama The Wire. The difference here was that the bureaucracies in question were on diametrically opposite sides of the law. Filmed in Baltimore, the series was set in motion when a local judge, disgusted with the lack of progress in the war on drugs, ordered the city's Narcotics and Homicide divisions to join forces in their efforts to solve a string of murders which might have been drug-related. The "good guys" included homicide detectives Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) and Bunk Moreland (Wendell Pierce) and narcotics detectives Shakima Greggs (Sonja Sohn), Cedric Daniels (Lance Reddick), Ellis Carver (Seth Gilliam), and Herc Hauk (Dominick Lombardozzi). To say that these law officers did not always see eye to eye would be an understatement, but their jealous squabbles were minor compared to the ego-driven flare-ups within the bad guys' camp -- specifically the members of the Franklin Towers drug dealing operation, led by Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) and his contentious relatives. Created by David Simon (The Corner), the 13-episode The Wire debuted June 2, 2002, on the HBO cable service.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2020
UPC:	0883929725717
Original Release:	2002
Source:	Hbo Home Video
Language:	English
Sales rank:	27,320

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dominic West	Det. Jimmy McNulty
Sonja Sohn	Det. Shakima Greggs
Wendell Pierce	Det. William `Bunk' Moreland
Lance Reddick	Lt. Cedric Daniels
Clarke Peters	Det. Lester Freamon
John Doman	Col. William Rawls
Deirdre Lovejoy	Rhonda Pearlman
Andre Royo	Bubbles
Seth Gilliam	Det. Ellis Carver
Domenick Lombardozzi	Det. Thomas R. `Herc' Hauk
Jim True-Frost	Det. Roland `Prez' Pryzbylewski
Michael K. Williams	Omar,Bodie,Sgt. Jay Landsman
Frankie R. Faison	Det. Comm. Ervin Burrell
Leo Fitzpatrick	Johnny
Hassan Johnson	Wee-Bey
Larry Gilliard Jr.	D'Angelo Barksdale
James Ransone	Ziggy
Chris Bauer	Frank Sobotka
Al Brown	Maj. Stanislaus Valcheck
Luray Cooper	Nathaniel `Nat' Coxson
Bill Raymond	The Greek
Amy Ryan	Off. Beatrice Russell
Charley Scalies	Horseface
Pablo Schreiber	Nick Sobotka
Paul Ben-Victor	Spiros `Vondas' Vondopoulos
Chad L. Coleman	Dennis `Cutty' Wise
Robert Wisdom	Maj. Howard `Bunny' Colvin
Aidan Gillen	Councilman Thomas Carcetti
Idris Elba	Stringer Bell
Wood Harris	Avon Barksdale
Tristan Wilds	Michael Lee
Julito McCullum	Namond Brice
Maestro Harrell	Randy Wagstaff
Jermaine Crawford	Duquan `Dukie' Weems

Technical Credits

David Simon

David Simon

Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Director