I watch quite alot of TV and when I first started to hear the buzz about this new HBO series called The Wire I couldn't wait to find out what the fuss was about. As the first season was just starting on FX at the time I set the Sky+ up and was ready to go. The show blew me away with its realism and gritty storytelling. This first season introduces you to the cast that will be seen throughout the 5 seasons. The basic premise is of cops and crooks but thst tells little of what this show is really about. You see the story from both the side of the law, using wiretaps to try and catch their targets, and the drug dealing crews of Baltimore doing their best to ...  Read the complete review

Okay so I am probably a bit behind the times with this,but I've only just got into it and decided to purchase the first series on DVD.Basically The Wire is set in the American town of Baltimore.A city which is rife with gangs,drugs and murders.A special task force is assigned the case of trying to get to the bottom of it all and stop the top players and gang leaders. What you get is an insight into each characters background both the police and the gangs.Each episode is extremely detailed and consists of many story-lines which are all linked into each other.The series questions everything from both sides and throws up a many moralistic questions.You are ...  Read the complete review

Being a big fan of other HBO series such as The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, I was excited when I heard about another series, The Wire. I tried watching it and found myself bored and unable to follow it, so I gave up on it. Then I started reading all kinds of reviews about how it was the best show on television ever, etc, and decided to give it another shot. I really concentrated the second time around, and that made all the difference. I absolutely love it. I've just completed watching the first season and I've ordered season two and am anxiously awaiting its arrival! The Wire is a series about crime in Baltimore. Season one looks at a massive drug and ...  Read the complete review

One-in-three black men between the ages of 16 and 30 in the United States are in the penal system, that rather unfortunate statistic the essence of The Wire, HBO`s biggest and best cop show running right now, and I believe all five series soon to be shown on BBC2 for your pleasure. With Barak Obama in power there could be no better time to get into this, yet another excellent drama from over the pond. It's subtle message is all about why it's been very tough for a black man to be the President, whilst its narrative is the war on drugs in Americas cities. The one-in-three black Americans of that age group that could legally vote in November for their brother ...  Read the complete review

The Wire premiered in 2002, but I didn't watch it until 2009! I had been aware of it, had wanted to see it, but not so much I was prepared to go and buy it. In the end it materialised in the form of a Christmas present and I liked it so much, I've bought up the next three series. Years ago I read an excellent article about the changing complexion of legal and medical television series. How characters in the sixties were portrayed as steely-eyed heroes, changing into more vulnerable, complex characters through the seventies and eighties, before becoming hard to distinguish from the low-lives they were dealing with in the nineties. Police Drama in ...  Read the complete review