The Wire

Listen carefully.

• Crime
• Drama

• 60 Episodes
• 5 Seasons
• en

• star8.6/ 10

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.