The Wire

• TV Show
• 2002-06-02
• EN
• Ended
• 2h 34m
• US
• Crime - Drama

• 8.6
• 2360
• Trailer

Production

Blown Deadline Productions, HBO

Tagline

Listen carefully.

Storyline

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.