The Wire

Listen carefully.

• 8.629
• 2622
• 2008
• 00:26:14 min
• 50.8227
• United States of America
• HBO

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.