Quick Facts
CreatorEd Burns
Years2002 · Ended
RatingTV-MA
GenresCrime · Drama
TV Series
The Wire
2002· TV-MA· Crime· Drama
“Listen carefully.”
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.
2002-06-02
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Episodes
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Cast & Characters
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Details
First aired2002-06-02
StatusEnded
StudiosBlown Deadline Productions · HBO
LanguagesMandarin · English · Greek · Spanish
CountriesUnited States of America
Rating8.6/10 · 2758 votes
Original languageen
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