The Wire - The Complete First Season
by Clark Johnson
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Actor: Dominic West, Idris Elba, Jr. Larry Gilliard, Sonja Sohn, Wendell PierceDirector: Clark Johnson
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 775 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Wire - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: The Wire - Season one
Summary: 5 Stars
This one took a little longer than I expected, but it came, and it was in great condition. like it came straight from the store!!!DVD Review: Is this it? What is all the hype about?
Summary: 2 Stars
I got the Wire because I thought I was missing the boat on 'the best show on TV'. Well...I must be missing something because after watching 5 episodes I don't get it. I kept thinking it was going to get better..not that it was bad...it just wasn't that interesting. The only reason I kept watching was to see Idris Elba who plays Stringer Bell cause he is a cutie! Other than that, I have no reason or intention of watching any more episodes of the Wire.DVD Review: extremely dull show
Summary: 1 Stars
I have watched 6 episodes of Season 1 and have desperately tried to get into The Wire. Despite the hype, and all the trendies saying what a mahhvellous show it is, actually it is pretty dull. Boring characters, little conflict, confusing scripts, same stuff repeated ad nauseam. Frankly, the lives of petty drug dealers in Baltimore don't do it for me, and not do the cops who are a pretty unattractive bunch with few dramatic qualities. I know that Prison Break was appallingly acted but at least it had a story line. The Wire is like an improvisation at one of those let it all hang out stage schools which never produces particularly great actors.DVD Review: Sometimes...just sometimes, a series is done perfectly
Summary: 5 Stars
And this is the case, all other reviews said all the good things about this series, so I will not repeat them...well, no too much.
Before I bought this series ( I did it because the package with the whole 5 seasons was on sale on Amazon, and because the good reviews it received ) I never saw an episode of the wire.
I can tell you that, that I was hooked since the first few minutes, when McNulty speaks with a street kid on a homicide scene, "..This is America, man"... That was good.
Intelligent, realistic, not your usual cop story, very well acted ( Dominic West's best performance ).
This series is so good, I finished the first season like 3 weeks ago, and I haven't seen the second just yet, because, just like a junky from this series, I don't want to see them too quickly, I don't want something this good to finish too soon.
Buy it, take your time to see the details, watch it several times if you need to, enjoy it! This is as good as entertainment gets!!
DVD Review: One of the best television shows ever made.
Summary: 5 Stars
It truly is one of the best shows ever made (without a doubt in the top five, maybe even top three.)
If you are any sort of television fan trust me, your money will not be wasted.
Description of The Wire - The Complete First Season
From David Simon creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner this unvarnished highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn.Running Time: 780 min.System Requirements:Running Time 780 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?026359887321 Manufacturer No:?98873After one episode of The Wire you'll be hooked. After three, you'll be astonished by the precision of its storytelling. After viewing all 13 episodes of the HBO series' remarkable first season, you'll be cheering a bona-fide American masterpiece. Series creator David Simon was a veteran crime reporter from The Baltimore Sun who cowrote the book that inspired TV's Homicide, and cowriter Ed Burns was a Baltimore cop, lending impeccable street-cred to an inner-city Baltimore saga (and companion piece to The Corner) that Simon aptly describes as "a visual novel" and "a treatise on institutions and individuals" as opposed to a conventional good-vs.-evil police procedural. Owing a creative debt to the novels of Richard Price (especially Clockers), the series opens as maverick Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West, in a star-making role) is tapping into a vast network of drugs and death around southwest Baltimore's deteriorating housing projects. With a mandate to get results ASAP, a haphazard team is assembled to join McNulty's increasingly complex investigation, built upon countless hours of electronic surveillance.
The show's split-perspective plotting is so richly layered, so breathtakingly authentic and based on finely drawn characters brought to life by a perfect ensemble cast, that it defies concise description. Simon, Burns, and their cowriters control every intricate aspect of the unfolding epic; directors are top-drawer (including Clark Johnson, helmer of The Shield's finest episodes), but they are servants to the story, resulting in a TV series like no other: unpredictable, complicated, and demanding the viewer's rapt attention, The Wire is "an angry show" (in Simon's words) that refuses to comfort with easy answers to deep-rooted societal problems. Moral gray zones proliferate in a universe where ruthless killers have a logical code, and where the cops are just as ambiguous as their targets. That ambiguity extends to the ending as well; season 1 leaves several issues unresolved, leaving you begging for the even more impressive developments that await in season 2. --Jeff Shannon
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