The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
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Actor: Aidan Gillen, Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell PierceDirector: Daniel Attias
Brand: HBO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Greek (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 780 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- With the fall of Barksdale and the ascent of young Marlo Stanfield as West Baltimore's drug king, the detail continues to "follow the money" up the political ladder in the midst of a mayoral election that pits the black incumbent, Clarence Royce, against an ambitious white councilman, Tommy Carcetti. The theme of urban education is explored through four new characters ? Michael Lee, Namond Brice,
DVD Reviews of The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
DVD Review: Bring back The Wire!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the Wire this was one of the best written shows on television ever. This season of The Wire was the best season yet!This season you see more of the new generation stepping to the forefront and letting you know what the future holds. They take you into the school and let you see how the drug world is effecting the kids and their families! DVD Review: Top 1 or 2 of the series
Summary: 5 Stars
Season 4 is up there with season 1. Great compelling story lines and great acting. Too bad they couldn't have added two more episodes or so to end the show rather than made mediocre season 5...DVD Review: Getting An Education
Summary: 4 Stars
The fourth season of "The Wire" seemed more like a bridge to the explosive final season, with one notable exception. Having left the police force, Det. 'Prez' Pryzbylewski (Jim True-Frost) takes a job as an eight grade teacher and becomes this year's MVP. Education and politics wrap themselves around each other as an intense Mayoral race where Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen) is trying to upset the political establishment while another formally disgraced officer "Bunny" Colvin (Robert Wisdom) again tries to break convention by taking problem students and derailing the "pass 'em up" mentality forced on schools by "No Child Left Behind."
In fact, major player Jimmy McNulty takes something of a backseat this season (although he takes an astonishing turn in the fifth season) to the electoral intrigue. That is not to say the drugs and the corners are gone; the rise of Marlo Stansfield takes a major place in the multi-story plotlines. The streets are still where the action is, and the students of Edward Tilghman Middle School are the pivot for which this season turns. Engrossing viewing and an incredible set-up for the finale, the fourth season of The Wire maintains their already sterling standard.
DVD Review: AND WE CONTINUE...................
Summary: 5 Stars
This thing is like a snowball rolling down the side of a hill. Picking up everything in its wake and getting larger and larger. Now, we see another generation getting involved in this drug culture. We see how some of the kids realize what some of the adults don't realize, this thing is so engulfing, it's almost impossible not to be touched by it. I commend the writers, the film makers, the actors and everyone else involved for telling a great story.DVD Review: Gritty and Compelling
Summary: 5 Stars
The Fourth season builds on the tensions of earlier seasons with the far more brutal drug lord Marlo replacing the Barksdales, the chaos of urban schools and politics beautifully portrayed, and the pathos of ghetto life for the kids laid out in all its rawness.
Description of The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
With the fall of Barksdale and the ascent of young Marlo Stanfield as West Baltimore's drug king, the detail continues to "follow the money" up the political ladder in the midst of a mayoral election that pits the black incumbent, Clarence Royce, against an ambitious white councilman, Tommy Carcetti. The theme of urban education is explored through four new characters ??" Michael Lee, Namond Brice, Randy Wagstaff and "Dukie" Weems as they traverse adolescence in the stunted, drug-saturated streets of West Baltimore. The world that awaits these boys and the American commitment to equal opportunity are depicted brilliantly in the edgy, all too realistic Season 4 of The Wire.Even if you missed the first three seasons (the character guides and thorough episode recaps on HBO's website are recommended), and with only one season left, it's not too late to get in under The Wire. In fact, season 4 is an accessible introduction for those who know The Wire only by its street cred as arguably the very best show on television. For them especially, this season will be, as befitting its theme, a real education. Without resorting to melodramatics that other ratings-challenged series employ to gain that frustratingly elusive audience, The Wire shakes things up this season in a way that is true to the series and its characters. A major character, Dominic West's McNulty, plays a minor role as a contented street cop and family man, while a former supporting player, Jim True-Frost's Roland Pryzbylewski, goes to the head of the class as a new eighth grade teacher at beleaguered Edward Tilghman Middle School. It may take a couple of episodes to orient yourself to the Baltimore backrooms, squad rooms, classrooms, and street corners where The Wire's intense dramas play out, and new viewers may miss something in character nuance, but they will easily grasp the big picture. A politically motivated shake-up sends Major Crimes detectives Freamon (Clarke Peters) and Greggs (Sonja Sohn) to Homicide. The gloves come off in the mayoral race between black incumbent Clarence Royce (Glynn Turman) and idealistic white challenger Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen). Gang leader Marlo (Jamie Hector) quietly and deliberately becomes the city's new drug kingpin, managing to subvert all surveillance efforts. Meanwhile, while "Prez" tries to reach his students, four highly at-risk kids will be drawn into the drug trade.
Mere synopsis does not do The Wire justice. The series deftly juggles its myriad storylines and characters, all of whom make an impression, from Marlo's cold-blooded enforcers, Snoop (Felicia Pearson) and Chris (Gbenga Akinnagbe), to boxing instructor "Cutty" (Chad L. Coleman), determined to keep his young charges off the corners. There is not a false note in the performances or the writing. Richard Price (Clockers) and Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) again contributed episodes. That this series has only been nominated for only one Emmy (for writing) is a travesty. As engrossing as the finest novels and in a class by itself, this isn't television; it's The Wire. --Donald Liebenson
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