2002–2008 · Ended · 5 seasons

The Wire

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.

8.6

Score

Votes

2,686

Created by

David Simon

Network

HBO

Official site

“Listen carefully.”