The Wire - The Complete First Season Cast: Dominic West, Wendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn, Lance Reddick
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- DVD Release Date: 10/12/2004
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Features
Closed Caption; Commentary tracks for three episodes (two with series creator David Simon and one with writer George Pelecanos)
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Side #1 -- Episodes 1-3
1. Rules in America
2. "When It's Not Your Turn"
3. Chain of Command
4. "Where Don't You Want to Go?"
5. Bad Planning
6. Send a Message
1. Make Lemonade
2. Mark Targets
3. A Little Posh
4. Game Plan
5. Police Work
6. "You Cannot Lose if You Do Not Play"
1. Necessary Evil
2. "The King Stay the King"
3. "Is There Any Other Fucking Way?"
4. Surveillance
5. Time's Up
6. Surprise
Side #2 -- Episodes 4-5
1. In or Out
2. Use Your Imagination
3. "It's a Thin Line 'Tween Heaven and Here"
4. Work to Do
5. Phone Trail
6. Natural Police
1. No Phones
2. To Catch a Snitch
3. New Game
4. Good Reason
5. The Code
6. "A Little Slow, a Little Late"
Side #3 -- Episodes 6-8
1. Loud and Clear
2. Rules
3. "All the Pieces Matter"
4. Pressure
5. Corroborating Evidence
6. Buy Times
1. Translation
2. Bust
3. Madame Larue
4. Mandatory
5. Catching On
6. "A Man Must Have a Code"
1. Spy Game
2. Follow the Drugs
3. No Surprises
4. Schooling
5. "Come at the Kings, You Best Not Miss"
6. Instinct
Side #4 -- Episodes 9-11
1. Nothing for Free
2. Follow the Money
3. Play by the Rules
4. "Maybe We Won"
5. Get a Good Look
6. Rough Day
1. Temptation
2. Up the Stakes
3. Ready to Talk
4. Parley
5. "And Then He Dropped the Bracelets"
6. Officer Down
1. Clear the Scene
2. On the Trail
3. Not Worth It
4. "Dope on the Damn Table"
5. Fall in With the Trash?
6. Photo Op
Side #5 -- Episodes 12-13
1. Take Stock
2. No Quarrels
3. "This Is Me, Yo, Right Here"
4. That's the Game
5. Something Real
6. Catch You Later
1. Play Hard
2. A Way Out
3. Career Case
4. What Really Matters
5. "Where Don't You Want to Go?"
6. "All in the Game..."
Editorial Reviews
In time-honored American tradition, two tough bureaucracies clashed head-on in the weekly cable-TV police drama The Wire. The difference here was that the bureaucracies in question were on diametrically opposite sides of the law. Filmed in Baltimore, the series was set in motion when a local judge, disgusted with the lack of progress in the war on drugs, ordered the city's Narcotics and Homicide divisions to join forces in their efforts to solve a string of murders which might have been drug-related. The "good guys" included homicide detectives Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) and Bunk Moreland (Wendell Pierce) and narcotics detectives Shakima Greggs (Sonja Sohn), Cedric Daniels (Lance Reddick), Ellis Carver (Seth Gilliam), and Herc Hauk (Domenick Lombardazzi). To say that these law officers did not always see eye to eye would be an understatement, but their jealous squabbles were minor compared to the ego-driven flare-ups within the bad guys' camp -- specifically the members of the Franklin Towers drug dealing operation, led by Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) and his contentious relatives. Created by David Simon (The Corner), the 13-episode The Wire debuted June 2, 2002, on HBO. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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