
Serie The Wire Hauptfiguren
Ein Blick in den Kampf von Justiz und Polizei gegen Kriminalität in Baltimore: Diverse neu gegründete Spezialeinheiten stellen sich gegen die Kriminellen der Stadt - mit geringen finanziellen Mitteln und sparsamer Besetzung. Politische. The Wire ist eine US-amerikanische Krimi-Drama-Fernsehserie, die von 20in Baltimore (Maryland) gedreht wurde. Autor ist der ehemalige. The Wire ist eine US-amerikanische Fernsehserie des Pay-TV Senders HBO. Das Setting der Serie ist Baltimore und so konzentriert sich jede Staffel auf einen. Die mässigen Einschaltquoten von «The Wire» sind einfach zu erklären, denn die Serie ist in vielerlei Hinsicht nicht massentauglich: Die. In der Pilotfolge dieser Dramaserie wird Detective Jimmy McNulty von der Mordkommission von Baltimore in eine Sondereinheit aus Drogenfahndern eingeteilt. The Wire jetzt legal online anschauen. Die Serie ist aktuell bei Amazon, Sky Ticket, Sky Go, iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft, Rakuten TV, Videoload, CHILI. The Wire: Die Serie beschreibt den Niedergang der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft anhand der organisierten (Drogen-)Kriminalität in der Stadt Baltimore.

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Agnieszka Holland. Trending: Meist diskutierte Serien. Warner-Streamingdienst geht mit Sowohl der Umgang mit seiner eigenen Klasse, insbesondere die Problemfällen, als auch die Vorgaben des Lehrplans und die der Schulleitung bereiten ihm anfänglich erhebliche Schwierigkeiten.Chew , Delaney Williams , and Benay Berger. Alongside Simon, the show's creator, head writer , showrunner , and executive producer , much of the creative team behind The Wire were alumni of Homicide and Primetime Emmy Award -winning miniseries The Corner.
The Corner veteran, Robert F. Colesberry , was executive producer for the first two seasons and directed the season 2 finale before dying from complications from heart surgery in He is credited by the rest of the creative team as having a large creative role for a producer, and Simon credits him for achieving the show's realistic visual feel.
Thorson joined him on the production staff. Stories for the show were often co-written by Burns, who also became a producer in the show's fourth season.
Alvarez is a colleague of Simon's from The Baltimore Sun and a Baltimore native with working experience in the port area. Zorzi joined the writing staff in the third season and brought a wealth of experience to the show's examination of Baltimore politics.
Overmyer was brought into the full-time production staff to replace Pelecanos who scaled back his involvement to concentrate on his next book and worked on the fourth season solely as a writer.
The directing has been praised for its uncomplicated and subtle style. Each episode begins with a cold open that seldom contains a dramatic juncture.
The screen then fades or cuts to black while the intro music fades in. The show's opening title sequence then plays; a series of shots, mainly close-ups, concerning the show's subject matter that changes from season to season, separated by fast cutting a technique rarely used in the show itself.
The opening credits are superimposed on the sequence, and consist only of actors' names without identifying which actors play which roles. In addition, actors' faces are rarely seen in the title sequence.
At the end of the sequence, a quotation epigraph is shown on-screen that is spoken by a character during the episode.
The three exceptions were the first season finale which uses the phrase "All in the game", attributed to "Traditional West Baltimore", a phrase used frequently throughout all five seasons including that episode; the fourth season finale which uses the words "If animal trapped call " written on boarded up vacant homes attributed to "Baltimore, traditional" and the series finale , which started with a quote from H.
Mencken that is shown on a wall at The Baltimore Sun in one scene, neither quote being spoken by a character. Progressive story arcs often unfold in different locations at the same time.
Episodes rarely end with a cliffhanger , and close with a fade or cut to black with the closing music fading in. When broadcast on HBO and on some international networks, the episodes are preceded by a recap of events that have a bearing upon the upcoming narrative , using clips from previous episodes.
Rather than overlaying songs on the soundtrack, or employing a score, The Wire primarily uses pieces of music that emanate from a source within the scene, such as a jukebox or car radio.
This kind of music is known as diegetic or source cue. This practice is rarely breached, notably for the end-of-season montages and occasionally with a brief overlap of the closing theme and the final shot.
During season finales, a song is played before the closing scene in a montage showing the lives of the protagonists in the aftermath of the narrative.
John and performed by Paul Weller and the fifth uses an extended version of "Way Down In The Hole" by the Blind Boys of Alabama, the same version of the song used as the opening theme for the first season.
While the songs reflect the mood of the sequence, their lyrics are usually only loosely tied to the visual shots. In the commentary track to episode 37, " Mission Accomplished ", executive producer David Simon said: "I hate it when somebody purposely tries to have the lyrics match the visual.
It brutalizes the visual in a way to have the lyrics dead on point. Yet at the same time it can't be totally off point. It has to glance at what you're trying to say.
The writers strove to create a realistic vision of an American city based on their own experiences. Burns served in the Baltimore Police Department for 20 years and later became a teacher in an inner-city school.
Their combined experiences were used in many storylines of The Wire. Central to the show's aim for realism was the creation of truthful characters.
Simon has stated that most of them are composites of real-life Baltimore figures. In distinguishing the police characters from other television detectives, Simon makes the point that even the best police of The Wire are motivated not by a desire to protect and serve, but by the intellectual vanity of believing they are smarter than the criminals they are chasing.
While many of the police do exhibit altruistic qualities, many officers portrayed on the show are incompetent, brutal, self-aggrandizing, or hamstrung by bureaucracy and politics.
The criminals are not always motivated by profit or a desire to harm others; many are trapped in their existence and all have human qualities.
Even so, The Wire does not minimize or gloss over the horrific effects of their actions. The show is realistic in depicting the processes of both police work and criminal activity.
There have even been reports of real-life criminals watching the show to learn how to counter police investigation techniques.
In a December Washington Post article, local African-American students said that the show had "hit a nerve" with the black community and that they themselves knew real-life counterparts of many of the characters.
The article expressed great sadness at the toll drugs and violence are taking on the black community. Many important events occur off-camera and there is no artificial exposition in the form of voice-over or flashbacks , with the exceptions of two flashbacks — one at the end of the pilot episode that replays a moment from earlier in the same episode and one at the end of the fourth season finale that shows a short clip of a character tutoring his younger brother earlier in the season.
Thus, the viewer needs to follow every conversation closely to understand the ongoing story arc and the relevance of each character to it.
Salon has described the show as novelistic in structure, with a greater depth of writing and plotting than other crime shows. Simon chose this structure with an eye towards long story arcs that draw in viewers, resulting in a more satisfying payoff.
He uses the metaphor of a visual novel in several interviews, [7] [52] describing each episode as a chapter, and has also commented that this allows a fuller exploration of the show's themes in time not spent on plot development.
Simon described the second season as "a meditation on the death of work and the betrayal of the American working class Writer Ed Burns , who worked as a public school teacher after retiring from the Baltimore police force shortly before going to work with Simon, has called education the theme of the fourth season.
Rather than focusing solely on the school system, the fourth season looks at schools as a porous part of the community that are affected by problems outside of their boundaries.
Burns states that education comes from many sources other than schools and that children can be educated by other means, including contact with the drug dealers they work for.
Simon has identified the organizations featured in the show—the Baltimore Police Department , City Hall, the Baltimore public school system , the Barksdale drug trafficking operation , The Baltimore Sun , and the stevedores ' union—as comparable institutions.
All are dysfunctional in some way, and the characters are typically betrayed by the institutions that they accept in their lives.
Simon described the show as "cynical about institutions" [49] while taking a humanistic approach toward its characters. Central to the structure and plot of the show is the use of electronic surveillance and wiretap technologies by the police—hence the title The Wire.
Salon described the title as a metaphor for the viewer's experience: the wiretaps provide the police with access to a secret world, just as the show does for the viewer.
The Wire employs a broad ensemble cast, supplemented by many recurring guest stars who populate the institutions featured in the show.
The majority of the cast is black, which accurately reflects the demographics of Baltimore. The show's creators are also willing to kill off major characters, so that viewers cannot assume that a given character will survive simply because of a starring role or popularity among fans.
In response to a question on why a certain character had to die, David Simon said,. We are not selling hope, or audience gratification, or cheap victories with this show.
The Wire is making an argument about what institutions—bureaucracies, criminal enterprises, the cultures of addiction, raw capitalism even—do to individuals.
It is not designed purely as an entertainment. It is, I'm afraid, a somewhat angry show. The major characters of the first season were divided between those on the side of the law and those involved in drug-related crime.
The investigating detail was launched by the actions of Detective Jimmy McNulty Dominic West , whose insubordinate tendencies and personal problems played counterpoint to his ability as a criminal investigator.
The detail was led by Lieutenant Cedric Daniels Lance Reddick who faced challenges balancing his career aspirations with his desire to produce a good case.
Kima Greggs Sonja Sohn was a capable lead detective who faced jealousy from colleagues and worry about the dangers of her job from her domestic partner.
Her investigative work was greatly helped by her confidential informant , a drug addict known as Bubbles Andre Royo.
The duo's initially violent nature was eventually subdued as they proved useful in grunt work, and sometimes served as comic relief for the viewer.
Freamon, seen as a quiet "house cat", soon proved to be one of the unit's most methodical and experienced investigators, with a knack for noticing important details and a deep knowledge of public records and paper trails.
Prez faced sanction early on and was forced into office duty, but this setback quickly became a boon as he demonstrated natural skill at deciphering the communication codes used by the Barksdale organization.
These investigators were overseen by two commanding officers more concerned with politics and their own careers than the case, Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell Frankie Faison and Major William Rawls John Doman.
Assistant state's attorney Rhonda Pearlman Deirdre Lovejoy acted as the legal liaison between the detail and the courthouse and also had a sexual relationship with McNulty.
In the homicide division, Bunk Moreland Wendell Pierce was a gifted, dry-witted, hard-drinking detective partnered with McNulty under Sergeant Jay Landsman Delaney Williams , the sarcastic, sharp-tongued squad supervisor.
Peter Gerety had a recurring role as Judge Phelan, the official who started the case moving. On the other side of the investigation was Avon Barksdale 's drug empire.
Williams , and Wallace Michael B. Jordan , all street-level drug dealers. Omar Little Michael K. Williams , a renowned Baltimore stick-up man robbing drug dealers for a living, was a frequent thorn in the side of the Barksdale clan.
Vondas was the underboss of a global smuggling operation, Russell an inexperienced port authority officer and single mother thrown in at the deep end of a multiple homicide investigation, and Frank Sobotka a union leader who turned to crime to raise funds to save his union.
As the second season ended, the focus shifted away from the ports, leaving the new characters behind. The third season saw several previously recurring characters assuming larger starring roles, including Detective Leander Sydnor Corey Parker Robinson , Bodie J.
Williams , Omar Michael K. Williams , Proposition Joe Robert F. Colvin commanded the Western district where the Barksdale organization operated, and nearing retirement, he came up with a radical new method of dealing with the drug problem.
Proposition Joe, the East Side's cautious drug kingpin, became more cooperative with the Barksdale Organization.
Sydnor, a rising young star in the Police Department in season 1, returned to the cast as part of the major crimes unit.
Bodie had been seen gradually rising in the Barksdale organization since the first episode; he was born to their trade and showed a fierce aptitude for it.
Omar had a vendetta against the Barksdale organization and gave them all of his lethal attention. New additions in the third season included Tommy Carcetti Aidan Gillen , an ambitious city councilman; Mayor Clarence Royce Glynn Turman , the incumbent whom Carcetti planned to unseat; Marlo Stanfield Jamie Hector , leader of an upstart gang seeking to challenge Avon's dominance; and Dennis "Cutty" Wise Chad Coleman , a newly released convict uncertain of his future.
The characters are friends from a West Baltimore middle school. Another newcomer was Norman Wilson Reg E. Cathey , Carcetti's deputy campaign manager.
The fifth season saw several actors join the starring cast. Gbenga Akinnagbe returns as the previously recurring Chris Partlow , chief enforcer of the now dominant Stanfield Organization.
Neal Huff reprises his role as Mayoral chief of staff Michael Steintorf , having previously appeared as a guest star at the end of the fourth season.
Two other actors also join the starring cast having previously portrayed their corrupt characters as guest stars— Michael Kostroff as defense attorney Maurice Levy and Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Crew member Clark Johnson appeared in front of the camera for the first time in the series to play Augustus Haynes , the principled editor of the city desk of The Baltimore Sun.
The first season introduces two major groups of characters: the Baltimore Police Department and a drug dealing organization run by the Barksdale family.
The season follows the police investigation of the latter over its 13 episodes. The investigation is triggered when, following the acquittal of D'Angelo Barksdale for murder after a key witness changes her story, Detective Jimmy McNulty meets privately with Judge Daniel Phelan.
McNulty tells Phelan that the witness has probably been intimidated by members of a drug trafficking empire run by D'Angelo's uncle, Avon Barksdale , having recognized several faces at the trial, most notably Avon's second-in-command, Stringer Bell.
He also tells Phelan that no one is investigating Barksdale's criminal activity, which includes a significant portion of the city's drug trade and several unsolved homicides.
Phelan reacts to McNulty's report by complaining to senior Police Department figures, embarrassing them into creating a detail dedicated to investigating Barksdale.
An intradepartmental struggle between the more motivated officers on the detail and their superiors spans the whole season, with interference by the higher-ups often threatening to ruin the investigation.
The detail's commander, Cedric Daniels , acts as mediator between the two opposing groups of police. Meanwhile, the organized and cautious Barksdale gang is explored through characters at various levels within it.
The organization is continually antagonized by a stick-up crew led by Omar Little , and the feud leads to several deaths. Throughout, D'Angelo struggles with his conscience over his life of crime and the people it affects.
The police have little success with street-level arrests or with securing informants beyond Bubbles , a well known West Side drug addict.
Eventually the investigation takes the direction of electronic surveillance, with wiretaps and pager clones to infiltrate the security measures taken by the Barksdale organization.
This leads the investigation to areas the commanding officers had hoped to avoid, including political contributions. When an associate of Avon Barksdale is arrested by State Police and offers to cooperate, the commanding officers order the detail to undertake a sting operation to wrap up the case.
Detective Kima Greggs is seriously hurt in the operation, triggering an overzealous response from the rest of the department. This causes the detail's targets to suspect that they are under investigation.
Wallace is murdered by his childhood friends Bodie and Poot , on orders from Stringer Bell, after leaving his "secure" placement with relatives and returning to Baltimore.
D'Angelo Barksdale is eventually arrested transporting a kilo of uncut heroin, and learning of Wallace's murder, is ready to turn in his uncle and Stringer.
However, D'Angelo's mother convinces him to rescind the deal and take the charges for his family. The detail manages to arrest Avon on a minor charge and gets one of his soldiers, Wee-Bey , to confess to most of the murders, some of which he did not commit.
Stringer escapes prosecution and is left running the Barksdale empire. For the officers, the consequences of antagonizing their superiors are severe, with Daniels passed over for promotion and McNulty assigned out of homicide and into the marine unit.
The second season, along with its ongoing examination of the drug problem and its effect on the urban poor , examines the plight of the blue-collar urban working class as exemplified by stevedores in the city port , as some of them get caught up in smuggling drugs and other contraband inside the shipping containers that pass through their port.
McNulty harbors a grudge against his former commanders for reassigning him to the marine unit. When thirteen unidentified young women are found dead in a container at the docks, McNulty successfully makes a spiteful effort to place the murders within the jurisdiction of his former commander.
Meanwhile, police Major Stan Valchek gets into a feud with Polish-American Frank Sobotka , a leader of the International Brotherhood of Stevedores, a fictional dockers' union , over competing donations to their old neighborhood church.
Valchek demands a detail to investigate Sobotka. A detail is assigned, but staffed with "humps". Valcheck threatens Burrell with a disruption of Burrell's confirmation hearings and insists on Daniels.
Cedric Daniels is interviewed, having been praised by Prez , Major Valchek's son-in-law, and also because of his work on the Barksdale case.
He is eventually selected to lead the detail assigned just to investigate Sobotka; when the investigation is concluded Daniels is assured he will move up to head a special case unit with personnel of his choosing.
Life for the blue-collar men of the port is increasingly hard and work is scarce. As union leader, Sobotka has taken it on himself to reinvigorate the port by lobbying politicians to support much-needed infrastructure improvement initiatives.
Lacking the funds needed for this kind of influence, Sobotka has become involved with a smuggling ring. Around him, his son and nephew also turn to crime, as they have few other opportunities to earn money.
It becomes clear to the Sobotka detail that the dead girls are related to their investigation, as they were in a container that was supposed to be smuggled through the port.
They again use wiretaps to infiltrate the crime ring and slowly work their way up the chain towards The Greek , the mysterious man in charge. The Greek has a mole inside the FBI and starts severing his ties to Baltimore when he learns about the investigation.
After a dispute over stolen goods turns violent, Sobotka's wayward son Ziggy is charged with the murder of one of the Greek's underlings.
Sobotka himself is arrested for smuggling; he agrees to work with the detail to help his son, finally seeing his actions as a mistake.
The investigation ends with the fourteen homicides solved but the perpetrator already dead. Several drug dealers and mid-level smuggling figures tied to the Greek are arrested, but he and his second-in-command escape uncharged and unidentified.
The Major is pleased that Sobotka was arrested; the case is seen as a success by the commanding officers, but is viewed as a failure by the detail.
Across town, the Barksdale organization continues its business under Stringer while Avon and D'Angelo Barksdale serve prison time.
D'Angelo decides to cut ties to his family after his uncle organizes the deaths of several inmates and blames it on a corrupt guard to shave time from his sentence.
Eventually Stringer covertly orders D'Angelo killed, with the murder staged to look like a suicide. Avon is unaware of Stringer's duplicity and mourns the loss of his nephew.
Stringer also struggles, having been cut off by Avon's drug suppliers in New York and left with increasingly poor-quality product. He again goes behind Avon's back, giving up half of Avon's most prized territory to a rival named Proposition Joe in exchange for a share of his supply, which is revealed to be coming from the Greek.
Avon, unaware of the arrangement, assumes that Joe and other dealers are moving into his territory simply because the Barksdale organization has too few enforcers.
He uses his New York connections to hire a feared assassin named Brother Mouzone. Stringer deals with this by tricking his old adversary Omar into believing that Mouzone was responsible for the vicious killing of his partner in their feud in season one.
Seeking revenge, Omar shoots Mouzone but, realizing Stringer has lied to him, calls Mouzone recovers and leaves Baltimore , and Stringer now with Avon's consent is able to continue his arrangement with Proposition Joe.
In the third season, the focus returns to the street and the Barksdale organization. The scope is expanded to include the city's political scene.
A new subplot is introduced to explore the potential positive effects of de facto "legalizing" the illegal drug trade, and incidentally prostitution, within the limited boundaries of a few uninhabited city blocks—referred to as Hamsterdam.
The posited benefits, as in Amsterdam and other European cities, are reduced street crime city-wide and increased outreach of health and social services to vulnerable people.
These are continuations of stories hinted at earlier. The demolition of the residential towers that had served as the Barksdale organization's prime territory pushes their dealers back out onto the streets of Baltimore.
Stringer Bell continues his reform of the organization by cooperating with other drug lords, sharing with one another territory, product and profits.
Stringer's proposal is met with a curt refusal from Marlo Stanfield , leader of a new, growing crew. Against Stringer's advice, Avon decides to take Marlo's territory by force and the two gangs become embroiled in a bitter turf war with multiple deaths.
Omar Little continues to rob the Barksdale organization wherever possible. Working with his new boyfriend Dante and two women, he is once more a serious problem.
The violence related to the drug trade makes it an obvious choice of investigation for Cedric Daniels ' permanently established Major Crimes Unit.
Councilman Tommy Carcetti begins to prepare himself for a mayoral race. He manipulates a colleague into running against the mayor to split the black vote, secures a capable campaign manager and starts making headlines for himself.
Approaching the end of his career, Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin of Baltimore 's Western District wants to effect some real change in the troubled neighborhoods for which he has long been responsible.
Without the knowledge of central command, Colvin sets up areas where police would monitor, but not punish, the drug trade.
The police crack down severely on violence in these areas and also on drug trafficking elsewhere in the city. For many weeks, Colvin's experiment works and crime is reduced in his district.
Colvin' superiors, the media and city politicians eventually find out about the arrangement and the "Hamsterdam" experiment ends. With top brass outraged, Colvin is forced to cease his actions, accept a demotion and retire from the Police Department on a lower-grade pension.
Tommy Carcetti uses the scandal to make a grandstanding speech at a weekly Baltimore city council meeting. In another strand, Dennis "Cutty" Wise , once a drug dealer's enforcer, is released from a fourteen-year prison term with a street contact from Avon.
Cutty initially wishes to go straight partly to reignite his relationship with a former girlfriend. He tries to work as a manual laborer, but struggles to adapt to life as a free man.
He then flirts with his former life, going to work for Avon. Finding he no longer has the heart for murder, he quits the Barksdale crew.
Later, he uses funding from Avon to purchase new equipment for his nascent boxing gym. The Major Crimes Unit learns that Stringer has been buying real estate and developing it to fulfill his dream of being a successful legitimate businessman.
Believing that the bloody turf war with Marlo is poised to destroy everything the Barksdale crew had worked for, Stringer gives Major Colvin information on Avon's weapons stash.
Brother Mouzone returns to Baltimore and tracks down Omar to join forces. Mouzone tells Avon that his shooting must be avenged. Avon, remembering how Stringer disregarded his order which resulted in Stringer's attempt to have Brother Mouzone killed, furious over D'Angelo's murder to which Stringer had confessed, and fearing Mouzone's ability to harm his reputation outside of Baltimore, informs Mouzone of Stringer's upcoming visit to his construction site.
Mouzone and Omar corner him and shoot him to death. Colvin tells McNulty about Avon's hideout and armed with the information gleaned from selling the Barksdale crew pre-wiretapped disposable cell phones, the detail stages a raid, arresting Avon and most of his underlings.
Barksdale's criminal empire lies in ruins and Marlo's young crew simply moves into their territory. The drug trade in West Baltimore continues.
The fourth season concentrates on the school system and the mayoral race. Prez has begun a new career as a mathematics teacher at the same school.
The cold-blooded Marlo has come to dominate the streets of the west side, using murder and intimidation to make up for his weak-quality drugs and lack of business acumen.
His enforcers Chris Partlow and Snoop conceal their numerous victims in abandoned and boarded-up row houses where the bodies will not be readily discovered.
The disappearances of so many known criminals come to mystify both the major crimes unit investigating Marlo and the homicide unit assigned to solve the presumed murders.
Marlo coerces Bodie into working under him. McNulty is a patrolman and lives with Beadie Russell. He politely refuses offers from Daniels who is now a major and commanding the Western District.
Detectives Kima Greggs and Lester Freamon , as part of the major crimes unit, investigate Avon Barksdale 's political donations and serve several key figures with subpoenas.
Their work is shut down by Commissioner Ervin Burrell at Mayor Clarence Royce 's request, and after being placed under stricter supervision within their unit, both Greggs and Freamon request and receive transfer to the homicide division.
Meanwhile, the city's mayoral primary race enters its closing weeks. Royce initially has a seemingly insurmountable lead over challengers Tommy Carcetti and Tony Gray , with a big war chest and major endorsements.
Royce's lead begins to fray, as his own political machinations turn against him and Carcetti starts to highlight the city's crime problem. Carcetti is propelled to victory in the primary election.
Howard "Bunny" Colvin joins a research group attempting to study potential future criminals in the middle school population. Dennis "Cutty" Wise continues to work with boys in his boxing gym, and accepts a job at the school rounding up truants.
Prez has a few successes with his students, but some of them start to slip away. Disruptive Namond is removed from class and placed in the research group, where he gradually develops affection and respect for Colvin.
Randy, in a moment of desperation, reveals knowledge of a murder to the assistant principal, leading to his being interrogated by police.
When Bubbles takes Sherrod, a homeless teenager, under his wing, he fails in his attempts to encourage the boy to return to school.
Proposition Joe tries to engineer conflict between Omar Little and Marlo to convince Marlo to join the co-op. Omar robs Marlo who, in turn, frames Omar for a murder and organises attempts to have him murdered in jail but Omar manages to beat the charge with the help of Bunk.
Omar is told that Marlo set him up, so takes revenge on him by robbing the entire shipment of the co-op.
Marlo is furious with Joe for allowing the shipment to be stolen. Marlo demands satisfaction, and as a result, Joe sets up a meeting between him and Spiros Vondas , who assuages Marlo's concerns.
Having gotten a lead on Joe's connection to the Greeks, Marlo begins investigating them to learn more about their role in bringing narcotics into Baltimore.
Freamon discovers the bodies Chris and Snoop had hidden. Bodie offers McNulty testimony against Marlo and his crew, but is shot dead on his corner by O-Dog, a member of Marlo's crew.
Bubbles turns himself in to the police and tries to hang himself, but he survives and is taken to a detox facility.
Michael has now joined the ranks of Marlo's killers and runs one of his corners, with Dukie leaving high school to work there. Randy's house is firebombed by school bullies for his cooperation with the police, leaving his caring foster mother hospitalized and sending him back to a group home.
Namond is taken in by Colvin, who recognized the good in him. The major crimes unit from earlier seasons is largely reunited, and they resume their investigation of Marlo Stanfield.
The fifth season focuses on the media and media consumption. John Carroll of The Baltimore Sun was the model for the "craven, prize hungry" editor of the fictional newspaper.
Fifteen months after the fourth season concludes, Mayor Carcetti 's cuts in the police budget to redress the education deficit force the Marlo Stanfield investigation to shut down.
Cedric Daniels secures a detail to focus on the prosecution of Senator Davis for corruption. Detective McNulty returns to the Homicide unit and decides to divert resources back to the Police Department by faking evidence to make it appear that a serial killer is murdering homeless men.
The Baltimore Sun also faces budget cuts and the newsroom struggles to adequately cover the city, omitting many important stories.
Commissioner Burrell continues to falsify crime statistics and is fired by Carcetti, who positions Daniels to replace him.
Marlo Stanfield lures his enemy Omar Little out of retirement by having Omar's mentor Butchie murdered. Proposition Joe teaches Stanfield how to launder money and evade investigation.
Michael Lee continues working as a Stanfield enforcer, providing a home for his friend Dukie and younger brother Bug. Omar returns to Baltimore seeking revenge, targeting Stanfield's organization, stealing and destroying money and drugs and killing Stanfield enforcers in an attempt to force Stanfield into the open.
However, he is eventually shot and killed by Kenard , a young Stanfield dealer. Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Templeton claims to have been contacted by McNulty's fake serial killer.
City Editor Gus Haynes becomes suspicious, but his superiors are enamored of Templeton. McNulty backs up Templeton's claim in order to further legitimize his fabricated serial killer.
The story gains momentum and Carcetti spins the resulting attention on homelessness into a key issue in his imminent campaign for Governor and restores funding to the Police Department.
Bubbles is recovering from his drug addiction while living in his sister's basement. He is befriended by Sun reporter Mike Fletcher , who eventually writes a profile of Bubbles.
Instead, Freamon helps McNulty perpetuate the lie and uses resources earmarked for the case to fund an illegal wiretap on Stanfield.
Bunk resumes working the vacant house murders, leading to a murder warrant against Partlow for killing Michael's stepfather. Freamon and Leander Sydnor gather enough evidence to arrest Stanfield and most of his top lieutenants, seizing a large quantity of drugs.
Stanfield suspects that Michael is an informant, and orders him killed. Michael realizes he is being set up and kills Snoop instead.
A wanted man, he leaves Bug with an aunt and begins a career as a stick-up man. With his support system gone, Dukie lives with drug addicts.
McNulty tells Kima Greggs about his fabrications to prevent her wasting time on the case. Greggs tells Daniels, who, along with Rhonda Pearlman , takes this news to Carcetti, who orders a cover-up because of the issue's importance to his campaign.
Davis is acquitted, but Freamon uses the threat of federal prosecution to blackmail him for information.
Davis reveals Maurice Levy has a mole in the courthouse from whom he illegally purchases copies of sealed indictments. Herc tells Levy that the Stanfield case was probably based on an illegal wiretap, something which would jeopardize the entire case.
After Levy reveals this to Pearlman, she uses Levy's espionage to blackmail him into agreeing to a plea bargain for his defendants.
Levy ensures Stanfield's release on the condition that he permanently retires, while his subordinates will have to accept long sentences.
Stanfield sells the connection to The Greeks back to the Co-Op and plans to become a businessman, although he appears unable or unwilling to stay off the corner.
As the cover-up begins, a copy-cat killing occurs, but McNulty quickly identifies and arrests the culprit. Pearlman tells McNulty and Freamon that they can no longer be allowed to do investigative work and warns of criminal charges if the scandal becomes public.
They opt to retire. Haynes attempts to expose Templeton but the managing editors ignore the fabrications and demote anyone critical of their star reporter.
Carcetti pressures Daniels to falsify crime statistics to aid his campaign. Daniels refuses and then quietly resigns rather than have his FBI file leaked.
In a final montage, McNulty gazes over the city; Freamon enjoys retirement; Templeton wins a Pulitzer; Carcetti becomes Governor; Haynes is sidelined to the copy desk and replaced by Fletcher; Campbell appoints Valchek as commissioner; Carcetti appoints Rawls as Superintendent of the Maryland State Police ; Dukie continues to use heroin; Michael becomes a stickup boy; Pearlman becomes a judge and Daniels a defense attorney; Bubbles is allowed upstairs where he enjoys a family dinner; Chris serves his life sentence alongside Wee-Bey ; the drug trade continues; and the people of Baltimore go on with their lives.
During the fifth season, HBO produced three shorts depicting moments in the history of characters in The Wire. The three prequels depict the first meeting between McNulty and Bunk; Proposition Joe as a slick business kid; and young Omar.
All seasons of The Wire have received positive reviews from many major television critics, several naming it the best contemporary show and one of the best drama series of all time.
The first season received mainly positive reviews from critics, [68] [69] some even calling it superior to HBO's better-known " flagship " drama series such as The Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
Despite the critical acclaim, The Wire received poor Nielsen ratings , which Simon attributed to the complexity of the plot; a poor time slot; heavy use of esoteric slang, particularly among the gangster characters; and a predominantly black cast.
After the first two shows of season two, Jim Shelley in The Guardian , called The Wire the best show on TV, praising the second season for its ability to detach from its former foundations in the first season.
The critical response to the third season remained positive. Entertainment Weekly named The Wire the best show of , describing it as "the smartest, deepest and most resonant drama on TV.
It also worried that the loss of the show would have a negative impact on Baltimore 's economy. At the close of the third season, The Wire was still struggling to maintain its ratings and the show faced possible cancellation.
As the fourth season was about to begin, almost two years after the previous season's end, Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that The Wire "has tackled the drug war in this country as it simultaneously explores race, poverty and 'the death of the American working class,' the failure of political systems to help the people they serve, and the tyranny of lost hope.
Few series in the history of television have explored the plight of inner-city African Americans and none—not one—has done it as well.
Williams's acting as Omar Little. In September , The Guardian, which ranked the show 2 on its list of the best TV shows of the 21st century, described it as "polemical, panoramic, funny, tragic or all of those things at once", saying it was "beautifully written and performed" and was both "TV as high art and TV wrenched from the soul" and "an exemplar of a certain brand of intelligent, ambitious and uncompromising television".
Critics have often described the show in literary terms: the New York Times calls it "literary television;" TV Guide calls it "TV as great modern literature;" the San Francisco Chronicle says the series "must be considered alongside the best literature and filmmaking in the modern era;" and the Chicago Tribune says the show delivers "rewards not unlike those won by readers who conquer Joyce , Faulkner or Henry James.
Robert Kirkman , creator of The Walking Dead , is a strong follower of The Wire ; he has tried to cast as many actors from it into the television series of the same name as possible, so far having cast Chad Coleman , Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Most of the awards the series won were for season 4 and season 5. Despite the above mentioned awards and unanimous critical approval, The Wire never won a single Primetime Emmy Award nor received any major nominations, except for two writing nominations in and In the years following the end of the series' run, several colleges and universities such as Johns Hopkins , Brown University , and Harvard College have offered classes on The Wire in disciplines ranging from law to sociology to film studies.
Phillips Academy , a boarding high school in Massachusetts, offers a similar course as well. Esperaba que la serie cambiara las opiniones de algunos espectadores, pero dijo que era poco probable que tuviese un impacto sobre los temas a tratar.
Varias figuras prominentes de Baltimore de la vida real, como el exgobernador de Maryland, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
Chew y Delaney Williams. Junto a Simon, el creador del programa, jefe de guionistas, show runner y productor ejecutivo , gran parte del equipo creativo de The Wire eran antiguos alumnos de Homicide y The Corner.
El veterano de The Corner , Robert F. Alvarez es un colega de Simon de The Sun y un nativo de Baltimore con experiencia de trabajo en la zona del puerto.
Sus experiencias se utilizan en muchas de las historias de The Wire. De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre.
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