The Wire

Original title: The Wire

94 minutes • 2002 - 2008 • 5 seasons • 60 episodes • 8.6 Score

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.