The Wire: Season 1 (2002)

USA

Television Series

Creator: David Simon

Cast: Dominic West, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Deirdre Lovejoy, Sonja Sohn, Seth Gilliam, Domenick Lombardozzi, Clarke Peters, Wood Harris, Idris Elba, Larry Gilliard Jr., John Doman, Andre Royo, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jim True-Frost, Frankie Faison, Corey Parker Robinson, Delaney Williams, J.D. Williams, Michael Kostroff, Tray Chaney, Hassan Johnson, Leo Fitzpatrick, Michael B. Jordan

David Simon’s painfully authentic feeling and justifiably much-hyped series – funny, moving, gripping, intelligent, and decidedly human – in which a specially formed police unit goes after the local drug kingpins, intricately weaves together dozens of small, personal stories, forming a grand overall picture of cops and crims in West Baltimore, highlighting the political machinations and bureaucratic red tape that tend to get in the way of any real police work. Iain.Stott