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The Wire: Complete HBO Season 2
For those fresh to the show, surely the best, most intelligent piece of scripted drama to emerge from America in the last decade, the actual premise is fairly simple. Across the thirteen episodes of its season, it charts one case, and the numerous influences upon it. So it devotes roughly equal time to those committing the crimes as it does to those chasing them. This time, the Baltimore Police Department have twin worries. There's the continuing, festering narrative of events from the season before, along with a new problem when a container of dead bodies turns up at the nearby docks. After initial battles over whose statistics the bodies will be attributed to, a fresh case begins for the embattled officers of the Major Crimes Unit. Yet season two is about much more than the case itself. Bubbling under the surface are characters with real problems, that take their toll on the day-to-day, while at the docks themselves there are union struggles underway, which also have a part to play. Thanks to, frankly, superb scripting, these various narrative threads are woven together quite brilliantly, and the result is perhaps the finest series of The Wire to date. And that's no small feat. If you're one of the many who have let The Wire fly under their radar thus far, then you're urged to rectify that. Clearly season one is the logical starting point, but begin your adventure in the knowledge that this second series is simple exceptional. For the rest of the US television industry, this is the standard to aim for. --Simon Brew
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Picking up after the dramatic events of its maiden season, the second series of The Wire achieves something really rather special: it even manages to outclass the first.
Doesn't beat the first
Review date: 2008-06-14 Rating: 10 out of 10
I'd like to point out that I found this series better than any other show i've watched - except the first series. I still appreciated the plot and the new characters were equally if not more gritty than those in the first but I felt that it was trying to keep the first series personnel going when they really played a fairly minimal role in the series. Brilliant but a bit of an inbetween series.
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Reviews
Good viewing
Review date: 2008-06-06 Rating: 10 out of 10
I loved series one, and could not wait to buy this series. The story line was still gripping and you start to see how certain characters are going to come up dead soon. McNulty is still just as excellent in my book along with Stringer Bell who is really starting to shown his true nasty colours..watched this series in 2 days now looking forward to series 3.
The best thing on TV ever
Review date: 2008-06-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
I fortunately read a magazine article recently about decent TV programmes and The Wire was mentioned as rivalling The Sopranos as possibly the greatest programme ever made. I'm probably the same as a lot of people in that I'd missed this totally on TV, but boy am I glad I chose to buy that magazine. I'm now A Wire addict, watched season one in a couple of days and just finishing season two with season three on order. I am turning friends onto this as well. I won't harp on about the storylines as from reading the other reviews everybody should know the plot. I just felt compelled to wax lyrical about how great this drama is. I love the fact that a whole season follows an investigation, rather than watching other programmes that try and fit everything into an hour. The characters are all believable, with McNulty being the best character on TV. Well from now on when watching TV, if it doesn't match up with The Wire then I'm not watching it. The only downside for me is that season five is not out until September, still I can re-watch seasons 1 to 4. Thank God for The Wire, a programme I can believe in.
The best season?
Review date: 2008-04-20 Rating: 10 out of 10
I have watched the first 4 seasons of the wire and patiently await the 5th. Although many reviewers think this series is weaker than the others I actually think it's the best. You have the 2 stories going on; the docks and the street. The death of D'Angelo which is heart wrenching and the best opening version of down in the hole (and the original) by Tom Waits. It was the most beautifully shot season, gorgeous colours down the docks and they captured the dark stuffiness of the dockers local. Great acting from Sobotka, Ziggy, the Greeks and it tied up really nicely without going for the full happy ending. Wonderful stuff.
And the Crime continues
Review date: 2008-03-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
Two stories, one in the background brewing while the other just blow you away. Great series. put your foot up and enjoy.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Wendell Pierce
Idris Elba
Dominic West
Lance Reddick
Amy Ryder
Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321900725590
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 5
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2005-10-10
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 780 minutes
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