The Wire

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.

• corruption
• newspaper
• drug trafficking
• drug dealer
• baltimore, usa
• gangster
• police
• organized crime
• police detective
• surveillance
• power politics
• urban decay
• newspaper reporter
• wiretapping
• workers union
• angry
• education system
• docks
• black project
• clinical
• mayoral election
• dramatic
• violence
• tense
• sinister
• depressing
• admiring
• appreciative
• awestruck
• callous
• commanding
• dignified
• hopeful
• horrified
• informative
• objective
• ominous