The Wire
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Wire |
| Original title | The Wire |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2002-2008 |
| Production company |
Blown Deadline Productions |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 60 in 5 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime , drama |
| Theme music | The Blind Boys of Alabama , Tom Waits , The Neville Brothers , Steve Earle , DoMaJe - Way Down in the Hole |
| idea | David Simon |
| production |
David Simon (seasons 1–5) Robert F. Colesberry (seasons 1–3) Nina Kostroff Noble (seasons 3–5) |
| music | Tom Waits (theme song) Blake Leyh (credits) |
| camera |
Uta Briesewitz Russell Lee Fine David Insley Eagle Egilsson |
| First broadcast | June 2, 2002 (USA) on HBO |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 9, 2008 on FOX Channel |
| occupation | |
The Wire is an American crime - drama - television series , which from 2002 to 2008 in Baltimore ( Maryland was filmed). The author is the former police reporter David Simon , who already wrote the template for the crime series Homicide . The subject of the series is the reality of the post-industrial US city and community. In addition, the drug trafficking in Baltimore is shown, among other things from the point of view of police officers with various ranks, criminals, drug addicts, teachers, politicians and journalists. The name of the series (English wire means "wire, cable", also: "listening device") alludes to the systematic tapping of the suspects' phones. The methodical and patient investigations based on it are presented as superior to the normal way of working of the Baltimore police.
The series is characterized by a realistic drawing of the characters, whose personalities and relationships with one another are developed over the entire seasons. However, the complex characters and storylines make access to the series difficult. This led to some extremely positive reviews, but also to relatively poor audience ratings, as many viewers could not follow the complex plot.
Some critics have called The Wire the best television series of all time. The US website Metacritic.com , which summarizes reviews from various editors, rates the third and fourth seasons with an average of 98%, one of the highest ratings given for a television series since the database was founded, with the other three seasons falling slightly with an average of 88% . In the Internet Movie Database , The Wire is one of the top rated multi-season television series with an average rating of 9.3.
The last episode aired in the US on HBO on March 9, 2008.
characters
The Wire includes a large number of characters for a television series who also rise within the series, lose power, change their occupation or die. The most important can be roughly divided into the following groups:
On the part of the police, a special commission is created, the scope, personnel and status of which is subject to change within the series. Due to its goals, it is mainly composed of homicide and drug investigators. The closest thing to a starring role is Detective James “Jimmy” McNulty ( Dominic West ), a stubborn alcoholic and genius homicide investigator with a penchant for one-night stands and a broken personal life. His longtime partner is Detective William "Bunk" Moreland ( Wendell Pierce ). Your homicide shift is led by Sergeant Jay Landsman ( Delaney Williams ). Detective Shakima “Kima” Greggs ( Sonja Sohn ) as well as Thomas “Herc” Hauk ( Domenick Lombardozzi ) and Ellis “Carv” Carver ( Seth Gilliam ) come from the ranks of the drug search . In the course of the series, Lester Freamon ( Clarke Peters ), a police veteran and method investigator, and Leander Sydnor ( Corey Parker Robinson ) also become important. Lieutenant Cedric Daniels ( Lance Reddick ) will head the special commission .
Senior police officers, more concerned with their careers than police work, include Ervin Burrell ( Frankie Faison ), chief of police for most of the show, and William Rawls ( John Doman ), who runs day-to-day operations. Important police district commanders are Stanislaus "Stan" Valchek ( Al Brown ) of Polish descent in the southeast and Howard "Bunny" Colvin ( Robert Wisdom ) in the west.
Maurice "Maury" Levy ( Michael Kostroff ) represents the interests of drug dealers as a lawyer in court. Rhonda Pearlman ( Deirdre Lovejoy ) is the prosecutor in charge of the special unit and has at times an affair with Jimmy McNulty. The action begins at a hearing with Judge Daniel Phelan ( Peter Gerety ).
The drug king in western Baltimore is Avon Barksdale ( Wood Harris ). His right hand is Russell "Stringer" Bell ( Idris Elba ). Avon's young nephew D'Angelo ( Larry Gilliard, Jr. ) heads up sales in one area, supported by Preston "Bodie" Broadus ( JD Williams ) and Malik "Poot" Carr ( Tray Chaney ). He takes care of the boy Wallace ( Michael B. Jordan ), who in turn takes care of some orphaned children. Wee-Bey Brice ( Hassan Johnson ) is responsible for violence and murders . In the east of the city, Joe "Proposition Joe" Stewart ( Robert F. Chew ) sells drugs. Avon Barksdale is challenged by the emotionless Marlo Stanfield ( Jamie Hector ) and his merciless killers Chris Partlow ( Gbenga Akinnagbe ) and Felicia "Snoop" Pearson ( Felicia Pearson ). Homosexual Omar Devon Little ( Michael K. Williams ) specializes in robbing drug dealers. As a police spy and petty criminal, Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins ( Andre Royo ) finances his addiction.
In the port of Baltimore, union official Frank Sobotka ( Chris Bauer ) uses bribes for union work. His nephew Nick ( Pablo Schreiber ) is also involved, and his son Ziggy ( James Ransone ) also gets involved in the scheme. Sobotka is bribed by the organization of the "Greeks" ( Bill Raymond ), for which Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos ( Paul Ben-Victor ) takes care of the details. One of the Port Police Patrols is divorced mother Beadie Russell ( Amy Ryan ).
Thomas J. "Tommy" Carcetti ( Aidan Gillen ) is an idealistic, but very ambitious politician with the goal of winning the office of mayor. Norman Wilson ( Reg E. Cathey ) leads his election campaign against incumbent Clarence Royce ( Glynn Turman ). Michael Steintorf ( Neal Huff ) later becomes an indispensable helper for Tommy Carcetti. Well connected in local politics is the corrupt State Senator Clay Davis ( Isiah Whitlock, Jr. ).
Despite their young age, a group of friends at a middle school in western Baltimore have been influenced by drug trafficking. Namond Brice ( Julito McCullum ), a great addition to the group, is urged by his demanding mother to follow in the footsteps of his father Wee-Bey. The leader Michael Lee ( Tristan Wilds ) is a withdrawn boy who takes care of his little half-brother "Bug" instead of the drug addict mother. Randy Wagstaff ( Maestro Harrell ), on the other hand, has an open manner and an enterprising streak. He is the son of a drug dealer and lives with a foster mother. Duquan “Dukie” Weems ( Jermaine Crawford ) comes from a family of addicts and his neglect makes him a target for other children to ridicule. One of the boys' places of residence is the boxing school of ex-convict Dennis "Cutty" Wise ( Chad L. Coleman ) who tries to leave the drug trade behind. Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski ( Jim True-Frost ), a former special unit member and son-in-law of “Stan” Valchek, is a teacher at the boys' school.
In the offices of the Baltimore Sun , the experienced Augustus Haynes ( Clark Johnson ) and the young reporters Alma Gutierrez ( Michelle Paress ) and Scott Templeton ( Tom McCarthy ) can be found.
action
Even if each season represents a different focus within the community, some protagonists, whose lives are followed over several seasons, represent a complex web of relationships and dependencies.
season 1
The first season follows the investigation of a special commission of the Baltimore police against the drug ring Avon Barksdale and its "number two" Stringer Bell. After a murder trial against D'Angelo Barksdale, the nephew of Avon Barksdale, fails due to an intimidated and therefore false testimony, the frustrated homicide investigator Jimmy McNulty complains to the competent judge Daniel Phelan. Due to Phelan's political influence, the police leadership felt compelled to set up a special commission. McNulty already has the reputation of a troublemaker and is completely out of favor with colleagues and superiors as a result of this action. The management of the special commission therefore entrusts the leadership of the police to the ambitious Lieutenant Cedric Daniels, but only provides him with a basement office with inadequate staffing and equipment; some of the assigned officers are either unable or unwilling, one is even an alcoholic.
Barksdale is suspected of controlling drug trafficking in western Baltimore, including commissioning murders. However, the police hardly have any knowledge of their own, not even the appearance of Avon Barksdale is known. In addition to the general mistrust of the residents towards the police, the political intrigues within the police authority make the investigation more difficult. The police spy Bubbles, a drug addict from the milieu, can provide some important information, so that the investigation slowly gets underway.
After the failed murder trial, D'Angelo Barksdale descends in the hierarchy and now has to manage drug sales in the unprofitable “Projects”, a social housing estate that has become a ghetto. He takes the boy Wallace under his wing. In addition to the police investigation, the Barksdales the gangster Omar Little makes life difficult. After Omar has raided several drug hiding places, his lover is cruelly tortured to death by Avon Barksdale's men and his body is displayed in the Projects. Omar Little therefore begins a campaign of revenge, for which he works briefly with the investigators and which culminates in a failed murder attempt on Avon Barksdale. Wallace, complicit in the death of Omar's lover, tries to break away from the Projects, but returns and is executed by his own friends on Avon Barksdale's orders. With the help of the stripper Shardene, who is having an affair with D'Angelo, the special commission infiltrates a strip club, the headquarters of the Barksdales, and arrests D'Angelo, who has just returned from New York as a cocaine courier. The news of Wallace's death makes him want to testify against his uncle, but his mother dissuades him again.
At the end of the investigation, D'Angelo was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a major trial, while Avon Barksdale only served seven years in prison. Although several of the Barksdale's henchmen are also dead or imprisoned, the drug trade continues under Avon's deputy, Stringer Bell, while the successful special commission is disbanded and its most rebellious members, such as McNulty and Cedric Daniels, transferred. Less conspicuous investigators, however, are sometimes promoted.
season 2
The action of the second season is mainly set in the Baltimore harbor area. 13 dead women are discovered in the secret hiding place of a freight container. McNulty, meanwhile transferred to a police boat, recognizes a connection with an unidentifiable corpse in water that he and a colleague had recently recovered. Thanks to McNulty's tenacity, the homicide squad has to deal with this violent crime. The women were intended to be employed as forced prostitutes for an organization led by the "Greek". He cleverly exploited the financial needs of the dockers' union under Frank Sobotka to smuggle drugs and stolen goods into the United States in addition to women. Sobotka tries to buy political influence for the union in order to raise funds for construction projects. These should make the port more attractive and counteract the threat of gentrification . One of Sobotka's helpers is his level-headed nephew Nick. Both try to ignore the awkward and eccentric Ziggy. Ziggy, Sobotka's son, is bullied by his work colleagues and laughed at by the gangsters. His attempts to be accepted lead to increasingly daring actions in the course of the second season. They result in the murder of one of the Greek's men, for which he is imprisoned.
At the same time, Frank Sobotka quarreled with the high-ranking police officer Stan Valchek about a church window, which is why a special commission is set up to begin investigating Sobotka and the union. When it becomes clear that Sobotka could be connected to the murders, the homicide squad is called in. Sobotka can be charged with smuggling and the murder of the women can be solved. Some of the men of the "Greek" are also arrested. However, the leaders of the organization, warned by a spy at the FBI, can go into hiding at the last minute. Sobotka agrees to cooperate with the authorities and divulge his inside knowledge of the Greek and his organization in order to help his son who has been accused of murder. Sobotka rejects an offer from the Greek to Sobotka's nephew Nick, who could obtain Ziggy's acquittal by manipulating a witness. Sobotka is then murdered by the Greek's henchmen at a meeting organized by Nick.
Jailed Avon Barksdale's Syndicate is grappling with quality and supply problems in its drug trade. Stringer Bell, who, after consulting Avon Barksdale, is in charge of the operational business, therefore decides to purchase goods from East Side competitor Proposition Joe without authorization and without Barksdale's knowledge. Proposition Joe, who gets the drugs through the "Greeks", receives part of the Barksdale territory in return. When Avon learns that Proposition Joe is advancing into his territory, he hires the distinguished New York hit man Brother Mouzone to recapture the lost territory. Stringer, on the other hand, sees the cooperation with Proposition Joe in jeopardy with the appearance of Brother Mouzone. However, since Stringer cannot let his own people or Proposition Joe's people resolve the situation with Brother Mouzone, Stringer incites Omar Little on Mouzone by claiming that Mouzone was responsible for the torture murder of Omar's lover. However, Omar sees through Stringer's misery and leaves Mouzone alive.
D'Angelo Barksdale, who is imprisoned with Avon in the same prison, meanwhile turns more and more away from his uncle and his family. D'Angelo's behavior is increasingly burdening Avon and his sister, which Stringer sees as a problem for the organization and its ability to act. For this reason, Stringer has D'Angelo murdered. Since the murder was staged as a suicide, Avon has no idea that Stringer was behind the crime.
season 3
With the demolition of the skyscrapers in the Projects, the Barksdale organization has lost much of its territory, which means that it has to relocate its drug business to the streets of West Baltimore again. Stringer Bell convinces the city's other drug syndicates to join the joint delivery network he built with Proposition Joe. Stringer is also investing more and more in the purchase of land and real estate in order to launder the money from the drug deals and to gain political influence. Avon Barksdale, who has meanwhile been paroled, sees Stringer's investments and the cooperation with Proposition Joe critically. The relationship between the two leaders is further strained by Stringer's confession to have commissioned D'Angelo's murder. The situation is made more difficult by the rise of young drug lord Marlo Stanfield, who has conquered part of Barksdale's territory. Avon takes this as an opportunity to start a war against Stanfield, which Stringer has rejected. Meanwhile, Brother Mouzone returns. He tracks down Omar and eventually allies with him. When Avon learns from Mouzone that Stringer Bell Omar was targeting Mouzone, Stringer Bell's fate is sealed. Mouzone and Omar ambush Stringer Bell and shoot him. However, Stringer had previously informed the police of Avon's secret whereabouts. A short time later, the police storm Avon's hiding place and arrest him. He has to go back to prison for violating his probation status for illegally possessing weapons.
With the rising crime rate in Baltimore, the police leadership is increasingly put under pressure by those responsible in the town hall. This pressure is passed on from the leadership directly to the District Commanders, who are forced to act by guidelines in the crime statistics. Major Howard “Bunny” Colvin, who is about to retire, then set up three unofficial tolerance zones for drug sales in his Western District, thereby reducing the crime rate massively and increasing the quality of life in his district. When his highly illegal strategy became public, it led to the end of the "experiment" and his demotion and ultimately to his early retirement.
Cedric Daniels' unit tries to extract evidence against Stringer Bell and the Barksdale Organization by tapping phone calls. However, since all important decisions in drug sales are made entirely through short-term disposable mobile phones, success is limited. The unit is then about to be withdrawn for another case. However, with the help of Major Colvin and McNulty's research into Stringer Bell's real estate business, the wiretapping can continue. The cooperation with the FBI and the cell phone operator also enables interception of the disposable phones. Towards the end of the third season, Avon Barksdale is arrested and Daniels is promoted to major and head of the Western District. After Stringer Bell's death, McNulty resigns from the wiretapping unit and returns to work as a patrol officer in the Western District.
The young idealistic and very ambitious city councilor Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti sees the problems in Baltimore as an opportunity to run for mayor. In the city, which is predominantly inhabited by blacks, the chances for the white Carcetti are bad. The current black incumbent, Clarence Royce, also wants to be re-elected. Carcetti then uses his friendship with the black city councilor Tony Gray to persuade him to run for mayor. By manipulating Gray, Carcetti hopes that the votes of the black population will be split between Royce and Gray and that he will get a chance to be elected. At the same time, he got Theresa D'Agostino, an experienced election campaign manager from Washington, who should give his campaign the necessary professionalism. Carcetti delivers a passionate closing speech on the war on drugs during a city council meeting in which the police leadership gives its opinion on the drug tolerance zones established by Major Colvin . Tony Gray then realizes that Carcetti himself intends to run for mayor.
Season 4
After Stringer Bell's death and Avon Barksdale's return to prison, Marlo Stanfield controls most of the drug trafficking in West Baltimore. With Marlo still refusing to join Proposition Joe's delivery network, Joe makes a clever move. He reveals to Omar the location of an illegal high-stakes poker game. Marlo also plays there regularly and is promptly robbed by Omar. Marlo now joins Proposition Joe's dealer ring, also to bring down Omar. In return, Joe informs him about the internals of some police investigations. Marlo, in turn, helps Joe get rid of New York gangs that have invaded East Side territories. When Omar strikes again and this time steals a complete shipment of raw heroin intended for the entire drug ring, Marlo begins to be interested in Joe's supplier, the "Greek" and his henchmen.
For the students Duquan, Namond, Randy and Michael their eighth year begins. The former police investigator Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski takes up his new position as a teacher at this school. Dealing with his own class, especially the problematic cases, as well as the requirements of the curriculum and those of the school management initially cause him considerable difficulties. However, he also takes care of Duquan, who blossoms but ultimately cannot get away from the drug environment. Some of the particularly difficult students, including Namond, are taught separately in a model experiment at the university. The former Major Colvin serves as an advisor. He recognizes the potential of Namond, can gain his respect and withdraw him from the bad influence of his mother. Randy makes some extra money selling candy at school until his poor judgment and a mistake by Detective Thomas "Herc" Hauk earned him a reputation for being a traitor. Despite police protection, this leads to an arson attack on his foster mother, who is seriously injured. As a result, Randy ends up in an orphanage, despite Sergeant Ellis Carver's efforts. Michael, whose drug-addicted mother does everything to get money and to whom her two sons mean little, takes care of his smaller half-brother "Bug". When his stepfather, who appears to have sexually abused him in the past, is released from prison and moves back in with the family, Michael asks Marlo Stanfield for help. Marlo's people then kill the stepfather and Michael joins Marlo's gang.
Councilor Thomas “Tommy” Carcetti competes in the Democratic Primary against Mayor Clarence Royce and manages to win with the campaign theme “Crime”. After his election victory, Carcetti begins to fill some posts in the police and proclaims a new era in the fight against crime in order to motivate the police officers and to be able to keep one of his central election promises. Among other things, the area of responsibility of the police chief Burrells, a key figure under ex-Mayor Royce, is restricted. Cedric Daniels is promoted to colonel and chief of the criminal investigation department. Carcetti's election promise, however, threatens to not be implemented due to a budget crisis in the school sector that surprised him.
Marlo Stanfield's rise brings the bugging unit's investigations to a standstill as he gains control of large parts of West Baltimore, apparently without leaving any bodies. In addition to investigating Stanfield, the detectives are also investigating the cash flow from the Barksdale donations. When the unit obtained court orders against high-ranking politicians and influential business people, Police Chief Burrell intervened and stopped the investigation, not least because of the hot phase of the mayoral campaign. The detectives Lester Freamon and Shakima "Kima" Greggs are then transferred to the homicide squad. The rest of the unit is also replaced and charged with carrying out inefficient raids. After his promotion to Colonel, Daniels resumes the wiretapping unit to continue the investigation against Marlo Stanfield. Lester finds a body in an empty house through a tip from the schoolboy Randy. Then all the empty houses in the district are searched and a further 21 bodies are found.
Season 5
A year after the 22 bodies were discovered in the empty houses, the monitoring unit Marlo Stanfield is still observing without any significant progress. Due to the budget gap in the education sector, Mayor Carcetti, who is now increasingly pragmatic, has to make considerable budget cuts in the police sector. This also affects the eavesdropping unit, which then has to be withdrawn from the investigation against Stanfield. McNulty, who returned to the unit after Cedric Daniels' promotion, is reassigned to Homicide. Lester Freamon and Leander Sydnor can, thanks to Daniels' efforts, continue to investigate the corrupt State Senator Clay Davis. You can take Davis to court, but he can turn the tables in front of the grand jury , so that despite the overwhelming burden of proof, he is not only acquitted, but also looks better in public than before.
In order to continue the Stanfield investigation despite the cuts, McNulty manipulates the bodies of several murdered homeless people. With Lester's help, he begins to construct a serial killer who soon attracts the attention of the police and the public. Lester uses the investigative funds approved by Mayor Carcetti in McNulty's fictional case to continue the wiretapping and observation of Marlo Stanfield. Since Carcetti wants to run for governor of Maryland, he uses the public interest in the alleged series of murders to denounce the failures of the current federal and above all state policy, the lack of financial support for the cuts in the police force.
The daily newspaper Baltimore Sun is also struggling with cuts and downsizing. To get a good story, journalist Scott Templeton doesn't always take the truth seriously. When he and his colleague Alma receive detailed information from McNulty about the serial killer, Templeton fakes a call from the killer on his phone. Templeton is then instructed by the editor-in-chief to continue reporting on the case. However, the editor Augustus “Gus” Haynes distrusts Templeton's story and does some research.
Meanwhile, drug boss Marlo Stanfield learns from Proposition Joe how to launder money and expands his contacts with the Greeks who supply the drug ring that Joe founded. After the Greeks have accepted Marlo as a new buyer and Proposition Joe is no longer useful for Marlo, he has him killed and takes over the chairmanship. Furthermore, Marlo still wants to get revenge on Omar, who has since retired from the business, for the last robbery on the drug delivery. To lure Omar out of cover, Marlo has Omar's friend and mentor Butchie cruelly executed. Omar then returns to Baltimore and begins a campaign of revenge. Shortly thereafter, he falls into a trap, but survives the ambush seriously injured and begins to systematically pursue Marlo's men. Now he spreads fear and horror, but before there is a bloodbath, he is completely unexpectedly and rather accidentally killed by a small boy with a shot in the head.
Lester's wiretapping leads to the arrest of Marlo Stanfield and his people while they are about to handle a bulk shipment of raw heroin. In the meantime, however, Shakima “Kima” Greggs has informed the police and town hall about McNulty's fictional serial killer. Since Carcetti celebrates the arrests as a great success and wants to use them politically for the upcoming election campaign, it is decided, with the exception of the immobilization of McNulty and Lester, to do nothing further for the time being. Meanwhile, Stanfield's attorney Maurice Levy doubts the evidence that led to the arrest of Marlo, since in his view only an eavesdropping operation explains the rapid decryption of the secret code used by the Stanfield organization, but according to the police, the evidence was only obtained through an informant. This impression is confirmed by former detective Thomas "Herc" Hauk, who now works as a defense investigator for Levy and is still in contact with the police. Lester also exposes a spy in court who provided Levy and his clients, including Proposition Joe, with internal documents. Given this situation, which could damage both parties politically and criminally, prosecutors and Levy agree on a deal . While Marlo Stanfield is released on condition that he should withdraw from the criminal business, his people are sentenced to prison terms. Marlo's executor Chris Partlow, who can be proven to have murdered Michael's stepfather, must also plead guilty to the 22 murders in the empty houses.
When two homeless people are found dead, it seems as if the fictional serial killer has struck again, but McNulty is able to track down a copycat with clear evidence. The police use the mentally handicapped murderer's insanity to blame him for the fictitious murders. The investigation will then be closed and the case will be considered resolved. Journalist Scott Templeton and the Baltimore Sun received the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on McNulty's case , even though Gus Haynes had drawn the editorial board's attention to Templeton's unclean journalistic work.
After Carcetti demands from the designated police chief Cedric Daniels to falsify the police statistics for the upcoming election campaign for the governorship, so that Carcetti can sell his key election promise as mayor as redeemed, Daniels resigns. Marlo Stanfield sells his contacts with the drug supplier to the other Baltimore drug syndicates. In the company of the lawyer Levy, Marlo practices as a businessman, but he cannot shed his background, growing up on the streets of Baltimore.
McNulty eventually has to end his police career and is honored by his former colleagues with the traditional funeral service for deceased Irish-born police officers. Lester is taking early retirement. In further closing scenes, Stanislaus “Stan” Valchek is appointed police chief, Daniels works as a criminal defense attorney and his girlfriend, the former prosecutor Pearlman, is now a judge. Carcetti will also become Maryland's new Governor and Rawls Superintendent of the State Police as drug trafficking and the fight against drugs continues on the streets of Baltimore.
production
Emergence
David Simon worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun for 13 years , mainly covering crime and drug trafficking. In 1988, he took a year off working a shift on the Baltimore Police Department Homicide . The book Homicide: A Year on Murderous Streets arose from this experience , which NBC adapted for television under the title Homicide . Individual dialogues and scenes from the book were later incorporated into The Wire .
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing was done by Deutsche Synchron from Berlin , dialogue direction was carried out by Frank Turba , who was also responsible for the dialogue book together with Frank Schröder .
police
| Role name | actor | Main role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Det. James "Jimmy" McNulty | Dominic West | 1.01-5.10 | Tobias Kluckert |
| Lt. Cedric Daniels | Lance Reddick | 1.01-5.10 | Nicolas King |
| Det. Shakima "Kima" Greggs | Sonja son | 1.01-5.10 | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Det. Thomas "Herc" Hauk | Domenick Lombardozzi | 1.01-5.10 | Frank Schröder |
| Det. Ellis Carver | Seth Gilliam | 1.01-5.10 | Olaf Reichmann |
| Det. Lester Freamon | Clarke Peters | 1.01-5.10 | Pure beauty |
| Det. Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski | Jim True Frost | 1.01-5.10 | Tim Moeseritz |
| Maj. William A. Rawls | John Doman | 1.01-5.10 | Eberhard Haar |
| Det. William "The Bunk" Moreland | Wendell Pierce | 1.01-5.10 | Marco Kroeger |
| Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell | Frankie Faison | 1.01-5.04 | Axel Lutter |
| Sgt. Jay Landsman | Delaney Williams | 1.01-5.10 | Hans Hohlbein |
| Det. Leander Sydnor | Corey Parker Robinson | 1.02-5.10 | Karlo Hackenberger |
| Maj. Stanislaus "Stan" Valchek | Al Brown | 1.03-5.10 | Kaspar Eichel |
| Off. Beatrice "Beadie" Russell | Amy Ryan | 2.01-5.10 | Debora refuses |
| Maj. Howard "Bunny" Colvin | Robert Wisdom | 2.09-5.09 | Dieter Memel |
Drug gangs - bosses, dealers, soldiers
| Role name | actor | Main role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preston "Bodie" Broadus | JD Williams | 1.01-4.13 | Jesco Wirthgen |
| Russell "Stringer" Bell | Idris Elba | 1.01-3.11 | Jan-David Rönfeldt |
| Avon Barksdale | Wood Harris | 1.01-5.02 | Matti Klemm |
| D'Angelo Barksdale | Larry Gilliard Jr. | 1.01-2.06 | David Turba |
| Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice | Hassan Johnson | 1.01-5.10 | Sebastian Schulz |
| Malik "Poot" Carr | Tray Chaney | 1.01-5.08 | Ricardo Richter |
| Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart | Robert F. Chew | 1.09-5.04 | Tom Deininger |
| Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos | Paul Ben-Victor | 2.01-5.10 | Gerald Paradise |
| "The Greek" | Bill Raymond | 2.01-5.10 | Klaus Lochthove |
| Sergei Malatov | Chris Ashworth | 2.01-5.02 | Sven Gerhardt |
| Calvin "Cheese" Wagstaff | Method Man | 2.05-5.10 | Ozan Unal |
| "Slim Charles" | Anwan Glower | 3.01-5.10 | Sascha Rotermund |
| Marlo Stanfield | Jamie Hector | 3.01-5.10 | Nico Sablik |
| Chris Partlow | Gbenga Akinnagbe | 3.05-5.10 | ? |
| Felicia "Snoop" Pearson | Felicia Pearson | 3.06-5.09 | Michael Wiesner |
| "Monk" Metcalf | Kwame Patterson | 4.01-5.10 | Marco Ammer |
Students and other residents of West Baltimore
| Role name | actor | Main role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reginald "Bubbles" cousins | Andre Royo | 1.01-5.10 | Thomas Petruo |
| Omar Little | Michael K. Williams | 1.03-5.08 | Tommy Morgenstern |
| Dennis "Cutty" Wise | Chad Coleman | 3.01-5.05 | Lutz Schnell |
| Michael "Mike" Lee | Tristan Wilds | 4.01-5.10 | Konrad Bösherz |
| Duquan "Dukie" Weems | Jermaine Crawford | 4.01-5.10 | Marcel Mann |
| Namond Brice | Julito McCullum | 4.01-5.09 | Wilhelm-Rafael Garth |
| Randy Wagstaff | Maestro Harrell | 4.01-5.06 | ? |
Others
| Role name | actor | Main role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhonda Pearlman | Deirdre Lovejoy | 1.01-5.10 | Isabella Grothe |
| Daniel Phelan | Peter Gerety | 1.01-5.07 |
Hans-W. Bussinger (seasons 1–4) Frank-O. Schenk (season 5) |
| Maurice Levy | Michael Kostroff | 1.01-5.10 | Detlef Giess |
| Frank Sobotka | Chris Bauer | 2.01-2.12 | Uwe Büschken |
| Nickolas Andrew "Nick" Sobotka | Pablo Schreiber | 2.01-5.06 | Tim Sander |
| Chester Karol "Ziggy" Sobotka | James Ransone | 2.01-2.12 | Dirk Stollberg |
| Thomas J. "Tommy" Carcetti | Aidan Gillen | 3.01-5.10 | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
| Mayor Clarence V. Royce | Glynn Turman | 3.01-5.05 | Rudiger Evers |
| Senator R. Clayton "Clay" Davis | Isiah Whitlock Jr. | 1.07-5.09 | Peter Reinhardt |
| Norman Wilson | Reg E. Cathey | 4.01-5.10 | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Augustus "Gus" Haynes | Clark Johnson | 5.01-5.10 | Frank Röth |
| M. Scott Templeton | Thomas McCarthy | 5.01-5.10 | ? |
| Alma M. Gutierrez | Michelle Parress | 5.01-5.10 | Peggy Sander |
Cameo appearances
A number of employees play a role within the series or have a cameo . Producer Robert F. Colesberry played the role of Det. Ray Cole and a memorial service was held for the character on the occasion of his death. David Simon asks a question while part of the press about Sobotka's arrest. Simon's wife is briefly seen in the Baltimore Sun's offices. Author William F. Zorzi has a speaking role as the chief executive of the Baltimore Sun. Singer Steve Earle , who sings the theme song in season 5, plays ex-junkie and NA member Walon. Clark Johnson , who directed three episodes of the first season and the final episode of The Wire, played editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes in the fifth season. The role of Calvin Wagstaff aka "Cheese" was taken on in 13 episodes by the well-known rapper Method Man . The fictional character of Det. John Munch ( Richard Belzer ), known from Homicide and Law & Order: New York , has a guest appearance in the seventh episode of the fifth season.
Production process and shooting
Simon had offered the mayor of Baltimore to shoot elsewhere if he had a problem with yet another dark show about Baltimore, but got the answer, “Do it!” The city and state benefited, according to the Maryland Film Office, 672 Company from shooting the fifth season. Even if the shooting of a season, according to David Simon, only cost 35 million dollars and was therefore cheap by American television standards.
A large part of the action takes place in West Baltimore, but the exterior shots were mainly shot in the east of the city. On the one hand, there were more houses abandoned, which made the film set more quiet , and there were fewer trees, which meant that less consideration had to be paid to the course of the seasons.
Although Simon received permission from the Baltimore Sun to use the name in the series, no scenes were allowed to be shot in the newspaper's rooms and no employees were allowed to appear.
Producer Bob Colesberry suggested the 16: 9 format to HBO , which would have resulted in higher production costs. Therefore, the first two seasons were filmed in 4: 3. For the third season, HBO offered to switch to 16: 9 and the HD format. In a collective decision by the series makers, this offer was turned down in order to maintain the visual style that had resulted from the format.
One camera was used for filming, a second was only used when many actors appeared in a scene. The main camera was usually on rails, a longer focal length lens was used for close-ups. When actors were in the way of the camera, the camera was moved so the actors could focus on the role. The film and literary scholar Daniel Eschkötter describes the camera work as "... often elegant without being obtrusive ..." and points out that long shots are used more often than is usually the case on television.
For the first two and a half seasons, the German camerawoman Uta Briesewitz was behind the camera. The assignment gave her career prospects. After 29 episodes, she accepted another offer so as not to be tied to dark television series. She said of Robert Colesberry in an interview:
“I thought how courageous it was for a producer to tell HBO that he wanted to hire this young woman, who they never heard of, to shoot this really tough show in Baltimore. It must have been a fight for him, to get me approved. "
“I thought how brave it was for a producer to tell HBO that he wanted to hire this young woman they'd never heard of to do this really difficult television series in Baltimore. It must have been a struggle for him to get me approved. "
music
The series 'theme tune is Way Down in the Hole from Tom Waits' 1987 album Franks Wild Years . A different version of the piece is used in each season. The singers are The Blind Boys of Alabama , Tom Waits himself in the second season, then the Neville Brothers . The fourth season uses a recording of the five young people Ivan Ashford, Markel Steele, Cameron Brown, Tariq Al-Sabir, and Avery Bargasse, all from Baltimore, in keeping with the theme of education and school. The last singer is Steve Earle .
The montage of images at the end of each season is highlighted by, in that order, Step by Step by Jesse Winchester , I Feel Alright by Steve Earle, Fast Train , written by Van Morrison and sung by Solomon Burke, and in the fourth season I Walk on Gilded Splinters , composed by Dr. John and performed by Paul Weller . At the end of the series, a longer version of Way Down In The Hole is used in the first season version by the Blind Boys of Alabama.
In the series itself, with a few exceptions, music is only played if a corresponding source, such as a car radio or a jukebox, is available in the scene.
Music and voice recordings from the series can be found on the soundtrack The Wire: And All the Pieces Matter - Five Years of Music from The Wire , released January 8, 2008 on Nonesuch Records . A second album, Beyond Hamsterdam, features music by local artists.
subjects
The war on drugs
The war on drugs and its aftermath are omnipresent in the series. The producers express, both inside and outside the series, that they see the war as a failure and long since serving a different purpose:
"And what once began, perhaps, as a battle against dangerous substances long ago transformed itself into a venal war on our underclass."
"And what once, perhaps when a fight against dangerous substances began, has long since turned into a corrupt war against our lower class."
For example, the police officers “Herc” and “Carv” ask themselves whether they would have won when the streets were swept empty during a basketball game. The enemy is no longer the gangs, but the social housing estates and their inhabitants per se, the war on drugs cannot be won for, but only against them.
Episode list
Charisma
The series premiered on June 2, 2002 on the pay-TV channel HBO in the USA. The last episode aired on March 9, 2008.
In Germany, the first two seasons of the series ran from September 9, 2008 to February 26, 2009 on the pay TV broadcaster FOX Channel . From December 2009 to February 2010, the third season was broadcast on the same channel, the fourth season was from March 5 to June 4, 2010 to be seen. The last and fifth season each ran with a double episode afterwards. In 2010 ZDF showed interest in acquiring the broadcasting rights for German free TV . All other major stations declined, justified by the complexity of the series or bad experiences with US series in the past.
At the end of 2014, the entire series was remastered in 16: 9 format in HD . With a few scenes changed for the new format, all episodes were broadcast on the special-interest channel HBO Signature at the end of December 2014 and offered via the streaming Internet service HBO Go . The HD version was released on January 5, 2015 on other video-on-demand platforms ( iTunes , Google Play , Xbox Video and Vudu ).
Prequel shorts
After the series ended, fans often asked for a sequel. The most prominent example is former US Attorney General Eric Holder . At a drug prevention event with The Wire actors Pierce, Sohn and True-Frost in June 2011, he "ordered" a sixth season or at least a film to be made. Simon agreed to do so if the United States Department of Justice agreed in return to reconsider the failed drug policy. In 2008 David Simon was urged by his actors Dominic West, Wendell Pierce and Sonja Sohn to make a film about the series.
The DVD version of the fifth season contains three short prequels , in which key moments in the history of McNulty, Omar Little and Proposition Joe are shown.
reception
The creators of the series Parks and Recreation , Greg Daniels and Michael Schur , were inspired by the depiction of local politics in The Wire . German series, especially crime series with high standards such as KDD - Kriminalfamiliedienst and In the face of crime , are judged against The Wire by critics and viewers .
Reviews
The first season received positive reviews from critics. Some rated it better than HBO's even better-known drama series like The Sopranos and Six Feet Under . One reviewer said the series includes a return to earlier topics from HBO and David Simon , but is still worth seeing and extremely timely, as parallels are drawn between anti-terrorism and the fight against drugs.
Despite the positive reviews, The Wire received poor Nielsen ratings . David Simon attributed this to the complexity of the plot, the frequent use of slang, and the predominantly black cast. According to critics, the show put the attention span of its viewers to the test. In addition, a bad time was chosen for the start of the series, as the successful crime series The Shield had also started a short time before .
The Guardian described the second season as more powerful than the first season and praised it for deconstructing the previous core of the series and for her willingness to venture into uncharted territory. A critic from the Boston Phoenix newspapersaid the action on the docks was not as compelling as that of the social buildings. However, the review praised the authors for creating a realistic environment and for the variety of interesting and realistic characters.
Stephen King sees the fourth season as the one in which the show becomes a classic that will be discussed in 25 years. For him, Baltimore is a burial place, the residents are living dead - and The Wire is a version of Dante's inferno . He is particularly impressed by Snoop, whom he calls
"Perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series"
"Possibly the scariest female villain to ever appear on a television series"
designated.
The series was highly praised in the German- speaking world. So it is with Spiegel Online "a socially critical masterpiece of epic complexity" as described. Richard Kämmerlings writes in the FAZ : “No novel has preoccupied me as much as“ The Wire ”- it should also be understood this way:“ The Wire ”is a novel. One of the best.". For Die Zeit , it is 2007 “the best television series in the world”. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung describes the series as "highly political, tragic, uncompromising, authentic, sensitive and deeply impressive".
Political reception
According to the Las Vegas Sun , The Wire is former President Barack Obama's favorite show, his favorite character because the most fascinating, Omar Little.
The winner of the Icelandic local elections in 2010 for the city of Reykjavík , Jón Gnarr , recommended that his potential coalition partners watch the series in advance of the election, as he would not form a coalition with anyone who had not watched the series.
Academic reception
The Wire has served as the basis for courses at Harvard University , Phillips Academy , Middlebury College , University of California , Duke University, and Berkeley . In 2011 a two-day seminar on the series was held at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Amsterdam .
Awards
Although the series received critical acclaim, it never won the world's most coveted television award, the Emmy . The American columnist Joe Klein then said:
The Wire hasn't won an Emmy? The Wire should get the Nobel Prize for Literature!
“ The Wire didn't win an Emmy? The Wire should get the Nobel Prize for Literature ! "
| status | year | price | For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Won | 2002 | TIME Magazine’s Best / Worst List | Best TV series |
| Won | 2003 | Peabody Award | |
| Won | 2003 | American Film Institute Award | Television Program of the Year |
| Nominated | 2003 | Edgar Award | Best Television Episode |
| Nominated | 2003 | Image Award | Best series - drama |
| Nominated | 2003 | Television Critics Association Award | Program of the Year |
| Nominated | 2003 | Television Critics Association Award | Outstanding New Program |
| Nominated | 2003 | Television Critics Association Award | Outstanding Achievement in Drama |
| Won | 2004 | ASCAP Award | Film & Music TV Award |
| Nominated | 2004 | Image Award | Best series - drama |
| Nominated | 2004 | Image Award | Best Actor in a Series - Drama for Wendell Pierce |
| Nominated | 2004 | Television Critics Association Award | Outstanding Achievement in Drama |
| Elected | 2005 | Broadcasting & Cable Critics Poll | Best drama series |
| Nominated | 2005 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series |
| Nominated | 2005 | Image Award | Best series - drama |
| Nominated | 2005 | Image Award | Best Supporting Actor in a Series - Drama for Idris Elba |
| Nominated | 2005 | Image Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Series - Drama for Sonja Sohn |
| Won | 2006 | TIME Magazine's 10 Best TV Shows | Top television show |
| Won | 2008 | WGA Award | Dramatic Series |
| Nominated | 2008 | WGA Award | Episodic drama |
| Nominated | 2008 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series |
| Nominated | 2009 | WGA Award | Dramatic series |
| Won | 2009 | Crime Thriller Award | The International TV Dagger for best TV crime thriller |
| Won | 2009 | Crime Thriller Award | Best Actor for Dominic West |
DVD and Blu-ray publishing
All five seasons are available on DVD in the US and UK . The first season appeared in Germany on November 12, 2010. The second season has been available in Germany since May 2011. The third season was released on July 13, 2012; the fourth on September 14, 2012. The fifth season was released on November 9, 2012.
A remastering version of the series was released on Blu-ray Disc in the US and UK in early June 2015 . This contains all episodes of the five seasons in HD resolution and 16: 9 format . The Blu-ray was released in Germany on June 25, 2015.
literature
- David Bebnowski: Big left cinema. The Wire and the Top and Bottom of American Politics . In: INDES. Journal for Politics and Society . No. 4 , 2014, p. 69-78 ( INDES [accessed April 19, 2020]).
- Daniel Eschkötter: The Wire . diaphanes Verlag , Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03734-210-7
- Jens Schröter: Wired. The Wire and the battle for the media . Bertz + Fischer Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-86505-714-3
- Martin Urschel: The Wire - Networks of Violence . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0993-9
- Tiffany Potter, CW Marshall (Ed.): The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television . Continuum International Publishing Group 2009, ISBN 978-0-8264-3804-1
- Rafael Alvarez: The Wire: Truth Be Told . Simon & Schuster 2004, ISBN 0-7434-9732-5
- Brian G. Rose: The Wire . In: Gary Richard Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones (Eds.): The Essential HBO Reader . University of Kentucky Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-8131-2452-0 , pp. 82–91 ( excerpt from Google book search)
- Peter Dreier, John Atlas: The Wire - Bush-Era Fable about America's Urban Poor? . In: City & Community . Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 329-340, September 2009
- Helena Sheehan, Sheamus Sweeney: The Wire and the World: Narrative and Metanarrative . In: Jump Cut 51 (spring 2009), ISSN 0146-5546 ( online copy )
- Steve Busfield, Paul Owen (Eds.): The Wire Re-up . Guardian Books December 2009. ISBN 978-0-85265-221-3
- Jonathan Abrams: All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire . Crown Archetype, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-451-49814-4 , pp. 352 (English).
Web links
- The Wire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the broadcaster HBO
Individual evidence
- ↑ HBO: The Wire: About the Show. In: HBO. Retrieved January 28, 2016 .
- ^ The Wire - Season 5 Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More. Metacritic , accessed September 7, 2010 .
- ^ The Wire: arguably the greatest television program ever made. The Daily Telegraph , April 2, 2009, accessed September 7, 2010 .
- ↑ Jon Wilde: The Wire is unmissable television. The Guardian , July 21, 2007, accessed September 7, 2010 .
- ↑ Kevin Carey: A show of honesty. The Guardian , February 13, 2007, accessed September 7, 2010 .
- ^ The Wire - Season 4 Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More. Metacritic , accessed September 7, 2010 .
- ^ Highest and Lowest Scoring TV Shows at Metacritic. Metacritic , accessed August 28, 2012 .
- ↑ IMDB: Highest Rated TV Series Internet Movie Database , accessed on January 16, 2013 (English)
- ^ Neil Drumming: High Wire Act. Entertainment Weekly , September 15, 2006, accessed October 23, 2011 .
- ^ The Wire. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Cameo Roles in The Wire - did you know? The Wire HBO Fan Club, September 7, 2007; accessed November 6, 2011 .
- ↑ David Zurawik: 'The Wire' loose spark in newsroom storyline. The Baltimore Sun , December 30, 2007, accessed February 22, 2012 .
- ^ Ian Rothkirch: What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has. Salon.com , June 29, 2002, accessed April 19, 2012 .
- ^ Mark Reutter: For economic returns and jobs, TV zooms past the Grand Prix. Baltimore Brew, January 9, 2012, accessed April 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Sebastian Hofer: The bravest sons of bitches in the whole TV industry. profil online, September 19, 2011, accessed on September 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Gadi Dechter: Wish You Weren't Here: A Guided Tour Of The Wire's East Baltimore. Baltimore City Paper, May 24, 2006, accessed December 11, 2011 .
- ^ Margaret Talbot: Profiles: Stealing Life: The crusader behind "The Wire". The New Yorker , October 22, 2007, accessed March 7, 2012 .
- ↑ David Simon : The Wire in HD (updated with video clips). December 3, 2014, accessed July 5, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Bob Fisher: Kodak: Uta Briesewitz OnFilm Interview. Kodak , 2007, accessed January 16, 2012 .
- ↑ Daniel Esch Koetter: The Wire. diaphanes Verlag , Zurich 2012, page 17
- ^ "The Wire" on HBO: Play Or Get Played, Exclusive Q&A With David Simon (page 16). August 16, 2006, accessed September 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Jess Harvell: On The Corner: After Three Seasons Shaping The Wire's Background Music, Blake Leyh Mines Homegrown Sounds For Season Four. (No longer available online.) Baltimore City Paper , Aug. 30, 2006, archived from the original on July 21, 2013 ; accessed on September 24, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of "The Wire". Nonesuch Records , November 12, 2007, accessed September 24, 2011 .
- ↑ David Johnson: The Wire's War on the Drug War. Time Magazine , March 5, 2008, accessed February 22, 2012 .
- ↑ Paul Owen: The Wire re-up: Episode Nine, Season One. The Guardian , April 21, 2009, accessed February 22, 2012 .
- ↑ Why is nobody showing "The Wire"? Small survey of the broadcasters - with surprising results. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 29, 2010, accessed on December 7, 2011 .
- ↑ HBO (R) Unveil's New High-Definition Re-Mastering of Award-Winning Hit Series "The Wire (R)" . HBO. December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Tambay A. Obenson: Marathon of New high-definition re-mastering of 'The Wire - Shadow and Act . In: Indiewire . December 26, 2014. Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
- ↑ HBO is finally releasing The Wire in HD this month. The Verge , December 2, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Jeremy Pelofsky: Attorney General orders more episodes of the “The Wire”, or a movie. (No longer available online.) Tales from the Trail, May 31, 2011, archived from the original on November 2, 2011 ; accessed on November 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ray Gustini: 'The Wire' Creator David Simon Has a Counteroffer for Eric Holder. The Atlantic Wire, June 10, 2011, accessed November 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Chris Barton: 'The Wire': The Dominic West perspective. Los Angeles Times , February 17, 2008, accessed October 20, 2011 .
- ↑ Denise Martin: 'Parks and Recreation' develops a community. LA Times.com, November 19, 2009, accessed January 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg and Philipp Oehmke: A new evil. Der Spiegel , 2010, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ^ Christian Junklewitz: KDD: Interview with Axel Laustroer (Part 2). Serienjunkies.de , May 1, 2008, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ^ The Wire: The Complete First Season . Rotten tomatoes . Accessed June 2, 2012. (English)
- ^ Alan Sepinwall: Taut 'Wire' has real strength. , Newark Star Ledger . August 6, 2006, p. 1. (English)
- ↑ Aaron Barnhart: 'The Wire' aims higher: TV's finest hour is back . Kansas City Star . 2006. Archived from the original on November 5, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Leslie Ryan: Tapping The Wire ; HBO Police Drama Tops Television Week's Semiannual Critics Poll List , Television Week. Accessed June 2, 2012. (English)
- ↑ a b Robert David Sullivan: Slow Hand . Boston Phoenix. 2002. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed June 2, 2012. (English)
- ↑ David Simon: Ask The Wire : David Simon . HBO. 2004. Archived from the original on May 16, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Jim Shelley: Call The Cops , The Guardian Unlimited. August 6, 2005. Accessed June 2, 2012. (English)
- ^ Jon Garelick: "A man must have a code" —listing in on The Wire . . Boston Phoenix . 2004. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed June 2, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Stephen King : Setting Off a 'Wire' Alarm. Entertainment Weekly.com, February 1, 2007, accessed January 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Nina Rehfeld: TV series guru David Simon: "The USA have overstepped the curve". Spiegel Online , October 26, 2009, accessed March 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Richard Kämmerlings : "The Wire": A Balzac for Our Time ". FAZ Online , May 14, 2010, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Katja Nicodemus: In the beginning there was anger. Die Zeit , December 28, 2006, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ^ Andreas Essl: An American Nightmare. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 3, 2008, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ↑ J. Patrick Coolican: Obama goes off gloves, head-on. Las Vegas Sun, January 14, 2008; accessed September 26, 2011 .
- ^ Best Party and Social Democrats Discuss Coalition. In: Iceland Review Online. May 31, 2010, accessed June 6, 2010 .
- ↑ Anmol Chadha, William Julius Wilson : Why we're teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard. In: The Washington Post. September 12, 2010, accessed June 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Getting Down to 'The Wire'. (No longer available online.) Phillips Academy, April 1, 2010, archived from the original on December 29, 2010 ; accessed on September 26, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Maloe de Reuver over seminar 'The Wire'. (No longer available online.) Instituut voor Interdisciplinaire Studies (IIS), June 24, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 31, 2012 (Dutch). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sarah Heopla: Five Reasons The Wire is the sexiest show on TV. Nerve, January 15, 2008, accessed December 1, 2010 .
- ↑ James Poniewozik: Top 10 Everything 2002 - Television. TIME Magazine , December 12, 2002, accessed November 3, 2011 .
- ↑ The Peabody Awards: Winners - 2000's. (No longer available online.) The Peabody Awards, archived from the original on October 31, 2011 ; accessed on February 19, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ AFI Awards 2003: Television Programs of the Year. American Film Institute , accessed December 6, 2012 .
- ^ Television Critics Association Introduces 2004 Award Nominees. Television Critics Association , accessed November 20, 2009 .
- ↑ 2005 Emmy Award Nominations for Drama Series. Emmy Awards Online, archived from the original on November 1, 2008 ; accessed on June 6, 2010 (English).
- ^ Writers Guild Awards. (No longer available online.) Writers Guild of America, West, archived from the original January 17, 2013 ; accessed on November 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 2008 tv and radio nominees announced. (No longer available online.) Writers Guild of America, West, December 12, 2007, archived from the original December 19, 2007 ; accessed on November 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 2008 Emmy Award Nominations for Drama Series. Emmy Awards Online, accessed November 8, 2011 .
- ↑ 2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced. (No longer available online.) Writers Guild of America, West, archived from the original December 12, 2008 ; accessed on November 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Alison Flood: British readers vote Harlan Coben their favorite crime writer. guardian.co.uk, accessed January 11, 2012 .
- ↑ David Lambert: BO Announces a High-Def Blu-ray Disc Release of 'The Complete Series'. TVShowsOnDVD.com, March 5, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 .
- ^ “The Wire” as a limited edition series for the first time on Blu-ray Disc at the end of June. BluRayDisc.de, March 30, 2015, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
