Wire - The Complete First Season

Pros: an entire season devoted to one case

Cons: patience a prerequisite for liking this show

The Bottom Line: It makes almost all other cop shows, no, almost all other shows look pretty ordinary

Review: In the middle of a ghetto courtyard in West Baltimore lies an orange couch. The couch symbolizes the center of the universe for the street dealers who sell the product in an orchestrated system and the addicts who pay or hustle for a fix. Meanwhile in ...

Pros: Superb ensemble cast, Mature, Realistic.

Cons: None for me.

The Bottom Line: My new favorite show.

Review: It seems the older I get, the more disillusioned with primetime television I get. When I was a young teenager I would watch primetime shows every night they came on to the point that I was constantly parked in front of my tv. These days there is little ...

Pros: great writing, extremely well developed plot and settings

Cons: must start from beginning to understand inner-woven story lines

The Bottom Line: This is one of the finest produced series of our time and I have not met anyone who has watched each season who has ever said otherwise.

Review: HBO's fifth and final season of "The Wire" is underway amidst little to no fanfare. I am writing this epinion review of the first season's DVD and pleading to the epinions community to pick up the DVD's and watch this fascinating, well-written, and ...

Pros: Dominic West is superb as the oppressed detective, McNulty.

Cons: DVD lacked biographical info on the acting ensemble.

The Bottom Line: If you love good writing and acting, check this out.

Review: HBO produces The Wire, $79.99 US, which is an original drama that I've only recently discovered. The Wire is the creative vision of David Simon and Ed Burns, ...