The Wire - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)

The television critic of the Guardian newspaper, Charlie Brooker, used to bang on about The Wire being the best TV programme ever made.
On the strength of his effusive recommendation, I decided to buy the first season and check it out.
I was absolutely blown away. So then I bought seasons two and three.
It is superbly acted and written, apart from one or two clichéd scenarios early on, which just served as background narrative.
Gritty, realistic, gripping, involving, sometimes funny, occasionally moving. Always watchable, never boring, it tells the complex story of the Baltimore PD's attempt to bust a drug-dealing empire through surveillance, wire-taps and good old fashioned policing. The story is told from the dealers point of view as well.
The characterisations are compelling and not cartoonish and two dimensional as they often are in other "cop shows" such as NYPD BLUE.
Time is given to flesh out the characters, which makes them less clumsily demonised and more real (occasionally chillingly so).
Season two encompasses another thread. Human-trafficking and smuggling at the sea-port.
I've just started on season three and am about to buy season four.
I agree with Charlie Brooker. The Wire most certainly is the best TV programme ever made. It made me late for work several times, as I found it hard to resist watching "just one more episode".
It's like a really good book that you struggle to put down, and then keep thinking about it and looking forward to the next time.
Brilliant. Pure gold. Peerless excellence.

I had watched the boxed set of The Wire Season One which was superb and wanted to continue the story. The Wire is different from most police shows for many reasons but particulary because it follows one sprawling case through a whole season rather than a case per episode. This leads to a much deeper, multilayered insight into crime and crime fighting than anything else I've ever seen.

What's more amazing is that the storyline of the second series actually grows from the first, with many recurring characters as well as the new faces for the new crimes.

Being a HBO production (ie the makers of Soprano's, Six Feet Under and so on) there is a basic level of quality and intelligence at work in The Wire. It's become like a badge of quality.

To be honest the best review I can give is that I will be looking to watch The Wire Series 3 as soon as I can. It's that good.

A great second series. I carries on another case with the same slick characters and keeps the trend of clouding the good/bad thing.

Buy it!

On every level this has to be regarded as superb.... writing, acting, directing..even cinematography! I challenge anyone with half a brain to watch a couple of episodes of either season of the wire and not be totally hooked. This is so much more than a traditional crime drama it stands up to repeated viewing that very few Tv shows do.

Have already watched the series.
Am simply buying the DVD to watch it all over again.
Simply the most realistic cop drama ever.
You have either watched "The Wire" or haven't been told about it!

Series 2 picks up where Series 1 left off.

No plot give aways this just needs to be watched all the usual gang are back Stringer Bell, Omar and the investigative team.

Episode 12 finishes and you need Series 3

Great TV Series, you actually start feeling like you are part of the show.I would recommend this anytime any day to everyone, this is the kind of tv series that will keep you in the house all day long watching one after the other. Great TV Series..

perfect, no much to say. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Was recommended to me by a friend. Found it to be quite a slow starting series but definitely worth sticking with as it has a really exciting last 3 / 4 episodes. Have just bought the second series, which probably says it all!!!

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This is something that has great flow which is lost on seperate TV episodes. I loved the series which is about part of the world and also things which don't happen in a nice part of London. I think what I love about the second series in the mix of emotions between why is this person being so stupid to wow how can that person be so evil. There are a couple of scenes in this series which were to happen to people who are special to me, it would so devistate me and other things which I would collapse in the street with laughter. Slightly more depth and ongoing story lines that the close runner ups like The Shield

For once the hype surrounding this series, mainly promoted by the Guardian, is justified. Season 2 improves on season 1 for two reasons: firstly the narrative is more complex and richer and Frank Sobotka is truly a modern day tragic hero.What's more the quality lasts through seasons three, through four and into five and you can't say that about the Sopranos!

Not as good as season 1 but certainly addictive viewing. Again McNulty is a top performer and the setting on the Baltimore Ports linked in with the drug filled streets of west side and east side give the series a good link to the first.

Someone said that season 2 was as good or even better than season 1. I didn't believe it, until I started watching it.

"The best tv show ever! just gets better and better. Watching the characters and the city grow is an amazing experience truly must see tv

My husband just love's this & say's it's the best series to ever be shown on tv.. he missed the first couple of series when shown on tv .will now be very happy and keep him quite all weekend !!!

not as good as the 1st series.i will still buy the third series.kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Stumbled upon The Wire in a newspaper article and took a gamble on series one. Very impressed we head straight out and get hold of series two and weren't disappointed. The same familiar faces lurk behind a disturbing storyline featuring a totally different element of the Baltimore community.

Why don't more people realise this is the best program on TV?

This is truly the best TV show to come out of America in years. It takes a while to get into, but its so worth it in the end. It has an original perspective on American poverty and the problems of the state departments and is deeper than most Tv shows, but its also exciting and surprising. Something for everybody. Couldn't recommend more!

A slight change of story line from series 1 but still an excellent series, thoroughly recommended.Gangsters and politics with the stevedores, very entertaining.

The Wire HBO tv series ROCKS! If you like The Sopranos, Brotherhood, really dark but realistic tv organised crime series, this one will definitely do the job. Lots of excellent & varied & realistic (very flawed) characters, lots of side plots & deviations, ghastly criminal nastiness & much humour.. Set in Baltimore with lots of location shooting this show gets better as the stories & characters develop. Drug dealing, racketeering, corruption, murder, extortion-all the usual stuff, but with the added twist that the (clever) bad guys at the top never seem to get caught and the cops who pursue them just become pawns in their superiors political & professional aspirations & machinations. What is also interesting is that the main, lead character is a Brit playing a Yank(as is also the case in Brotherhood). Season 4 has JUST been released on DVD (March 08). Let there be many more seasons of this gripping & compelling tv show. (Usually I dont like cop shows!).