The Wire (2002–2008)

The Wire rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

TMDb8.6/10· 3K votes

About 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.

Cast of The Wire

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  Dominic West

  as Jimmy McNulty

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  Lance Reddick

  as Cedric Daniels

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  Sonja Sohn

  as Kima Greggs

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  Wendell Pierce

  as Bunk Moreland

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  Michael Kenneth Williams

  as Omar Little

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  Deirdre Lovejoy

  as Rhonda Pearlman

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  Andre Royo

  as Bubbles

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  John Doman

  as William Rawls

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  Clarke Peters

  as Lester Freamon

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  Jamie Hector

  as Marlo Stanfield

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  Aidan Gillen

  as Tommy Carcetti

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  Seth Gilliam

  as Ellis Carver

Our take on The Wire

David Simon's HBO masterpiece dissects Baltimore from every angle — cops, dealers, dockers, schools, press — to build the most complete portrait of a failing American city ever televised. Novelistic, patient and uncompromising, it's widely called the greatest TV drama. If its sprawling realism and institutional truth gripped you, seek out ambitious crime sagas and social dramas that treat a whole city as the protagonist.