The Wire(2002)
Overview
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.
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Jimmy McNulty
Cedric Daniels
Kima Greggs
Bunk Moreland
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