The Wire

Plot summary

“Listen carefully.”

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.

Seasons

Crew

• David SimonCreator · Writer · Executive producer
• Joe ChappelleDirector · Producer
• Ernest R. DickersonDirector
• Steve ShillDirector
• Ed BianchiDirector
• Ed BurnsWriter · Producer
• George PelecanosWriter · Producer
• Richard PriceWriter
• Robert F. ColesberryExecutive producer
• personNina K. NobleExecutive producer

Cast

Production companies

• movieBlown Deadline Productions
• HBO