The Wire - The Complete Second Season
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Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: Review of "The Wire"
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply one of the best shows on television: tense, realistic, with excellent character delineation, keen insight into bureaucracies, startling but truthful relationships and the best writing around.Movie Review: Welcome Back To Great Writing And Acting
Summary: 5 Stars
Having the feel of a low budget production, The Wire effectively presents Baltimore slum street life balanced by the equally conflicted local precinct police. We ain't in "Leave It to Beaver" land anymore !
Wonderful police drama ! Very dark, richly detailed, and treacherous ( both cops and civilians ).
Jack Bauer passionately serves America, but seems a comic book character caught in the machinations of both CTU and today's bad-guy.
The Wire presents realistic average people coping with conflicts within and without their lives.
Movie Review: Sterling Season Two: Homicide Meets the Greek Connection
Summary: 5 Stars
I fell in love with HBO's "The Wire" about half-way through the first season. While I had heard all the rave reviews, I resisted the show at first because too much of the show seemed tied to the charismatically self-destructive Detective McNulty (Dominic West). But as the show continued to spin its tangled tale of the Baltimore drug scene, with one perfectly-captured subplot adding new layers to the emerging whole, I couldn't resist.
So I leapt into Season Two with reckless abandon . . . and dare I say it, Season Two is even better than Season One. Season Two starts out simply enough, with a body being fished out of the bay by McNulty, now exiled to water patrol after offending one-too-many superiors. Then thirteen dead bodies are found in a shipping container on the Baltimore docks, and the show takes off from there.
What elevated Season One is how electrifying it made the routine drudgery of police work. Using hard-won knowledge from Baltimore's real-world crime scene, the writers showed how complex a police procedural can be, and also how gripping. If anything, Season Two offers an even more complex tapestry of subplots - the hard-knock life down on the Baltimore docks and union politics add even additional spice to the show's smorgasbord of police procedural, civic corruption, drug tales, and tidbits of personal life.
Adding even more joy to the mix are a new batch of criminals from Eastern Europe, including "The Greek," who bears more than a bit of a resemblance to the villain in "The French Connection." Some had accused Season One of being too ham-fisted on racial issues b/c the drug kingpin and all his henchmen were black. Such accusations were baseless, but one could not find any such quibbles here, as these new villains are as ruthless and evil as they come.
But fear not - Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell, and everyone's favorite twisted Robin Hood (Occupation: "I rob drug dealers."), Omar are back and in full force.
"The Sopranos" may get all the headlines for HBO series, but for my money, "The Wire" is every bit as fantastic a show, and perhaps even more so. Dive into Season One, and get hooked.
Movie Review: Calidad HBO
Summary: 5 Stars
Trae subtitulos en español. Sin lugar a dudas es una de las más realistas series policiacas. Con la calidad de HBO. Recomendable al 100% ¿a qué esperas? Compratela aqui mismo, en amazon, no encontrarás mejores precios. Movie Review: A series that just keeps getting better.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wire's second season is nothing short of remarkable. With the huge cast of characters they have to work with it's amazing there's not an off performance nor ever a scene that doesn't feel in place. Everything builds on what we know about the City of Baltimore and the wide variety of characters from the first season, introduces a whole new slew of characters, and it feels authentic every step of the way. If perfect television exsists this is it.
The thing I like best about Season 2 is how it builds on our emotion and familiarity with the characters we know and shows these characters from sides we haven't seen before. I was really involved with these character and cared about the new case that comes about, even as almost no one is without their flaws and misdeeds. I sympathised with the cops in dealing with the higher ups sometimes more concerned with political motives or vendetas than they are about justice. Even in the streets, while the characters may not be as sympathetic, I really got involved with their situations, and with the streets not being directly connected to the central case of the season the conflict becomes more of a moral one than one with the police. The ports, which we have no famaliarity from the first season and are a big part of the central case of this season, are introduced seemlessly, and the characters are ones than many will come to care and relate deeply to: the struggling working man. I couldn't pick a favorite character if I wanted to.
I'm not going to spoil anything here. Watching it for yourself it an experience you won't forget. It works on emtion, on comedy, on drama, and on suspense. In no show I've ever seen, not even the Sopranos, has all four of those elements been done as well as it is here. I must plead while I do say Season 2 is better than the first you must see Season 1 first if you haven't already. The experience is so much richer going in that way, building on the characters and storylines of the first season.