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The Wire - The Complete Third Season by Tim Van Patten, Ernest Dickerson, Agnieszka Holland
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Aidan Gillen, Dominic West, Idris Elba, John Doman, Wood Harris Director: Agnieszka Holland, Ernest Dickerson, Tim Van Patten Brand: HBO DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Greek (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 720 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: HBO Home Video Product features: - The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one s
Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete Third SeasonMovie Review: The War WITH Drugs Summary: 5 StarsI may be one of the few who thought this third season of The Wire topped the previous two. The intercoiled plotlines, the emergence of some of the actors into greatness with their roles (Lance Reddick as Cedreic Daniels and Idris Elba as 'Stringer' Bell) plus a pair of bombshells regarding Det. 'Prez' Pryzbylewski (Jim True-Frost) and Commander Rawls (John Doman), and this made season three just stunning all the way around.
The focus on this season was politics and power, with the high power and the low. The Mayor sees trouble in his polling, so he makes the demand that crime stats must drop...or else. Stringer Bell needs to build his empire up and away from drugs while Avon barksdale is in jail, so he forms a coalition to sell dope while going straight...without Avon's knowledge. The cops are in the middle, and one of them, Major 'Bunny' Colvin (a fantastic Robert Wisdom) decides the only way to stop drug related crime is to stop arresting the criminals...and move them into crime-free zones in order to get them out of the neighborhoods. All the main activity thus revolves around "Hamsterdam's" rise and inevitable fall.
Along with the subplots that bring back Omar, Bubbles, Brodie, Attny Gen Rhonda, Brother Mouzone, Bunk and the rest make their mark. There's humor, suspense and an a tightly written story that picks up unbeliveable momentum as the store gets to the last three episodes. I had to sit with all three of the DVD's rather than wait to know what happened by that point. Great stuff, and the 4th season keeps the greatness coming.
Summary of The Wire - The Complete Third SeasonThe heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game. DVD Features: Audio Commentary Episodic Previews Episodic Recaps Other Audio Commentary:Five audio commentaries with creatorDavid Simon, director Joe Chappelle, writers Richard Price and George Pelecanos, and producers Karen L. Thorson and Nina K. Noble Interviews:Q&A with David Simon and Creative Team, Courtesy of the Museum of Television & Radio Conversation with David Simon at Eugene Lang Collete, The New School for Liberal Arts
With volatile issues of Baltimore city political reform as its narrative focus, the third season of The Wire superbly maintains the series' astonishingly consistent status as the greatest "novel for television" ever created. While the Baltimore police department's wire-tapping investigations continue to monitor the intricate and now legitimately fronted drug ring of Russell "Stringer" Bell (Idris Elba, smooth as ever), detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) continues his loutish ways, navigating through a series of shallow sexual conquests while doing some of the best cop-work of his career. Stringer's ex-convict partner Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) is back in the picture and bent on eliminating a drug-dealing competitor named Marlo (Jamie Hector), and Baltimore P.D. Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin (Robert Wisdom) tries his own defiantly independent brand of street justice by essentially legalizing drugs in "Hamsterdam," where isolated sections of the city are established as open drug-dealing zones, utterly without the knowledge or approval of Colvin's superiors. As city councilman Tommy Carcetti (Aiden Gillen) plots his own ruthlessly ambitious strategy for the mayor's seat, Baltimore officials, McNulty's wire unit, and the entire Baltimore P.D. stand poised for the inevitable fallout from street-level and executive-level manipulations of power. Of course, this is just the tip of a very large iceberg, as The Wire continues its labyrinthine yet tightly controlled chronicle of over 50 characters, major and minor, who are all flawlessly woven into the fabric of these 12 remarkable episodes. For season 3, series creator David Simon continued to recruit a top-drawer lineup of reputable writers (including novelists Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, and George Pelecanos) and directors (including Ernest Dickerson, Tim Van Patten, and Agnieszka Holland), and by the time a major character is killed in the season's penultimate episode (arguably the series' finest yet), it's clear that The Wire has earned its crown as the most ambitious and intelligent crime drama in the history of American television. DVD extras are excellent, as usual, including five illuminating episode commentaries (an absolute must for devoted fans of the series), a Q&A session with cast & crew moderated by renowned TV critic and author Ken Tucker, and a classroom conversation with Simon that delves deeper into the creative process of the series. Having deservedly earned its renewal for a fourth season (out of a projected five, according to Simon), The Wire delivers surprises aplenty (keep a close watch for startling revelations) while proving, yet again, that cable-TV is the place to be for anyone seeking respite from the relative mediocrity of mainstream network programming. --Jeff Shannon
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