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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: Warner Brothers DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); Greek (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 720 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: HBO Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete Third SeasonMovie Review: The 3rd Season of The Wire is just as good as Seasons 1 & 2 Summary: 5 StarsSome TV series start to get old after the first season or two, but that's not the case with the third season of The Wire.
The most interesting part of this season is what happens after Avon Barksdale gets out of prison. You just knew that after being #1 while Avon was in jail, Stringer Bell wasn't going to take kindly to being #2 again. But the ultimate "showdown" was not what I expected and was really interesting! (I won't give it away by saying what happened, but you've got to see this season!)
The whole "Amsterdam" situation that carries throughout the season is interesting, too. You'll see how one man came up with a solution (albeit temporary) to drug-related murders.
Anyway, this is another great season of The Wire that you won't want to miss!
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.Running Time: 720 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359277627 Manufacturer No: 92776 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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