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The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season
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Our Price: $32.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Average Customer Rating:  
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Dominic West, Clark Johnson, Aidan Gillen, Clarke Peters, Wendell Pierce
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929015368
Format: Box set
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-08-12
Running Time: 630
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Summary: How to ruin a mini series in 10 episodes or less.....
Comment: What happend? For the life of me, I cannot believe that HBO concluded a great mini series like "The Wire" in such a way! If I could get my money back for the whole 5 seasons I would! I was so disappointed with season 5. It looked like behind the scenes the cast was negotiating for additional salary and the network was cancelling their contracts. 10 episodes and you fizzle-out a blockbuster mini series!!! Omar dies in a liquor store without a fight, considering that he was the toughest character of the bunch. In the same season, Proposition Joe dies, Cheese dies (The upcoming Avon Barksdale type)...and Snoop dies! Snoop! The rudest, crudest, female tough guy to walk the streets of Baltimore! And she gets wasted by the upcoming kid?
And what gives with the News Room cast? Filler? That plot was going absolutely nowhere!! The weak, computer literate kid becomes a junkie overnight?
Keeba didn't even have a date during the season.
And who decided that McNulty was the star?
Complete trash! I thought nothing could be as bad as the ending of OZ...but The Wire set a new mark....
"Season Five....was a dud!"
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Summary: Not a walk through simply my opinion.
Comment: i dont give run down on shows i will simply state that i loved season five as much as the other seasons. im just sorry it had to end. if your afan of other seasons you will not be disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top Shelf
Comment: Simply, with The Sopranos, the best TV has ever seen. I wish only that Season 5 could have been more than 10 episodes.
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Summary: The Wire, still the best
Comment: Felicia Pearson, aka 'Snoop' " ... was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore. ..." and as an almost grown actor, she now plays a drug gang land assassin in what I consider to be the most real, most enlightening and the most entertaining of all shows on HBO, no make that all of television, cable or broadcast, period. Ms. Pearson is also an accomplished writer of " ... a quick, riveting and rewarding read that makes you almost hear her reading it to you and I HIGHLY recommend it. Kudos to the co-author's subtlety that makes this book a knockout!!! ..." - Amazon review of "Grace After Midnight: A Memoir" by Ms. Pearson and David Ritz.
Amazingly, Ms. Pearson is but a single representation of an excellent company of players in a most entertaining cable TV series, "The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season" produced by HBO. This link leads to a collection of the first four seasons of this remarkable "docu-drama", although I have yet to view an episode that would not stand alone as a prime time TV movie and some are more than worthy of theatrical release.
Those of you who have caught a few episodes already know that you can tune into these without attention to order in rotation as each segment is well written, well acted and well produced.
And now a word of caution for those of you who may have consider viewing these for the first time. The stories played in "The Wire" are based of actual events of the very recent past and are continuing to unfold in a town near you. These are very edgy, very raw, very vivid and violent stories, but they are very real. Tonight these stories will repeat in Oakland, in East Saint Louis, in Los Angeles, in Cleveland, in Philadelphia, in Newark, in Boston, in Houston, in New Orleans ... and in Baltimore, on a corner of those streets in the "bad part of town" where most of us seldom venture, even in daylight.
The origins of this "show" are based in "Homicide The Complete Series Seasons 1-7 DVD SET" an acclaimed series from the '90s, " ... not only the greatest cop drama of the 90's, it's one of the best ever. ..." (Amazon review). Interestingly or possible fore ordained, several of the players and company from "Homicide ..." show up in the writing and character acting in "The Wire".
When your kids approach the age of serious questions, you could do a whole lot worse than show them these. No amount of explanation on your part could ever show them this aspect of a very real world ... Sorry, but they will pickup some hopefully short term, but very bad roll models, unless you let them watch a complete series season and watch as that charismatic drug kingpin goes down in a very nasty way with a whimper, not a always a bang. Even the bad politicians get their comeuppance.
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Summary: Best yet
Comment: I can honestly say, that season 5 is the best out of the series, and I have an extremely high regard for the previous 4. I rank The Wire up there with 24 in terms of best series on TV in recent memory.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. In the schools. And now in the media. The places and faces have changed but the game remains the same. Times are tough for the detail. Mayor Carcetti has slashed the departments budget to the bone. Police are operating without overtime some without cars and radios. Angered McNulty is off the rails again and headed down a dangerous path of deception and lies that will ally him with an unscrupulous reporter. The drug trade still rules the corners all you have to do is read between the lines.Running Time: 630 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 630 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC:Â 883929015368 Manufacturer No:Â 1000038240
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