The Wire

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Dominic West Jimmy McNulty

Lance Reddick Cedric Daniels

Sonja Sohn Kima Greggs

Wendell Pierce Bunk Moreland

Michael Kenneth Williams Omar Little