The Wire

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Genres: Crime, Drama

Counries: United States of America

Companies: Blown Deadline Productions, HBO

Seasons: 5 (60 episodes)

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.