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Picking up after the dramatic events of its maiden season, the second series of The Wire achieves something really rather special: it even manages to outclass the first.
For those fresh to the show, surely the best, most intelligent piece of scripted drama to emerge from America in the last decade, the actual premise is fairly simple. Across the thirteen episodes of its season, it charts one case, and the numerous influences upon it. So it devotes roughly equal time to those committing the crimes as it does to those chasing them.
This time, the Baltimore Police Department have twin worries. There’s the continuing, festering narrative of events from the season before, along with a new problem when a container of dead bodies turns up at the nearby docks. After initial battles over whose statistics the bodies will be attributed to, a fresh case begins for the embattled officers of the Major Crimes Unit.
Yet season two is about much more than the case itself. Bubbling under the surface are characters with real problems, that take their toll on the day-to-day, while at the docks themselves there are union struggles underway, which also have a part to play. Thanks to, frankly, superb scripting, these various narrative threads are woven together quite brilliantly, and the result is perhaps the finest series of The Wire to date. And that’s no small feat.
If you’re one of the many who have let The Wire fly under their radar thus far, then you’re urged to rectify that. Clearly season one is the logical starting point, but begin your adventure in the knowledge that this second series is simple exceptional. For the rest of the US television industry, this is the standard to aim for. --Simon Brew
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From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series 'The Corner', this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn. In this season, McNulty (Dominic West) has been demoted to harbour patrol, Daniels (Lance Reddick) is in the police archive dungeon, Prez (Jim True-Frost) is chafing in the suburbs and Greggs (Sonja Sohn) is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile, on the docks of the Baltimore harbour, the rank and file scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business, but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. While the detail is on ice, a new case begins. Episodes comprise: 'Ebb Tide', 'Collateral Damage', 'Hot Shots', 'Hard Cases', 'Undertow', 'All Prologue', 'Backwash', 'Duck and Cover', 'Stray Rounds', 'Storm Warnings', 'Bad Dreams' and 'Port in a Storm'.
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92 of 95 people found the following review helpful
By S. Hiel
Format:DVD
The second series of the wire does what no other programme can do, and that is somehow manage to be better than the first series of the wire.
I had to get it off amazon.com months ago and have to say it is the most powerfull engaging television that I have watched. It carries on with the same characters as last time, the opposing forces of Mcnulty and Barksdale, cops and dealers, and adds a whole new layer of characters as we have a look at the baltimore docks and the stevedores, working class americans making horrible decisions to fight for the survival of their trade. It rises above cliches of cops and bad guys effortlessly and looks at human bengs struggling with what America and its intstitutions can offer them and how to survive the grim situation of poverty and desperation. It can be heartbreaking and at times blackly comic and left me in awe at such a fantastic achievment.
I had to get it off amazon.com months ago and have to say it is the most powerfull engaging television that I have watched. It carries on with the same characters as last time, the opposing forces of Mcnulty and Barksdale, cops and dealers, and adds a whole new layer of characters as we have a look at the baltimore docks and the stevedores, working class americans making horrible decisions to fight for the survival of their trade. It rises above cliches of cops and bad guys effortlessly and looks at human bengs struggling with what America and its intstitutions can offer them and how to survive the grim situation of poverty and desperation. It can be heartbreaking and at times blackly comic and left me in awe at such a fantastic achievment.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If The Wire reminds me of anything it's not a cop show but Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. This is drama at its best, epic, politically engaged, unsentimental and populated with characters who feel as near to real people as fiction gets. It's also one of the funniest, warmest shows I've ever seen.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Rolo
Format:DVD
If you're reading this I assume you already know season 1. Season 2 is very different, but still magnificent. We move away from the housing projects to a story of corruption, smuggling and the crumbling union power in the ailing Baltimore docks. As gripping and complex as ever.
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I love the wire.
Enough said. Everyone should watch all five series. I've watched them all at least twice. Everyone who has seen them seem to love them.
Published 3 months ago by capuchin
4.0 out of 5 stars
great show
As always great show, with a different type of case to crack. Highly recommend, will continue with the remaining 3
Published 3 months ago by Ms. V. E. Townsend
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Waow !
Outstanding ! The best season so far (I've seen only 3). A series that definitely gets into power with the time... Which is too rarely the case actually !
Published 4 months ago by PRADAT SOPHIE
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The Wire Season 2
Its the Wire, off course its brilliant. Some of the best TV drama ever made.
As for season two itself, like season one its a slow start and builds up the story slowly,... Read more
As for season two itself, like season one its a slow start and builds up the story slowly,... Read more
Published 4 months ago by NK
5.0 out of 5 stars
Contrast and Continuity
A new case and a different scenario, but the same gripping action and great acting as series one. Further scenes relating to series one are interspersed with the new case in a... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. R. J. Milne
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THE WIRE
We just can't make cop shows like this, The first series was good this is even better can't wait to watch season three.
Published 12 months ago by Peter
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Superb Tv
The second series of the wire is probably the weakest of the 5 series' but it is still quality viewing. Read more
Published 12 months ago by andrewknowles10
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The Wire
Excellent! One of the best series I've ever seen. Once I'd seen the first season I was desperate to see what happened next, and ended up buying the whole series. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mrs. J. Taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, but not Awesome
Intelligent and committed TV drama, but nowhere near as good as the awesome first series.
Firstly, the two main story lines don't gel particularly well. Read more
Firstly, the two main story lines don't gel particularly well. Read more
Published 14 months ago by P. Hazel
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Viewing
Different story line for Season 2 with the plot following a different setting. The acting is good and you'll be hard pressed to not continuously watch the episode after episode.
Published 17 months ago by az401
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