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Amazon.co.uk Review
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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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.
The most unvarnished, uncompromising and realistic police drama ever returns for another hard hitting season. McNolty has been demoted to harbor patrol, Daniels is in the police archive dungeon, Prez is chafing in the suburbs and Gregs is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile, on the docks of the Baltimore harbor, 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:
- Ebb Tide
- Collateral Damage
- Hot Shots
- Hard Cases
- Undertow
- All Prologue
- Backwash
- Duck and Cover
- Stray Rounds
- Storm Warnings
- Bad Dreams
- Port in a Storm
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88 of 91 people found the following review helpful
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.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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 16 days ago by Peter
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 28 days ago by andrewknowles10
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 1 month ago by Mrs. J. Taylor
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 2 months ago by P. Hazel
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 5 months ago by A. Zapf
roll on the next series!!!
I purchased this for my daughter as part of her Birthday gift. I haven't watched this programme, personally, but given that my daughter is a devotee, I can rate this item on her... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mrs. Jennifer Taylor
Ignored feedback
I wrote to bva1513 complaining about one out of five DVDs being illegible. A replacement or even a home-burnt copy of the disc would be OK, and was told it would be sent to me,... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mike Spain
It's all in the game
Loved it. Develops the characters of Season 1 and interweaves a new storyline with old ones successfully. Read more
Published 11 months ago by B. T. Ralph
Season 2
Season 2 of The Wire wasn't quite what I would normally expect from a second season of a successful TV show. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Matty
Even better than the first series.
I honestly didn't expect to quite enjoy this as much as season 1. I loved the whole dealers/junkies/cops/politics web of intrigue, and thought that it would be bland without Avon... Read more
Published 12 months ago by oneleggedpig
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