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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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Unlike most television crime dramas, which neatly introduce and then solve a case all in the space of one hour, HBO's THE WIRE follows one single drug and homicide investigation throughout the length of an entire season. Centred around the drug culture of inner-city Baltimore, the series' storyline unfolds from the points of view of both the criminals lording the streets and the police officers determined to bring them down. Created by writer David Simon (THE CORNER, HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET), THE WIRE's multifaceted approach offers a nuanced overview of every aspect of the drug trade and the complex morality of its participants. The second season is included here in its entirety.

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5.0 out of 5 stars simply astonishing!, 26 Jul 2005
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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.
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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars TV at its grittiest/greatest, 15 Oct 2005
What can you say that hasn't been said in the US about the Wire? Shown only on FX on Sky in an 11 o clock slot on a Wednesday evening you would be excused for thinking that this was a show that the producers wanted to slip in without it registering on the radar. How wrong of the producers (if this is case however you will understand why it has to be shown late when you watch it) this has to be television at its finest. Effortlessly weaving characters into plots that seem so unrelated at the start you would be forgiven for thinking nothing could link them together at the start of the series. Dock workers? Murdered Prostitutes? Greeks? Russians? Drug Dealers? You really do have to watch it to realize what I mean. You will think back to an episode in which you thought had a scene of little importance to the plot only for it to become crucial to the series as a whole an episode later. I must mention the stunning performances turned in by all the actors, especially the new ones for this series who have really established them selves. With characters from series 1 brought back together with an amazing plot you can see why this show is the hit it is in America. The on-screen pairing of Dominic West (Detective McNulty) and Wendell Pierce (Detective "Bunk" Moreland) is perfect and these help to add the moments of dark humour to the series. This is a show that must be watched to be believed. I myself am particularly looking forward to the DVD version of this show, so I can watch it with the subtitles on and catch little bits of information I might have missed first time around. A must-buy for anyone...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Full-blooded drama at its best, 24 Oct 2007
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding! even better than Season 1....
It took my while to get into The Wire when I started watching it, some of the lingo is a little difficult to follow at times, but once you get used to it, then its a great show to... Read more
Published 20 hours ago by C. P. Whiting

2.0 out of 5 stars shakespearean?!!
In the interests of fairness I would like to provide an alternative opinion to some of the hysterical praise heaped on the wire 2, eg, spellbinding; astonishing; breathtaking; and... Read more
Published 3 days ago by eliade

5.0 out of 5 stars A very different season from this excellent show
The Wire for those who don't know is one of the best TV shows ever produced. Set in Baltimore, the show looks at the criminal activity on the streets and the police squad trying... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Nat

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible.
David Simon intended from the start of The Wire for their to be 5 seasons, like 5 acts in a Shakespearean play except the play is real life. Read more
Published 25 days ago by varv

5.0 out of 5 stars Hotwire
If anything this series is even better than the first. Top quality scripts and outstanding performances from the cast. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Wire continues to impress.......
I did wonder if Series 2 could be as good and the phenomenal first series. We were not disappointed. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Wynne Kelly

5.0 out of 5 stars The Wire Season 2
Many years of watching top class American drama and this has to be the one to beat. OK so sometimes you could do with sub titles or a glossary of terms but notwithstanding that... Read more
Published 1 month ago by RTough

5.0 out of 5 stars The Wire. The Best
Frankly left speechless by the series. Never have my wife and I been so hooked up on a TV programme. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Simon J. Barratt

5.0 out of 5 stars Win some, lose some
There's little point in posting a lengthy review when everybody already knows how great THE WIRE is, but I just wanted to add my own voice to the chorus - that this is the best TV... Read more
Published 1 month ago by OEJ

3.0 out of 5 stars OK-ish
The Wire - Season 2 is OK - it's nowhere near as great as everyone appears to suggest though. It's just another U.S. Read more
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