EPISODE
SEASON
The Wire - Season 3
The season starts midway into the Major Case Unit’s unsuccessful investigation into the Barksdale criminal enterprise. With their recent efforts fruitless, ASA Pearlman and Lieutenant Daniels consider dropping the wiretaps, to the dismay of the squad. A new story begins in Season 3 of the acclaimed HBO drama series that focuses on the vagaries of crime, law enforcement, and politics in Baltimore, MD.
4 August 1965, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
31 July 1935, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
2 June 1979, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1976, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
16 November 1981, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
4 October 1949, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
10 August 1973, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4 October 1965, Windsor, North Carolina, USA
May 19, 2014
The dramatic performances are off the charts, the humor is lethal and that bleak view of humanity -- that downward spiral of life being ground down one day at a time -- yep, still intact.
May 16, 2014
Moments like Cole's wake... make it one of the most uplifting and ultimately transcendent dramas television has ever offered.
May 19, 2014
The Wire resists having a single theme or hero or even one purely good guy.
May 19, 2014
Gritty and engrossing as ever, this police drama widens its sights in its third season.
May 19, 2014
The evolution of Bell is exhilarating, because he's a straightforward criminal who's used the intellect society never properly molded to form his own practice of capitalism.