EPISODE
SEASON
The Wire - Season 5
After the last seasons, season 5 completes the incidents of embodying the struggles of drug dealers and addicted people, in the Baltimore's streets, where they commit many crimes, the thing that challenges the United States government and threatens its stability, so they take a restricted procedures against them.
20 November 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
20 March 1984, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
4 November 1945, San Antonio, Texas, USA
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
20 December 1979, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
12 October 1953, Stockton, Kansas, USA
5 January 1984, Jamaica
31 January 1959, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 July 1974, New Jersey, USA
June 03, 2014
If there's one problem with The Wire, it's that, five seasons in, too many beautifully realized characters fight for too little room - a gem of a complaint to have.
June 03, 2014
Not exactly a Hallmark card, but one hell of an artistic achievement.
June 06, 2014
The dense mythology of HBO's The Wire, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.
June 03, 2014
Simon can rest assured that he's created something unique that will last well beyond the confines of its prime time ratings prison.
June 03, 2014
The Wire certainly is Dickensian.
June 03, 2014
David Simon's sprawling epic of urban decay is as good as this startlingly brilliant show has ever been - and it has always been among TV's best.
June 04, 2014
The show will go out as one of the medium's greatest.
May 30, 2014
The Baltimore-based series is still one of the most daring dramas in the history of the medium.
June 03, 2014
The fifth and final season may be the most overtly farcical, but only because things in this slightly fictionalized Baltimore have become, if you can imagine, worse than ever. When the going gets tough on The Wire, the tough get funny.
June 06, 2014
This episode quickly reminds us of how completely believable and engrossing the world Simon has created is. Every moment feels genuine.