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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WIRE
EAN: 0026359277627
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 08, 2006
Running Time: 720 minutes
Sales Rank: 1503
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2004
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Product Description:
Crime drama set in Baltimore.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: WIRE
Title: SEASON 3
Street Release Date: 05/08/2007
Domestic
Genre: TELEVISION
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With volatile issues of Baltimore city political reform as its narrative focus, the third season of The Wire superbly maintains the series' astonishingly consistent status as the greatest 'novel for television' ever created. While the Baltimore police department's wire-tapping investigations continue to monitor the intricate and now legitimately fronted drug ring of Russell 'Stringer' Bell (Idris Elba, smooth as ever), detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) continues his loutish ways, navigating through a series of shallow sexual conquests while doing some of the best cop-work of his career. Stringer's ex-convict partner Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) is back in the picture and bent on eliminating a drug-dealing competitor named Marlo (Jamie Hector), and Baltimore P.D. Major Howard 'Bunny' Colvin (Robert Wisdom) tries his own defiantly independent brand of street justice by essentially legalizing drugs in 'Hamsterdam,' where isolated sections of the city are established as open drug-dealing zones, utterly without the knowledge or approval of Colvin's superiors. As city councilman Tommy Carcetti (Aiden Gillen) plots his own ruthlessly ambitious strategy for the mayor's seat, Baltimore officials, McNulty's wire unit, and the entire Baltimore P.D. stand poised for the inevitable fallout from street-level and executive-level manipulations of power.
Of course, this is just the tip of a very large iceberg, as The Wire continues its labyrinthine yet tightly controlled chronicle of over 50 characters, major and minor, who are all flawlessly woven into the fabric of these 12 remarkable episodes. For season 3, series creator David Simon continued to recruit a top-drawer lineup of reputable writers (including novelists Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, and George Pelecanos) and directors (including Ernest Dickerson, Tim Van Patten, and Agnieszka Holland), and by the time a major character is killed in the season's penultimate episode (arguably the series' finest yet), it's clear that The Wire has earned its crown as the most ambitious and intelligent crime drama in the history of American television. DVD extras are excellent, as usual, including five illuminating episode commentaries (an absolute must for devoted fans of the series), a Q&A session with cast & crew moderated by renowned TV critic and author Ken Tucker, and a classroom conversation with Simon that delves deeper into the creative process of the series. Having deservedly earned its renewal for a fourth season (out of a projected five, according to Simon), The Wire delivers surprises aplenty (keep a close watch for startling revelations) while proving, yet again, that cable-TV is the place to be for anyone seeking respite from the relative mediocrity of mainstream network programming. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating: - great sevice, great show.
I bought this for a friend out of state.She got it within a week, and it was in perfect shape."The Wire" is the best!
Rating: - Top 2 Finest Season, Finest Hour of the BEST TV Show EVER
This is the season I started watching - and got hooked on - The Wire. I was a little uneasy about the cussing at first, but the characters drew me in - the stories with the drug dealers, the politicians, the cops, everything!
The season picks up and refocuses back on the Barksdale Organization so our Season 1 favorite gangsters are back - and our Season 1 - 2 favorite cops are back. This season also adds a new element - the politicians. While the cops like McNulty, Freemon, Greggs, et ... Read More
Rating:  - - 1 for the epilogue
This is a great show, right up there with Sopranos.This season is tremendous, but I felt the epilogue was overly pedantic.Irritating, and frustrating that such a great season could have this fortune-cookie-philosophy segment tacked on the tail end.Not enough to deter me from watching season four, though!
(spoiler below)
Oh, and Rawls shows up at a GAY BAR!?That single, hillarious, surprise half second, never brought up again in this season OR the next, was worth the price ... Read More
Rating: - The Wire - The Complete Third Season
The Wire - The Complete Third Season continues the excellence presented in the first two seasons.
The writing, acting, directing, etc. are all extreemly professional.At times, I felt I was spying on real people in real situations.I would reccommend this series to anyone who enjoys serious drama.
Rating: - Damn Fine TV show.
What can I say that hasn't already been said?This was awesome.I still hit myself when I think that I never watched this show once while it was running on HBO.Stupid, stupid, stupid.If you've made the same mistake I did, you should immediately buy them and watch them.
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