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The Wire
2002–2008 · 5 seasons, 60 episodes · Crime, Drama · HBO · United States · Rated TV-MA (US)
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Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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