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The Wire: Complete HBO Season 5 | |
The_Wire__Complete starring: Dominic West List Price: £39.99 Price: £27.98 You Save: £12.01 (30%)Used Price: £24.99 Third Party New Price: £26.95 Binding: DVD EAN: 7321902223384 Format: Box set, PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 4 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: September 22, 2008 Sales Rank: 87 Studio: Warner Home Video Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: It’s borderline tragic that one of American television’s finest shows of recent times comes to an end with season five of The Wire. Long-praised for its astonishing mix of character, grit and outstandingly scripted drama, the upside is that the show sure goes out with some style. As with every season of The Wire, there’s an underlying theme running alongside the exploration of both sides of Baltimore’s drug problem, and this time it’s the media. Fighting cutbacks, yet trying to maintain quality, the staff of The Baltimore Sun prove to be a compelling addition to the mix. On top of that, there’s also Mayor Carcetti’s battles at City Hall with the budget, a stretched police force looking for easy statistics, and fractions among the city’s main drug dealers. Desperate times, ultimately, call for desperate measures, and it turns to McNulty to come up with a plan that threads through each of the city’s factions. That The Wire has maintained its standards for five straight seasons is surely something to be celebrated all by itself. Yet what’s even more remarkable is the way that it leaves our screens, seemingly forever. No character is safe and nothing is black and white, right up to the quite wonderful final episode. And what a way to go that last instalment proves to be. Giving nothing away, it’s a superb fanfare to a genuinely stunning--and unequalled--piece of television drama. If you’ve not already, you really should find out what all the fuss about. --Simon Brew Warner Home Video See more information on The Wire: Complete HBO Season 5 at Amazon UK or at Amazon.com Average Rating:  Rating:  - a superb piece of televisonthe fact that the wire is a show that so few people have actually seen is criminal but completely unsurprising in this age of dumbed down entertain ment and reality tv shows. this is an exceptional, intelligent piece of work that should have reached a wide audience. it's not the most action packed show you'll ever see, but the quality of the writing and acting is simply superb, and sadly, the best way to see this superb criminally underrated show is on dvd or late at night on fx. it is bleak, very bleak. no happy endings here, but the fact that the wire has managed to last 5 seasons is something of a miracle. this superb show is hardly seen, yet complete drivel like american idol, big brother, i'm a celebrity get me out of here and all other idiotic reality tv shows get such high viewing figures is a sad state of affairs indeed. for lovers of good, quality tv, this is absolutely essential viewing. Rating: - Flawless television.I know in these times we live in with many competing interests, recommendations are a plenty and its easy your to ignore peoples urges to watch something.....but try to make time for "The Wire" if you can, very impressive television, slow and measured at first, it builds into a amazing drama, and I does not seek to pander to the lowest common denominator of intelligence. Very refreshing. Rating: - Nothing else on TV has come close!Quite simply the best TV series ever made. Blows every other American and British TV dramas out of the water. Watch from season 1 through to 5 and be astounded and amazed at what heights TV drama can reach. From street corners to the corridors of power in Baltimore, stories are told in staggering detail. Excellent cast, fantastic characters. The Wire season 5 is just as good as seasons 1 - 4. The story ends, good guys don't always win, bad guys get away, so authentic in it's depiction is what makes it so good. No more seasons of the wire? In the words of Clay Davis "Shiiiiiiiiiit" Rating: - What a way to bow out!!If you love the novel like structure and subtlety of The Wire, this last series will blow you away. A great series and a great ending. I just can't believe it's over. The game's not the same anymore!! Rating:  - Brilliant, Outsanding and Over. *Contains general plot spoilers*For the last four weeks I have been watching episodes of The Wire back to back right from the beginning of season one to the end of season four to prepare myself for this fifth and final season. Now, having just finished watching the feature length finale I feel a strange sense of grief knowing I will never again have excitement and pleasure of watching a new episode. Season five is all about tying up loose ends and this time the focus is on the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Carcetti's city hall has no money left to spend so promises made to Daniels are going unfulfilled and the police department can no longer pay officers overtime. A frustrated McNulty and Freamon take insubordination to a new extreme in order to serve the greater good. Marlo Stanfield makes his play for power with the help of loyal soldiers Chris and Snoop who also bait Omar out of retirement. Meanwhile, the political machine keeps chewing up Senators, Commissioners and anyone else with anything to lose. So is it as breathtaking as seasons one to four? Not quite I'm afraid. Whilst undoubtedly still an extraordinary drama, I'm rating season five in comparison with the previous seasons and if I consider that they were close to perfect, here would be my (minor) criticisms. 1) I feel nothing towards any of the new characters working for the newspaper. They certainly don't have the personality or charisma of the gangsters, cops or dock workers of previous episodes. Extended ... 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