The Wire - Season 1

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The Wire - Season 1



Summary
In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade, this series draws parallels between these organizations and the men and women on either side of the battle.

The words of Gary W. Potter, Professor of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, in writing about the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, can also be used to illuminate some of the central premises of the show:
"There is precious little difference between those people who society designates as respectable and law abiding and those people society castigates as hoodlums and thugs. The world of corporate finance and corporate capital is as criminogenic and probably more criminogenic than any poverty-wracked slum neighborhood. The distinctions drawn between business, politics, and organized crime are at best artificial and in reality irrelevant. Rather than being dysfunctions, corporate crime, white-collar crime, organized crime, and political corruption are mainstays of American political-economic life."

Tim Goodman, the television critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, summed the show up perfectly when he wrote: "This show is precisely the reason you pay for HBO."

In New York's Newsday, Diane Werts says: "Most TV crime series aspire to John Grisham's level.

'The Wire' aspires to Dostoevsky's."

[restoz]

merci beaucoup for fulfilling my request papillonbleue

[dq]

Could you please reupload Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13 for megaupload. When I download them it only downloads 15.7KB & when I open it, it says file is broken
Thank you

[riddles1]

rapidshare links are dead
Any chance of a re-upload

Thanks

[Sara]

[vindic8tor]

Links are dead. Repost?

[ardzuna]