http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:45:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en City Editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes Gus Haynes is old-school with an indepth knowledge of Baltimore, having worked his way up from district police reporting. He can sense a lazy reporter and read between the lines of press conference statements. His style, considered by the new management at the Baltimore Sun, is ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-characters/the-baltimore-sun Frank Sobotka Frank Sobotka, the secretary-treasurer of the slowly sinking longshoremen union, is the guy everyone turns to. His dream is to return the port to its former glory, feeding lobbyists secret $50,000 bunles of cash to convince the lawmakers to make Baltimore a competitive port again. To finance his campaign, ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-characters/baltimore-docks Namond Brice Namond is the son of imprisoned Barksdale soldier Wee-Bey Brice. Forced by his mother to follow in his father's footsteps he becomes a runner for Bodie and it quickly becomes clear that Namond is not suited to the streetcorner life, despite his bravado. Former police Major Bunny Colvin takes ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-characters/tilghman-middle-school Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty Jimmy McNulty is the closest the Wire comes to a lead character. At times he's the most reliable, thorough and stubborn cop on the case. McNulty is "good police" but his insecurities and self-destructive nature come to the surface, particularly when he's drunk. He leaves in ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-characters/baltimor-police-and-city-hall Russell "Stringer" Bell The number two but clearly the brains in the Barksdale gang, he saw the future in becoming a legitimate investor and secretly studied Economics at college. Stringer, along with Prop Joe, tried to reform the violence and gangsterism of the drug trade by forming their own wholesale drugs ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-characters/the-baltimore-streets Series 5 draws more on David Simon's experience as a journalist working on The Baltimore Sun newspaper and weaves in many storylines and characters from the previous four series. [ecu]20210[/ecu] Following Tommy Carcetti's election as Mayor, public funds have fallen through the floor. The city is broke. There is no money to ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-series-5-dvd-box-set/the-wire-series-5 [ecu]20213[/ecu] The Wire's no-nonsense focus on city life in North America continues in Series 4. The gritty storyline weaves together the inner city realities of under-funded education, the street corner gangs attracting young kids into their fold with easy money, and "white-collar" manipulation and corruption at the highest level of ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-series-4-dvd-box-set/the-wire-series-4 [ecu]20221[/ecu] Series 3 returns to the street corners of Baltimore and Lt. Daniels' team is still chasing the city's drug dealers.  With Avon close to release from jail and the Barksdale gang's former territory, the Towers, raised to the ground, Stringer Bell decides to become the city's top drug wholesaler. Meanwhile pressure ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-series-3-dvd-box-set/the-wire-series-3 [ecu]20215[/ecu] Series 2 moves the focus away from the lowrises onto Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal cargo docks where the unions are struggling to keep the docks open and their members in work. The Wire's political landscape now involves the police department, the longshoremen union, the Catholic Church, a growing number of ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-series-2-dvd-box-set/the-wire-series-2 The first season of The Wire concentrates on the often-futile efforts of police to infiltrate a West Baltimore drug ring headed by Avon Barksdale and his lieutenant, Stringer Bell. [ecu]20207[/ecu] Unlike many "cop shows" that have a new story each episode, The Wire digs deep into the story, the characters and the ... http://www.thewiredvd.co.uk/the-wire-series-1-dvd-box-set/the-wire-series-1