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DVD : The Wire - The Complete Third Season |
List Price: $59.98Amazon.com's Price: $39.49 You Save: $20.49 (34%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WIRE
EAN: 0026359277627
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
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
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2004
Sales Rank: 1644
MPN: HBOD92776D
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Description:
The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Other
Audio Commentary:Five audio commentaries with creatorDavid Simon, director Joe Chappelle, writers Richard Price and George Pelecanos, and producers Karen L. Thorson and Nina K. Noble
Interviews:Q&A with David Simon and Creative Team, Courtesy of the Museum of Television & Radio Conversation with David Simon at Eugene Lang Collete, The New School for Liberal Arts
Amazon.com:
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
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Amazing show, amazing DVDs. Quality. The acting and storylines are superb. Season 3 is solid.
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The Wire is a great show! After the 1st season I was hooked. Season 3 doesn't slow up. I would rank season 2 & 3 a slight step below Season 1, but they're all great. I can't wait to get Season 4 & 5 and finish off my collection of one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
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With its third year, The Wire heads back to the streets and unfinished business. As with the second year, the third season opens up another dimension of the city, this time City Hall and the civil and police administration, but the focus is squarely back on the Barksdale organisation and Lt. Daniels' unit trying to bring them down and finish the job begun back in Season 1.
Season 3 opens with Avon Barksdale still inside, but his parole hearing is coming up. His friend and collaborator ... Read More
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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!
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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
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WIRE
EAN: 0026359277627
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
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
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2004
Sales Rank: 1644
MPN: HBOD92776D
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