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The Wire - The Complete First Season
$59.98
Acting, writing, sound of this series is fantastic. I enjoyed it and would watch it all again and again, although not normally have I been a fan of HBO or crime drama.

The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
$59.99
I love the Wire this was one of the best written shows on television ever. This season of The Wire was the best season yet!This season you see more of the new generation stepping to the forefront and letting you know what the future holds. They take you into the school and let you see how the drug world is effecting the kids and their families!

On the Box 1979
$23.98
Although I was a fan of Wire from the first single, I didn't get to see them live until their second phase; nor was there much footage of them ever broadcast. So this hourlong live-in-the-studio session from the German TV show Rockpalast would be an intiguing document in any event, but it's so much more: a very strong performance from the band at its peak, half of the set previewing still-unrecorded songs that would appear on '154'; good image quality, with camerawork that is far better that the usual for bands on TV; and a display of unhinged art punk in a hilarious studio environment, and with an audience, that looks as though it had never heard of punk until that moment and doesn't know how to take it. Despite Lewis's jumpsuit and Elvis/mullet do, and Newman's skinny tie, Wire doesn't come across as dated at all.

If you're a fan, don't miss this. If you're not, it's an excellent place to start.

The Wire - The Complete Third Season
$59.98
I may be one of the few who thought this third season of The Wire topped the previous two. The intercoiled plotlines, the emergence of some of the actors into greatness with their roles (Lance Reddick as Cedreic Daniels and Idris Elba as 'Stringer' Bell) plus a pair of bombshells regarding Det. 'Prez' Pryzbylewski (Jim True-Frost) and Commander Rawls (John Doman), and this made season three just stunning all the way around.

The focus on this season was politics and power, with the high power and the low. The Mayor sees trouble in his polling, so he makes the demand that crime stats must drop...or else. Stringer Bell needs to build his empire up and away from drugs while Avon barksdale is in jail, so he forms a coalition to sell dope while going straight...without Avon's knowledge. The cops are in the middle, and one of them, Major 'Bunny' Colvin (a fantastic Robert Wisdom) decides the only way to stop drug related crime is to stop arresting the criminals...and move them into crime-free zones in order to get them out of the neighborhoods. All the main activity thus revolves around "Hamsterdam's" rise and inevitable fall.

Along with the subplots that bring back Omar, Bubbles, Brodie, Attny Gen Rhonda, Brother Mouzone, Bunk and the rest make their mark. There's humor, suspense and an a tightly written story that picks up unbeliveable momentum as the store gets to the last three episodes. I had to sit with all three of the DVD's rather than wait to know what happened by that point. Great stuff, and the 4th season keeps the greatness coming.