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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900725590
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: ArabicSubtitledDutchSubtitledEnglishSubtitledFinnishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledGreekSubtitledHebrewSubtitledHungarianSubtitledNorwegianSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledSwedishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 10, 2005
Running Time: 780 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Picking up after the dramatic events of its maiden season, the second series of The Wire achieves something really rather special: it even manages to outclass the first.
For those fresh to the show, surely the best, most intelligent piece of scripted drama to emerge from America in the last decade, the actual premise is fairly simple. Across the thirteen episodes of its season, it charts one case, and the numerous influences upon it. So it devotes roughly equal time to those committing the crimes as it does to those chasing them.
This time, the Baltimore Police Department have twin worries. There's the continuing, festering narrative of events from the season before, along with a new problem when a container of dead bodies turns up at the nearby docks. After initial battles over whose statistics the bodies will be attributed to, a fresh case begins for the embattled officers of the Major Crimes Unit.
Yet season two is about much more than the case itself. Bubbling under the surface are characters with real problems, that take their toll on the day-to-day, while at the docks themselves there are union struggles underway, which also have a part to play. Thanks to, frankly, superb scripting, these various narrative threads are woven together quite brilliantly, and the result is perhaps the finest series of The Wire to date. And that's no small feat.
If you're one of the many who have let The Wire fly under their radar thus far, then you're urged to rectify that. Clearly season one is the logical starting point, but begin your adventure in the knowledge that this second series is simple exceptional. For the rest of the US television industry, this is the standard to aim for. --Simon Brew
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i come accross this series by chance and never looked back,brilliant story line, very entertaining, highly recomended
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I loved the first series and the second kept me equally enthralled - I had to pace myself not to watch too many episodes in one go as you want to know what happens next.
You need to have watched series one first so coming to it new or mid-episde would be impossible - but I think it is the finest Police TV ever.
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With the 1st season setting the scene and introducing the characters the 2nd season does that rare thing of being even better, Though the story does still contains the continuing Barksdale story with Stringer Bell holding the reins as Avon alongside his nephew are incarcerated due the conclusions of the investigation in season 1. It is the new strand that drives the 2nd series even more. It introduces the tragic tale of the Sobotka's, a family of Batimore Dockers who's head Frank sometimes goes to not exactly legitimate methods to keep the money coming in but is a generous but compromised man. So when he rubs childhood adversary Deputy Commissioner Valchek up the wrong way with a incident that concerns amongst such things as Church stained glass window, Valchek blackmails a returning Frankie Faison from Season 1 as Commisssioner Burrell for political reasons to getting him to launch an investigation into Frank's activities. When after Burrell tries to buy him off some dead beats determined ... Read More
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It didn't take me long after finishing the first series to start watching the second. With the main characters all established the storyline switches to a new case based around the docks whilst the underlying baltimore drugs scene continues in the background, often blurring into the main case. Its very clever the way the story from series one continues into series two giving continuity and realism and helps resolve the questions and issues left unanswered.
Certainly if you enjoyed the first series the second series is an obvious 'must watch' and for those people they can be assured its more of the same high quality viewing.
For new viewers you should be starting with series one (obviously) as it sets the scene for what i assume will be the complete five series collection perfectly - Put your toe in the water with the first series, if you like it snap up the next four when you see them at the right price!
I gave the first series a 4* rating and this series 5*. In fact both ... Read More
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When The Wire started it was easy to see it as just another cop show, until its overwhelmingly high quality lifted it onto another level. After all, the narrative of Season 1 was simply that of cops versus drug dealers, with some murky political dealings on the side but these were left relatively unexplored. Season 2, however, shows creator David Simon's real plan: he is trying to craft the definitive portrayal of the turn-of-the-century American city. Like a Grand Theft Auto game, progressing onto Season 2 'unlocks' another chunk of the city, this time the docks and a new cast of characters, including Eastern European criminals, the unions and their families, and introduces an important new thread to the tapestry of the show.
At the end of Season 1, Lt. Daniels' unit successfully cracked the Barksdale case, but political infighting between different police departments saw arrests made prematurely. Whilst Avon and D'Angelo were sent down, the evidence against Avon was flimsy and ... Read More
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