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DVD : The Wire: Complete HBO Season 4
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The Wire: Complete HBO Season 4 starring: Dominic West, Michael K. Williams, Sonja Sohn List Price: £40.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £23.97 You Save: £17.02 (42%)Prices subject to change. |
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 7321902173429 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 5 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: March 10, 2008 Running Time: 749 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Sales Rank: 50 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Even if you missed the first three seasons (the character guides and thorough episode recaps on HBO's website are recommended), and with only one season left, it's not too late to get in under The Wire. In fact, season 4 is an accessible introduction for those who know The Wire only by its street cred as arguably the very best show on television. For them especially, this season will be, as befitting its theme, a real education. Without resorting to melodramatics that other ratings-challenged series employ to gain that frustratingly elusive audience, The Wire shakes things up this season in a way that is true to the series and its characters. A major character, Dominic West's McNulty, plays a minor role as a contented street cop and family man, while a former supporting player, Jim True-Frost's Roland Pryzbylewski, goes to the head of the class as a new eighth grade teacher at beleaguered Edward Tilghman Middle School. It may take a couple of episodes to orient yourself to the Baltimore backrooms, squad rooms, classrooms, and street corners where The Wire's intense dramas play out, and new viewers may miss something in character nuance, but they will easily grasp the big picture. A politically motivated shake-up sends Major Crimes detectives Freamon (Clarke Peters) and Greggs (Sonja Sohn) to Homicide. The gloves come off in the mayoral race between black incumbent Clarence Royce (Glynn Turman) and idealistic white challenger Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen). Gang leader Marlo (Jamie Hector) quietly and deliberately becomes the city's new drug kingpin, managing to subvert all surveillance efforts. Meanwhile, while "Prez" tries to reach his students, four highly at-risk kids will be drawn into the drug trade. Mere synopsis does not do The Wire justice. The series deftly juggles its myriad storylines and characters, all of whom make an impression, from Marlo's cold-blooded enforcers, Snoop (Felicia Pearson) and Chris (Gbenga Akinnagbe), to boxing instructor "Cutty" (Chad L. Coleman), determined to keep his young charges off the corners. There is not a false note in the performances or the writing. Richard Price (Clockers) and Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) again contributed episodes. That this series has only been nominated for only one Emmy (for writing) is a travesty. As engrossing as the finest novels and in a class by itself, this isn't television; it's The Wire. --Donald Liebenson Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - "Omar comin'!"In the opening scene of the first episode, the most terrifying female villain on TV, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson is listening to a hardware store clerk explaining the advantages of buying a high calibre nail gun. The Wire being The Wire, you just know she won't be using it for any home improvement. And so begins another audacious season of the finest drama on the box, this time with the emphasis on Baltimore's failing educational system. Disgraced ex-cop "Prez" features highly in his new role as a high school maths teacher trying his best to reach students who have no interest in anything outside corner life and earning a quick dollar slingin'. McNulty is back on the beat and off the drink whilst Kima, Bunk and Freamon work homicides ... Read More: Rating: - miss it and miss outI never thought a series about drug dealers could have me hooked, but laced with politics, the police system and characters like Freeman, Bunk, Marlo, damn every character is addictive. I sat in a cinema watching Batman but longed to get home to watch The Wire. In fact, The Wire is the only filmatic experience worthy of a new six-star rating. I won't spoil it for others but there are characters I came to love in series 1-3, but the beauty of The Wire is that any character can take the limelight. Having invested over 40 hours to the series, the in jokes were appreciated, every Omar scene is a classic and there is one involving a satin dressing gown which was a satifying fix. But the four young actors who are introduced in series four were strong, sensitive, ... Read More: Rating: - The Bar is raised even higher - Magnificent TV DramaAnyone who has seen previous Seasons may not have thought it possible, but Season 4 of 'The Wire' has raised the bar even higher in terms of quality viewing. It continues to be an excellent drama which is gritty, involving and believable - but this time the storyline is expanded to areas rarely covered in ANY TV series before.... *** My review of this programme is again intentionally vague about the story as I don't want to spoil things for first-time viewers ! As is the norm, the story follows-on from previous seasons to cover a multi-layered plot surrounding a specific group of drug-dealing criminals, and the detectives within the Baltimore Police Department who are trying to catch them in the act and bring down their ... Read More: Rating: - education, education, education.Well, season four has completely blown me away. Building on the achievements of the previous three seasons it adds a new dimension which you might say was previously lacking: genuine emotional involvement. As I've said before the writing and the detail contained within it had made us interested in the characters and to care about them too. But by focusing on the education system, and a group of eighth graders in particular, it forces us to really worry about a group of children growing up in a city which has already shown that for some people the only opportunities available are different ways to ruin your life. A hotly contested mayoral election is the main event in Baltimore.Tommy Carcetti may be the wrong colour to be mayor but by speaking to ... Read More: Rating: - outstanding! 6 starsQuite simply the finest drama I have ever seen, I thought series 3 could not get any better but the writers/cast proved me wrong. If I could give it six stars I would. I have never felt so involved in a series before, my only complaint is I watched it too quickly. |
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