EPISODE
SEASON
The Wire - Season 2
Jimmy McNulty is sidelined to harbor patrol. He discovers a corpse in the harbor and pays back Colonel Rawls by proving City Homicide bear responsibility for the investigation. The second season expands to include not only familiar drug dealers, but a group of longshoremen and organized crime members who are caught up in a major homicide case.
14 September 1991, Rochester, New York, USA
30 May 1960, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
19 July 1976, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
25 December 1958, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
12 December 1978, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
31 May 1955, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
June 06, 2014
A richly textured universe unto itself, populated by detectives, drug dealers, longshoremen, politicians and lawyers who have motives so diverse, surprising and complicated, each scene seems to reveal a new layer of depth and complexity.
May 15, 2014
More than a crime writer or social dramatist, Simon is a poet of beautiful losers
May 15, 2014
The Wire, a deluxe cops-and-crooks hour that opens its second season on HBO Sunday night as brainy and irresistible as ever.
May 15, 2014
The Wire will continue to unfurl at its own pace, daring to remain the most novelistic of HBO's Sunday night dramas.
May 15, 2014
The Wire proves, in Season 2, that it is the most ambitious storytelling series on television.
May 15, 2014
Although the big themes are in play, this isn't Clifford Odets making his characters into idea puppets. The people that Simon and his collaborator, former Baltimore cop Ed Burns, have imagined are utterly believable as human beings.
May 15, 2014
One of the best shows on television.
