EPISODE
SEASON
The Wire - Season 3
The season starts midway into the Major Case Unit’s unsuccessful investigation into the Barksdale criminal enterprise. With their recent efforts fruitless, ASA Pearlman and Lieutenant Daniels consider dropping the wiretaps, to the dismay of the squad. A new story begins in Season 3 of the acclaimed HBO drama series that focuses on the vagaries of crime, law enforcement, and politics in Baltimore, MD.
3 May 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
1 April 1971, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1974, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
25 September 1984, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
11 September 1971, Elkton, Maryland, USA
16 June 1978
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
31 January 1959, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 June 1981, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
May 16, 2014
Moments like Cole's wake... make it one of the most uplifting and ultimately transcendent dramas television has ever offered.
May 19, 2014
Gritty and engrossing as ever, this police drama widens its sights in its third season.
May 19, 2014
The Wire resists having a single theme or hero or even one purely good guy.
May 19, 2014
The dramatic performances are off the charts, the humor is lethal and that bleak view of humanity -- that downward spiral of life being ground down one day at a time -- yep, still intact.
May 19, 2014
The evolution of Bell is exhilarating, because he's a straightforward criminal who's used the intellect society never properly molded to form his own practice of capitalism.
