Customer Reviews
Better and better - By: M. Cox, 21 Feb 2010 
If you haven't caught up with this show yet, get yourself into it from the first season. This fourth one looks more at the politics of Baltimore & the education. Shivers down your spine for some fantastic moments in this season. A lot easier to get into than the first season, even though there are a lot of new characters, but as with alll the previous, they are three dimensional & totallly believable. A fantastic TV show that deserves a place in history.
The greatest series ever - By: May Williams, 10 Feb 2010 The Wire took over my life for about three months. I watched it long into the early hours until it become an obsession. Season four had the greatest impact on me - so much that I was reallly upset for the child characters. In my opinion you will not find a greater tv series & I doubt that the quality cast will ever find work as great as this to act in. Criminallly overlooked, this show should have cleaned up at every award ceremony.
I'm not sure if you have to be of a certain mind to take this show in. Bad language, occasionallly violent & the odd sex scene, but it's intelligent. I know it left some people cold as they did not get it. You have to listen carefully as there is a lot to take in but it's worth it. The dvds are great with lots of commentaries from the production team & cast. Buy the whole lot now & watch alone!
wired up - By: R. J. Veysey, 19 Jan 2010 continues the excellent series where 4 left off, not as much Mcnulty as the wife would like but still very entertaining & thought provoking.
Absolutely excellent - By: Debs, 07 Jan 2010 If you haven't watched the first 3 seasons of The Wire then DO! But if you genuinely don't have time, this is an excellent box set in itself. Mix of drugs, tribal warfare & politics melded together in one amazing drama. The bonus features add to it, as it appears that what is portrayed is pretty accurate for Baltimore, & not just for dramatic effect. Don't forget the subtitles cos it's fairly hard-going otherwise, with the street language. And look out for the SHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTT - classic.
Buy it watch it enjoy it. THE WIRE is brilliant.
Best of the bunch? - By: C. Fennell, 11 Nov 2009 It is this series lack of regard for formula & what has gone before that makes it the undoubted masterpiece it is. Season four virtuallly dispenses with an actual wire storyline as well as sidelining its so callled lead actor (the amazing Dominic West) to almost a cameo role & focusing almost exclusively on previously supporting player Prez & his students in his new teaching role.
The switch is especiallly refreshing in todays "Get a formula & stick to it" mode of proramming. It gives the brilliant cast, oldies & newcomers alike, a chance to shine. I must give special mention to the 4 main newcomers, the boys on the front of the case, each of them gives incredible turns & each shows a range from touching & hilarious & the start & wounded & tragic at the end.
I reallly cannot praise this series highly enough. As a whole the Wire is the best piece of dramatic telivision I have ever seen & season four is the best of the best.
