"Crack"

The DVD is like 3hours long. It takes you into the life of Cormega, and what he's been up to for the past like 4-5 years. The soundtrack is fire, it's got Cormega, Styles P, Fame(M.O.P.), Hell Rell, Tragedy, AZ, Nature, Ransom and many others. BUY THIS CD\DVD AND SUPPORT MEGA MONTANA.

Heartbreaking, astonishing look at the people everyone wants to pretend don't exist.

In season four the show becomes at times very hard to watch. There was always a great street excitement to it, nods to old west allusions (think of the near-gunfight with Omar in the alley last season with the bow-tie wearing Atlantic Monthly reading gangster from New York). But this year I wonder if they know they are winding down the show (season five will be the last) and so they want to get to the heart of how hopeless this world seems before they're off the air. The stuff in the schools will break your heart, as will the futility of things ever changing. But this is art, and probably the best TV show ever.

Cold,subtle, & dark

Don't worry, the wire is still one of the best shows on television,besides csi & sopranos, but get ready for some changes in Season 4. We see a bit less of some of our cast favorites and focus more on the race for Mayor and on the Baltimore school system.(None of what follows is a spoiler.) Mayor Royce makes a series of mis-steps, alienates the police high command, and gives white guy Tommy Carcetti a real chance of winning. Former cop Prezbuluski is now a school teacher and does his best to keep several new characters in school and off the corners. The major case squad is broken up and the cops are reduced to "rip and run" operations against minor drug dealers. Drug kingpin Marlowe may have found a way to get to Omar, who is still ripping off the major dealers. At first, I was a bit disappointed to see so little of the people I wanted to see more of, but then I realized that this show is going all the way - it's not just the cops and the dealers; it is the entire panorama of big city life....and death.


If you love sprawling epic novels like Middlemarch or Bleak House, you'll love the Wire. This is a stunningly intelligent, affectionate, sad, and angry portrait of Baltimore, its diverse citizens, and the institutions that fail them. The fourth season focuses on the (super-segregated) school system and is the best one yet. Its main characters start out as four funny 8th-grade boys in the inner city, and it tracks their perilous journeys into manhood. The adults in their lives are a very mixed bag, and even the well-intentioned ones can't always hold sway over the poverty, violence, and neglect in these children's lives. Everyone in America should watch this season and ask themselves how the richest country in the world can allow such horrors to happen to so many children.


The cast is huge, but my favorite Wire characters include Sgt. Carver, the exasperated cop trying to keep these kids safe and out of trouble; Mr. Prez, their novice, hapless math teacher who eventually learns to teach probabilities by letting the kids play dice; Cutty, the ex-con boxing coach, who tries to teach the boys how to fight with honor; and mayoral candidate Tom Carcetti, a wonderfully complex blend of smarts, sleaze, self-righteousness, and idealism. I can't think of another show with so many well-drawn and interesting characters. This is about as close to great literature as TV can get. Try it, you won't regret it! Tip: If you have trouble following the thick "Ballmer" accents, the closed captioning helps a ton.


Examining each link in the drug "food chain," this innovative HBO drama set in the thick of inner-city Baltimore includes everyone from junkies and dealers to cops and politicians. While the third season focused on the investigation of drug kingpin Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris), the show expands to tackle the urban education system's role in fueling the proliferation of drugs. Among the ensemble cast are Dominic West and Frankie Faison.



cast
Dominic WestJohn Doman

Idris Elba Frankie R. Faison

Aidan Gillen Wood Harris

Deirdre Lovejoy Clarke Peters

Wendell Pierce Lance Reddick

Sonja Sohn Julito McCullum
Maestro Harrell Tristan Wilds


Director:
Ernest Dickerson

Joe Chappelle

Daniel Attias