June 2, 2002 - March 9, 2008
HBO Crime Drama - 60 Episodes
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In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs
and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade,
this series draws parallels between these organizations
and the men and women on either side of the battle.
The words of Gary W. Potter, Professor of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
at Eastern Kentucky University, in writing about the savings and loan scandals
of the 1980s, can also be used to illuminate some of the central premises of the show:
"There is precious little difference between those people who society designates as
respectable and law abiding and those people society castigates as hoodlums and thugs.
The world of corporate finance and corporate capital is as criminogenic and probably
more criminogenic than any poverty-wracked slum neighborhood. The distinctions drawn
between business, politics, and organized crime are at best artificial and in reality
irrelevant. Rather than being dysfunctions, corporate crime, white-collar crime,
organized crime, and political corruption are mainstays of American political-economic life."
Season One centers around a family of drug dealers and the innerworkings of their empire.
It also follows the detectives who are trying to catch the high members of the empire.
Season Two steps away from the drug trade (while still mentioning characters from the
previous season) to a case of dead prostitutes which turns into a look at
the corruption surrounding the Port.
Season Three investigates politics and finishes the main stories that were left open in season one.
Season Four focuses on four middle school students and their journeys through the public
school system and continues to address the politics of an inner-city and the issues of an election.
The fifth and final season centers on the media's role in addressing, or failing to address,
the fundamental political, economic and social realitiesdepicted over the course of the
series, while also resolving storylinesof the numerous characters woventhroughout
the narrative arc of the show.
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