The Wire (2002)

Cast: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kenneth Williams, Deirdre Lovejoy, Andre Royo, John Doman, Clarke Peters, Jamie Hector

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-s…