Summary: "In a city that can no longer even recognise its problems, much less begin to solve them, police detectives attempt to bring in one last worthy case against a violent crew of narcotics traffickers. And when bureaucratic poverty and infighting threatens that case, one detective will risk everything, creating a fraud that will eventually entangle the city's newspaper, which is weakened by declines in circulation and advertising. With journalism itself so vulnerable and desperate, an unscrupulous, ambitious reporter will ride the story wherever it goes - or wherever he wants it to go. Now in its final season, the drama directs its last question to the media and its consumer: If anything in The Wire's depiction of urban America was genuine or important, then what is it, exactly that occupies our attentions" -- Container.
The wire : complete series
