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The Wire: Season 2 <\/strong><\/em>(2003)<\/p>\n Created by: David Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n Teleplay by: (eps. 1-3, 6, 9, 12) David Simon <\/strong>from a story by David Simon, Ed Burns<\/strong>; (ep.4) Joy Lusco<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by David Simon, Joy Lusco<\/strong>; (ep. 5, 10) Ed Burns <\/strong>from a story by David Simon, Ed Burns<\/strong>; (ep. 7) Rafael Alvarez<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by David Simon, Rafael Alvarez;<\/strong> (ep. 8, 11) George Pelecanos<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by David Simon, George P. Pelecanos.<\/strong><\/p>\n Directed by: Ed Bianchi <\/strong>(eps. 1-2); Elodie Keene<\/strong> (eps. 3-4); Steve Shill<\/strong> (eps. 5-6); Thomas J. Wright<\/strong> (ep. 7); Dan Attias <\/strong>(ep. 8); Tim Van Patten<\/strong> (ep. 9); Rob Bailey <\/strong>(ep. 10); \u00a0(ep. 11); Ernest Dickerson<\/strong> (ep. 11); Robert F. Colesberry<\/strong> (ep. 12)<\/p>\n Stars: Dominic West, Chris Bauer, Paul Ben-Victor, John Doman, Idris Elba, Wood Harris, Deirdre Lovejoy, Clarke Peters, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Amy Ryan, Sonja Sohn, Seth Gilliam, Domenick Lombardozzi, Jim True-Frost, Andre Royo,\u00a0James Ransone, Pablo Schreiber, Al Brown, Frankie Faison, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Bill Raymond, Hassan Johnson, Delaney Williams, Maria Broom, Callie Thorne, Michael K. Williams, Charley Scalies, Melanie Nicholls-King<\/strong>\u00a0and Robert Hogan.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: None.<\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n When one woman is found dead floating in the in the\u00a0Port of Baltimore, the investigation turns up a shipping container full of dead women.\u00a0 Human traffickers are bringing in young girls on cargo ships along with drugs and weapons.\u00a0 This wouldn’t happen without support from dock workers.<\/p>\n The major crimes unit, is told to change their focus from bringing down the Barksdale crime family to solving the murders on the docks.<\/p>\n But maybe they can work on both… if they don’t mind working out of the chain of command.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n The Wire<\/em> continues to look and feel real. In fact some of the smaller roles (both police and criminals) are played by real-life police and criminals.\u00a0 Some of the characters are based on real-life people and events.<\/p>\n The series is well written, well directed and well acted.\u00a0 So many of the unknown actors (when the series started) went on to have great careers.<\/p>\n I love that the series spends as much time with the criminals as the cops.\u00a0 It’s interesting to see both groups struggling to stay one step ahead of the other.<\/p>\n Chris Bauer as Frank Sobotka is a great addition to the cast.\u00a0 If Rocky<\/em> was remade in 2003, Bauer could have played Paulie.<\/p>\n When I saw that the docks were going to be a major location, I was worried.\u00a0 I loved the city beat and the team working to take down the Barksdale family.\u00a0 I shouldn’t have been concerned.\u00a0 The story just got bigger without losing it’s focus.\u00a0 Kudos to the writers for making each character and storyline important.<\/p>\n I cannot wait to start season 3.<\/p>\n The Wire: Season 2 (2003) <\/strong><\/em>earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n The Wire: Season 2 (2003) Created by: David Simon Teleplay by: (eps. 1-3, 6, 9, 12) David Simon from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39760,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39759\/revisions\/39760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\")
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