{"id":39814,"date":"2025-08-30T09:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39814"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:47:04","slug":"39814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39814","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Wire&#8221;: Season 3 (2004) created by David Simon \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z083025zview_wire_s3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wire: Season 3 <\/strong><\/em>(2004)<\/p>\n<p>Created by: <strong>David Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 1, 12) <strong>David Simon <\/strong>from a story by <strong>David Simon, Ed Burns<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep.2, 8) <strong>Richard Price<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by <strong>David Simon, Richard Price<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 3) <strong>Dennis Lehane <\/strong>from a story by <strong>David Simon, Dennis Lehane<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 4, 11) <strong>George Pelecanos<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by <strong>David Simon, George Pelecanos<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 5, 10)<strong> Ed Burns<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by <strong>David Simon, Ed Burns <\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 6) <strong>Rafael Alvarez<\/strong> \u00a0from a story by <strong>David Simon, Rafael Alvarez<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 7) <strong>Joy Lusco<\/strong> from a story by <strong>David Simon<\/strong>, <strong>Joy Lusco<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 9) <strong>David Simon<\/strong> from a story by <strong>David Simon, George Pelecanos<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directed by: <strong>Ed Bianchi <\/strong>(ep. 1); <strong>Steve Shill<\/strong> (ep. 2); <strong>Rob Bailey<\/strong> (ep. 3); <strong>Ernest Dickerson<\/strong> (eps. 4, 12); <strong>Dan Attias <\/strong>(ep. 5); <strong>Leslie Libman<\/strong> (ep.6); <strong>Tim Van Patten<\/strong> (ep. 7); <strong>Agnieszka Holland <\/strong>(ep. 8); <strong>Alex Zakrzewski<\/strong> (ep. 9); <strong>Christine Moore<\/strong> (ep. 10);<strong> Joe Chappelle<\/strong> (ep. 11)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Dominic West, Idris Elba, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Robert Wisdom, Wood Harris, Clarke Peters, Seth Gilliam, Domenick Lombardozzi, J. D. Williams, John Doman, Frankie Faison, Deirdre Lovejoy, Andre Royo, Jim True-Frost, Wendell Pierce, Corey Parker Robinson, Robert F. Chew, Method Man, Michael Potts, Hassan Johnson, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Jamie Hector, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Felicia Pearson, Glynn Turman, Callie Thorne, Chad Coleman, Maria Broom \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Michael K. Williams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The towers are razed for new development.\u00a0 This leaves the Barksdale drug organization without territory.\u00a0\u00a0Councilman Tommy Carcetti begins a run for Mayor of Baltimore.\u00a0 Since it is an election year, crime becomes a campaign issue.\u00a0 Pressure is put on the Baltimore PD to get crime statistics down&#8230; even if they have to massage them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police Major Covin comes up with an unauthorized and controversial plan to actually lower the crime stats by forcing drug dealer to move to low population areas of the city where they can freely sell drugs. Covin knows that higher ups and the mayor would never approve of his idea, but he moves forward anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new and ruthless drug dealer begins to encroach on Stansfield territory.\u00a0 Omar continues to steal cash and drugs from dealers.\u00a0 Omar is becoming a legend. Brother Mouzone, a ruthless killer, is brought in to find and eliminate Omar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the major crimes unit deals with political demands and personal issues as they work to bring down the city&#8217;s drug traffickers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each season of <em>The Wire<\/em> builds upon the last. The series continues to be well written, well directed and well acted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The series spends as much time with the criminals as the cops. This season we get political intrigue and the impact politics has on police work. Kudos to the writers for making each character and storyline important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New recurring characters introduced in<em> The Wire<\/em> Season 3 that are amazing include Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris Partlow), and Felicia Pearson (Snoop).<\/p>\n<p>I cannot wait to start season 4.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wire: Season 3 (2004) <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z083025zview_wire_s3a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wire: Season 3 (2004) Created by: David Simon Teleplay by: (eps. 1, 12) David Simon from a story by<\/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":[17,51,65,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-trivia","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\/39814","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=39814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39817,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions\/39817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}