{"id":39979,"date":"2025-09-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39979"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:13:17","slug":"the-wire-season-4-created-by-david-simon-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39979","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Wire&#8221; Season 4 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\/z091425zview_wire_s4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"690\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wire: Season 4 <\/strong><\/em>(2006)<\/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. 1,13) <strong>David Simon <\/strong>from a story by <strong>David Simon, Ed Burns<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 2) <strong>David Mills<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns, David Mills<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 3) <strong>Richard Price <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Ed Burns<\/strong><strong>, Richard Price<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 4) <strong>Dennis Lehane<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 5, 11)<strong> Ed Burns<\/strong>\u00a0from a story by <strong>David Simon, Ed Burns <\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 6) <strong>Eric Overmyer<\/strong>\u00a0 from a story by <strong>Ed Burns, Eric Overmyer\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 7) <strong>William F. Zorzi<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns<\/strong>, <strong>William F. Zorzi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 8) <strong>Richard Price<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>Richard Price<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(ep. 9) <strong>Kia Corthron<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns, Kia Corthron<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(ep. 10) E<strong>ric Overmyer<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns, Eric Overmyer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(ep. 12) <strong>George Pelecanos<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ed Burns,\u00a0 George Pelecanos<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directed by: <strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe Chappelle <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 1, 12); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christine Moore<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> (ep. 2); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seith Mann<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> (ep. 3); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim McKay<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> (ep. 4); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Platt <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 5); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dan Attias<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> (ep.6); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anthony Hemingway<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0(ep. 7); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agnieszka Holland <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 8); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alex Zakrzewski<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> (ep. 9); <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ernest Dickerson<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> (ep. 10, 13);<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Brad Anderson<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0(ep. 11)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Aidan Gillen, Jim True-Frost, Domenick Lombardozzi, Reg E. Cathey, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, John Doman, Clarke Peters, Robert Wisdom, Seth Gilliam, Corey Parker Robinson, Frankie Faison, Dominic West, Deirdre Lovejoy, Andre Royo, \u00a0J. D. Williams, Chad Coleman, Glynn Turman, Robert F. Chew, Method Man, Hassan Johnson, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Felicia Pearson, Michael Kostroff, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Delaney Williams, Amy Ryan, Paul Ben-Victor\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;\">With Stringer Bell dead, Marlo has expanded his crew to take over the Barksdale territory.\u00a0 The police are surprised that Marlo&#8217;s expansion hasn&#8217;t led to dead bodies.\u00a0 It has, but Marlo has figured a way to keep them under cover.\u00a0 Chris and Snoop continue taking bodies but they never turn up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herc, on the Mayor&#8217;s security detail figures it will be an easy way to promotion.\u00a0 Then Herc accidentally learns something that may cost him his job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Councilman Carcetti continues his efforts to become Baltimore&#8217;s new Mayor.\u00a0 Carcetti&#8217;s rise in the polls forces Mayor Royce to take stern actions.\u00a0 Dirty tricks and questionable ethics are par for the course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael&#8217;s willingness to do what it takes to control his corner impresses Marlo.\u00a0 Omar bids his time until he is ready to make his move against Marlo&#8217;s organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Major Crimes Unit Officer Roland &#8216;Prez&#8217; Pryzbylewski takes a teaching job at a local high school.\u00a0 Ex-con Cutty, trying to stay out of trouble with his parole officer begins working as a truant officer.\u00a0 Bubbles is repeatedly beaten and robbed by a street thug.\u00a0 His police friends are no help.\u00a0 When Bubbles has reached his limit, he plans revenge that backfires in a way that will haunt him for life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Commissioner Rawls sees the shifting political sands as an opportunity for advancement. Former Baltimore Police Major Howard &#8220;Bunny&#8221; Colvin accepts a position supported by a government grant to work with the most disruptive high school students.\u00a0 The plan isn&#8217;t supported by district or state guidelines, but seems to be working.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Wire<\/em> was a <em>Nominee for a 2005 Primetime Emmy<\/em> for <em>Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0 <strong>George Pelecanos<\/strong> (writer\/story by), <strong>David Simon<\/strong> (story by) for the <em>Middle Ground<\/em> episode<\/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, the impact politics has on police work and a local at students headed in the wrong direction and their impact on school settings. Kudos to the writers for making each character and storyline important.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot wait to start season 5.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wire: Season 4 (2006) <\/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\/z091425zview_wire_s4a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wire: Season 4 (2006) Created by: David Simon Teleplay by: (eps. 1,13) David Simon from a story by David<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,65,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/39979","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=39979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39980,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979\/revisions\/39980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}