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Latest"...the life of kings." - H.L. Mencken A damaging report by Pearlman and Daniels gets a reaction from Carcetti, while Haynes finds little support for his concerns about a reporters work from the bosses. Meanwhile, McNulty wants to put a homeless case to an end, Dukie searches for an old mentor and a fallen officer is given a wake.
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-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Writing
David Simon's institutional autopsy—no heroes, just humans.
Acting
Michael K. Williams as Omar. That's it. That's the tweet.
Direction
Naturalistic to the point of discomfort. Feels stolen, not staged.
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