article_snippet: The Wire, ran for five seasons on HBO.
article_snippet: Each season focused on a different facet of the drugs trade in the city of Baltimore: the drug trade on the streets, the seaport system, corruption within the city government and bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.
article_snippet: The series, which ran from 2002 to 2008 and became a huge cult hit, being hailed by many critics as the best television programme of the last decade or even of all time. '
article_snippet: The Wire chronicled the effects of the drug war as The Wire was waged in Maryland's largest city in the early 2000s, showing how both drug use and the heavy-handed response of the law enforcement devastated communities.