Publisher's Synopsis
The critically acclaimed TV drama draws to a close in it's fifth season. Writer and producer David Simon, a former police reporter, brings focus on a different facet of the city of Baltimore in each season: the drug trade, the port, the city bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media. With it's realistic portrayal of urban life through a series of mainly unknown character actors, this series is considered one of the greatest television series of all time.