The Wire

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.

• Dominic WestJimmy McNulty
• Lance ReddickCedric Daniels
• Sonja SohnKima Greggs
• Wendell PierceBunk Moreland
• Michael Kenneth WilliamsOmar Little
• Deirdre LovejoyRhonda Pearlman
• Andre RoyoBubbles
• John DomanWilliam Rawls
• Clarke PetersLester Freamon
• Jamie HectorMarlo Stanfield
• Aidan GillenTommy Carcetti
• Seth GilliamEllis Carver