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.

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