TheWire_Complete_BLUOk, everyone needs to make June 2nd on their calendars. On that day, HBO will release THE WIRE: The Complete Series on Blu-ray.

The Wire depicts an American urban dystopia, framed in our time, in which easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. In five successive seasons, the series depicts a Baltimore in which institutional prerogatives, economic inequalities and a brutalizing drug war confound the efforts to advance the city and its people. The series’ first season lays out the futility of the drug war, while the second highlights the deindustrialization and the death of the working class. The third season introduces the city’s political culture and lays out the forces that stand in the path of actual reform. The fourth season addresses the educational system and the actual opportunities that remain to coming generations. The fifth and final season examines the media culture and its role in perpetuating the status quo. Amid all of this, carefully drawn characters on both sides of the law and from a variety of Baltimore cultures move forward as best they can, human to a flaw, struggling against a system that seems weighted against civic progress.

The set will contain all previous features as well as the Paley Center Cast Reunion event.

So for those that are not familiar with the series, THE WIRE is the best drama in the history of television, end of story. Yes, BREAKING BAD and THE SOPRANOS were good, but they did not blend characters, story and social issues like THE WIRE. This is the freakin’ bomb, end of story.