Tonight at a glance
- Length
- 5 seasons · 60 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One of the best-reviewed series Cue holds.
The story
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.
- corruption
- newspaper
- drug trafficking
- drug dealer
- baltimore
- usa
- gangster
- police
- organized crime
- police detective
- surveillance
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Wendell Pierce
- Michael Kenneth Williams
- Deirdre Lovejoy
- Idris Elba
- Andre Royo
- J.D. Williams
- John Doman
- Clarke Peters
- Frankie Faison
- Jamie Hector
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
- Directed
- Dominic West, Leslie Libman, Tim Van Patten, Scott Kecken, Jim McKay, Joe Chappelle & 22 more
- Created
- David Simon
- Written
- Dennis Lehane, Rafael Alvarez, Eric Overmyer, Joy Kecken, David Mills, Richard Price & 8 more
Production
- Rating
- 8.6 / 10 · 2,803 ratings
- Network & studio
- HBO, Blown Deadline Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
