Baltimore detectives and drug crews navigate a bleak, measured world where good and evil blur in a war on drugs.
A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Max.
No surprises for a TV-MA: moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
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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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