Real life urban scenarios are the best place to find a good entertaining storyline, especially if it deals with crime. But this is an art that very few have mastered, and as a result, it is not very easy to find a classic presentation of the reality in urban crime world.

So, when one of the good productions comes around, it makes for some really intriguing and exciting viewing. This is why people always love to watch The Wire. It is one of the select few, in the history of television, that has managed to really touch the ground reality in a very raw yet presentable fashion. The introduction of some of the real life non-professional actors, who play either themselves or characters which are pretty close to someone in public life, bring this series ever more close to the very reality on the cities of America.

The series was presented on the HBO network and comprised of 60 episodes spanning 5 exciting seasons. Each of the seasons had a different story base, although all of them had the city of Baltimore as the backdrop of the unfolding events. The seasons tackled the crime scene of the city in the themes of the drug trade in the first season, the system of the port in the second, the government of the city and the bureaucracy in the third, the schools and their systems in the fourth and the print media of the city in the fifth and final season. Therefore the viewers could look forward to the best of different plots. This is what the people still wish to see when they watch The Wire online.

The cast of the show have been the character actors, who were not very well known. prior to the show, and this was something that became a real benefit for the show, in spite of the sceptics. Because of this approach whenever people used to watch the various batches of fun from The Wire, they would not have any preconceived notions about the characters, and thus the actors would present a real, life­like performance. However, the characters were very beautifully and clearly written, so the presentation was even more powerful. After the completion of the seasons, the fans obviously wanted to go through it again; this is when the websites offered them the option to download The Wire episodes of their choice.

Because the different seasons dealt with different issues, the fans would wish to download the ones they prefer from The Wire episodes of that particular season. This is something that is not possible with the other shows of this particular genre, so it is another thing that marks the show as unique.