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Hello. The other night I watched the last two episodes of FX Cop Drama "The Shield" for the first time since they aired. It was still gut-wrenching, tense, and insane for me, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen. The Shield is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. Michael Chiklis is amazing in the lead role of Vic Mackey. Walton Goggins' lack of Emmy-love for his portrayal of Shane Vendrell is criminal. This show lasted 7 very strong seasons before wrapping up with one of the most satisfying finales I've seen on TV.


There were great guest stars throughout. Glenn Close and Anthony Anderson had amazing turns in Season 4 as a Police Captain and Drug Kingpin, respectively. If you thought AA was just a comic actor, you're dead wrong. He was an amazing and terrifying villain. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker was on for a season or two as a IA officer obsessed with taking Mackey down. He was also great.

The pilot is one of my favorite pilots of all time. I think the ending/hook in the episode, which is insanely important for pilots to hook you for the rest of the series, is the best of all time. At the end of the pilot, about 10 years ago, I knew that I was gonna watch every episode of this show.

I was just wondering if anyone here watched/loved the show, and if no one has, then I'm here to strenuously encourage you to give it a shot from the beginning.

I could not agree more. The Shield is the most popular show amongst my coworkers and I by a mile. My DVD sets have been passed around more than any I can think of.

Hell, we went so far when we were naming our watches (groups of us that work together all the time) for some presentation thing for our yearly regimental ball that my watch got called Shield Watch and I was labelled as Ronnie.

The Shield is my favorite show of all time (tied with The Wire I think). The characters, the stoylines, the fact that everything tied back to the first episode, everything. The show is a masterpiece in a sea of mediocre serial dramas.

I think the only thing the show didn't do well is how they handled Julien.

I disagree on Julien.

I tried watching a couple episodes late in it's run, but my dedication just wasn't there (since it was around season 5 or 6 I think) because of it. I've been interested in getting a hold of it or finding it online, just not enough to do something about it yet.

You know, i wasn't expecting Mackey to actually get away with all the shit he's done... poor Ronnie... he didn't even do half the shit Vic did.

I dunno, Ronnie deserved jail just as much as Vic did. These guys were some of the worst kinds of assholes in existence and this is coming from fucking Ronniefan1983 over here. The show's ending is one of the best of all time I think.

Dude, Vic in the 1st episode... none of the shit any of them did after that comes even close. Yeah, they all deserved jail, but Vic would have gotten the chair for sure.

And i was more talking about being betrayed like that...

@Li3n said:

Dude, Vic

Spoiler

shot a cop

in the 1st episode... none of the shit any of them did after that comes even close. Yeah, they all deserved jail, but Vic would have gotten the chair for sure.

And i was more talking about being betrayed like that...

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And Ronnie


That's just as bad.

I'm pretty sure you get less time for that in most legal systems. Also, he knew like Aceveda knew, it was pretty obvious, but had no way to confirm it, so lets not exaggerate it.

Not in Canada, and I'm pretty sure that states is pretty similar.

Man, I loved that show. Watched it every week right up iuntil the very end.

Frankie said:

Not in Canada, and I'm pretty sure that states is pretty similar.

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Even if you help hide it after the fact with no prior knowledge of the crime?!

Yo, mark your spoilers, please.

I loved this show. Everyone on the show was good at what they were supposed to be doing. There were episodes that legitimately shocked me, particularly


And also


My one complaint is that


Awesome show, though.

Frankie;280793][quote=@Li3n said:

Dude, Vic

Spoiler

shot a cop

in the 1st episode... none of the shit any of them did after that comes even close. Yeah, they all deserved jail, but Vic would have gotten the chair for sure.

And i was more talking about being betrayed like that...

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And Ronnie


That's just as bad.[/QUOTE]

Actually the show is great for making you wonder why you're feeling bad for such horrible people.

At any rate, I agree, fantastic series. My wife and I chugged through seasons 1-6 in record time, then had to wait a few agonizing months for the last season to come out. So, so so good. I thought the Season 6 conflict between Vic and Kavanaugh was simply some of the best television ever. Kavanaugh was so clearly in the right but you hated him all the same.

I stand corrected!

Yeah, but it's not exactly complicity until they actually told him, up until then he was just conjecture on his part.

The second last episode is one of my favourite episodes of any TV show ever.

Reboneer said:

The second last episode is one of my favourite episodes of any TV show ever.

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still gives me chills