After 89 episodes, The Shield finally came to an end last week. I just watched the season finale and it's easily one of the best I've ever seen. It's hard to let a show like this go. The last few episodes have been almost painful to watch. All the characters were just so incredibly fleshed out and amazingly imperfect. When the show premiered it totally ruined all other cop shows for me. Even now, I can't find a single drama that feels as authentic as The Shield...and no I haven't seen The Wire so stop asking; I'm working on it. Law & Order, CSI, and all those other procedural knock-offs just feel so sanitary and old fashioned by comparison. The brilliance of the show was how the writers made the audience empathize with someone like Vic Mackey. Yeah, he wasn't a nice guy, but in the world of The Shield "nice" is a very relative term. For me the high point of the series was the Armenian money train and its aftermath. Each week the strike team just kept digging themselves in deeper and deeper, but somehow they steered clear of all investigations. Anyway, I'll miss the strike team and all the characters from the barn. If you didn't watch the show or only watched a few episodes, I highly recommend you check out the whole series on DVD. You'll be hooked after the first episode.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Adiós Vic Mackey!
After 89 episodes, The Shield finally came to an end last week. I just watched the season finale and it's easily one of the best I've ever seen. It's hard to let a show like this go. The last few episodes have been almost painful to watch. All the characters were just so incredibly fleshed out and amazingly imperfect. When the show premiered it totally ruined all other cop shows for me. Even now, I can't find a single drama that feels as authentic as The Shield...and no I haven't seen The Wire so stop asking; I'm working on it. Law & Order, CSI, and all those other procedural knock-offs just feel so sanitary and old fashioned by comparison. The brilliance of the show was how the writers made the audience empathize with someone like Vic Mackey. Yeah, he wasn't a nice guy, but in the world of The Shield "nice" is a very relative term. For me the high point of the series was the Armenian money train and its aftermath. Each week the strike team just kept digging themselves in deeper and deeper, but somehow they steered clear of all investigations. Anyway, I'll miss the strike team and all the characters from the barn. If you didn't watch the show or only watched a few episodes, I highly recommend you check out the whole series on DVD. You'll be hooked after the first episode.
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