Cringe. I'm sorry it shows your precious little Black folk for what they really are. Unlike The Wire that pretends they are all little shakespearean walking greek tragedies
Honestly I think it comes down to personal preference. I just found The Shield to be way more engaging and entertaining. And I found The Wire to be a better overall show but it doesn't hit the same raw emotional intensity that The Shield does. I think it's mainly to do with the fact that The Shield is a much more personalized story compared The Wire. The Wire's greatest strength is the same thing that keeps it in second place for me and that's the abundance of great characters. I just honestly like the smaller scale focus of The Shield. It just hits so much harder
The Shield was incredibly well written and had no asspulls or marvel tier bullshit like House did when the chips were down. It was drama where you FELT it. When Lem is fighting with the hispanics over control of the shotgun, you are afraid for him because he could truly die.
It's alright if you like the genre. A bit inconsistent though. It bothered me that some storylines and characters got abandoned for no apparent reason. The theme music is great, really gets you in the mood for cop kino
He would bust Avon's crew with in a few months. That is, if the brass doesn't decide to tie him to a desk. Which would most likely be the case because of Vic's
career record
it feels to me like it didn't know what it wanted to be
haff is generic police procedural show with dutch and co that you would have found on nbc or whatever and the other half is gritty corrupt cops digging themselves into a deeper hole that you now expect on cable dramas like breaking bad
each half is taken to the extreme almost as if to compensate for the other when all it does it make the show disconnected and two-paced
the point is that Dutch represents procedural shows and Vik represents the rise of drama shows and the whole show is a meditation on the changing of the times. The changing of the television times.
except there is a different audience for them
boomers watch the former and younger audiences watch the latter
whichever one you happen to be have to suffer through the other
the point is that Dutch represents procedural shows and Vik represents the rise of drama shows and the whole show is a meditation on the changing of the times. The changing of the television times.
it feels to me like it didn't know what it wanted to be
haff is generic police procedural show with dutch and co that you would have found on nbc or whatever and the other half is gritty corrupt cops digging themselves into a deeper hole that you now expect on cable dramas like breaking bad
each half is taken to the extreme almost as if to compensate for the other when all it does it make the show disconnected and two-paced
The series lays out it's thesis in the first episode, with Vic saying "Good cop and bad cop went home....I'm a different kind of cop." It aims to show you that policing has a wide spectrum of ways to be effective and also ineffective, and that you can make hard impacts by playing slightly dirty, fast and loose, or you can make good impacts by putting in the hours and doing it right. It also shows the problems with both of those approaches - not being able to touch a suspect because you have no evidence or the victim refuses to cooperate, and then swinging WILDLY the other way to punish them, only for it to come back and bite you in the ass.
>"Good cop and bad cop went home....I'm a different kind of cop."
yeah, and that's the reason i watched the show
i didn't need them to rehash the hundreds of other police procedurals for juxtaposition though as i'm sure everybody had seen at least some of that over the decades
it would've been a better show if the strike team was the dominant story rather than a 50/50 partner, and from memory, i think that's what happened after the first few seasons, and which are the ones people remember the most fondly
The Wire is left-wing libtard homosexual cop show. The Shield is right-wing chud incel cop show
>sees everything through a political lens
Go outside. Get off the internet. It’s not attractive
t. Woman
YWBAW
>>sees one of most political shows of all time through a political lens
stop baiting incels
This is what this entire website is like right now.
Tell me, what is a liberal? I'll wait.
Underage tourists, go back.
Back to where moron
lol the way this is making leftist homosexuals seethe well played
Are you a centrist or are you intentionally being self-deprecating describing yourself with infantile leftypol insults?
no thats wrong
Too Old To Die Young is a good cop show
>The Shield
>good
L M A O. I tried watching it right after the wire and it looks like a joke in comparison
The joke is the wire ever being considered masterful storytelling. The Shield is what that show could have only ever dreamed of being.
The shield is the wire except written and directed by Benny hill.
Cringe. I'm sorry it shows your precious little Black folk for what they really are. Unlike The Wire that pretends they are all little shakespearean walking greek tragedies
Honestly I think it comes down to personal preference. I just found The Shield to be way more engaging and entertaining. And I found The Wire to be a better overall show but it doesn't hit the same raw emotional intensity that The Shield does. I think it's mainly to do with the fact that The Shield is a much more personalized story compared The Wire. The Wire's greatest strength is the same thing that keeps it in second place for me and that's the abundance of great characters. I just honestly like the smaller scale focus of The Shield. It just hits so much harder
The Shield was incredibly well written and had no asspulls or marvel tier bullshit like House did when the chips were down. It was drama where you FELT it. When Lem is fighting with the hispanics over control of the shotgun, you are afraid for him because he could truly die.
Im surprised people don't talk about that scene much. Genuinely intense and well executed
It's amazing how few people have seen this shield since it was on FX.
Yeah, it was pretty fricked up that production put buckshot into the shotgun instead of blanks though
Is Southland any good?
It's alright if you like the genre. A bit inconsistent though. It bothered me that some storylines and characters got abandoned for no apparent reason. The theme music is great, really gets you in the mood for cop kino
There’s only one good show there though
Which one?
oh come on now
>doesnt post name of the show
I have no idea what this is
It's TJ Hooker. William Shatner.
Does Justified count as a cop show?
How does this compare to the shield? I'm looking for a new show to watch. If justified isn't any good then I'm just going to watch 24 instead
Ive never made it through the shield keep getting bored, love Justified. Definitely different but both with strong lead characters
Justified is an entertaining show, but it's more of a modern Western than a cop show as such. Try Line of Duty.
To be perfectly honest, I'm a NYPD Blue guy.
Based. Who was Andy's best partner?
Simone > Clark > Kelly > Sorenson
Justified (Primeval)
Southland
Bosch
The Responder
True Detective
Live PD
Cops
>Southland
Was going to post this. Absolute kino
How does it compare to The Shield?
The Shield is my favorite cop show, southland a close second. I'd say southland is a more serious, less cartoony ensamble approach.
>true detective being good
>le slow burn take 10 hours to tell a story that could have been a movie
>no mention of Homicide: Life on the Street
This board is over.
>Vic at the end of Season 2 gets "promoted" and sent to Baltimore to help the Wire squad at the start of Season 3
what happens?
He would bust Avon's crew with in a few months. That is, if the brass doesn't decide to tie him to a desk. Which would most likely be the case because of Vic's
career record
weird fanfic
but vic would probably have killed marlo before he went big time
just watch we own this city
the main guy in that was basically larping as vic
>gets into shootouts multiple times per week
>has only killed one guy
step it up lads
why did lester go out of his way to click "pertinent" on the evidence in his illegal wiretap that nobody was supposed to see in season 5?
homicide was better
First 14 seasons of L&O Vanilla were good. First 4 seasons of L&O SVU were good.
Homicide Life on the Streets was ok
NYPD Blue was alright
twin peaks MOGS
The Shield feels so amateurish. The writing is so transparent and the characters are pretty one dimensional.
Please, elaborate.
it feels to me like it didn't know what it wanted to be
haff is generic police procedural show with dutch and co that you would have found on nbc or whatever and the other half is gritty corrupt cops digging themselves into a deeper hole that you now expect on cable dramas like breaking bad
each half is taken to the extreme almost as if to compensate for the other when all it does it make the show disconnected and two-paced
the point is that Dutch represents procedural shows and Vik represents the rise of drama shows and the whole show is a meditation on the changing of the times. The changing of the television times.
except there is a different audience for them
boomers watch the former and younger audiences watch the latter
whichever one you happen to be have to suffer through the other
But what if you're like me and enjoys both?
then the shield is perfect for you
The series lays out it's thesis in the first episode, with Vic saying "Good cop and bad cop went home....I'm a different kind of cop." It aims to show you that policing has a wide spectrum of ways to be effective and also ineffective, and that you can make hard impacts by playing slightly dirty, fast and loose, or you can make good impacts by putting in the hours and doing it right. It also shows the problems with both of those approaches - not being able to touch a suspect because you have no evidence or the victim refuses to cooperate, and then swinging WILDLY the other way to punish them, only for it to come back and bite you in the ass.
>"Good cop and bad cop went home....I'm a different kind of cop."
yeah, and that's the reason i watched the show
i didn't need them to rehash the hundreds of other police procedurals for juxtaposition though as i'm sure everybody had seen at least some of that over the decades
it would've been a better show if the strike team was the dominant story rather than a 50/50 partner, and from memory, i think that's what happened after the first few seasons, and which are the ones people remember the most fondly
Bosch is cool
billings is based
the wire is the only other show i've seen where it shows that some cops are lazy and just looking for a pay check
Adam 12 is kino