How can police drama be so entertaining it's just crazy how fun it is to watch this. Pacing is great acting is amazing plotlines are great. So fricking underrated compared to Breaking Bad or The Wire. It easily stands next to them, maybe even above them
whats funny...is that I watched The Sons of Anarchy and I was like hmmm this shit looks familiar and horrible . Then I googled it and i saw that the same israelite made The Shield and The sons of Anarchy
I'm too drunk to elaborate but everyone was acting out of character and contriving stuff was too obvious. It's how these people work. They think of the drama then create a plot that has it , regardless of the previously established characters or facts
Who acted out of character? I think it's the booze talking, pal.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Everyone. Same shit as better call saul and breaking bad >what if we create this incredibly contrived circumstance to get the worst out of people
Well no shit.
How can police drama be so entertaining it's just crazy how fun it is to watch this. Pacing is great acting is amazing plotlines are great. So fricking underrated compared to Breaking Bad or The Wire. It easily stands next to them, maybe even above them
watch homicide the life on the street
8 months ago
Anonymous
Just give me one example.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Everything involving Armenians and the last episode
Although I admit I watched a show a long time ago and I'm drunk now so I don't mind you considering this like concession
8 months ago
Anonymous
Nta, but I don't think vic would ever kill another cop aside from the pilot, which establishes him as a character that he doesn't really behave like later on
8 months ago
Anonymous
yeah that was always a sticking point for me, too
I love the show and it's a great ending for a pilot but if it had been Shane's split-second idea and Vic covered for him and we find out he wanted to solve the problem some other way, it would be more in-line with their respective characters
>Seeing Aceveda sucking a wiener gave me PTSD
Samesies... the idea of a prominent male protagonist being sexually assaulted, even threatened with it, was unthinkable for me
Bullshit. Third season is widely considered the weakest Shield season due to the vast amount of filler, cat murdering sequence, Shane becoming more and more unlikable, Mara, and the number of god-awful short term plotlines that went nowhere and how they rushed the conclusion to the Armenian money train arc.
If not for the rape storyline and the last two episodes, it would be easily skippable.
I think there was an episode where an old black lady got robbed and she didn't want to admit she got raped and her son was with her for support and freaked out when Dutch kept pushing the rape idea, but that might've been a different show
>3 or 4
does amazon really not specify?
was it the grannies doing porn one? even though the cuddler rapist is more disturbing i figure they found the porn one more obscene/ridiculous
Watching The Shield truly baffled me. I can't think of any show where each season gets progressively better than the previous but jesus christ, season 7 is some of the best television I've ever seen. Absolute despairkino.
it's not flawless, but it's so consistent to itself, the throughlines of the Strike Team - Dutch + Claudette - Aceveda are so good and their interactions are a gold mine for compelling conflict and conveying themes, Mara and Corinne are believably annoying in precisely the way real women are, Vic is endlessly interesting to watch and supremely multi-dimensional, the show has one of the best conclusions ever...
Honestly, the two worst things about the show are the opening theme and the ending theme.
Trust me it picks up.
When i first started watching it seemed so low quality, acting, the way it was shot, everything. After couple of episodes it gets better and third season was when i was hooked like a maniac. Pace is amazing and even small side stories and cases are fun to watch.
If the pilot doesn't grab you then you are fricked. The Shield's pilot is one of the most iconic first episodes of the last 20 years and if it doesn't grab you by the neck, then you should go crawling back to the Wire and it's glacial pacing, boring characters, and Simon filibustering about how unfair he didn't get treated like a prized pig at the county fair by his former employers when he first published his first book....
Yeah they really ease it on the over the top 2000s stuff early on. They were going overboard with the camera work and the like in the pilot to sell it. It's really worth it to stick with it.
how does this show have no bad episode and no bad subplots? the only thing you can say that something is bad are the action scenes. which is better than anything christopher nolan directed.
Oh, there are some, though rare. S1E7 is definitely one of the weakest: Rita the psychic, the grocery store murders that get wrapped up super easily, another part of the Julian's-gay arc. First half of S5 has a handful of throwaway subplots, S3 has a couple, etc.
>how does this show have no bad episode and no bad subplots?
Co-Pilot is a terrible episode that gets a lot of shit already established wrong. I don't know how the writers could screw up that badly.
>no bad episode
Co-Pilot is absolute slop where the writers manage to get all details about their own show wrong >and no bad subplots
Obligatory early 2000s gay subplot
I love the show, but I have to space out my rewatching to every couple of years because it becomes super depressing as you go through it in terms of hindsight when you realize that the Strike Team will end up collapsing in horrific fashion complete with body count.
Last time I rewatched the show was during Covid and had to take a break after season four due to how bad shit gets in Season 5-7.
If you've ever had a close circle of male friends which collapsed once pussy, money, and jealousy and other bs gets out of control, The Shield hits super fricking hard.
Gonna leave the thread after posting this to avoid more spoilers, but I’m at the ep when the strike team wins against decoy team in the streak challenge and Tavon and Shane have their brawl. Pure kino. Still anticipating the major spoiler I know, Aceveda’s wienersucking moment
I didn’t read this post but I wanted to ask is this a good show worth watching or some shitty network TV crap like 24 or something? Is it a real show with a plot or a “druggie of the week” type slop?
real show with a plot, though there are subplots with little to no impact on overall arcs. Even most of those are pretty good, though, since the show really knows how to develop its characters.
Would anyone care if they brought back The Shield "Will and Grace" style where they say "frick it", and declare seasons 4-7 non-canon?
Retcon those seasons as a novel that Acaveda wrote to deal with the trauma of being raped and him having Vic and the Strike Team suffer unspeakable horror as they implode due to their sins catching up with them.
The revival has the new head of the Barn/Farmington District revive the Strike Team and Vic/Shane/Lem are forced to work together again with Tina retconned in as the new boss of the Strike Team and hyper competent.
Mara and Shane are divorced and Shane's a single father since Mara abandoned their kid with him to run off with another man. Lem's grown a spine and explicitly demanding to the Strike Team be 100% non-corrupt and Vic's dealing with getting older and having been off the force for a couple of years raising his autistic kids due to Corrine offering him an ultimatum for reconciliation: Vic has to give up being a cop.
Ronnie's still around but he's now gay (giving them a token gay character who isn't a self-hating closet case) and working with Danny, having pulled a Southland and requested being demoted back to patrol officer status after the Strike Team imploded due to him realizing that he was in love with Vic all this time and basically couldn't handle him getting back with his wife after confessing his love for him and having Vic go literally mute for a couple of days because he doesn't know how to let Ronnie down without coming off as homophobic.
Finally, bring Forest Whitaker back as Kavanuagh, who now runs the Barn/Farmington District and still has the same rivalry with Vic he had in season five due to Vic having fricked his wife before reconciling with Corrine.
As for Dutch/Claudette; still partnered together though Claudette is nearing her retirement and Dutch has gained some fame after busting several major serial killers.
I finally started watching after all the threads here. Wrapping up season 3 tonight and yeah, it's kino. Unbelievable how they made every episode so engaging. The formula of having a self contained plot in each one alongside the developing season and character plots works so well, and they write satisfying endings as well.
I can't go back to shows that end every episode on pointless cliffhangers after this, or probably many other dramas.
There was this episode of Vic arresting someone in a church. But he looked a stereotypical nazi skin head and someone took a picture of the moment which blew up with racism allegations and shit. But i can't find that episode. Anyone which episode that was?
Why did they suddenly drop the Julian being secretly gay plotline in the middle of the series? Also him and his wife trying to have a baby went nowhere and we never find out if he did get his own kid or not.
it becomes less prominent but it's at minimum subtextually there for the rest of the series—The Shield is consummately good at dramatic irony and having a piece of dialogue refer to multiple things
In fact, in the second-to-last scene of
S04E06
, Julian is talking to Aceveda and the exchange goes >ACEVEDA: I remember the last time you and I went down this path. Things got messy, and you left me twisting in the wind. >JULIAN: Not this time. >ACEVEDA: Vic Mackey -- he's got a lot invested in this policy; he'll come after you...could dredge up the past. >JULIAN: I can handle it. I'm a different man now.
Some minor things >Claudette's kids never made an appearance again after that episode where her ex-husband was killed. >Vic seemingly forgot about his baby with Danny in the end of the last season. >Lem's latina girlfriend.
One that confused me is Dutch's first girlfriend in the show. The one whose husband had died. The episode ends with her looking at Dutch's gun like she's about to kill herself because she's depressed. Then she's never mentioned again and Dutch is looking for new partners like a hungry wolf.
Probably one of the most tense shows I've ever seen. Every episode the strike team just dig their graves deeper. Always barely just staying ahead. Ending actually delivers too.
Shane's the best character.
My favourite moment in the show is when everyone is carrying furniture up a flight of stairs led by the black woman in charge and Dutch does this hilarious pantomime of losing his grip "Uhh wuu hoooo ohhh aaargh" and the camera zooms into the black woman's face while she exclaims "Jesus!". S tier slapstick humor
wait until you get to the 5th season. it flows like sweet butter
How can police drama be so entertaining it's just crazy how fun it is to watch this. Pacing is great acting is amazing plotlines are great. So fricking underrated compared to Breaking Bad or The Wire. It easily stands next to them, maybe even above them
The Shield is way better than the other two series you mentioned.
yea but the last one is so bad that It ruined the entire show.
>dude what if contrivances
It only gets better. Now get the frick out of the thread before someone ruins it for you.
I'm rewatching it no worries ))
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whats funny...is that I watched The Sons of Anarchy and I was like hmmm this shit looks familiar and horrible . Then I googled it and i saw that the same israelite made The Shield and The sons of Anarchy
Seeing Aceveda sucking a wiener gave me PTSD
Shawn Ryan created The Shield, not Kurt Sutter. The Shield is about a thousand times better. It's a top 5 show.
I agree. Up to the last season.
What did you dislike about it? I think it has the best finale of all time.
I'm too drunk to elaborate but everyone was acting out of character and contriving stuff was too obvious. It's how these people work. They think of the drama then create a plot that has it , regardless of the previously established characters or facts
Who acted out of character? I think it's the booze talking, pal.
Everyone. Same shit as better call saul and breaking bad
>what if we create this incredibly contrived circumstance to get the worst out of people
Well no shit.
watch homicide the life on the street
Just give me one example.
Everything involving Armenians and the last episode
Although I admit I watched a show a long time ago and I'm drunk now so I don't mind you considering this like concession
Nta, but I don't think vic would ever kill another cop aside from the pilot, which establishes him as a character that he doesn't really behave like later on
yeah that was always a sticking point for me, too
I love the show and it's a great ending for a pilot but if it had been Shane's split-second idea and Vic covered for him and we find out he wanted to solve the problem some other way, it would be more in-line with their respective characters
>Seeing Aceveda sucking a wiener gave me PTSD
Samesies... the idea of a prominent male protagonist being sexually assaulted, even threatened with it, was unthinkable for me
GOAT show.
They made OP ... based?
xDD
She reminds me of every 30-something latina I have worked with in healthcare. Really self-righteous and uptight but are demons in bed.
>haha guys see i have so much sex with the women at work dd demons in bed xdd
Bullshit. Third season is widely considered the weakest Shield season due to the vast amount of filler, cat murdering sequence, Shane becoming more and more unlikable, Mara, and the number of god-awful short term plotlines that went nowhere and how they rushed the conclusion to the Armenian money train arc.
If not for the rape storyline and the last two episodes, it would be easily skippable.
Byz Lat bros... Spook Street is laughing at us again
Season 3 best moment
we get it
you desperately want to suck dick like the homosexual you are
it's the only reason you keep posting about it
Kavanaugh season is the best one
Episode 3 or 4 is blocked on amazon, something about grandmas getting gang rape, what happened? Episode with Avocada getting mouth raped was there tho
I think there was an episode where an old black lady got robbed and she didn't want to admit she got raped and her son was with her for support and freaked out when Dutch kept pushing the rape idea, but that might've been a different show
>he still pays for streaming
Look at this fricking guy. I pirate it and get HD quality for free, no blocked seasons either because muh feefees.
>3 or 4
does amazon really not specify?
was it the grannies doing porn one? even though the cuddler rapist is more disturbing i figure they found the porn one more obscene/ridiculous
That's what you get for being a steamcuck.
Watching The Shield truly baffled me. I can't think of any show where each season gets progressively better than the previous but jesus christ, season 7 is some of the best television I've ever seen. Absolute despairkino.
Agreed. Its just so good man
Probably yes. Especially Lel wire. Breaking Bad has its moments, and its shot beautifully (worse than BCS tho)
Vic's wife had a nice ass. Do you think it was a body double?
Nah. She's Shawn Ryan's wife, probably just went with it.
WHEN YOU TURN OFF THE LIGHTS
AND WALK OUT THE DOOR
I SAY TO MYSELF "WHAT DID I COME HERE FOR?"
Frick you for making me sad
vic's confession remains one of the best tv scenes ever
Notice how people on Cinemaphile rarely if ever shit on this show?
Shows how good this shit really is. It's just impossible to hate
it's not flawless, but it's so consistent to itself, the throughlines of the Strike Team - Dutch + Claudette - Aceveda are so good and their interactions are a gold mine for compelling conflict and conveying themes, Mara and Corinne are believably annoying in precisely the way real women are, Vic is endlessly interesting to watch and supremely multi-dimensional, the show has one of the best conclusions ever...
Honestly, the two worst things about the show are the opening theme and the ending theme.
>Honestly, the two worst things about the show are the opening theme
it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't twice as loud as any other sound on the show
Scenes where it's okay for men to cry
>needing permission
nah man. just listen to your heart
Can't finish the pilot because the energy is laughably excessive and Chiklis' character is ridiculously over the top. Does it tone down a little?
Trust me it picks up.
When i first started watching it seemed so low quality, acting, the way it was shot, everything. After couple of episodes it gets better and third season was when i was hooked like a maniac. Pace is amazing and even small side stories and cases are fun to watch.
Frick it might as well. The hype seems real.
I mean it's just a badass show. nothing comes close in terms of grittiness, chaos, and pure entertainment.
Don't overthink anything, just enjoy
He owns it well. Watch more he isn't just an butthole, he has some principles
Watch the pilot all the way till the end. Trust me.
If the pilot doesn't grab you then you are fricked. The Shield's pilot is one of the most iconic first episodes of the last 20 years and if it doesn't grab you by the neck, then you should go crawling back to the Wire and it's glacial pacing, boring characters, and Simon filibustering about how unfair he didn't get treated like a prized pig at the county fair by his former employers when he first published his first book....
kek you got me there, but I'll give it another shot
will do, third time's the charm
Yeah they really ease it on the over the top 2000s stuff early on. They were going overboard with the camera work and the like in the pilot to sell it. It's really worth it to stick with it.
name a show where the pilot is perfect
how does this show have no bad episode and no bad subplots? the only thing you can say that something is bad are the action scenes. which is better than anything christopher nolan directed.
A lot of people hate "Co-Pilot."
Oh, there are some, though rare. S1E7 is definitely one of the weakest: Rita the psychic, the grocery store murders that get wrapped up super easily, another part of the Julian's-gay arc. First half of S5 has a handful of throwaway subplots, S3 has a couple, etc.
>how does this show have no bad episode and no bad subplots?
Co-Pilot is a terrible episode that gets a lot of shit already established wrong. I don't know how the writers could screw up that badly.
>no bad episode
Co-Pilot is absolute slop where the writers manage to get all details about their own show wrong
>and no bad subplots
Obligatory early 2000s gay subplot
Co-Pilot is ass.
SPOOK STREET.
Kino
I'm seeing a thread about this show every day. Not complaining though, it's great
This show deserves a yearly rewatch honestly. I can't think of a show I've watched over 4 times.
I love the show, but I have to space out my rewatching to every couple of years because it becomes super depressing as you go through it in terms of hindsight when you realize that the Strike Team will end up collapsing in horrific fashion complete with body count.
Last time I rewatched the show was during Covid and had to take a break after season four due to how bad shit gets in Season 5-7.
If you've ever had a close circle of male friends which collapsed once pussy, money, and jealousy and other bs gets out of control, The Shield hits super fricking hard.
Could Vic Mackey beat Hank from Breaking Bad in a fist fight?
Anyone else had the video game?
There are so many annoying fricking youtubers who made a video about this and make the most unfunny commentary I've ever heard in a long time
Gonna leave the thread after posting this to avoid more spoilers, but I’m at the ep when the strike team wins against decoy team in the streak challenge and Tavon and Shane have their brawl. Pure kino. Still anticipating the major spoiler I know, Aceveda’s wienersucking moment
I didn’t read this post but I wanted to ask is this a good show worth watching or some shitty network TV crap like 24 or something? Is it a real show with a plot or a “druggie of the week” type slop?
real show with a plot, though there are subplots with little to no impact on overall arcs. Even most of those are pretty good, though, since the show really knows how to develop its characters.
watch it and find out for yourself you tard
Why are all the women in this show so naggy?
>why do the women all act like women
>why does the woman with a bad husband nag?
>When Mara actually turns out to be best wife
She was a count and deserved her fate.
Like Dracula?
You could stake your life on it
Would anyone care if they brought back The Shield "Will and Grace" style where they say "frick it", and declare seasons 4-7 non-canon?
Retcon those seasons as a novel that Acaveda wrote to deal with the trauma of being raped and him having Vic and the Strike Team suffer unspeakable horror as they implode due to their sins catching up with them.
The revival has the new head of the Barn/Farmington District revive the Strike Team and Vic/Shane/Lem are forced to work together again with Tina retconned in as the new boss of the Strike Team and hyper competent.
Mara and Shane are divorced and Shane's a single father since Mara abandoned their kid with him to run off with another man. Lem's grown a spine and explicitly demanding to the Strike Team be 100% non-corrupt and Vic's dealing with getting older and having been off the force for a couple of years raising his autistic kids due to Corrine offering him an ultimatum for reconciliation: Vic has to give up being a cop.
Ronnie's still around but he's now gay (giving them a token gay character who isn't a self-hating closet case) and working with Danny, having pulled a Southland and requested being demoted back to patrol officer status after the Strike Team imploded due to him realizing that he was in love with Vic all this time and basically couldn't handle him getting back with his wife after confessing his love for him and having Vic go literally mute for a couple of days because he doesn't know how to let Ronnie down without coming off as homophobic.
Finally, bring Forest Whitaker back as Kavanuagh, who now runs the Barn/Farmington District and still has the same rivalry with Vic he had in season five due to Vic having fricked his wife before reconciling with Corrine.
As for Dutch/Claudette; still partnered together though Claudette is nearing her retirement and Dutch has gained some fame after busting several major serial killers.
These are all terrible ideas. You should be ashamed of yourself.
JUST ANOTHER SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
It's depressing that this should couldn't be made today.
I finally started watching after all the threads here. Wrapping up season 3 tonight and yeah, it's kino. Unbelievable how they made every episode so engaging. The formula of having a self contained plot in each one alongside the developing season and character plots works so well, and they write satisfying endings as well.
I can't go back to shows that end every episode on pointless cliffhangers after this, or probably many other dramas.
There was this episode of Vic arresting someone in a church. But he looked a stereotypical nazi skin head and someone took a picture of the moment which blew up with racism allegations and shit. But i can't find that episode. Anyone which episode that was?
S04E06
Vic Mackey did nothing wrong
Why did they suddenly drop the Julian being secretly gay plotline in the middle of the series? Also him and his wife trying to have a baby went nowhere and we never find out if he did get his own kid or not.
I think they probably decided that nobody liked it or cared
it becomes less prominent but it's at minimum subtextually there for the rest of the series—The Shield is consummately good at dramatic irony and having a piece of dialogue refer to multiple things
In fact, in the second-to-last scene of
, Julian is talking to Aceveda and the exchange goes
>ACEVEDA: I remember the last time you and I went down this path. Things got messy, and you left me twisting in the wind.
>JULIAN: Not this time.
>ACEVEDA: Vic Mackey -- he's got a lot invested in this policy; he'll come after you...could dredge up the past.
>JULIAN: I can handle it. I'm a different man now.
what other subplots did they drop aside from Dutch being a secret serial killer and Julian being a closet gay?
Some minor things
>Claudette's kids never made an appearance again after that episode where her ex-husband was killed.
>Vic seemingly forgot about his baby with Danny in the end of the last season.
>Lem's latina girlfriend.
One that confused me is Dutch's first girlfriend in the show. The one whose husband had died. The episode ends with her looking at Dutch's gun like she's about to kill herself because she's depressed. Then she's never mentioned again and Dutch is looking for new partners like a hungry wolf.
They mention in one of the later seasons that she moved out. I think that was the only time they bring it up again.
Probably one of the most tense shows I've ever seen. Every episode the strike team just dig their graves deeper. Always barely just staying ahead. Ending actually delivers too.
Shane's the best character.
Name a more kino beatdown.
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The music really adds to the kino
My favourite moment in the show is when everyone is carrying furniture up a flight of stairs led by the black woman in charge and Dutch does this hilarious pantomime of losing his grip "Uhh wuu hoooo ohhh aaargh" and the camera zooms into the black woman's face while she exclaims "Jesus!". S tier slapstick humor
>recently discovered this kino show
>threads always die as no one has seen it
Shame