they were going to have to let a prime suspect go because they didnt have enough to keep him there, so shane went in to bait him into an assault charge
Never liked it. stopped watching after the 3rd season when the stupidity of some of the characters added with the seemingly destined luck of that bald frick (the only good character in the series, I admit) just made the holly show deeply offensive. I did skip-watched the last season just to see what would become of the fat bald homosexual and alas, It wasn't good enough for me. But I admit I generally don't have such strong impressions of genuine repulsion so I congratulate the actor because he's good.
I can't handle watching the finale episode. I always skip it on every rewatch. I think I've only seen it twice and I've rewatched the series like 8 times
More like he's going to hunt down the last thing he has left, which is his family, using whatever resources ICE has, but he's going to find out the hard way that they don't want him and he's going to disappear and become a truck driver. Becoming just like the very thing he never wanted to become, Gilroy. No family, No friends. Dying alone with nothing in a strange unfamiliar place.
The final few episodes are probably some of the most depressing stuff I've ever seen. You can feel the absolute desperation while the team try so hard to escape their invetable fates
I still think Vic should have ended up in the same prison as the fat guy from Harold & Kumars burger drive thru.
The final few episodes are probably some of the most depressing stuff I've ever seen. You can feel the absolute desperation while the team try so hard to escape their invetable fates
on the other hand The Shield is one of the few shows I can say thoroughly stuck the landing on the finale. I really couldn't have written a better one myself. Some Dante's Inferno shit there.
>I really couldn't have written a better one myself.
this implies you're some sort of good writer who could typically write a series finally the best. fricking idiot LMAO. i piss you on homosexual
Vic gets off free but is shamed. He is give a good job and has all his money but can't be cop. Decides to be cop again. He won't get in trouble for being cop though we know .
He gets his money, to be cop man and free but has nobody
He has noooo body
Heeeesss soooo saddd and lonely
You don't understand. For Vic it's all about having control and power and respect. Now he has none of that. Sure you could argue he got off lite compared to everyone else because that's what he is, a scorpion. So of course he's going to get away semi scott free. But losing that control and being put in a suit 2 times too small for him for the next three years is still a personal hell for him.
This honestly is how I see Vic's fate. In the end he didn't end up anywhere near as bad as Gilroy did (because Vic wasn't anywhere near as corrupt and Vic also balanced out a lot of his bad by doing a lot of good) but he still lost everything important to him. It's the perfect ending.
I love the strike team búscame on, anon, they were hardened criminals and there was no way they'd end up anywhere else. Vic got more than he deserved.
Lem was the only one who had a soul. He even saved Forest Whitaker when he was out to nail them. He was too beautiful for this world.
I’ve become him. I can’t care about my job and I do the bare minimum. I literally take naps at work. Guess what, nobody cares. There are no consequences.
I think half of all “work” is just made up. We get paid to pretend to be busy and for some reason that works probably because the bosses do even less. What a joke.
>pew pew pew frick frick frick >shiiiiiiet frick yeah yeah! >hahaaa I'm bad cop >noooooo you must be good cop
this is considered good tv by Cinemaphile
More like >We killed a cawp >*Cheap stock gun sound effect* >You ever suck a dick like a cell b***h? >SHANE! >I didn't eat your twinkies, Dutch boy >HE'S PISSING ON US!
"It was the only argument, if you're going to call it that," says Chiklis, the man behind Vic Mackey. "I was adamantly against it. Mamet and I got into it. I was like, 'You can't have Dutch choke a f---ing cat!' It was crazy to me. And Mamet was just, 'The cat dies.' [Laughs] We called in Shawn and I was outvoted. It's powerful, there's no doubt. It shapes his character moving forward. They don't really address it per se, not that you would. What would he do? It's not like he's going to confess."
THIS GUY, THIS GUY IS JUST PISSIN', HE'S PISSIN' ALL OVER US! AND WE JUST SMILE AND LICK IT UP?VIC MACKEY PISSES COPS, HE DEALS PISS, HE BEATS THE PISS OUT OF SUSPECTS! YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID YESTERPISS? HE... HE PISSED MY EX-WIFE WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MAKING THIS WHOLE INPISSTIGATION SEEM LIKE A PERSONAL PISS. HE MAY HAVE PISSPISSINATED A GANG LEADER AND THAT'S ALL IN ONE PISS. I WONDER WHAT HE'S GONNA PISS TODAY. I WONDER WHAT HE'S GONNA PISS TOMORROW. THIS GUY! THIS GUYS JUST PISSIN. HE'S PISSIN ALL OVER US. HE'S PISSIN ON YOU. WHAT DOES IT PISS LIKE? BECAUSE YOU PISS LIKE IT PISS TO PISS? PISS
hes realistic. hes not an incompetent clown, but hes not sherlock holmes either. real people are insecure and have self doubt and are motivated by pride rather than "doing whats right"
He was made to look like a bumbling whitey cuck, though. It's basically his position since the first episode. I laughed that he was partnered with the tough black experienced Black person lesbo who sometimes thunk his head with some hard fact about the essential racism of all american endeavours from the independece to these israeli days of now.
kinda blows my mind that all Lem had to do was properly turn in those drugs he picked up (its not like they really needed them) and a lot of the following shit couldve been avoided, Shane getting dirty again with the armenians was too much of a stretch for me too
when is the spookstreet scene that gets posted all the time, with the dude dancing right before he gets put in the car. Im up to S7 and I swear I missed it along with Vic offering his daughter up to a pedophile
The Shield was a masterpiece of building on events like that
in S3E8 when Trish mentions that she had to do coke to keep her cover and should get checked out for STDs and take the morning after pill, you can see Aceveda's mixture of discomfort, sympathy, and shame because of how well Trish can handle it psychologically compared to him
The Shield is uniquely brilliant at creating these moments of understated context
I'm rewatching this for the 2nd time after forgetting most of the details. I forgot how much of a bummer Teo's death was, and how cathartic it was when Vic went apeshit on Armadillo afterwards
>But you know with all that money, all that power, at the end of the day, you're still just a beggar! With a funny beggar son! And where's the respect in that?
I hate syndication censorship bros
Nothing deeper than "police can be worse than street criminals". It was supposed to be an adaptation of the real life Rampart team in LA that was corrupt as frick.
"Corruption" in the way it is portrayed in the show is different than what people refer to corruption or "corrupt" cops in everyday life.
Mackey and the strike team's "corruption" consisted in containing violent crime by making deals with criminal gangs in order to keep civility and order on the street.
It also included circuimventing the law and the red tape when they decided that the law was not sufficient in order to bring law & order to the balkanized streets of LA. Of course they took over a larger share of money in the process, nobody is making them out to be saints, but the strike team always cared about justice being done on the streets before they reaped any kind of reward for what they considered righteous work, which is fundamentally different than corrupt cops stealing drugs, taking bribes and sowing injustice because of greed, laziness or incompetence.
Yes but when they allow that element into their lives it effects everyone around them in a negative way. So much of the shit that happened in this show could've been avoided if they didn't cut corners and bend the rules or take extra money for themselves.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Sure and this is why the show is tragic. My point is the simple "hurr durr corruption bad and if you have power you'll want to do a corruption and then your le bad guy" reddit take is garbage and needs to die. This show is complex enough that it requires a deeper understanding and investigation.
There's far more ambiguity in this show than people like this can comprehend, which is ironic because it is precisely what makes it a good show. If the intent was what the prevalent interpretation here is, the show would have been bland and sterile garbage with nothing insightful to say.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Tbh I think those anons were just shit posting but you're correct this show is much more complicated than a simple "corruption is bad" line
The funniest scene in the show is where Dutch and the others are carrying a sofa or something up the stairs and Dutch slips with a really funny OWWHOOUHOO type of sound and the camera zooms into Claudette's face
Vic would've caught Marlo within a week or two. Instead of McNulty's pussy footing way to get more funding, Vic would just plant drugs on him and call it a day. Who needs funding when you can just do the Vic Mackey way of justice
Which time? Sometimes that stuff adds growth and we wouldn't be rootin for him as much if he was Mary Sue Chad but I do agree the cuck ambush thing that mastermind Billings planned was too far
Because one of the mexicans girlfriends was a CI who gave Vic information but she saw Lem stashing it so she went to internal affairs over it to get some extra cash despite how much Vic helped her out (because he has a soft spot for kids and single mothers). But at least she got absolutely BTFO by Shane
That sounds correct too! Thanks. I think both are correct answers. Rawlings initiated the IA investigation, but it was that prostitute CI that gave them leverage.
I like how Vic thought that Rawlings was warning him about it but not as a friendly heads up but more of "you need to change your ways before it's too late"
She turned a blind eye to a lot of his shit because she thought he was effective at what he does and that his reputation was probably exaggerated by Aceveda having a grudge, but by the end she started to see that maybe she made a mistake and that Vic really was as bad as the rumors made him out to be. The cryptic warning perfectly captures the dilemma for her, she wanted to believe still that he's a good boi because she signed off on his antics but her moral compass dictated that she keep the investigators on him even if it could end up proving her wrong about her judgement of his character.
This
She definitely used Vic and even manipulated him on several cases. She figured if she's stuck with him she might as well use him to get some good done. What she didn't expect was the corruption he would bring along with him and what price condoning his tactics would bring. You see that she cared about Vic in the end but in no good conscience could she betray her morals and warn Vic about the impending investigation. Really the whole 4th season is Vic's last chance at redemption and we see at the beginning of the 5th that he doesn't at all change his methods
Besides ego, a lot of Vic's informants were female. Usually desperate downtrodden women who he manipulated with ease. His wife was a pushover too (she took a stick of Juicy Fruit!).
All the women he used or fricked were beholden to him in some way shape or form. It can give a short bald guy a HUGE ego trip.
he doesn't think he has absolute control, but he certainly wants it, and wasn't shy about flatly stating it >You just can't stand anything you can't control. >That's part of my dance.
To a considerable extent, I get it, because Vic is a master at controlling situations and getting shit done personally—it's rare that shit goes sideways when he's directly quarterbacking things, but when people in his orbit act on their own they damn near constantly frick things up
I know how that is from personal experience, although my impulse was much more like >I really, really don't want to run this shit, but I have to because other people will frick it up >Christ this is exhausting
whereas Vic loves it, he was made for it
There's some quality sex imagery on this show. My favorite was when Hoyt was fricking the girl cop and she was sweating and riding him like there's no tomorrow. Then he sees Dutch in the window but doesn't stop fricking this b***h.
My 2nd favorite is when Kristen Bell tells the story of how she was with her gangbanger boyfriend and was approached by the rival gang, who took her with them as he did nothing. Then they ran a train on her and tattooed a "dove" on her face. Hot!
Looked like Mara has a type! Shane makes me feel good about my recent 5-head. You guys remember when Shane was fricking that underage black girl to get gang info? Lol, what a pimp!
And OP thought he was "racist"? What a laugh. I had a black friend once, that means I'm not racist either. Black person stole all the lightbulbs out of our house when he moved out because he "paid for them".
Anybody remember this cutie? She's the stripper than fricked Shane in the interrogation room. And then when they tried to lock her up, she blackmailed Shane into cutting her loose.
Meanwhile, they try to tell you Ronnie is the ladies man. Yet, you never see him with a chick. Weird!
That prank was straight up evil. He was able to outsmart the smartest detective in the whole barn. It really shows that if Billings applied himself more there would be no unsolved crimes. Then again it's not to hard to use one's sin against them. He must've went to the Vic Mackey school of "getting one over on someone"
I get this legitimately sad feeling towards the end of the series (and I'm not talking about the writing) I get a sad vibe because you can tell the cast and crew legitimately loved working with each other and that it must've been very hard to have it come to an end. I think they were really sad about it and you can see it on them in the final season. They definitely channeled that sad energy into their work in the last few episodes which only further helps add to masterful depressing final few episodes. I can't imagine how hard it was for them. They must've really enjoyed working with each other. This show was really lightning in a bottle. Once of a lifetime cast and crew and writers
The writing is top tier. I don't watch bullshit. In fact, I watched both Shield and Breaking Bad as the pilots aired. For so long I had to beg my frens and family to watch that shit. Of course, the world caught up and now it's considered "prestige tv".
I feel the same way about Kingdom.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I always assumed kingdom was more slanteye misery/gore porn like fricking squid game.
Why does Miami Vice and The Shield feel so familiar on a writing level? Did they have some of the same writers? I know they had a lot actors that later went on to be leads on The Shield.
I have a suspicion that a lot of the weird sexual fetishes are because of Kurt Sutter. He did the same thing with SOA. He even played a guy who into feet on The Shield lol there's also a lot of weird cuck shit in it too.
>INB4 he burned the money train
Frick you. It was metaphorical of him wanting to cleanse all of their sins. He didn't want to lose the only family he had left.
Pretend Shane didn't feed Lem a grenade with cheese on rye, hold the mayo.
Was Vic really gonna send Lem to Mexico? If you recall, the last time Vic sent someone to hide down there they got executed. And he was using the same mules to get Lem across the border.
>Vic sent someone to hide down there they got executed
Who? Gilroy? He drank himself to death. Though that is the reason why Lem didn't want to go. He didn't want to die alone and miserable with no family like Gilroy.
nta but Vic would've definitely killed Lem if he needed too, I dont even think he was that mad at Shane really, things only escalated when they thought they were trying to kill eachother. Remember Vic threw Ronnie under the bus too and Ronnie was arguably more loyal than Lem.
But we do see the lengths that Vic is willing to go to avenge him (i.e hunting down his killer despite Kavanaugh's framing job) I think Vic legitimately care a lot for Lem and we see that Lem appealed to Vic's desire to protect the innocent. That's why he cares so about kids and single mothers, it's probably why he became a cop in the first place. It is mentioned that Vic used to be a nice guy, (which is a slight reference to The Commish no doubt) before he started taking immoral methods to make arrests. It also explains why he has such a aggressive hateful attitude towards criminals (because they are no longer innocent) he was even an butthole to that kid who was caught up in the drug dealing life. Lem had a child like innocents to him and it brought out that old desire in Vic. You even see this whenever he mentions Lem after he died (he'll talk about him as if he was a scared little kid on the run, mentioning that he was "scared" all the time). Vic has a soft spot for innocence and that's why he completely turns on Shane and leaves him to his own devices because Shane is no longer that scared little kid anymore. That all being said, Vic would have definitely killed Lem if it meant protecting his family.
>That all being said, Vic would have definitely killed Lem if it meant protecting his family.
for sure, but I think there is a difference between thinking Lem was killed by a Mexican in a drive-by vs Lem being sacrificed for the sake of the crew/his family.
Whats great about the shield is that we can have these multi layered discussions about characters
If you think about it, Vic never got to manipulate or corrupt Lem to the level that he did with Shane and Ronnie (who he got both of them to kill/help kill for him) so there for like
But we do see the lengths that Vic is willing to go to avenge him (i.e hunting down his killer despite Kavanaugh's framing job) I think Vic legitimately care a lot for Lem and we see that Lem appealed to Vic's desire to protect the innocent. That's why he cares so about kids and single mothers, it's probably why he became a cop in the first place. It is mentioned that Vic used to be a nice guy, (which is a slight reference to The Commish no doubt) before he started taking immoral methods to make arrests. It also explains why he has such a aggressive hateful attitude towards criminals (because they are no longer innocent) he was even an butthole to that kid who was caught up in the drug dealing life. Lem had a child like innocents to him and it brought out that old desire in Vic. You even see this whenever he mentions Lem after he died (he'll talk about him as if he was a scared little kid on the run, mentioning that he was "scared" all the time). Vic has a soft spot for innocence and that's why he completely turns on Shane and leaves him to his own devices because Shane is no longer that scared little kid anymore. That all being said, Vic would have definitely killed Lem if it meant protecting his family.
anon said. He never got to completely corrupt his soul yet. That's not to say he would choose Lem over his family though
>didn't even realize people thought otherwise.
People are a bit simple. I talked about this show with some friends IRL and they legitimately thought the strike team didn't do anything wrong at any point
>didn't even realize people thought otherwise.
People are a bit simple. I talked about this show with some friends IRL and they legitimately thought the strike team didn't do anything wrong at any point
Another moron. The Strike Team did the right thing 99% of the time btw.
I'm surprised they were always so broke despite how much they were skimming/drug money. I get Vic needs money to grease the wheels but still weird it feels like he was living paycheck to paycheck. Shane definitely blew it on hookers and blow. Ronnie and Lem were probably just in it for the weird.
>I'm surprised they were always so broke despite how much they were skimming/drug money
Ikr. I guess it's to be realistic and mind you they were only skimming on the side for the first two seasons. After the money train they quit being *as* corrupt
I know people think it's far fetched but I disagree. I think the co pilot episode puts a decent lore bandaid over it. The co pilot episode shows that Vic didn't get strike team leader position through luck or finesse but by begging to get the position. We see that this position has changed him and his ego to the point where he thinks killing another cop and framing it as a drug raid gone wrong will be an easy task. It's Vic hubris thought he could control the domino effect of the chaos and corruption that this single action would spawn. He thought it would be easy but he later on learned that this action would have devastating consequences, including the damage done to him and Shane on a psychological level. The show makes it very clear that planning murder and actually murdering someone is a completely different ballpark. Everytime they kill someone you see how drastic the mental and moral guilt would have on someone. We even see the effects of murder on Ronnie when he kills that armenian hench man that tried to kill Vic's family. Vic basically got caught up in the adrenaline and ego rush of The Strike Team to the point where he thought he could control the chaotic and corruptive effects of killing someone
I'm gonna watch the shield for the first time, so many Cinemaphile homies have praised it that I can't ignore it any longer. What am in for bros? The only thing I've seen is the homosexual Black person scene.
just watch it, don't let us spoil you
give the show your undivided attention, it will reward you
it will be tense and stressful in the best possible way
and it has probably the best ending of any television series ever
they were going to have to let a prime suspect go because they didnt have enough to keep him there, so shane went in to bait him into an assault charge
more like he wanted to bait him into attacking him so shane could shoot him dead in self defense and erase all their problems.
To bring laughter and joy to Cinemaphilebros everywhere
So they can fulfill Goggin's N-word quota in his contract
I actually just finished watching Hateful Eight and thought the exact thing
will he say it in Fallout or will substituting with smoothskin be enough?
What makes The Shield so kino, bros?
it was simply kino
Never liked it. stopped watching after the 3rd season when the stupidity of some of the characters added with the seemingly destined luck of that bald frick (the only good character in the series, I admit) just made the holly show deeply offensive. I did skip-watched the last season just to see what would become of the fat bald homosexual and alas, It wasn't good enough for me. But I admit I generally don't have such strong impressions of genuine repulsion so I congratulate the actor because he's good.
I can't handle watching the finale episode. I always skip it on every rewatch. I think I've only seen it twice and I've rewatched the series like 8 times
Ronnie and Vic escape to Mexico
But that's not what happened
thats why vic grabbed his gun, he was going to hijack the prison transport and escape with ronnie
More like he's going to hunt down the last thing he has left, which is his family, using whatever resources ICE has, but he's going to find out the hard way that they don't want him and he's going to disappear and become a truck driver. Becoming just like the very thing he never wanted to become, Gilroy. No family, No friends. Dying alone with nothing in a strange unfamiliar place.
Vics adventures post shield would make a great show
I still think Vic should have ended up in the same prison as the fat guy from Harold & Kumars burger drive thru.
The final few episodes are probably some of the most depressing stuff I've ever seen. You can feel the absolute desperation while the team try so hard to escape their invetable fates
on the other hand The Shield is one of the few shows I can say thoroughly stuck the landing on the finale. I really couldn't have written a better one myself. Some Dante's Inferno shit there.
Vic being emasculated by a dull life as a desk jockey was perfect. A fate worse than death for a dude like him.
they could've just ended it that way too but the added grabbing the gun scene is what really sells it as the best ending to a series ever
>I really couldn't have written a better one myself.
this implies you're some sort of good writer who could typically write a series finally the best. fricking idiot LMAO. i piss you on homosexual
Same. It fricking hurts, I unironically wish they would’ve done a “what if” and all the Strike Team makes it out at the end.
Or just close your eyes and go with this
Vic gets off free but is shamed. He is give a good job and has all his money but can't be cop. Decides to be cop again. He won't get in trouble for being cop though we know .
He gets his money, to be cop man and free but has nobody
He has noooo body
Heeeesss soooo saddd and lonely
You don't understand. For Vic it's all about having control and power and respect. Now he has none of that. Sure you could argue he got off lite compared to everyone else because that's what he is, a scorpion. So of course he's going to get away semi scott free. But losing that control and being put in a suit 2 times too small for him for the next three years is still a personal hell for him.
Vic becomes a trucker
This honestly is how I see Vic's fate. In the end he didn't end up anywhere near as bad as Gilroy did (because Vic wasn't anywhere near as corrupt and Vic also balanced out a lot of his bad by doing a lot of good) but he still lost everything important to him. It's the perfect ending.
Vic gets ipad
The ending is my favourite part, I liked Lem and Shane but those buttholes all got what they fricking deserved.
I love the strike team búscame on, anon, they were hardened criminals and there was no way they'd end up anywhere else. Vic got more than he deserved.
Lem was the only one who had a soul. He even saved Forest Whitaker when he was out to nail them. He was too beautiful for this world.
Vic opens a pawn shop
Kavanaugh bros....
chad shit
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juicy fruit? its a fresh pack...
This scene maesme smile so hard especially when Antwon repeats him
>What were you saying about my Black person homosexual son?
Why was he so based?
he knew it was just a job
when i was young i was like wow what a fricking gay
now i'm like him.
many such a case
The system hates the vending machine entrepreneur.
The israelite fear the vending machine tycoon
>and so forth
There goes my hero
I’ve become him. I can’t care about my job and I do the bare minimum. I literally take naps at work. Guess what, nobody cares. There are no consequences.
I think half of all “work” is just made up. We get paid to pretend to be busy and for some reason that works probably because the bosses do even less. What a joke.
everything copacetic, Cinemaphile?
He knew the whole police system was fricked, and the best way for clean hands and a clean conscience was to distance yourself from the chaos
>pew pew pew frick frick frick
>shiiiiiiet frick yeah yeah!
>hahaaa I'm bad cop
>noooooo you must be good cop
this is considered good tv by Cinemaphile
More like
>We killed a cawp
>*Cheap stock gun sound effect*
>You ever suck a dick like a cell b***h?
>SHANE!
>I didn't eat your twinkies, Dutch boy
>HE'S PISSING ON US!
you have no understanding of kino
more like
>pew pew pew goddamn goddamn goddamn
>shiiiiiiet shit yeah yeah!
>hahaaa I'm bad cop
>noooooo you must be good cop
>BANG BANG
>BOOM BOOM
>I HATE Black folk
I like it.
This show is in my top 5 along with The Wire, The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, and Oz
is Oz actually enjoyable? just seems depressing. Black person rape dungeon: the show
Yeah it's kino. There is a lot of rape but the amount that actually happens is over played. It's mostly off screen with a couple of on screen rapes.
the rape is more aryan on other
That's how you can tell it's israeli propaganda
Does anyone else love Claudette's seething freakout when she first finds out everything he got away with?
link the scene, i havent seen the show in over 10 years and have forgotten so much
I don't think I can find it. I can only find the confession scene.
I love angry Claudette.
>What other errands do you have us RUNNING FOR THE DA?!?!?!?!?!
Or the scene where she bangs on the car dash board lol
>DAMNT!
"It was the only argument, if you're going to call it that," says Chiklis, the man behind Vic Mackey. "I was adamantly against it. Mamet and I got into it. I was like, 'You can't have Dutch choke a f---ing cat!' It was crazy to me. And Mamet was just, 'The cat dies.' [Laughs] We called in Shawn and I was outvoted. It's powerful, there's no doubt. It shapes his character moving forward. They don't really address it per se, not that you would. What would he do? It's not like he's going to confess."
Dutch was the closest thing to a redditor on that show.
>constantly getting cucked
>overestimates himself
>creeps women out
seems more like a /LULZ/ dweller to me
THIS GUY, THIS GUY IS JUST PISSIN', HE'S PISSIN' ALL OVER US! AND WE JUST SMILE AND LICK IT UP?VIC MACKEY PISSES COPS, HE DEALS PISS, HE BEATS THE PISS OUT OF SUSPECTS! YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID YESTERPISS? HE... HE PISSED MY EX-WIFE WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MAKING THIS WHOLE INPISSTIGATION SEEM LIKE A PERSONAL PISS. HE MAY HAVE PISSPISSINATED A GANG LEADER AND THAT'S ALL IN ONE PISS. I WONDER WHAT HE'S GONNA PISS TODAY. I WONDER WHAT HE'S GONNA PISS TOMORROW. THIS GUY! THIS GUYS JUST PISSIN. HE'S PISSIN ALL OVER US. HE'S PISSIN ON YOU. WHAT DOES IT PISS LIKE? BECAUSE YOU PISS LIKE IT PISS TO PISS? PISS
the guy HATES piss
what can you say? the man knows from piss
the shield is so kino
But what makes it kino? What's it best feature?
vic mackey and dutch
For me, I'm literally Shane
Goggins never wining an award for his portrayal of Shane is a god damn TRAVESTY !
he was excellent in justified too
>I'm literally Shane
most anons would never admit to being stupid
kudos
watch the show yourself and find out
The vomit inducing camerawork
The camera work is very well done. Not many shows or movies can make it work as well as The Shield does. It even has some very nice shots.
who's in second right?
I was wondering that too. I think it's Shane
JUST ANOTHER DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY
the theme is the worst part of the show besides Vic's family
WRONG
You just stepped on to an entirely new playing field. For your sake, I hope you know the rules to the game.
Filtered. I always play The Shield Theme when I first get to work. It's on top of my playlist. It sets the mood of the day up perfectly.
Why is he so relatable?
hes realistic. hes not an incompetent clown, but hes not sherlock holmes either. real people are insecure and have self doubt and are motivated by pride rather than "doing whats right"
He was made to look like a bumbling whitey cuck, though. It's basically his position since the first episode. I laughed that he was partnered with the tough black experienced Black person lesbo who sometimes thunk his head with some hard fact about the essential racism of all american endeavours from the independece to these israeli days of now.
hes shown to be a really great, smart detective despite all of this tho
I don't think any of that happened
to mog the hell out of you
kinda blows my mind that all Lem had to do was properly turn in those drugs he picked up (its not like they really needed them) and a lot of the following shit couldve been avoided, Shane getting dirty again with the armenians was too much of a stretch for me too
something something if people made good decisions then there wouldnt be a show
>something something
Drive fast and aim for trees.
Kavanaugh said that one of their guys replaced it with dummy tar to prevent that
Post the clip
when is the spookstreet scene that gets posted all the time, with the dude dancing right before he gets put in the car. Im up to S7 and I swear I missed it along with Vic offering his daughter up to a pedophile
SPOOK STREET scene is season 7. The pedophile scene is in the pilot.
what was his problem?
His wife
he sucked
Qrd? What previously happened on the shield
TOTAL
ORAL
VIOLATION
He put his groove into it
Him sabotaging Rawlings just because she further emasculated him after his raped by actually improving the barn and making a difference is kino
The Shield was a masterpiece of building on events like that
in S3E8 when Trish mentions that she had to do coke to keep her cover and should get checked out for STDs and take the morning after pill, you can see Aceveda's mixture of discomfort, sympathy, and shame because of how well Trish can handle it psychologically compared to him
The Shield is uniquely brilliant at creating these moments of understated context
This. It's damn shame it's brilliance isn't recognized as often as other great shows. I think it's on the same level as The Wire and The Sopranos
KWA
AssInvader
Latinx and furious about it
I'm rewatching this for the 2nd time after forgetting most of the details. I forgot how much of a bummer Teo's death was, and how cathartic it was when Vic went apeshit on Armadillo afterwards
It's taking 14 hours to download a season of this shit
enjoy your malware
I ain't paying for Hulu homie
https://musichq.pe/tv/the-shield-38884
... Well, thank you. Have some kino.
That succubus can have my soul whenever she wants.
skill issue
>homosexual Black person SON!
Someone got paid to write that.
SPOOK STREET
SPOOK STREET
What’s so spooky about spook street?
It's haunted, they use an old indian dance ritual to appease the vengeful spirits.
They were much more honest in those days anon. Every ML Jr Blvd you see was once named Spook Dr or Jiggaboo Ave.
Used to be called Spade Street.
the One-Niners used to be called the Sixty-Niners.
fun fact: the One-Niners exist in Sons of Anarchy. Shared universe baby!
S P O O K
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WORD UP SON
GHOST ST REPRESENTIN
Aren't they all spook streets around there?
shane hates em
simple as
I follow occam's razor: to show his teeth, obviously.
LOOK AT MY TEETH VIC
>But you know with all that money, all that power, at the end of the day, you're still just a beggar! With a funny beggar son! And where's the respect in that?
I hate syndication censorship bros
What's the inner deeper message meaning to The Shield?
Nothing deeper than "police can be worse than street criminals". It was supposed to be an adaptation of the real life Rampart team in LA that was corrupt as frick.
Unironically moronic reddit tier takes, this place is filled with homosexuals
Corruption is le good?
"Corruption" in the way it is portrayed in the show is different than what people refer to corruption or "corrupt" cops in everyday life.
Mackey and the strike team's "corruption" consisted in containing violent crime by making deals with criminal gangs in order to keep civility and order on the street.
It also included circuimventing the law and the red tape when they decided that the law was not sufficient in order to bring law & order to the balkanized streets of LA. Of course they took over a larger share of money in the process, nobody is making them out to be saints, but the strike team always cared about justice being done on the streets before they reaped any kind of reward for what they considered righteous work, which is fundamentally different than corrupt cops stealing drugs, taking bribes and sowing injustice because of greed, laziness or incompetence.
Yes but when they allow that element into their lives it effects everyone around them in a negative way. So much of the shit that happened in this show could've been avoided if they didn't cut corners and bend the rules or take extra money for themselves.
Sure and this is why the show is tragic. My point is the simple "hurr durr corruption bad and if you have power you'll want to do a corruption and then your le bad guy" reddit take is garbage and needs to die. This show is complex enough that it requires a deeper understanding and investigation.
There's far more ambiguity in this show than people like this can comprehend, which is ironic because it is precisely what makes it a good show. If the intent was what the prevalent interpretation here is, the show would have been bland and sterile garbage with nothing insightful to say.
Tbh I think those anons were just shit posting but you're correct this show is much more complicated than a simple "corruption is bad" line
Corruption is bad
The damn liberals won't let our boys in blue do their jobs!
The effects that corruption has on people in positions of power
"Be careful who you're PISSING on"
The funniest scene in the show is where Dutch and the others are carrying a sofa or something up the stairs and Dutch slips with a really funny OWWHOOUHOO type of sound and the camera zooms into Claudette's face
For me, it's when Aceveda and Vic are trying to cover up that arson case and Dutch watches the interrogation being utterly clueless on what's going on
I forgot about that.
Was this video any good?
>feature-length youtube video essay
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no
It's not bad. Better than smug whiney leftist homosexual's video
white boi was here
what would happen if the cops and gangs of the wire and the shield did a 4 way war?
Vic would've caught Marlo within a week or two. Instead of McNulty's pussy footing way to get more funding, Vic would just plant drugs on him and call it a day. Who needs funding when you can just do the Vic Mackey way of justice
Our boy Dutch did not deserve to get punked like that.
He ultimately got together with the "b***h dyke lawyer" so it all works out.
>b***h dyke lawyer
haha
copacetic dude was absolutely kino
also literally me
Which time? Sometimes that stuff adds growth and we wouldn't be rootin for him as much if he was Mary Sue Chad but I do agree the cuck ambush thing that mastermind Billings planned was too far
Remind me, what prompted Kavanaugh to go after the Strike Team? Was it Terry's death from S1?
It was Lem stashing heroin in his car as leverage against the mexicans when they were trying find where that girl's (that Antwon killed) body.
Thanks. But why were they surveilling Lem in the first place? How'd they know about the stolen heroin?
Because one of the mexicans girlfriends was a CI who gave Vic information but she saw Lem stashing it so she went to internal affairs over it to get some extra cash despite how much Vic helped her out (because he has a soft spot for kids and single mothers). But at least she got absolutely BTFO by Shane
That sounds correct too! Thanks. I think both are correct answers. Rawlings initiated the IA investigation, but it was that prostitute CI that gave them leverage.
Rawlings set up an IAD investigation just before she left, it was supposed to help show that the Strike Team were clean.
Perfect, thank you! Yeah, Glenn Close got an Emmy for playing Rawlings, I think.
I like how Vic thought that Rawlings was warning him about it but not as a friendly heads up but more of "you need to change your ways before it's too late"
She turned a blind eye to a lot of his shit because she thought he was effective at what he does and that his reputation was probably exaggerated by Aceveda having a grudge, but by the end she started to see that maybe she made a mistake and that Vic really was as bad as the rumors made him out to be. The cryptic warning perfectly captures the dilemma for her, she wanted to believe still that he's a good boi because she signed off on his antics but her moral compass dictated that she keep the investigators on him even if it could end up proving her wrong about her judgement of his character.
This
She definitely used Vic and even manipulated him on several cases. She figured if she's stuck with him she might as well use him to get some good done. What she didn't expect was the corruption he would bring along with him and what price condoning his tactics would bring. You see that she cared about Vic in the end but in no good conscience could she betray her morals and warn Vic about the impending investigation. Really the whole 4th season is Vic's last chance at redemption and we see at the beginning of the 5th that he doesn't at all change his methods
Why did Vic think he has absolute control over the women in his life?
Narcissism
Besides ego, a lot of Vic's informants were female. Usually desperate downtrodden women who he manipulated with ease. His wife was a pushover too (she took a stick of Juicy Fruit!).
All the women he used or fricked were beholden to him in some way shape or form. It can give a short bald guy a HUGE ego trip.
he doesn't think he has absolute control, but he certainly wants it, and wasn't shy about flatly stating it
>You just can't stand anything you can't control.
>That's part of my dance.
To a considerable extent, I get it, because Vic is a master at controlling situations and getting shit done personally—it's rare that shit goes sideways when he's directly quarterbacking things, but when people in his orbit act on their own they damn near constantly frick things up
I know how that is from personal experience, although my impulse was much more like
>I really, really don't want to run this shit, but I have to because other people will frick it up
>Christ this is exhausting
whereas Vic loves it, he was made for it
Because he's a fricking bully, pretty simple
>*BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*
There's some quality sex imagery on this show. My favorite was when Hoyt was fricking the girl cop and she was sweating and riding him like there's no tomorrow. Then he sees Dutch in the window but doesn't stop fricking this b***h.
My 2nd favorite is when Kristen Bell tells the story of how she was with her gangbanger boyfriend and was approached by the rival gang, who took her with them as he did nothing. Then they ran a train on her and tattooed a "dove" on her face. Hot!
Here's the female cop that I like. Dutchboy set up a video camera in the women's locker room to watch her change. That little perv likes to watch!
Dutch wasn't the one who set up the camera, it was Billings (because of course it was)
Holy shit. I would impregnate and breed her.
This b***h is ugly and I think she sucks. I'd rather frick Claudette (who looks like The Chief from "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago?").
Looked like Mara has a type! Shane makes me feel good about my recent 5-head. You guys remember when Shane was fricking that underage black girl to get gang info? Lol, what a pimp!
And OP thought he was "racist"? What a laugh. I had a black friend once, that means I'm not racist either. Black person stole all the lightbulbs out of our house when he moved out because he "paid for them".
OP here. I think he is racist but I never meant that as a bad thing
Anybody remember this cutie? She's the stripper than fricked Shane in the interrogation room. And then when they tried to lock her up, she blackmailed Shane into cutting her loose.
Meanwhile, they try to tell you Ronnie is the ladies man. Yet, you never see him with a chick. Weird!
We only ever saw Ronnie with an asian throat pillow lol
for me, it's K9 qt even though she's total filler BS
she plays a lovely crazy lady here who would destroy you but also your penis in a wonderful way
She was in Justified as Raylan's ex wife and The Unicorn as Walton Goggins gf.
Is The Unicorn worth a watch?
Justified has a shared universe with the film "Out of Sight". Jennifer Lopez's character was played by Carla Gugino.
What's wrong with you guys, you don't like pussy or something? Alright, I'll leave you with this.
Now screw!
Wholesome
Plus I just got back to the thread. Thanks for the babes.
Personal favorite
Shit homie, where did you go? I was just lurking anyway. Decided to bump your thread with some "Shield bawds".
That chick's character was the worst, but I love how she kept failing upwards because she was gorgeous.
I love how Dutcu completely simps for her under the pretense of being a mentor to her kek and based billings taking pics
I think Billings wanted to frick her even more than Dutchboy did! That's probably why he dragged Dutch down with him.
I'm sure they were having a feud at the time, but damn, that prank was ruthless.
That prank was straight up evil. He was able to outsmart the smartest detective in the whole barn. It really shows that if Billings applied himself more there would be no unsolved crimes. Then again it's not to hard to use one's sin against them. He must've went to the Vic Mackey school of "getting one over on someone"
I get this legitimately sad feeling towards the end of the series (and I'm not talking about the writing) I get a sad vibe because you can tell the cast and crew legitimately loved working with each other and that it must've been very hard to have it come to an end. I think they were really sad about it and you can see it on them in the final season. They definitely channeled that sad energy into their work in the last few episodes which only further helps add to masterful depressing final few episodes. I can't imagine how hard it was for them. They must've really enjoyed working with each other. This show was really lightning in a bottle. Once of a lifetime cast and crew and writers
The Shield, Breaking Bad, and the Wire are my top 3. But if I had to choose a 4th favorite, it would be Kingdom (mma). I think it's on Netflix.
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I think I saw a trailer of this a while back. Is it any good? What am I in for?
You're in for kino, that's what! It's a gritty disfunctional family drama that revolves around MMA, but it's not the sole focus of the show.
You got street fights, prostitutes, murder, etc. It's everything a Shield fan craves!
Is the writing good?
The writing is top tier. I don't watch bullshit. In fact, I watched both Shield and Breaking Bad as the pilots aired. For so long I had to beg my frens and family to watch that shit. Of course, the world caught up and now it's considered "prestige tv".
I feel the same way about Kingdom.
I always assumed kingdom was more slanteye misery/gore porn like fricking squid game.
Michael Chiklis seems like such a rad guy
He seems like a really nice guy IRL, makes his portrayal all the more impressive because he's a massive c**t in the show lmao
He was the commish originally
I love the episode of Seinfeld featuring him
this man went from suburban Bruce Willis to corrupt nega-Bruce Willis
the one with Assinvader is hilarious
Why does Miami Vice and The Shield feel so familiar on a writing level? Did they have some of the same writers? I know they had a lot actors that later went on to be leads on The Shield.
>Hey thanks my favorite!
Based Shield thread. It's hard to get these threads going but when they do they become my favorite. Same with The Thing and Wire threads
What did the writers put this in the show?
I have a suspicion that a lot of the weird sexual fetishes are because of Kurt Sutter. He did the same thing with SOA. He even played a guy who into feet on The Shield lol there's also a lot of weird cuck shit in it too.
Realistically speaking, what were they expecting to happen?
I love the shot of them looking into the sunset
>Wanna to get something to eat?
*sunrise
Lem: oh shid
He didn't deserve it
>INB4 he burned the money train
Frick you. It was metaphorical of him wanting to cleanse all of their sins. He didn't want to lose the only family he had left.
Pretend Shane didn't feed Lem a grenade with cheese on rye, hold the mayo.
Was Vic really gonna send Lem to Mexico? If you recall, the last time Vic sent someone to hide down there they got executed. And he was using the same mules to get Lem across the border.
>Vic sent someone to hide down there they got executed
Who? Gilroy? He drank himself to death. Though that is the reason why Lem didn't want to go. He didn't want to die alone and miserable with no family like Gilroy.
Hmm, I thought he ran foul of the local gang and they killed him? I trust you though.
Still, Shane was right.
No Vic turned Gilroy in and then they later tried to use Gilroy against Vic so then Vic smuggled across the border.
Shane was right indeed. Lem was either going to flip or get a slow torturous death in prison. Shane gave him a mercy killing.
nta but Vic would've definitely killed Lem if he needed too, I dont even think he was that mad at Shane really, things only escalated when they thought they were trying to kill eachother. Remember Vic threw Ronnie under the bus too and Ronnie was arguably more loyal than Lem.
Agreed. Vic woulda killed Lem if the shit hit the fan.
But we do see the lengths that Vic is willing to go to avenge him (i.e hunting down his killer despite Kavanaugh's framing job) I think Vic legitimately care a lot for Lem and we see that Lem appealed to Vic's desire to protect the innocent. That's why he cares so about kids and single mothers, it's probably why he became a cop in the first place. It is mentioned that Vic used to be a nice guy, (which is a slight reference to The Commish no doubt) before he started taking immoral methods to make arrests. It also explains why he has such a aggressive hateful attitude towards criminals (because they are no longer innocent) he was even an butthole to that kid who was caught up in the drug dealing life. Lem had a child like innocents to him and it brought out that old desire in Vic. You even see this whenever he mentions Lem after he died (he'll talk about him as if he was a scared little kid on the run, mentioning that he was "scared" all the time). Vic has a soft spot for innocence and that's why he completely turns on Shane and leaves him to his own devices because Shane is no longer that scared little kid anymore. That all being said, Vic would have definitely killed Lem if it meant protecting his family.
>That all being said, Vic would have definitely killed Lem if it meant protecting his family.
for sure, but I think there is a difference between thinking Lem was killed by a Mexican in a drive-by vs Lem being sacrificed for the sake of the crew/his family.
Whats great about the shield is that we can have these multi layered discussions about characters
>Whats great about the shield is that we can have these multi layered discussions about characters
Indeed so. It's such a well made show that leaves enough to support several different moral arguments
If you think about it, Vic never got to manipulate or corrupt Lem to the level that he did with Shane and Ronnie (who he got both of them to kill/help kill for him) so there for like
anon said. He never got to completely corrupt his soul yet. That's not to say he would choose Lem over his family though
>Vic would've definitely killed Lem if he needed too
I always thought that was obvious, didn't even realize people thought otherwise.
>didn't even realize people thought otherwise.
People are a bit simple. I talked about this show with some friends IRL and they legitimately thought the strike team didn't do anything wrong at any point
People give a lot of leniency to thugs if they own badges
Then you are moronic
Another moron. The Strike Team did the right thing 99% of the time btw.
I'm surprised they were always so broke despite how much they were skimming/drug money. I get Vic needs money to grease the wheels but still weird it feels like he was living paycheck to paycheck. Shane definitely blew it on hookers and blow. Ronnie and Lem were probably just in it for the weird.
in it for the ride*
>I'm surprised they were always so broke despite how much they were skimming/drug money
Ikr. I guess it's to be realistic and mind you they were only skimming on the side for the first two seasons. After the money train they quit being *as* corrupt
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Holy kino. This song is so good. The Shield knew how to pick them. Lem isn't that little boy anymore.
I hate the decoy squad stuff so much. Easily the worst part of the whole series.
I forgot about those gays
>look dad, I'm the commish
Possibly the greatest pilot ending hook ever
I almost stopped after it. A cop killing cop was a little too out there. Was there really no other way?
I'm very glad I didn't stop though.
>A cop killing cop
he was a rat
I know people think it's far fetched but I disagree. I think the co pilot episode puts a decent lore bandaid over it. The co pilot episode shows that Vic didn't get strike team leader position through luck or finesse but by begging to get the position. We see that this position has changed him and his ego to the point where he thinks killing another cop and framing it as a drug raid gone wrong will be an easy task. It's Vic hubris thought he could control the domino effect of the chaos and corruption that this single action would spawn. He thought it would be easy but he later on learned that this action would have devastating consequences, including the damage done to him and Shane on a psychological level. The show makes it very clear that planning murder and actually murdering someone is a completely different ballpark. Everytime they kill someone you see how drastic the mental and moral guilt would have on someone. We even see the effects of murder on Ronnie when he kills that armenian hench man that tried to kill Vic's family. Vic basically got caught up in the adrenaline and ego rush of The Strike Team to the point where he thought he could control the chaotic and corruptive effects of killing someone
When does this series get good?
season 5
yeah that shit fricking sucked. i think seasons 3 and 4 are just utter slogs to rewatch
>yeah that shit fricking sucked. i think seasons 3 and 4 are just utter slogs to rewatch
True that season 4 at least gets better towards the end and I appreciate the season more on rewatches
FX pretending they were being edgy and breaking the rules of cable when in reality the content of cable television is not regulated by the FCC.
I'm gonna watch the shield for the first time, so many Cinemaphile homies have praised it that I can't ignore it any longer. What am in for bros? The only thing I've seen is the homosexual Black person scene.
just watch it, don't let us spoil you
give the show your undivided attention, it will reward you
it will be tense and stressful in the best possible way
and it has probably the best ending of any television series ever
GTFO of this thread and watch it. It's an absolute intense emotional roller coaster that only gets better with each season
THE FUNDS?!
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE BASKIN ROBERTS TRUST FUND BAND!
Shane bros...
Shane and Christopher are on another level than Jesse.