The Shield

Chiklis is working on a new movie where he is a high school teacher or something. The picture of him is priceless.

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I understand what everyone is saying but I actually find myself rooting for Shane to get away. I think it is the fact of his little boy. Just something about that that gets to me. Plus Vic trying to kill Shane first matters in my eyes.

On a side note, I have not read all of the posts but Alan Sepinwall of the Star Ledger has seen the final 2 episodes and said that they are good a conclusion to any show he has ever seen. I have to admit I can't remember looking forward to a show coming to a close than this.... Maybe the Wire.

 

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!

 

Note to self -- never play Vic Mackey in poker.

 

Best hour of television in history.

 

Yes — but in the context of the 6.90 years leading up to this. And those have been well-spent years on my couch.

The shoot-out is set up. But I don't know it will all go down like that. I have no idea what to expect, and I rather like it that way.

 

Agreed. Never has following an entire show been more worthwhile. This is how X-Files coulda gone out.

 

You hit that on the head.

There have been single hours, alone, that were better - take the best from Law & Order, for example.

Because anybody who viewed in for this one episode is going, "Enh, unh.... OK." And maybe a "What did I miss?" at which point you hand them DVDs of every year.

But to set up a series finale, like this, with so much past, present and just a hint of the future coming out... W.O.Fin'.W.

 

I concur with everyone here; it was jaw-dropping television. Usually I'm doing a couple of chores like folding laundry when I watch TV, even during recent episodes of The Shield. Not tonight. I was riveted in that scene when Vic admits to everything and is being recorded. Laurie Holden, the woman who plays Olivia, looks at her and says "You son of a bitch..."

There's so many ways this could wash out. Obviously Vic is going to discover that his ex-wife was working with Claudette and Dutch, because he secured her immunity, but she won't need it. I never had a warm fondness for Claudette, but she really pissed me off tonight...she showed how her leadership position has corrupted her, because she'll take out her frustration from not getting Vic on Dutch. What this episode showed was this: the people who were loyal to another were not treated as such by that person they were loyal to, whereas the characters disloyal to a certain person were treated well. Ronnie and Vic. Corinne and Vic. Dutch and Claudette. Maura and Shane. Olivia and Vic.

Vic's going to die next week and it'll be during his meeting with Bezeula, because Ronnie will somehow catch word that he'll be doing life while his mentor walks free. Or they'll be able to get Vic on some fine-print rule. Besides Dutch, I feel the worst for Ronnie, because he was never as corrupt as Vic, Shane and Lem. When the Strike Team was together, Ronnie was the last man on the totem pole. It was Vic and Shane that drove that team down its dark road---and Ronnie usually did the right thing. When did he ever make an obviously evil decision like the other three did?

This show had been gone for 18 months between this season and its last, so my system had been washed of it. That fact showed in my viewing of this season's episodes. Tonight, however, was the first night where it all came rushing back.

 

HOLEEESHEEEETMUUUUUTHHHHAAAF**KA - that was insane!!!
I kept wondering if it would turn out that Shane killed Paula Garces' character, since they never showed Shane leaving her safe. He's such a punk, you never know. Mara is getting her desserts, she had it coming. But that Mackey confession was unreal. Major hat tip to Sean Ryan for coming up with a way to have Vic admit his sins, "a confession" if you will, in a way that left him in a position of strength. Extra points for including Dutch and Claudette in that scene. Probably Holden's best episode of the year. The jump from the start of the the "confession" to the end was some solid acting by both Chiklis and Holden who both looked like they had just taken a two hour stroll through hell.
But really, two hours wouldn't even begin to cover up all the crap Mackey has done, did he even get into the stuff Aceveda was involved in?

But yeah - one hell of an amazing hour of TV.

 

And we haven't even talked about the first five minutes of the show. I jumped up off my couch.

Don't forget, next week's ep is 90 minutes long.

 

Just realized something.

Vic's full name is Victor.

He will win.