steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
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- Nov 9, 2013
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The Shield did not land with me on the first try but this was just over a decade ago, I had recently completed The Wire which I still regard as the best piece of serial television ever made.
The Shield pilot, while fun, was just too silly and on the nose to catch my attention but having seen the excellence of Michael Chiklis and especially, the spectacular Walton Goggins who just gets better and better every time I see him in the intervening years I returned to the show after realising that in my depressed state, knowing that the police genre was at a loss following the perfect truth of TW, that I accepted that the only other cop show that I had seen consistent praise for was The Shield.
Once I realised that it was never supposed to be realistic I was having so much fun that by the time Glenn Close and Forest Whitaker came in and blew the roof off one after the other I was so in love with the 4 guys and just how fucking cool they were rolling at their best that for all the madness, it was perfect television. You know what a tit I am and how much I go on so you had better believe I was sobbing by the time Det. (possibly by then Cap?) Wyns reads the letter to Mackay. Lemonhead ending up as fruit salad thanks to that pineapple was a gutter as well, as it was that IA fuck who started them all fucking each other over. It was not the money train. I am certain.
