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Shady

I've heard it's good. Still got 2 seasons to go though!

goon

I can't remember what the ending of season 5 was but the finale of the Shield still ranks as number 1 for me, it had a lasting effect.

Gazza M

The shield petered out slightly after season 5 for me. Too many pointless procedural side plots distracting from mackey and the strike team. Great show though, the only show to make me physically sick with angst while watching it

Shady

goon wrote:
I can't remember what the ending of season 5 was but the finale of the Shield still ranks as number 1 for me, it had a lasting effect.

Grenade. 🙁

goon

Oh, yeah 🙁

Rex

That was brutal.

mdgoonah41

of the top of my head, this would be my top 10 fav/best HBO characters

stringer bell (the wire)
tony soprano (sopranos)
rust cohle (true detective)
omar little (the wire)
david fischer (six feet under)
erlich bachman (silicon valley)
prop joe (the wire)
carmellla soprano (sopranos)
johnny drama (entourage)
al swearengen (deadwood)

i didnt love entourage, but i loved johnny drama

arsedocmd

Ma soprano would be in my top 3. What a diabolical character. Devil incarnate.

Klaus

Shady wrote:
Klaus wrote:
It only gets better too, right down to the finish line. It has some of the best and most shocking moments (there's one in particular; everyone who's seen the show knows which one I'm referring to) I've seen on tv.

I don't suppose that was the one you were referring to was it mate?

Yep. Gut-wrenching stuff. I remember feeling hollow for the longest time afterwards.

Qwiss

Gazza M wrote:
The shield petered out slightly after season 5 for me. Too many pointless procedural side plots distracting from mackey and the strike team. Great show though, the only show to make me physically sick with angst while watching it

Are you crazy? It was after 5 when it got back on track and really started coming together towards the finish.

RocktheCasbah

I thought about the ending of series 5 and the actual finale of The Shield for ages after it ended. I don't know if I've ever been as affected by any other TV shows as by these. Obviously, there have been moments, particularly in the Sopranos and The Wire, but nothing that hurt as much as that grenade...

Rex

Just finished season 4 of the Americans. Cheers to you guys who recommended it! Great show, really good, well developed characters, and I like the pacing and plots of the show.

Gazza M

Qwiss! wrote:
Gazza M wrote:
The shield petered out slightly after season 5 for me. Too many pointless procedural side plots distracting from mackey and the strike team. Great show though, the only show to make me physically sick with angst while watching it

Are you crazy? It was after 5 when it got back on track and really started coming together towards the finish.

to each their own. the final couple of eps of season 7 were good, but i didnt care for most of the post season 5 material aside from that

Burnwinter

Jens wrote:
I love Paulie Walnuts to death but he was hardly the most layered character on the show, and during the first half of it's run served mainly as comic relief. I will say ever since he began doubting Tony's affection for him and began diming him out to Johnny Sack he was an excellent character on his own right.

He chose … Paulie.

Qwiss

Gazza M wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
Are you crazy? It was after 5 when it got back on track and really started coming together towards the finish.

to each their own. the final couple of eps of season 7 were good, but i didnt care for most of the post season 5 material aside from that

Fair enough. I thought the low point of the series was the Glenn Close season.

Klaus

Gazza M wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
Are you crazy? It was after 5 when it got back on track and really started coming together towards the finish.

to each their own. the final couple of eps of season 7 were good, but i didnt care for most of the post season 5 material aside from that

I agree that the storylines were a bit so-so, but I always found The Shield to be more about a general feeling or state of mind than about the actual plot. It was built like a downward spiral that moves slowly at first but just keeps picking up the pace. The last two or three seasons were anxiety as good as it's been portrayed on television in my opinion. There was this constant feeling of characters painting themselves into corners they just couldn't escape from.

I really admire the way the show went about its message from the first episode to the last. I think it was a lot more consistent in that sense than shows like Breaking Bad. I remember season 7 being one long horrifying thrill ride, culminating a few episodes before the actual end to leave some room for reflection when the end game finally arrived.

Shady

Klaus do you write yourself?

Your posts on The Shield perfectly encapsulate how I feel when I watch it.

Shady

Ummm, so I've just seen that the actor who played Julian in The Shield has been jailed for 40 years for murdering his wife. What the fuck.

Klaus

The piece of shit had a long history of domestic abuse too apparently. He shot her twice in the leg and once in the back right in front of their two kids while taunting that he was going to kill her. You'd never have guessed that he was that way just from watching Julian on the show. He was always one of the least morally compromised characters in Farmington.

Shady wrote:
Klaus do you write yourself?

Your posts on The Shield perfectly encapsulate how I feel when I watch it.

A little bit, yeah. I used to do a lot more academic and critical writing. I tried to move into creative writing instead a few years back but it's difficult to get a foot in.

Gazza M

Klaus wrote:
Gazza M wrote:
to each their own. the final couple of eps of season 7 were good, but i didnt care for most of the post season 5 material aside from that

I agree that the storylines were a bit so-so, but I always found The Shield to be more about a general feeling or state of mind than about the actual plot. It was built like a downward spiral that moves slowly at first but just keeps picking up the pace. The last two or three seasons were anxiety as good as it's been portrayed on television in my opinion. There was this constant feeling of characters painting themselves into corners they just couldn't escape from.

I really admire the way the show went about its message from the first episode to the last. I think it was a lot more consistent in that sense than shows like Breaking Bad. I remember season 7 being one long horrifying thrill ride, culminating a few episodes before the actual end to leave some room for reflection when the end game finally arrived.

definitely agree that the shield was all about mood. i just felt that when you have a main thread which does nothing but escalate in intensity, having these procedural sideplots remain so pedestrian and mundane becomes more jarring in the later stages of the show. it kind of sucked the air out of many of the season 6 and 7 episodes for me.

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