The Shield

 OH The network has brought Shawn Ryan of The Shield on board as showrunner, and it will be interesting to see what effect that has on the feel of the show. According to Tim Roth, Ryan was involved with “Blinded,” a episode that had a little different ...

 OH Lie To Me will shake things up a bit by bringing Shawn Ryan (The Shield) on as new show runner and the series has a thirteen episode order. Despite some protracted negotiations regarding licensing fees, solid performer Bones returns to its Thursday at ...

 OH - Sons of Anarchy (Season 1): Creator Kurt Sutter moved on as a writer from The Shield to this to create FX's next great action-drama. ...

Goodbye, The Shield - Get Some Rest, Detective Mackey. Usually after an episode I’m immediately on the fan boards sharing my initial reactions. I then spend time and more posts trying to debunk what complainers and dissenters have to ...

Goodbye, The Shield - Get Some Rest, Detective Mackey » Movie Review: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Written by Senora Bicho. Po (Jack Black) dreams of being a kung fu master but being an overweight, uncoordinated panda makes working ...

By Brad Laidman Tony Soprano escaped judgment with a blank screen, and now it’s Vic Mackey’s turn. The Shield's creator, Shawn Ryan, has kept mum on whether or not his devil will get his due, but he has promised (if not on a bible than at least on one of those huge telephone books Vic was constantly pummelling...

By Andy Sayers This is not the case with The Shield, which is firmly a genre show. However, it succeeds not by superseding the genre, but rather by subverting it. Creator Shawn Ryan works within the genre and its conventions of brotherhood, ...

By El Bicho The first season consisted of 13 episodes and was a ratings success with 3.8 million viewers watching the pilot, which, in the history of FX, was only second to the premiere of The Shield. This was the network’s first Monday night ...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Dutch and Steve investigate the murder of Miracle Joe, a well-known and beloved Farmington homeless person, and they uncover a guy who extorts money from the homeless, a begging tax. But it seems he watched Joe get hit by a bus and get up and walk away, so he left him alone. Poor Dutch is the laug...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Shane is going “deeper into the Armenian beast than [he] ever intended.” He brings in his Armenian Gang Princess to pose as a bookkeeper for a bakery to implicate rival Mafia families. Great line alert: when Shane brings in the Princess posing as an accountant, Claudette says, “I don’t want...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Hiatt seems to be studying at the Vic Mackie School of Strike Team Management. He is going around Claudette and breaking rules as needed. He tells Vic that Claudette’s been playing him from day one, that he will still be forced to retire, and Vic doesn’t seem concerned (could be his politicia...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Shane bullies a woman, dead cop Ben’s wife, who gave Vic information on Mexican contacts; he actually hits her while her daughters were playing outside. He’s also trying to build new relationships with the Armenian baddies in the neighborhood since Vic broke off with them, doing favors f...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Ronnie lures Shane with the pretense of a meeting of the two of them with Vic. But Vic confronts Shane alone. Watching Shane squirm as he begins to realize where it was going was so much fun. And — drum roll please — he finally admits to Vic that he killed Lem. Then they both cry. Luckily, not for long. T...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal And yes, I know that Mackey is responsible for killing a member of the team too, but he was a snitch and not family like Lem. Most importantly, Vic has grown during the course of the show and is trying to redeem himself (note I said trying, not succeeding). I don’t know, maybe it’s hypocritical o...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Aceveda's behavior is one thing that remains consistent; he is playing whatever side he has to in order to ensure his political security. He is being pressured by a local business bigwig to solve a Mexican mass murder, supposedly done by Salvadorians. He gets the case transferred back to th...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal Keeping Salvadorian drug king pin Guardo’s girlfriend hostage, Mackey lures him in, determined to exact revenge for Lem’s murder. We’ve watched Shane squirm with guilt over the last three episodes, and it has been starting to get on my nerves. I thought that tonight he would finally fes...

By Ann Hagman Cardinal And then there’s David Aceveda. I’m sorry, Councilman David Aceveda. Shudder. Now, I can’t tell you how happy I am that there is a prominent Latino character in this impressive ensemble, and I adore the actor, Benito Martinez, but Aceveda’s smarmy police captain turned politician makes my...

By Blake Matthews Last night my favorite FX series finally had its season premiere. That’s right folks The Shield is back for its sixth season, and just in time for the premiere is the DVD release of The Shield – The Complete Fifth Season.  Throughout this season, the strike team attempts to defuse racial tens...

By Lisa McKay I've grown MoreThings up to ten times and more the traffic I had in 2002, so Blogcritics is less critical to me in terms of practical exposure than it was. I was right proud to note that for a few days around my Oscar bump in March of 2006, MoreThings actually had more page views than Blogcritics...

By Eric Berlin The more I watch FX's The Shield, the more I'm impressed. The more the mood of the show, the characters, the writing, the wisecracks, get under my skin. The last scene that we were left with is a haunting one. Curtis Lemansky (Kenny Johnson) is sitting in that blown out car, skin broiling on his f...